Macarena Rosmanich, a Chilean composer based in Germany, is one of the most active international voices of a growing scene of Latin American female composers. Although her career has developed mainly in Europe, her eagerness to motivate future female composers in her country of origin, makes her have permanent contact with the contemporary Chilean scene. 
The concept of intertextuality is at the center of her work. Each piece is linked to other pieces, through elements that are then developed in a new context, generating a universe that interacts and evolves internally. This universe is not isolated, but also discusses or is inspired by narrative literature, poetry, art, as well as social and political events.  All this works as an engine that triggers a flow of sound relationships that give rise to her work. 
"The close relationship between compositional work and literature, has led me to conceive spaces that complement each other and merge into a unity through music. My approach seeks to provide the poetic form with a new temporal dimension, a sort of collaboration between sound and word that transcends conventional boundaries. In essence, my purpose is to blur the boundaries of pre-existing form and structure in a work, rearranging them in such a way as to configure a new work, thus redefining the essence of the original. This process not only involves a stylistic transformation, but also seeks to open up new routes of interpretation, allowing the musical composition to dialogue in a unique way with the poetry and, in turn, establish a richer and more dynamic connection with time."
Her work ranges from chamber and vocal music to works for orchestra and musical theatre. She has worked with numerous international soloists, orchestras and ensembles, such as Musikfabrik, Kommas, Via Nova, Mosaik, Recherche, Multilatérale, United Instruments of Lucilin, KNM Berlin, Vertixe Sonora, L'ART POUR L'ART, Reflexion K, Broken Frames Syndicate, among others. 
Her works have been performed in Latin America, Germany, France, Italy, England, Spain and Luxembourg. 
She studied at the University of Chile where she graduated with distinction and continued her postgraduate studies with composer José María Sánchez Verdú at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf and later a master's degree in composition at the University of Freiburg with Johannes Schöllhorn.
Macarena Rosmanich lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

https://rosmanich.com/

Contact: macarosmanich@gmail.com

Janneke van der Putten's artistic practice involves experiences of listening, performances, sound and video, documentations in image/text/textile, workshops, music projects, and creating platforms for mutual cultural exchange. Her voice is her main tool, guiding her through physical and sonic explorations in different landscapes. Engaging with specific sites and local contexts, and through her personal experiences, she investigates (human) responses to her surroundings, and their relation to natural phenomena and transitions, such as the sunrise. For contact and bookings email to info@jannekevanderputten.nl.

sonic space basel is the platform of the FHNW Academy of Music Basel for composition, improvisation, contemporary music performance, audio design and research

Team:
Uli Fussenegger
Mike Svoboda
Marcus Weiss
Sarah Maria Sun
Yaron Deutsch
Volker Böhm
Svetlana Maraš 
Johannes Kreidler
Michel Roth
Caspar Johannes Walter

So Oishi is an electronic music composer, DJ, and software developer from Tokyo, Japan. He primarily focuses on producing deep and leftfield techno, broken beat, ambient, and electronica with psychedelic atmosphere. As a solo artist, he has released two EPs on the Dutch label Something Happening Somewhere @sohaso : “Lithosphere”(2024) and “Herbology”(2025). He is also part of the unit Dawn Ever @dawnever with Japanese DJ ΛSYL @asylcahier, and together they released a downtempo album “Aurora Saltans” (2024) on the Mexican label Secuencias Temporales. He completed his master’s degree at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, the Netherlands, where he conducted research on timbre in electronic composition and developed a sound synthesis program.

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Upcoming:

«desobediencia del enjambre» (2026)
 –disobedience of the swarm– 
World Premiere: Cologne, Alte Feuerwache
21.03.2026, Kommas Ensemble
Double Concerto for piano, percussion
and 12 instruments (fl, ob, cl, sax, fg, trp, hrp, 2 vln, vla, vc, db and electronics, 30 min.)
Commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

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Francisco C. Goldschmidt studied composition with Cirilo Vila and Aliocha Solovera at the University of Chile, as well as a Masters in the Theory and History of Art with the philosopher Dr. Sergio Rojas at the same University. He received a scholarship from the National Board of Chile for Culture and Art to study a Masters of Music and a Konzertexamen in Instrumental Composition under Johannes Schöllhorn at the Cologne University of Music.

Goldschmidt‘s work reveals a particular fascination for solo and chamber music in a reduced format. Internal polyphony of individual voices, the use of resonances and the intense interweaving of hidden chants are characteristic of his work. Sudden changes of temperament and tempo lead to a divergent and ambivalent music, always marked by fragility. The question of permanent bifurcation, lack of identity, isolation, disorientation and labyrinth are themes that run through his work. Furthermore, work with amplification and spatialization of sound and interdisciplinary collaboration with the video artist Nicolás Rupcich (*1981) are an essential part of his artistic project.

Goldschmidt’s music has been performed by various ensembles, such as the mdi ensemble (Italy), MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik, Fukio Ensemble, hand werk, IEMA Ensemble, Cologne Guitar Quartet, Trio Estatico, Das Neue Ensemble Hannover, L'art pour l'art,  Kommas Ensemble, Ensemble KNM Berlin, Ensemble Recherche (all Germany), Spóldzielnia Muzyczna (Poland), Ensemble Lucilin (Luxembourg), Colectivo Azul, Ensamble Contemporáneo UC (Chile), TimeArt Studio (Taiwan), Ensemble Exophonie Tokyo (Japan), Vertixe Sonora Ensemble (Spain) and Friends of Mata (New York). Moreover, his orchestral works have been selected by the Chamber Orchestra of Chile, the USACH Classical Orchestra of Santiago, the HfMT Orchester of Cologne, SWR Sinfonieorchester of Stuttgart and the Gürzenich-Orchester of Cologne.

In addition, his music has been performed at several festivals, including the UC Festival in Santiago de Chile, Concerts-Lab in Tokyo, Ciclo-Cervantes in Buenos Aires, MATA Festival in New York, Ensems in Valencia, WERFT and Acht Brücken in Cologne.

He have received diverse awards, such as the finalist at the «Luis Advis 2007» competition, the support of CNCA of Chile in 2013/2016, the «RheinSilver Award 2014» in the framework of the New Talents Biennial of Cologne, the Second Prize at the Berlin's «Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Award 2014», the Cologne's «Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Scholarship» in 2016 and the support for five comissions by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2018/2019/2020/2023/2025). In 2019 he was artist in residence at the Artists' Village Schöppingen and was awarded at the «Young Composers' Forum 2020» of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts of Munich.

Francisco C. Goldschmidt lives and works in Cologne since 2011 as both a freelance composer and the artistic director of the Kommas Ensemble.

In 2025, he served as composer-in-residence for five months at the Bartels Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, and for three months at the Atelier Galata in Istanbul, Turkey, supported by the Art Foundation NRW.

In 2026 will be released the audiovisual record of his instrumental monodrama «ELOY -music with images of isolation»; one hundred minutes of instrumental music that he has been composing since 2012 to date, as a work in progress, based on the homonymous novel by writer Carlos Droguett. 

A Portrait–CD featuring his most recent works is also scheduled to appear in 2028 as part of the «Edition Zeitgenössische Musik Podium Gegenwart» series released by WERGO.

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