INGA MARGRETE AAS

Inga Margrete Aas is an Oslo-based musician, improviser and composer. As a musician/improviser you could find her playing circle bow on double bass in the improvduo Vilde&Inga, delicate noise sounds on viola da gamba in the free folk band O, or engaged in a counterpoint with the classical chamber orchestra Ensemble Allegria. These activities have been documented on a variety of recordings, to mention a few: Vilde&Inga – How Forests Think (SOFA 2020), O – Firstness (2022 dBUT inter@mbience), Ensemble Allegria – Britten/Hagen/Strauss (LAWO 2022). As a composer you could find Aas trying to notate bow scraping for cello, tying fishing line to a bass drum pedal or preparing an overhead projector. In 2022 the piece Self Portrait With Lynx and Moth was in the final of the pan-European composition competition DYCE. Aas is currently working on pieces for the ensembles Aksiom trio and Rugle.

NINA FUKUOKA

She graduated from the Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz, Poland with a Master’s degree in Theory of Music and Bachelor’s degree in Composition in the class of prof. Zygmunt Krauze. In 2012, she studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium as a participant of the Erasmus Exchange Program with prof. Peter Swinnen, where she continued her education in the Master’s program and graduated with distinction in 2016. In the field of electronic music she has been guided by Krzysztof Knittel, Kasia Głowicka, and Benjamin Van Esser. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Music Composition at the Columbia University in New York City.

Her works inhabit a number of contemporary and experimental settings such as video scores and performance pieces with multimedia and live electronics, as well as orchestra and ensemble works. By maintaining collaborations with musicians, dancers and film artists, Nina continues to explore new possibilities for multi-disciplinary art.

PAWEŁ HENDRICH

Paweł Hendrich was born in 1979 in Wrocław (Poland). After studying engineering and economics at the Wrocław University of Economics he studied composition at the K. Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław (prof. Grażyna Pstrokońska Nawratil) and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne (prof. York Höller).

The works of Paweł Hendrich have been performed at concerts and festivals in Austria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United States of America.

TZE YEUNG HO

Tze Yeung Ho (b. 1992) is a Norwegian composer. His music is created at the crossroads of understanding, reflecting his multilingual upbringing. His works explore the territories of speech, translation in language, dramaturgy and poetics. Working with Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric and Chinese poetry and prose, his music treads on the fragile landscapes of (mis)communication through (un)spoken words. Close collaboration with living writers, storytellers and word-based artists is integral to his practice.

THRAINN HJALMARSSON

Hjalmarsson is known for his detailed and finely woven sound world, where the act of listening plays a vital role. Here, the perception of sound is ever  transforming, revealing an otherwise obfuscated narrative, unfolding in time.

Hjalmarsson’s music has been performed by performers, orchestras and ensembles worldwide on various occasion by groups such as Basel Sinfonietta, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Vertixe Sonora, Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Barokkbandið Brák, Hanna Hohti, Ensemble Adapter and CAPUT ensemble to name a few.

ALEKSANDRA KACA

Composer, songwriter, manager and italianist. In her works she focuses mainly on color – on the way timbres are being mixed and on nuances that form a multidimensional but coherent image. Composer fervently reach for a non-obvious combinations such as junction of harp and piano in Shadow lines or a mix of soprano and baritone saxophones with electronics in Dream argument. Her interests are oriented on different music genres. She is a founder and a leader of FJORS (compositions, voice, keys, electronics).

Since 2019 she has been a manager of Hashtag Ensemble, music cooperative specialising in contemporary music. As an associate producer she worked for Quartessence Festival (Royal String Quartet), Słuchy — concerts to be toured, Kwadrofonik Festival, Dark Matter(s): Mykietyn & Peszat (2017). In 2015, with Teoniki Rozynek, Zaneta Rydzewska and Rafal Ryterski, she founded composers’ group gen~.rate. Between 2015 and 2019 they produced several concerts, inter alia: New Music Concerts series and polysensory spectacle EMBODY.

MARTYNA KOSECKA

Martyna Kosecka’s music grows out of her interest in philosophy, physics, linguistics and the mythologies and fables of the world. She is a Polish composer, performer, conductor, curator and researcher in new music. In her projects she works with narratives, microtonality, symbolism and ritualism, by using multidisciplinary solutions. She emphasises the richness of transcultural relationships in art, drawing from the cultures of Iran, Poland and Norway, the countries she has connected through her life. Martyna currently lives and works in Oslo, where she is involved in the curatorial activities of VoxLAB, the Periferien contemporary music concert series and the Norwegian Society of Composers. 

KLAUS LANG

Klaus Lang  – organist and pianist. He studied composition and theory of music and organ. Klaus Lang loves tea and dislikes lawnmowers and Richard Wagner. Klaus Lang’s music is not a means to convey extramusical contents, such as emotions, philosophical or religious ideas, political propaganda, advertisement etc… His music is no language used to communicate non-musical content. Music is seen as a free and selfstanding acoustical object. In his work he is not using sound, sound is explored and given the opportunity to unfold its inherent rich beauties. Only when sound is just sound it is percievable as that what it really is: a temporal phenomenon – audible time.

IDIN SAMIMI MOFAKHAM

The music of Iranian composer/performer, Idin Samimi Mofakham (*1982) is deeply based on the traditional and regional music of his home country. Since 2015, he develops his own musical language based on the medieval Persian tuning systems, just intonation and psychoacoustics.

Idin is the co-founder and artistic manager of Spectro Centre for New Music since 2013, along with Polish composer & conductor Martyna Kosecka. Since 2015 he serves as a co-founder, board member and senior curator of Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, the only international music festival with focus on contemporary and experimental music in Iran.