Kilian Schwoon (* 1972) studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and electronic composition with Dirk Reith at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. He then continued his studies at the Centro Tempo Reale in Florence with Luciano Berio and worked at this Institute for many years as a performer, researcher and developer in the field of live electronics. He has been Professor of Electroacoustic Composition at the University of the Arts Bremen since 2007.
During his time at the Centro Tempo Reale, he was already intensively involved with spatial sound control. He is currently exploring the possibilities of design and composition with 3D audio technology as part of a project at Bremen University of the Arts ("We Dig It!") funded by the foundation Innovation in University Teaching.

Christina Kubisch, born in Bremen in 1948, belongs to the first generation of sound artists. After studying in Germany, Switzerland and Italy and holding guest professorships in Holland and France, among other places, she lived in Milan until 1987. As a trained flautist and composer, she made her mark early on with projects at the intersection of visual arts, media and music. In the 1970s, these were primarily gender-critical video performances, followed from the beginning of the 1980s by spatial sound installations with magnetic induction and other audiovisual means, most of which she developed herself. In the mid-1980s, the artist also began to incorporate light into her works. She created large-scale installations that combined visual and acoustic elements to form a new unity. In 2003, she began the series of Electrical Walks, sound walks in public spaces in which she invites the public to experience a previously unknown way of perceiving the everyday world using special electromagnetic headphones.
Christina Kubisch taught as a professor at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar in Saarbrücken from 1994 to 2013, where she founded the "Sound Art" department. She has been a member of the music section of the Akademie der Künste Berlin since 1997. Her installations, compositions and audio-visual works have been realised at international festivals and shown in museums and galleries worldwide. She has received numerous prizes and scholarships for her work, most recently the 2021 Venice Music Biennale Prize for the best world premiere and the 2021 Giga-Hertz Prize from the ZKM for her life's work. Christina Kubisch lives and works in Berlin.

YouTuber Jogging House is Boris Potschubay, a synthesiser player and composer from Frankfurt/Main with a free artistic approach and a relaxed, emotive sound. Based on the famous garment, his pieces revolve around cosiness and the inner plumb line. It's about the combination of ambient soundscapes with laid-back grooves, seemingly endless melodies and a love of sonic detail. Jogging House creates music that is not directly connected to a specific time or place, but rather explores emotional states through sound and takes the listener on a journey.

The German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf has internalised referentiality as a
principle of composition (music to kin) and creates a cosmos of sound with instrumental settings through to
transdigital music, dance theatre and 3D sound/AR installations in analogue
digital forms of expression.
She has lived in Paris
and Kyoto on scholarships from the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris and the Villa Kamogawa, is the winner of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Composition Prize and the
German GEMA Music Authors' Prize, founder of Ensemble Garage and artistic director
of the queer FMN Festival (c/o Deutschlandfunk). Her works have been performed by numerous ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Mocrep Chicago and Les Siècles at festivals worldwide, including Festival d'Automne Paris, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Kyoto Experiment, TPAM Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Duolun Museum for Modern Art Shanghai, Munich Biennale, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Musica Strasbourg and ONASSIS Athens. Brigitta Muntendorf has been a professor of composition at the Cologne University of Music and Dance since 2017.

Jörg Birkenkötter was appointed Professor of Composition at the University of the Arts Bremen in spring 2011. He succeeded Younghi Pagh-Paan as Professor of Composition and has since continued the Atelier Neue Musik, which she founded.

Born in Dortmund in 1963, composer Jörg Birkenkötter studied with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwanghochschule Essen and with Helmut Lachenmann at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, among others. Jörg Birkenkötter has already been honoured with numerous awards and scholarships, including the Beethoven Prize Bonn, the Gaudeamus Prize Amsterdam, the Busoni Prize of the Academy of Arts Berlin and the Schneider-Schott Music Prize. Works by Jörg Birkenkötter have been performed at numerous important festivals and concert series in Germany and abroad, including in Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hanover, Hong Kong, Cologne, Melbourne, Moscow, Munich, New York, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Warsaw, Witten and Zurich. In 1994/1995 Birkenkötter was a scholarship holder at the Villa Massimo in Rome.

