Based in Geneva, the Ensemble PlayTime is a young contemporary music ensemble eager to explore new sounds. It is formed by Jose Nisa Velasco (saxophone), Ingrid Bidet (flute), Juliette Dournaud (piano), Loïc Morin (percussion) and Nicolas Roulive (composition / electronics).

Passionate about contemporary creation, they are determined to play the music of composers of their generation, and to work with them from the conception of the pieces to their live performances. They currently collaborate with composers Jaouen Rudolf (France) and Sergei Leonov (Russia).

Their work is mainly oriented around mixed music pieces, the use of electronics being for them a way to create an immersive experience and to set no limits in their experimentations.

In 2022, the Ensemble PlayTime received the Jean-François Chaponnière, prize from the HES-SO Geneva (Switzerland). This prize is awarded to a particularly brilliant chamber music ensemble within the Haute Ecole de Musique of Geneva. in 2023 they were awarded for their project PlayHouse by the Ponticello Association with OSEZ! Prize, destined to an innovative artistic project.

The ensemble's repertoire also includes pieces written in the 20th and 21st centuries (P. Jodlowski, R. Carvajal Pardo, S. Leonov, Jaouen Rudolf, N. Roulive, M. Wettl). In May 2022, they collaborated with Pierre Jodlowski in a concert dedicated to his works.

Apart from making the creation of pieces, the Ensemble PlayTime's vocation is to invite and collaborate with artists, musicians, video artists, plasticians, dancers or even actors. They would like to create performances born from the meeting between the artistic ideas of their guests and the identity of the collective. They wish to offer the audience poetic, multidisciplinary and engaged moments, and offer an immersion in new sound and sensory worlds.