Biography

Currently head of youth programming and mediation at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Mélanie Moura considers the mediation of music as a way of approaching the world and pays particular attention to implementing initiatives that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

Graduated from the Regional Conservatory of Toulouse and Paul Sabatier University in Information and Document Management in Organizations, she began her professional career at the Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris in 2007 as a librarian.

Convinced that music is essential to the balance of our societies and that we should all have the right to experience it, in 2009 she followed a course in cultural mediation of the arts at the University of Aix Marseille during which she will co-found the Artéfada festival, thus allowing art to be placed in an urban environment.

Between 2010 and 2017, she will have the opportunity to collaborate with many artists and orchestras in the establishment and development of educational projects and music mediation as head of educational projects at the Philharmonie de Paris.

Mélanie Moura has built her expertise in music mediation through field experiences and professional encounters, which she continues to nurture as co-researcher of the Partnership Study on Music Mediation.