Kevin Juillerat is a composer, saxophonist, and curator born in Switzerland and based in Lausanne. After studying saxophone and composition at various prestigious music universities in Switzerland, he completed the Computer Music program at IRCAM in Paris. His work spans classical and contemporary music, as well as experimental and improvised genres.

He has received commissions from distinguished soloists, ensembles, and orchestras, including pianist Cédric Pescia, saxophonist Valentine Michaud, Ensemble Contrechamps, NEC, HYPER DUO, Basel Sinfonietta, and Orchestre de Chambre de Genève.
In 2020, he was awarded a residency by the Canton of Vaud in Berlin.
In 2022, IRCAM commissioned him to compose a work for harp and electronics for the Manifeste festival in Paris.
In 2024, his first portrait album, Dämmerung, was released on the German label NEOS Music.

Juillerat regularly performs with renowned orchestras and ensembles, such as Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Verbier Festival Orchestra, and Ensemble Contrechamps. He is a member of the experimental rock band HYPER LA CHAISE, the Lausanne jazz orchestra Le Grand Eustache, and the musical theater company Too hot to hoot?.
In addition to his performing career, he curates the Fracanaüm concert series in Lausanne and the Label Suisse festival. Since 2021, he has chaired the artistic commission of Sinfonietta de Lausanne.

“Juillerat’s world juxtaposes fury and delicacy, the vertigo of emptiness and sonic excess, obsessive hammering (…) and fairy-like clicks…”

— Philippe Cassard, Le Nouvel Obs, August 2024