Katarzyna Krzewińska – composer and music producer, author of chamber and orchestral pieces, electroacoustic projects and theatre music. Graduate of the Kraków and Wrocław Music Academies.
She has worked with renowned ensembles such as NOSPR, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ex Novo Ensemble, orkest de ereprijs, Ensemble Marges, etc. Her music has been performed in many concerts and music festivals in Poland and abroad, including: Festiwal Prawykonań, Warszawska Jesień, Wratislavia Cantans, Klarafestival, Festival de Wallonie, Mittelfest, etc.
One of the significant events in her career was composing a piece #nofilter for symphonic orchestra, audio playback and live electronics which was commissioned by NOSPR and performed at the 9. Festival of Premieres in Katowice. Additionally, Katarzyna collaborated with London Philharmonic Orchestra during the LPO Young Composers Programme and was a Polish representative during an international project Music Masters on Air in 2018. She has a strong passion for working on theatre music and has been involved in several premieres over the past years, including those at the Narodowy Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej in Kraków, Teatr im. Ludwika Solskiego in Tarnów and Teatr Wybrzeże in Gdańsk.
Katarzyna is also a co-founder of a brand Pssst! Instruments specializing in creating virtual instruments – a tools for film music composers and music producers created through sampling and creative sound design.
Samuel Hvozdík gained his education in composition and organ in Slovakia.
He has also participated in various workshops with composers and performers, including Kaija Saariaho, Tristan Murail, Helena Tulve, Tosiya Suzuki, Zsolt Nagy, and others. In 2016, his composition “Regerna Symbio Irbis” was chosen by Ensemble Modern for performance at the International Ensemble Modern Academy concerts, conducted by Lucas Vis. In 2019, Samuel took part in international composition courses as part of the Sound of Wander festival in Milan, working with Marco Momi and mdi ensemble. In early 2022, Samuel collaborated with Ensemble Proton Bern and Aaron Cassidy as part of Protonwerk No. 11. In 2023, he participated in the second edition of the CIEL Academy with Jürg Frey, Zeynep Toraman, and Ensemble Linea. Currently, he is engaged in creating several electronic and electroacoustic works, experimenting with diverse sound sources, sound textures, and spatial elements.
Ian Mikyska is a Czechoslovak composer who works mostly on the edges of sound – he makes installations, videos, texts, theatre…
He studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London (with James Weeks and Laurence Crane), with exchanges at the Universität der Künste in Berlin (with Marc Sabat) and the Center for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU (with Miloš Vojtěchovský). He is currently completing a master’s degree in directing of alternative and puppet theatre at DAMU in Prague (with Jiří Havelka and Sodja Lotker). He has collaborated with numerous theatres (the National Theatre, Husa na provázku, Alfred ve dvoře, Na zábradí, ao.) and visual artists (Zbyněk Baladrán, Alžběta Bačíková, Jan Pfeiffer, ao.).
He published a book of sound poems, Partitury pro čtenáře (Scores for Readers; Psí víno, 2016) and prepared a series of “sensory strolls” – immersive installation with book-form guides. His work explores themes such as impermanence and emptiness, the relationship between the perceptual and the conceptual, intermediality, or our relationship to both urban and natural environments. He is the artistic director of the Prague Quiet Music Collective. He is also active as a translator from Czech to English and the editor-in-chief of Czech Music Quarterly.
Máté Balogh is a Hungarian composer and associate professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest.
His pieces have been performed and awarded all over Europe and in Turkey, China, Taiwan, Japan, Canada and the United States. He is the composer of Zsófia Szilágyi’s film entitled One Day, which was awarded the FIPRESCI-Prize in Cannes in 2019.
His music has been presented in many international festivals, such as Manifeste Festival (IRCAM-Paris), Milano Musica, MicroFest Prague, Open Recorder Days Amsterdam, ECCO Concert Series (Bruxelles), Opus Amadeus (Istanbul), Kurtág&Ungarn (Bern), Listening to China (Shanghai), Secret Kiss (Tokio), Ostrava Days, Axes Kraków, Festival Academy (Budapest), Café Budapest, St. Gellert Festival (Szeged), Bartók Szeminárium (Szombathely), etc. His pieces are published by Editio Musica Budapest, Impronta Edition (Mannheim) and Universal Edition (Vienna).
His new piece dedicated to ‘Renewable Music Project’ is an homage to Andy Warhol and planned to be an instrumental re-creation of Marilyn Monroe’s speech from her interview ‘Do I feel happy in life?’ made by Marie Claire Magazine in 1960.