One of the most influential ensembles for contemporary, early and metamodern music, based in Dresden (Germany). Artistic Director: Olaf Katzer

Praised by the New York Times for his “remarkable playing” and ability to create a “riveting dialogue” as a soloist, Sam Jones is a trumpeter specializing in the development of new music, improvisation, period instrument performance, and composition.

His operas have been played in Carnegie Hall, Festival Pucciniano, Bartok¬plusz Miskolci Operafesztivál, Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Festival Play.it, Teatro del Giglio, and many others. 
He has been a finalist and the winner of almost twenty-five international composition contests, amongst which the Bartok¬plusz Miskolci Operafesztivál, (where he won two world records, the shortest opera ever written - 8 seconds - and the opera most played dur¬ing a single evening - 17 times), Anima Mundi, Windstream and many others. He has received the ‘Riconoscimento di merito’ at the Premio Abbado Award 2015 from the President of the Italian Republic.

His opera ‘Dr. Streben’, a Robotic Festival Pisa commission, is the first opera written with a humanoid robot on the scene.  
His piece ‘Phonè – symphonic installation for 100 grammophones and choir’ has been performed at Bartok¬plusz Miskolci Operafesztivál in Hungary. 
In 2018 The Italian Synchronized Swimming Team won the Silver Medal performing his music at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships of Glasgow. 

He received under the Mestro Rigacci, his Master in Music Composition, with the highest possible grade, cum laude, special mention, and scholarship, from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “L. Boccherini” Lucca (the only composer since 1842, when the institute was founded, to have achieved this accolade). 

His music is performed all around the world, and it is published by Edizioni Sconfinarte and EMA Vinci.

Mike Tierney is a Brooklyn-based Grammy nominated audio engineer and producer. Visit my website for more details: www.miketierneymusic.com

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composer, improviser, multimedia artist, educator

Download:  https://tristaneckerson.bandcamp.com/

Listen on Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/24LGVKHzsrVV7oo94nlNE1

Apple Music:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/tristan-eckerson/1243764726

Tristan Eckerson is an American Pianist, Composer, and Producer currently based in Santa Marta, Colombia.  In the past five years he has released six full length albums and more than two album's worth of singles, both independently and with 1631 Recordings (Nils Frahm, Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka), A Remarkable Idea (Bloc Party, Benoît Pioulard, Maxïmo Park, Robot Koch), Mellotron Records, 7K! Records, and Sonder House.  He has toured through North America and Europe and has composed music for award winning commercials, short films, and web series.  His music has received multiple sync placements in television and film, and has been streamed over forty million times worldwide.  In 2022 Tristan contributed a track to the Piano Day Compilation, released by German label Leiter and featuring artists such as Olafur Arnalds, Chilly Gonzales, and Balmorhea.

Having graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California with a Master's degree in Music Production and Sound Design for Visual Media, Tristan handles all aspects of the production of his music independently- from writing, recording, mixing, and mastering through to artwork and cover art design.  Releasing compositions for solo piano on an almost monthly basis for the past few years, in January of 2023 Tristan also released his debut album under his Ambient project Purple Decades.  "Journey Test", released by Portland based label Beacon Sound, was well received by fans and the press, and was featured in the Best Ambient on Bandcamp: February, 2023.  Purple Decades' follow up full length "Fraction of Centuries" will be released on Beacon Sound on September 6th, 2024.

Contact:  info@tristaneckerson.com

Aaron Einbond’s work explores the intersection of instrumental music, sound installation, field recording, and technology, bringing the spontaneity of live performance together with computer interactivity. Recently Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente released his portrait album Without Words on Carrier Records, and SWR Experimentalstudio produced his Giga-Hertz prizewinning Cartographies for piano with two performers and electronics for the 47-loudspeaker Klangdom at ZKM in Karlsruhe. He teaches Music Composition, Sound, and Technology at City University London and is Co-Artistic Director of Qubit New Music Initiative with whom he curates and produces experimental media in New York.

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