I am a composer and guitarist from Latvia, Riga based in Cologne, Germany, who is specialised in different kinds of music. I draw my main influences from jazz, classical music, jazz fusion and post-rock.

In 2022 I moved to Cologne, Germany to study Jazz Composition MM program at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

2018-2022 I studied jazz guitar performance in Latvian music academy BA program (Jāzepa Vītola Latvijas Mūzikas akadēmija) 

Also I studied music at the Dynamic Records Music School music production and sound engineering. (2016-2017)

My musical education has thus far consisted of taking private guitar lessons and attending Ventspils Music College’s (Ventspils Mūzikas vidusskola) pop and jazz guitar program (2013-2016).

Flutes, electronics, improvisation, composition.
Bands: The Villa, Pedal Kings, Duo Lontano, Kubus&maan (video clips), SEW (past), Tonotopics (past).

Pete Harden (guitar) and Saskia Lankhoorn (piano and voice) have been performing together in new music groups for more than a decade. This shared history of playing and touring, espying the beauty of the estranging world of travellers inspired their duo Avenue Azure. Almost-songs that trace landscapes, cities and seas, the duo creates other-worldly atmospheres, music of transition, ungrounded in time, that is at once familiar and unfamiliar, shrouding the listener in a dark comfort.

raphaël languillat
• composer / electronic artist
• curator Naxos Hallenkonzerte
• based in Offenbach/Main (DE)
• part of Studio Wäscherei

Patrick Ellis (b. 1994, UK) is a composer, performer and curator based in London. His music has been described as being "focused, intense and unrelenting" (Gaudeamus Jury, 2024), with much of his work utilising limited musical materials, small developments and juxtapositions.

He has worked with many acclaimed ensembles including Terra Invisus (UK), Ensemble Klang (NL), collective lovemusic (FR), XTRO Percussion (NL), the Residentie Orkest (NL), Kluster 5 (NL), Orkest de Ereprijs (NL), The Tantrum Saxophone Quartet (NL), The Spaceship Ensemble (NL), Kirkos (IE) and 315 Ensemble (US/UK), and has collaborated with soloists such as Kathryn Williams (flute), Huw Morgan (organ), Alfian Emir Adytia (cello), Dauphine Van der Velphen (saxophone), Chris Cresswell (electric guitar) and Carson Cooman (organ).

Upcoming projects include a new multimedia work exploring burnout within the classical music industry for the ensemble Standard Issue, a new piece featuring accordion, string trio and fixed media for the Toronto-based group Freesound, an audiovisual piece for To Your Ear Collective, as well as a long-form collaboration with the French-Canadian cellists Laurence Gaudreau and Audréanne Filion.

Patrick's music has been presented at numerous festivals and concert series across the European, North American, Asia and Australasia, including, Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Festival Dag in de Branding (NL), November Music (NL), Rainy Days Festival (LU), Mittelfest and Mittelyoung Festival (IT), De Link Tilburg (NL), Lilium SoundArt (IT), Sundays at The Hugh Lane Gallery (IE), AżTak Festival (PL), New Music Now NL's Dag van de Componist (NL), Click Fest (US), Sounding Here (NL), Kirkos Ensemble's Biosphere Festival (IE), Union Musicale (IT), Mainly Slow Organ Music (UK), Kammer Klang (UK), the Frequency Series Chicago (US), Ideas of Noise Festival (UK) and the Harmos Plural Festival (PT).

In 2024, Patrick was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award and in 2022, he was the Artist in Residence for the AMPA Fontys/De Link Residency programme in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He has also been a part of the Psappha Composing For Piano Scheme in 2019-20, the 25th Edition of Orkest de Erepijs’ Young Composers Meeting and Kathryn Williams' innovative Coming Up for Air Project.

His music has been broadcast on Dutch radio stations, including NPO Radio 4, NPO Klassiek, Concertzender,and Stranded FM, as well as on the US station WCNY, and has been featured on releases from Birmingham Record Company and Huddersfield Contemporary Records.

