Born in 1996, Olivia Martin began percussion at the CRR de Nice in 2003, and learned piano, dance and singing. She joined the Paris CRR at the age of 15, then the Lyon Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse 3 years later. The following year, she won the Northwestern University International Percussion Competition in Chicago. She developed an interest in teaching and taught at the Conservatoire du 8ème arrondissement in Paris, then at the Lyon brass and percussion school until 2019, and wrote her dissertation on music learning and neuroscience. She collaborates with GRAME (Lyon) and IRCAM (Paris). A multi-instrumentalist, she accompanies George Ka (rap/song), Skia (rap), Yuston XIII (cloud rap) and Anton Oak (chanson/electro), creating singular set-ups adapted to each of them: percussion, synthesizers, machines, vocals. In 2021, GRAME invited her to write her first solo show, [FAM]E, a blend of contemporary and musique actuelle, performance and choreography, writing and improvisation. After training as an artistic project development manager at IESA art & culture, she founded Héra Music, an associative music production and cultural action label. In 2024, she trained in computer music/composition on Ableton at the SAE Institute Paris. She programs sessions, arrangements and has developed an interest in studio production.
Olivia Martin
