Saxophonist Patrick Stadler is passionately dedicated to contemporary music. As a member of Ensemble Nikel and Ensemble Inverspace, he plays a pioneering role and makes a significant contribution to the creation of new works. In 2023, he was awarded the Swiss Music Prize for this. Numerous CD recordings, appearances at renowned festivals and radio recordings testify to his great commitment. He has performed as a soloist with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra and Basel Chamber Orchestra, among others. Patrick Stadler has been a professor of saxophone, chamber music and contemporary music at the Nuremberg University of Music since 2019 and is a lecturer at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. His teaching activities are complemented by workshops and master classes at renowned universities worldwide.

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dejana sekulić is a violinist, sound+silence explorer, composer-performer, and indisciplinary artist, born at 43°18’58.5”N 21°54’39.5”E. A passionate advocate for the music of our time, dejana holds a PhD from the University of Huddersfield (UK), where she conducted her doctoral studies at the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) and the Research Centre for Performance Practices (ReCePP), under the guidance of Philip Thomas, Aaron Cassidy, and Mary Bellamy. dejana's dissertation, titled “Temporality of the Impossible”, focuses on the multifaceted process of preparation of complex pieces from the late 20th and 21st centuries. In February 2022 NMC/Huddersfield Contemporary Records released her solo violin CD baring the same title. dejana obtained her bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Art University of Niš (Serbia), followed by Masters studies and Post Master specialisation in music at the Royal Conservatory Brussels (with Igor Oistrakh, Valery Oistrakh, and Bart Bouckaert), and an advanced program for contemporary music lead by ICTUS (Brussels) and Spectra (Gent) ensembles at the School of Arts Gent (Belgium). She actively performs as a soloist, and in violin and live electronics duo with Gilles Doneux. She is the violinist of LAPS Ensemble, and is part of the art and education research collective People Coming from NowHere. dejana also creates and develops works in the fields of interactive sound installations and multimedia.

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Ceol comhthimpeallach ón iardheisceart na hÉireann - Ambient music from the south west of Ireland

Nikel is a quartet consisting of saxophone, electric guitar, percussion and piano.

A mix of traditional and contemporary, these instruments combine to form an alternative chamber music output where electric and acoustic sounds are fused into a unified sonic organism built on a wide, yet discerning musical vocabulary.

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