Marie Guilleray (1978) is a french vocalist, composer, and sound artist currently based in The Netherlands.
She performs mainly in the context of free improvisation, experimental and contemporary music. Her work focuses on the development of vocal extended techniques, the combination of voice and electronics to extend the voice and explore its abstract properties, and a research on bridging music and poetry. As a composer, she is focusing on electronic music for fixed media and live electronics. She is a member of several ensembles such as Royal Improvisers Orchestra, MGBG with Bjarni Gunnarsson, Sonology Electroacoutsic Ensemble directed by Richard Barrett, and collaborates on various experimental, improvised and electronic music projects. Marie is also the currator of the experimental music series Ephemere that takes place every month at Studio Loos, The Hague.
In 2003 Marie completed a Master Degree in Law and Political Sciences from the University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris. After studying Theater at Atelier International Blanche Salan (2001-2004) and Singing at Conservatory Nadia Lili Boulanger in Paris (2003-2006), she moved to the Netherlands in 2006 to continue her vocal studies with Manon Heinje and Annette von Eichel at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague where she graduated in june 2010. In parallel to her vocal studies, Marie had the opportunity to study composition, electronic music, and to develop as an improviser and a performer of contemporary music. Currently she is researching about the combination of voice and electronics at the Institute of Sonology of The Hague with teachers Richard Barrett, Kees Tazelaar, Paul Berg, Johan van Kreij, and Justin Bennett.