A recipient of the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno, is a composer/vocalist/sound artist who is currently a Professor at UC Berkeley, where he holds the Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Distinguished Professor Chair in Music. Ensembles and performers who have played Ken’s music include Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky, Mayumi Miyata, Teodoro Anzellotti, Aki Takahashi, Wendy Richman, Greg Oakes, BMOP, Alarm Will Sound, Steve Schick and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Nieuw Ensemble, and Frances-Marie Uitti. His music has been performed at such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MusikTriennale Köln Festival, the Muziekgebouw, Ars Musica, Warsaw Autumn, Other Minds, the Hopkins Center, Spoleto USA, Steim, and at the Norfolk Music Festival. Ken’s piece for the Hilliard Ensemble, Shiroi Ishi, was featured in their repertoire for over ten years, with performances at such venues as Queen Elizabeth Hall in England, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and was aired on Italian national radio, RAI 3. Another work, Pharmakon, was performed dozens of times nationally by Eighth Blackbird during their 2001-2003 seasons. A portrait concert of Ken’s was featured on MaerzMusik in Berlin in 2011. In 2012, he was a featured artist on Other Minds 17. In 2014, Frances-Mairie Uitti and the Boston Modern Orchestra premiered his concerto for two-bow cello and orchestra, and Guerilla Opera premiered a run of his chamber opera, Gallo, to critical acclaim. He has performed as soloist in his vocal concerto with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in New York and Boston, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Lithuanian National Symphony, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and with orchestras in North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and California. Ken holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. A monograph CD of three orchestral concertos was released on the Bmop/sound label. His bio appears in The Grove Dictionary of American Music.

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Mariano Ceballos is a violinist specialized in new music. He performed concerts as a soloist, chamber music and multidisciplinary projects around the world. As the only South American member, he joined the Ensemble Intercontemporain of Paris, founded by Pierre Boulez. Master in violin and chamber music, he studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland and Carnegie Mellon University – USA. More than 150 premieres in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Currently carrying out multidisciplinary violin projects with electronics, new technologies and visuals in America and Europe.


Mariano Ceballos es violinista especializado en nueva música. Realizó conciertos como solista, música de cámara y proyectos artísticos multidisciplinarios en las principales salas de conciertos y festivales del mundo. Integró como único sudamericano el Ensemble Intercontemporain de París, fundado por Pierre Boulez. Magister en violín y música de cámara, estudió en la International Menuhin Music Academy de Suiza y Carnegie Mellon University – USA. Su actividad incluyen más de 150 estrenos en Latinoamérica, Europa y Asia. Actualmente realiza proyectos multidisciplinarios de violín con electrónica, nuevas tecnologías y visuales en América y Europa.

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Luis Quintana’s music explores liminal spaces where tradition, memory, and nature dissolve into sound.

At the edge of cultures, where pulse blends with texture, his work is rooted in movement and reimagined heritage, inhabiting the porous boundary between popular and savant, ritual and abstraction. 

	He's an award-winning, Puerto Rican composer based in Paris. Equally at home with a wide range of media —acoustic, electronic, interdisciplinary—he has achieved international recognition by institutions such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Académie des Beaux-Arts in France, and the Contemporary Music Lab in Greece. His work engages with both, multiculturality as an aesthetic principle and ecology as a vehicle for expressions of identity. In this sense, he draws from a diverse array of musical traditions, techniques, landscapes, and art to create soundscapes that can serve as starting points for personal and emotional storytelling.

Retired professor of composition from the School of Music at the University of Missouri.

Argentinian composer and multimedia artist based in L.A.

Ignacio Laino is an Argentine musician originally from Córdoba. His work is characterized by its experimental nature and its challenge to musical conventions.
His music has been described as a fusion of various genres, including electronic, experimental, rock, and pop. Laino has released several albums and singles and collaborated with other musicians.
In addition to his musical career, Laino is also known for his live performances, which often incorporate visual and theatrical elements.
In his music, Laino explores themes of identity, memory, and the passage of time. His songs are often introspective and reflective, and his music is characterized by its melancholic and evocative atmosphere.

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