Patrick is also the artistic director of Open Union, an electric guitar and modular synth duo with composer-performer colleague Peter Bell. Described by the treasured composer Howard Skempton as being 'sometimes subtle and unstable; sometimes rich and dense', the duo aims to build up strong collaborative relationships to create new works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi, Paolo Griffin and Seán Clancy. The duo have performed across the UK at events such as SAOM, Ealing Extranormal, AMOK, Don't Mind Control, Birmingham Modular Organisation and CODA Festival. In 2025, they co-hosted a portrait concert with saxophonist David Zucchi featuring music by Paolo Griffin at the Hundred Years Gallery; earlier in the year, they supported Passepartout Duo at Centrala Space, Birmingham as part of their UK Tour, and in 2023, undertook a mini tour of The Netherlands as part of the Sounding Here concert series, where they performed at Splendor in Amsterdam and Batavierhuis in Rotterdam.

Alongside composing and performing, Patrick works as the creative director of PRXLUDES, an online contemporary music magazine, platform, and resource dedicated to the promotion of the work of emerging and early-career composers. Together, with the artistic director Zygmund de Somogyi and a team of contributors, they have written about more than 125 composers, ensembles and music organisations from the UK and abroad. In 2025, they began hosting events, presenting Alex Groves' DANCE SUITE (performed by Zubin Kanga) as part of PRS Foundation New Music Biennial 2025. Recently, PRXLUDES have been awarded a multi-year partnership with The Hinrichsen Foundation in order to help platform emerging and early-career composers through a series of concerts, conversations, and commissions throughout the UK from 2025 to 2028. The first of these events, the PRX.LIVE Launch Party, will be taking place on the 5th of February 2026 at Folklore Hoxton in London, featuring a new commission by Millicent B James and existing works by Rylan Gleave, Holly Gowland, Blasio Kavuma, Kian Ravaei and Aileen Sweeney, all performed by the London-based ensemble Standard Issue.

He holds a Masters degree in composition from the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (Royal Conservatoire of The Hague) and a Bachelor's degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His principal tutors have included Martijn Padding, Guus Janssen, Andrew Hamilton, Seán Clancy, Ed Bennett, Howard Skempton and Michael Wolters.

Session drummer. Lately focusing on music production again.

Patricio Wang (1952) Studied Composition, Architecture, & Sound Tecnology  at the Universidad de Chile and Composition and Classical Guitar at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. 
He composes concert music for both soloists and ensembles. Since 1977 he has been regularly writing music for film, dance, theater and music theater. His work has been recorded by many artists.
Some of his work includes the opera a capella "Tragicomedia de don Cristóbal y doña Rosita” based on the play by F. García-Lorca; the opera "Pinocchio' for 10 singers/actors and 7 musicians for the ROTheater; the Dance-Opera "A taste ofglamour" for 4 countertenors/dansers and 4 musicians; “Two Sisters for two piano’s for the pianoduo Post & Mulder, “Schipbreuk”(Naufrage) voor het Loos Ensemble & electronics, “Shadows" for Catch Electric Guitar Quartet; "María Nuñez" Music Theater (top 5 of the best opera productions 2012-2013 in Holland)"Requiebros" for string orchestra en el. guitar; "Maria Nuñez" music theater (Theatermaker magazine's top 5 of the best opera productions 2012-2013 in Holland; "Desierto" for baritone & string orchestra on poems by Gabriela Mistral.
He has been member of various ensembles, among others BARROCO ANDINO, (Chili), AMANKAY,  HOKETUS and LOOS in Holland. Since 1981  member of the famous chilean ensemble QUILAPAYUN  and since 1990 his musical director. He is also a member of the electric guitar quartet CATCH (guest soloists with the New York Philharmonic in 2014.
As an interpreter of contemporary music he has regularly played with different ensembles and orchestras, including Ensemble Intercontemporain, Asko&Schoenberg Ensemble, Concertgebouw Orkest, Orchestre de Paris, Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Ensemble Contrechamps, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Ensemble Modern, MusikFabrik, New York Philharmonic, among others.

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