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

He has received commissions from soloists, ensembles, and orchestras, including pianist Cédric Pescia, saxophonist Valentine Michaud, Ensemble Contrechamps, NEC, HYPER DUO, the 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 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 frequently performs with renowned orchestras and ensembles, such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Verbier Festival Orchestra, and Ensemble Contrechamps. He is a member of the experimental rock group HYPER LA CHAISE, the Lausanne jazz orchestra Le Grand Eustache, and the music-theater company Too hot to hoot?.

He also curates concerts for the Fracanaüm 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