Julien
Annoni
Head of Creation département and Master in Music project creation coordinator
Julien Annoni is a percussionist, cultural mediator and event organiser. His life as an artist is characterised by a subtle blend of each of these elements.
Julien Annoni is co-founder of the Usinesonore association (2006), which explores the possibilities of staging contemporary events in a spirit of renewed artistic discovery. It was primarily for this project that he was awarded the 2019 Cultural Mediation Prize by the Canton of Bern. In 2018, he took over as artistic director of the ensemble We Spoke, which performs regularly throughout Europe. Since 2019, he has been in charge of the new musical season ‘Les Battements de l’Abbatiale’ at the Abbatiale de Bellelay.
Deeply committed to cultural life, he served on the board of trustees of the Théâtre du Jura until 2021. In 2023, he spearheaded the creation of the cultural umbrella organisation Grand Chasseral. He is also a member of the committee of La Marmite and the artistic committee of Impulse Neue Musik. He has been deputy director of the Bernese Jura Music School since 2020.
As a performer in other productions, he has appeared notably in *The Lion King* (2015), alongside Sylvie Courvoisier (2023) and currently with Erika Stucky.
He joined the HEM in 2025 as coordinator of the Master’s programme in musical project creation and took over as head of the Creation department in 2026
