Alexandre Babel (CH) is a Swiss composer, percussionist and curator based in Berlin. He is involved in various contemporary contexts encompassing modern classical music, performance art and interdisciplinary works. He was the artistic director of the contemporary percussion ensemble Eklekto from 2013 to 2022, and the principal percussionist of the Ensemble KNM Berlin from 2009 to 2019. Babel is also a co-founder of the performance collective Radial. He has worked with artists such as Ensemble Musikfabrik, Sudden Infant, Anthony Pateras, Caspar Brötzmann, Carol Robinson, Felicia Atkinson, Steven O’Malley, Kali Malone, Tristan Perich, Ryoji Ikeda. In 2020 the monographic Festival Les Amplitudes in La Chaux-de-Fonds focused on Babel’s compositions and curatorial work. He worked as a curator for Latifa Echakhch’s exhibition The Concert at the Swiss Pavilion of the Venice Art Biennale in 2022. Babel is a laureate of the Swiss Music Prize 2021.