MATA Festival. Founded in 1996 by Philip Glass, Lisa Bielawa, and Eleonor Sandresky, to promote, commission, and present music by young composers from around the world.

Father, husband, composer, sound artist, teacher, musical saw performer, saxophonist, synesthete, endurance email athlete.

My soundcloud page features compositions for string instruments and piano. I've also written lots of music for other instrumental combinations. You can hear these on my Bandcamp pages at http://auerbach-brown.bandcamp.com/ and http://infamouse11.bandcamp.com/ .

www.auerbachbrown.com

Icelandic composer and double bassist based in Copenhagen.

Hotel Elefant is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the works of innovative, living composers.

Formed in 2011 by composers Leaha Maria Villarreal and Mary Kouyoumdjian, Hotel Elefant ambitiously presents new music through commissions, performances, and moderated discussions between composers, performers, and audiences. Committed to modern sounds and sonic explorations, this vibrant ensemble brings a keen awareness of today’s music to the general public and highlights those living composers who are blurring lines, pushing boundaries, and fostering creativity. With a flexible roster of more than twenty musicians, Hotel Elefant has worked closely with such progressive composers as Robert Ashley, Michael Gordon, David T. Little, Angélica Negrón, and Chinary Ung. The ensemble’s premiere sparked the interest of Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise, radio station Q2 Music, and The New Yorker. Of their inaugural season, the online publication I Care if You Listen raved: “Hotel Elefant seems to be carving out their own niche, combining style, versatility, and quality of performance. They are well on their way to becoming a resounding force in the new music world.” 


I have premiered more than eighty works from multiple musical genres, from solo to opera, by composers from all over the world. Notable among these are the "Concertos" for baritone saxophone and orchestra by Albena Petrovic (Philharmonie de Luxembourg, June 2018) and Fernando Lerman (Teatre Fortuny de Reus, November 2024).

Throughout my solo (and also soloist) activity, I have been a member of several chamber music projects (I was a founding member of SAX 3+1 saxophone quartet, 1994-2013), contemporary music ensembles and other orchestral formations. In 2016, composer and sound artist Joan Bagés i Rubí and I created Morphosis Duo (baritone saxophone and electronics), the basic version of Morphosis Ensemble, a flexible collective of electroacoustic musicians with whom I closely collaborate. 

I have performed in Europe, America and Australasia in festivals such as Mixtur Barcelona, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Rc4 (Rio de Janeiro) and Classical:NEXT (Vienna and Hannover editions), presenting my diverse artistic projects, mainly focused on new music.

· “Without a doubt, all of this places Joan Martí-Frasquier as one of the references in the contemporary saxophone and new music” [Toda La Música, 2019]

Katherine Bergman is a Minnesota-based composer who draws on literature, environmentalism, and found materials to create work that has been described as hypnotic and visceral. 

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