Sound Artist and experimental composer based in Manchester.

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Kotoka Suzuki / 鈴木琴香 is a composer focusing on both multimedia and instrumental practices. She has produced several large-scale multimedia works, including spatial interactive audio-visual work for both concert and installation settings, often in collaboration with artists and scholars from other disciplines.  Her work reflects on life, breath and wind, and often conceives of sounds as physical form to be manipulated through the sculptural practice of composition.  

Her work has been featured internationally by performers such as Arditti String Quartet, Pacifica String Quartet, Continuum, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM), Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra (Germany), and Earplay Ensemble, at numerous venues and festivals such as Ultraschall, ISCM World Music Days, ZKM Media Museum, Inventionen, The Stone, ICMC and Music at the Anthology (MATA).  Among the awards she has received include DAAD Artist in Resident Berlin (Germany), Bourges Prize in Multimedia, Norton Stevens and North Shore fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Howard Foundation Fellowship, and Robert Fleming Prize from Canada Council for the Arts.  She has held residencies at MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Djerassi, Ucross and Center for Arts and Media (ZKM).  

Her work is published on Edition RZ, EMF Media, IMEB records and Signpost Music.  She is an associate composer at the Canadian Music Centre since 2001.  
Please visit: www.kotokasuzuki.com for more information.

Composer and sound artist based in Texas.

Oliver is a composer living in the Northwest of England. He completed a PhD in electro-acoustic composition at the University of Manchester in 2011 where he was an active member of MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound). Oliver's music often explores relationships between recognisable everyday sounds/musical instruments and processed electronic sounds and is intended for performance in the concert hall through multiple loudspeakers. 

His work is regularly performed throughout the UK and internationally, and has also been recognised at several international competitions. IMEB (Bourges) 2007/2008, International Electroacoustic Competition "pierre schaeffer' 2007, Diffusion Composition Competition 2010, Limerick.  Selection Destellos Competition 2012/2013. 

Composer. Graduate of the Saratov State Conservatoire (Academy). PhD degree in Physics and Mathematics. Member of the Composers Union of Russia.
The music was performed by Ensemble Suono Giallo (Italy), Moldova choir chapel (Moldova), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, MolOt-Ensemble, Studio for New Music, InterText Ensemble, Dmitry Pokrovsky Ensemble, Festino chamber choir, Male Choir of the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery, conductor Fyodor Lednev (Russia), etc. He had readings with Ensemble Recherche (Germany), Divertimento Ensemble (Italy), N’Caged (Russia).
He had individual lessons with Klaus Lang (Austria), Januibe Tejera (Brazil, France), Deqing Wen (China, Switzerland), Mark Andre, Sergey Nevsky, Sarah Nemtsov, Oliver Schneller (Germany), Michael Pizaro (USA), Blais Ubaldini (Switzerland), Olga Bochikhina, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Nikolai Popov, Vladimir Rannev, Alexei Sysoev, Alexander Khubeev, Nikolai Khrust (Russia), etc.

Key projects:
•	Video game opera “The World of Wondrous Rooms” for voice and electronics (Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2024)
•	Documentary-philosophical cantata “The Restorer” for reader, male choir, gusli and electronics (theater association Zavod, Suzdal, Russia, 2023)
•	One of the authors of the music for the ballet “The Idiot” by the Evgeniy Panfilov Ballet Theater (Perm, Russia, 2022)

The winner in national and international contests:
•	Winner of the Remus Georgescu International Festival-Competition (Romania, 2024)
•	Winner of the Follow My Score competition by Score Follower (USA, 2023, 2024)
•	Winner of the IV Moscow Art Prize (3rd place in the “Music” category, Moscow, Russia, 2023)
•	Laureate of the “Notes and Quotas” program for composer orders of the Union of Composers of Russia (2023)
•	International Composer Competition “New Music Generation” (3rd degree laureate, 2021; Diploma laureate, 2023, Kazakhstan)

Participant of the festivals:
•	ilSuono (Sansepolcro, Italy, 2024)
•	reMusik.org (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2021, 2023). Reading with ensemble recherche (2021)
•	Sound Ways (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2023)
•	Five Evenings festival of the Composers’ Union of Russia (Moscow, Russia, 2022)
•	Biomechanics (Moscow, Russia, 2024)
•	The Sounding House of Sofia by the Sofia Gubaidulina Center (Kazan, Russia, 2023)
•	Sound 59 (Perm, Russia, 2021)

Participant of educational programs:
•	“Franco Donatoni” International Meeting for Young Composers (Milan, Italy, 2024)
•	“Experimental Sound and Multimedia Technologies” by the studio soundartist.ru (Moscow, Russia, 2022-2023).
•	“Modern Opera” and “Instrumental Theater” at the Talim Higher School of Music (Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2023).
•	School of the musical "Residence TT" of the Perm Academic Theater-Theater (Perm, Russia, 2024)
•	XI International Academy of Young Composers in Tchaikovsky City (Russia, 2021)

Publication of scores:
•	Universal Edition (Vienna, Austria, 2023)
•	T.U.X. People's Music Publishing (Denton, TX, USA, 2019, 2022)

Michael Sterling Smith is a composer based in San Diego, CA. Michael has a PhD in music composition from the University of North Texas.

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