A new music ensemble for the 21st Century, the [Switch~ Ensemble] is an electroacoustic ensemble in residence at the Eastman School of Music's Computer Music Center.  Switch~ is an initiative dedicated to the performance of works for chamber ensemble and electronics, with a focus on the creation of new repertoire featuring the integration of live musicians, amplification, synthesizers, fixed media, and real-time interactive computer processing.

Tania Lanfer is a Brazilian composer. She did her master's degree at UCSD in music composition and is currently living in Oakland, CA.

Born in Thessaloniki (Greece) in 1988, Sofia Avramidou graduated from the composition department of Aristotle University (Bachelor's and Master's degrees, 2009-2014) and from the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome (specialized Master's degree, 2014-2016), receiving the highest distinction in the class of Professor Ivan Fedele, as well as an excellence scholarship from the "Alexandros Onassis Foundation”.
In Paris, in 2020, she graduated from IRCAM's "Cursus de composition et d'informatique musicale".
She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Goffredo Petrassi Prize from the Quirinal Palace in Rome (2016), 1st prize at the IX "Francisco Escudero" International Accordion Composition Competition (2016) in Spain, and 1st prize at the 6th "Dimitris Dragatakis" Composition Competition (2014), organized by the Greek Composers' Union. She participated in numerous composition courses and seminars, with Beat Furrer, Philippe Manoury, Georges Aperghis, Francesco Filidei, Yan Maresz, Jean-Luc Hervé, Franck Bedrossian, Dmitri Kurljandski...
Sofia Avramidou also collaborates with director Evangelia Kranioti, for the film "Obscuro Barroco", which received the Teddy Award at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival. That same year, she was selected by the Venice Biennale to compose the chamber opera "Rodi rodi, morsicchia! La casina chi rosicchia?" performed at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale.
She has been commissioned by ensembles and institutions such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Philharmonie de Paris, Ircam, Venice Biennale, Musikfabrik, Ictus, Lemanic Modern Ensemble, 2e2m, Radio-France, Festival Ensemble(s), Festival de Prades, Festival Nouveaux Horizons, Orchestre National de Jazz, ECHO, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Auditorium Orchestre National de Lyon....
Her compositions have been performed at the Philharmonie of Paris, the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Bozar (Brussels), the Barbican (London), the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), the Philharmonie of Cologne, the Venice Biennale, the Auditori (Barcelona), the Festspielhaus (Baden-Baden), the Philharmonie of Luxembourg, the Auditorium of Lyon, the Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), the Teatro La Fenice (Venice), the Boston University, the Megaron (Athens)...
Alongside composition, Sofia Avramidou studies Byzantine music, Hymnology, Oud and Ney instrument, as well as traditional Greek singing.
As a singer, she collaborates with various ensembles and orchestras, such as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, the Thessaloniki Municipal Orchestra, the Raanana Symphony Orchestra (Israel)...

 In 2018, she arranged traditional songs for voice and clarinet and recorded the album "Binôme" in Greece.
Her works are published by Éditions Lacroch' and BabelScores.

Composer, performer, sound artist from Serbia/Croatia, based in Berlin
www.sonjamutic.com

http://giulia-lorusso.com
giulia.lorusso90@gmail.com
http://brahms.ircam.fr/giulia-lorusso

Giulia Lorusso is an italian composer based in Paris. 
She studied piano and composition at the Conservatory « Giuseppe Verdi » in Milan, with Alessandro Solbiati, and in Paris where she attended the Cursus IRCAM and completed a Master’s degree at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) in the class of Frédéric Durieux. 
She was a student in the generative improvisation class held by Vincent Lê Quang.

Her production includes both instrumental and electroacoustic works integrating new technologies and exploring the relationship between performer, audience and devices as well as the relation between sound and space.
Her music has been commissioned by institutions such as IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, GMEM de Marseille, Radio France, ProQuartet, Donaueschinger Musiktage  and performed by renowned musicians as Brussels Philharmonic, Quatuor Tana, Quatuor Ditotima, Ensemble 2e2m, United Instrument of Lucilin, Yarn/Wire.

Giulia  has been artist in residence at ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien) de Karlsruhe, at the European University of Cyprus (EUC), at Royaumont Fondation (Incubator project), Fondazione Spinola-Banna per l’arte (Turin).
She is currently composer associated to the Ensemble 2e2m for the season 2023-2024.
She is recipient of the Prix SACEM Hervé Dugardin (2023).

Her catalogue includes interdisciplinary works exploring installations, interaction, experimental music theatre, collective composition. 
She collaborated with researchers (Alessandro Rudi of INRIA), philosophers (Emanuele Coccia, Rosario Diana), visual artists (Jessica Rimondi, Kesson Dalef), dancers and puppeteers (Amalia Franco).
Her interactive installation «Fabrica» has been part of the the «Réseaux Monde» exposition at Centre Pompidou (Paris) in 2021.

Giulia is also active as a teacher and pedagogue, she’s been professor invited for the first edition of the Académie MIXTE, organised by Proxima Centauri Ensemble in Bordeaux (France). 
She’s been teaching composition at the bachelor and master level in Italy at Consevatory of Pesaro  and Conservatory of Vibo Valentia .

Composer from Santos, Brazil. Current Composition student at University of Campinas(Unicamp).

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