Composer, conductor and cellist, Jean-Paul Dessy has conducted more than 400 contemporary music works worldwide and has recorder more than 60 CDs of classic contemporary pieces, receiving numerous awards. Since 1997, he conducts the ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, which is in residence at Mars' listening house Arsonic since 2015. This hall with exceptional acoustics was created by Dessy himself and he is still director. Dessy's musical quest lies in the domain of the sacred: the concert as liturgy, instrumental practice as a way of meditation, composition as a place of prophecy and sound as revelation.