Ludmilla Mercier (b. 1997) is a Swiss-based performer, composer, and installation artist. Her work sits at the intersection of music theatre, visual effects, movement, and multimedia, and often includes projections, samplers, electronic effects, and personally crafted objects. She frequently collaborates with other artists, including dancers, choreographers, sound artists, mathematicians, comedians, and philosophers.
She is an artist in residence at the Gare du Nord Basel for 2026–2027 and was selected by Music Theatre Now for the Creators Connection Programme for 2025–2026.
She has received several awards, including the 1st prize at Concours OSEZ! 2025 for INUK (co-created with Quatuor MOMO), 2nd prize at the NICATI Competition for New Music 2023, 1st prize at the FrauMünsterhof21 Competition 2021, the Open Call MusikfestivalBern 2021, the prize of l’Heure Bleue Festival 2020, and 1st prize at the Swiss Music Competition for Youth Musicians 2017.
She obtained the scholarship of Nicati-De-Luze and was supported by them for the year 2021–2022.
Ludmilla studied with Natasa Maric, Arturo Coralles, and Sara Boesch in Geneva Conservatory. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Classical Flute Music from the University of the Arts Bern (2017–2019) with Prof. Christian Stüdler, and her Master’s degree in Composition with first-class honors from main teacher Leopold Dick and Simon Steen-Andersen at the University of the Arts in Berne, and from Prof. Daniel Ott at the University of the Arts Berlin in 2023.
Since then, she has developed numerous creations and collaborations produced across Switzerland and Europe.
2026–27 | Artist selected as artist-in-residence at Theater Gare du Nord Basel
2025–26 | Artist selected by Music Theatre Now for the Creators Connection Programme
2025 | LAVOMATIK | Opening of the BAM Festival Berlin | Neuköllner Oper
2025 | INUK, with Quatuor MOMO | Laureates of the 1st Prize of the Osez! Competition 2025
2025 | INUK, with Quatuor MOMO | Ponticello Festival Geneva
2025 | INUK, commission from Festival ORPHEUS for Quatuor MOMO | Adelboden
2025 | Artistic assistant to Alexander Schubert | Festival Musica, Strasbourg
2025 | Premiere ALGORITHMS DO DREAM | Dampfzentrale Bern
2025 | Creation residency Algorithms do dream | Musikfestival Bern
2025 | LUX ÆTERNA | Gare du Nord Basel
2024 | Artist selected for the residency Artistes en Arctique (2024)
2024 | STEADY STATE | by Alexander Schubert | Huddersfield, UK
2024 | LUX ÆTERNA ON TOUR | Switzerland & Germany
2024 | STEADY STATE | by Alexander Schubert | National concert Hall, Dublin
2023 | THE small SHOW TALK PREMIERE | Bern
2023 | LUX ÆTERNA NICATI COMPETITION SECOND PRICE | Lucerne
2023 | Akkademia della creation Libera | Palettenfabrik | Aarau
2023 | BUREAU FÜR/POUR NONSENSE PREMIERE | Berlin / Switzerland
2022 | AKKADEMIA DELLA CREATION LIBERA | Maison Matrice | Crémines
2022 | TO BUILD A DECONSTRUCTION | MusikfestivalBern | Dampzentrale Bern
2022 | FREI(T)RAUM | Theatre Vis-a-Vis | Bern
2022 | Inter.Rupture Ensemble | D-bü Wettbewerb | Trossingen
2022 | Inter.Rupture Ensemble | Bundesallee | Berlin
2022 | ORAL CAVITY | Klangzeitort | Berlin
2021 | Delay-Diz Collective | PROGR - Zentrum für Kulturproduktion | Bern
2021 | Duo Regards | Musée de La Croix Rouge | Genève
2021 | Django Bates ensemble| Generations Jazz festival | Frauenfeld
2021 | Delay-Diz Collective | Danses Anciennes PREMIERE DE CHARLOTTE TORRES | Bern
2021 | Delay-Diz Collective | Frauenstreik21 FIRST PRICE | Bern
2021 | Historia d'Amor PREMIERE | PlayTime Festival | Bern