Mireia Vendrell del Álamo was born in Barcelona in 1986 and first studied piano at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Barcelona) with Ramon Coll and Jordi Camell, then at the Musikeon (Valencia) with Luca Chiantore, where she also worked regularly with pianists such as Josep M. Colom, Piero Rattalino and Dimitri Bashkirov. In 2012, she completed her Master's degree in New Music with Prof Nicolas Hodges at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts. She has received scholarships from the Güell Foundation (2010), the Gesellschaft der Freunde der Musikhochschule Stuttgart (2010-2011), the Consell Nacional de la Cultura i de les Arts (CoNCA) (2010-2011), the AIE (2006-2009) and the Anna Riera Foundation (2007).

She has won prizes in various international competitions and won 1st prize in the Premis Tutto of COMRàdio (Barcelona) in 2006. She also received the special prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary composer. In addition to a CD recording "Tutto Demestres I" with works by Alberto García Demestres, her first solo recording with works by Klein, Webern and Prokofiev was released by D+3 in 2007.

Mireia Vendrell has taken part in projects with composers such as Mathias Spahlinger, Frederic Rzewski, Jörg Birkenkötter and Enno Poppe. She has also premiered solo works by Raquel García Tomás, Luis Codera Puzo, Christian Pedro Vásquez Miranda, Andreas Paparousos, Germán Moreno Brull and Iván González Escuder. Together with the EthosDuo (Barcelona) and the CrossingLines Ensemble (Barcelona), she has also performed numerous world premières by young composers.

Mireia Vendrell currently lives and works in Bremen. She is the pianist of the CrossingLines Ensemble Barcelona and pianist and founding member of the Ensemble New Babylon Bremen. She regularly performs with these ensembles at international festivals.

Nicholas Tamagna is a countertenor of rare quality who quickly established himself on the world's opera stages. A Handel specialist, he has conquered roles such as Giulio Cesare, Orlando and Polinesso. His flawless technique, seamless registration, clarity of diction and dramatic versatility have earned him international acclaim in a wide range of repertoire.

Nicholas Tamagna can be heard on DVD recordings in the role of Spirit in 'Dido and Aeneas' (2015, Outhère Music). He can be heard on CD recordings with the Canadian early music ensemble ¡Sacabuche! in performances of unpublished works of the Italian Baroque (ATMA Classique) as well as with Le Poème Harmonique in performances of works by Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke. As an active concert soloist, he has sung at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Avery Fischer Hall and the Bozar in Brussels.

Nicholas Tamagna was first prize winner of the first Nico Castel International Competition.

Nicholas Tamagna sang the title role in Johann Adolph Hasse's opera 'Siroe' at the Oldenburg State Theatre in the 2017/18 season.

Born in Bucharest (Romania) in 1953, the composer came to Germany in 1982.

From 1996 to 2021, she held the chair for applied composition at the University of Oldenburg, where she founded the Composers' Colloquia series, the international symposium series Zwischen Zeiten, the Archive for Eastern European Music at the university library and the publication series Archiv für osteuropäische Musik. Forschungen und Quellen.

Her award-winning oeuvre ranges from chamber music, silent film music to concertos, oratorios, orchestral and stage works (ballets and operas).

In 2017, she was accepted as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), where she has also been selected as Dean of the Arts (Class III) since 2021.

Samuel Brözel aka derkalavier is a producer & pianist. After 13 years of training with a jazz pianist, he began studying keyboards and music production at Münster University of Music in 2013. Parallel to his studies, he produced for numerous hip hop & pop artists and played concerts worldwide with his own solo works on the piano. His musical signature can be heard on various vinyl, tape and digital releases from America to Vietnam. He also performs live as a keyboardist with artists and bands or as a producer DJ with the Ableton Push controller.

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Steffen Ahrens studied guitar in Hanover, Hamburg and Frankfurt. He is interested in classical, rock and pop music as well as contemporary-experimental music. He is the guitarist of the oh ton-Ensemble Oldenburg and plays as a guest with Ensemble Modern, ensemble musikFabrik, SWR Sinfonieorchester, Bamberger Symphoniker and OPER Frankfurt, among others. He lives in Frankfurt am Main and teaches there as a lecturer at the HfMDK.

Thomas Bisitz, born in 1979, is a physicist, musician and sound artist. As a scientist at the Oldenburg Hearing Centre, he works on making people hear better. As a musician with live electronics, the topics of improvisation and encounters are constantly being explored in new ways, from experimental to danceable. Since 2018, he has been developing innovative musical instruments ("Motion Soundboxes", e.g. for Un-Label Köln / ImPArt, HfM Trossingen and Blauschimmel Atelier Oldenburg) under the aspects of inclusion and aesthetics.