Lorenzo Troiani is an Italian composer (Rome, 1989) living in Vienna.

His work, be it acoustic, electronics, theatre or installation, deals with the instability hidden within every object and it considers such oscillating and trembling nature as an existential “ground zero” of the human experience.

He studied composition with Salvatore Sciarrino, Rosario Mirigliano, Clemens Gadenstätter, Gerd Kühr, Chaya Czernowin in institutions such as Conservatory of Rome (Diploma), Conservatory of Latina, Kunstuniversität Graz (MA), Harvard University (PhD).

His music has been performed by different ensembles such as Neue Vocalsolisten, Quatour Diotima, Klangforum Wien, Quartetto Prometeo, Ensemble Phace, OENM Salzburg, MDI ensemble, Schallfeld ensemble, Curious Chamber Players, Quatuor Tana, Vertixe Sonora ensemble, Ensemble L’Arsenale, Ensemble Multilaterale and in different parts of the world: Italy, Germany, Austria, France, England, Scotland, Belgium, Canada, USA, Brazil, Argentina and in several Festivals and venues, such as: Wien Modern, Milano Musica, Musikprotokoll, Konzerthaus Wien, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Impuls Festival, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Festival Ensembles etc.

He has been Composer in residence in several Festivals and Institutions, between them: Villa Sträuli (Switzerland), Künstlerhaus Otte (Germany), Schloss Wiepersdorf (Germany), IZZM - Internationales Zentrum Zeitgenössischer Musik (Austria). Lorenzo has also been awarded various international prizes, including the Impuls Composition Competition (2015), the Valentino Bucchi Prize (2014), the Förderungspreis der Stadt Graz (2017) etc.

Some of his compositions are published by Universal Edition Wien, Sconfinarte, Col Legno label, Austrian Grammophone and EMA Vinci.

The poetry of Paul Celan and Francis Ponge, the works of Paul Klee and Jannis Kounellis, the philosophy of J-L. Nancy and Jacques Derrida have a crucial role in his music.

He graduated in Philosophy at the University Roma Tre of Rome with Paolo D’Angelo and Elio Matassi, with a dissertation on ontological thinking of Paul Klee.

A collection of Elena's sounds around the world and in collaboration with different ensembles, projects and composers.

Marina Khorkova studied composition at the National Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. After her academic work, she received fellowships from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, and the German Academic Exchange Service, to continue her research at the State Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, among them from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, the Lieselotte Klein Foundation Berlin, and the Arts Foundation of Baden-Wuerttemberg. In 2011 she was awarded the DAAD’s Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, and the Ernst-Krenek Prize from Impuls 2011, in addition to a commission for a new work for Klangforum Wien. &#13;
Khorkova’s works have been performed worldwide, by such ensembles as the Klangforum Wien, Thürmchen Ensemble and Ensemble Handwerk (Cologne), camerata variabile Basel, Ensemble Ascolta (Stuttgart), Kairos Quartet and Ensemble LUX:NM (Berlin), the Vinca Quartet (USA), Lyris Quartet (Los Angeles), Ensemble Nostri Temporis (Kiev), Trio Accanto (Freiburg), Archos Qaurtett (Poland), the Studio for New Music, the Mark Pekarsky Percussion Ensemble, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra (Moscow).&#13;
Her works have been premiered at numerous festivals, most recently the musikprotokoll series with Klangforum Wien at the Steirische Herbst Festival 2012 (Graz), but also the Wittener Tage fuer neue Kammermusik 2012, Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2014 (Staubach Honoraria Preis), Unerhörte Musik im BKA (Berlin), the tonArt-Festival (Esslingen), at the International Conference “Micronality. Praxis and Utopia” (Stuttgart), The New Music Triduum (Krakow), IN-BETWEEN Berlin  St. Petersburg, the Multimediales Festival “Sinfonie der Bilder” (Stuttgart), a double portrait concert as part of the “frau musica (nova)” series presented by Deutschlandfunk (Cologne), the project “Musikalische Lyrik – Das Lied als Experiment” in cooperation with the Neuen Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, and the “Moscow Autumn” festival of new music. Her works have been broadcast by numerous national radio services, including WDR 3 and ORF.&#13;
Marina Khorkova has also given numerous lectures and demonstrations of her research and works, and has been invited as artist-in-residence to numerous institutions, among them at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow, the Music Academy Basel, and the Academy of Music Krakow.
Fellowships:
2013-Eckrnförde Künstlerhaus Otte
2014-Villa Sträuli Winterthur
2014-Villa Aurora Los Angeles
2015-Akademie Schloss Solitude
2015-Künstlerhof Schreyahn

http://www.compositiontoday.com/interviews/marina_khorhova.asp

Björn Eriksson (aka Miulew) making electronic and acoustic experiments including field recordings and radio art. Björn has also during the last 10 years been doing a lot of electronic music in different contexts, among them together with the Tapegerm Collective under artist name International Garbageman. Besides making electronic music he also plays acoustic and electric music in different contexts.

composer | gothenburg / arvika, sweden

website: http://marcuslundberg.com/
contact: m.a.lndbrg@gmail.com

Floriana Provenzano (1998) is an Italian composer from South Italy. Her music often originates from sound images and visual or physical sensations, unfolding into explorations of texture, brightness, and timbre. She frequently employs instrumental preparations, metallic objects, and unconventional materials, aiming to expand the expressive potential of sound.
Her works have been performed by ensembles and soloists such as zone expérimentale, Blaurenz Duo, Ensemble Sillages, Duo Dubois, mdi ensemble, and Giulia Zaniboni, and presented at international festivals including impuls (AT), IntAct (TH), Mixtur (ES), Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik (AT), Trame Sonore (Mantua, IT), Sound of Wander (Milan, IT), Musikàmera (Venice, IT), among others. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in composition at the Conservatory of Mantua, under the guidance of Zeno Baldi, also taking courses with Maurizio Azzan.
Among her latest collaborations there will be a new piece for saxophone and electronics for Manuel Teles, presented at the Ramificazioni Festival in Lugano (CH), and a new project with ensemble Proxima Centauri, premiered at the MAD Festival in Bordeaux (FR) on November 2026.

Composer and electronic music performer from Mexico currently living in Graz. 


Contact: gutmandres@gmail.com

Emil Nilsson is following