Icelandic sound artist, instrument developer and performer based in The Netherlands.

Ida Nørby is a Copenhagen based cellist and composer.

Anna Sowa is experimental composer mainly focused on exploring electronic music and fields of performing arts. She is interested in the intersection of movement, gesture and theatricality in relation to electronic and instrumental music. 
Born in 1987 in Limanowa (PL), currently resident in Basel. She graduated from the Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz (PL) with master’s degree in eurhythmics (2011) and composition (2016) where she had studied with Zygmunt Krauze. As part of the Erasmus+ Programme she studied composition and visualization with Dietrich Hahne at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (DE) in years 2014-2015. As a Chinese government scholarship recipient, she was student at Shanghai Conservatory of Music (CN) in years 2017-2018. In 2021 she graduated with distinction ’Specialised Master’s in Composition with Johannes Kreidler and Caspar Johannes Walter at the Music Academy in Basel. 
Her works have been performed at the festivals: ECLAT in Stuttgart, Warsaw Autumn (PL), Transit Festival (BE), Biennale Aktuelle Musik in Bremen, MINU Festival in Copenhagen, Sacrum Profanum (PL), Ad Libitum (PL), Musica Polonica Nova (PL), Periferien Concert Series (NO), Pergine Festival (IT), Musica Moderna (PL), Musica Privata (PL), Controlled Festival (PL), Touch the Theatre Festival (PL), Fru Improvisation Contact Festival (PL), C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr in Essen (DE), BÉTON Brut & Bruits in Cologne (DE), Festival Forfest (CZ), International Festival of Accordion Music in Przemyśl (PL), Bauhaus/Dessau Kurt Weil Festival (DE), Arkady Kubickiego at Royal Castle in Warsaw (PL), Sao Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival (BR), Theater Basel (CH), Experimental Tuesdays Festival (PL). 
Anna Sowa's works have been performed in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil,Israel, Italy and Belgium. 
In 2021 she won, together with the association Anomalia, the 3rd edition of the Fringe competition of the Foundatione Haydn Stiftung. As part of the prize, Anna Sowa's opera Silenzio/Silence was premiered in March 2022 as part of the Festival Oper 2022 in Bolzano.

She received scholarships: KAAD Bonn (Germany) 2015, Full Scholarship from the China Government 2017 – 2018 and Witold Lutosławski scholarship (2019) - founded by the Lutosławski’s family and Nicati-de Luze Foundation Scholarship 2020 and 2021 (Switzerland). 
She is member of IAWM (The International Alliance for Women in Music), Young Polish Composer Society, Polish Institute of World Art Studies. 
In years 2011 – 2017 she was teacher at the Complex of Music School in Radom (Poland) and lecturer piano improvisation at The Faculty Eurhythmics of The Grażyna and Kiejstut Academy of Music in Łódź.

• Finno-Norwegian composer
• Ph.D. in composition (EMTA, Estonia), M.Mus (NMH, Norway)
• Found in Oslo, Skien, Bergen, Helsinki or Tallinn

sonic space basel is the platform of the FHNW Academy of Music Basel for composition, improvisation, contemporary music performance, audio design and research

Team:
Uli Fussenegger
Mike Svoboda
Marcus Weiss
Sarah Maria Sun
Yaron Deutsch
Volker Böhm
Svetlana Maraš 
Johannes Kreidler
Michel Roth
Caspar Johannes Walter

Birmingham Record Company is a record label that presents eclectic and exciting new releases by artists who challenge, innovate and transform ideas of music today. The label celebrates off-beat work that sits between genres. As well as 12-minute micro-operas and Country-and-Western piano quintets, listeners are just as likely to find music structured around famous football matches, recordings of 1920s mechanical dancehall organs, and story-telling in yoga position.

James Black is the greatest composer of all time. At only the age of, they were named the first and to date youngest ever. In 2005 they were awarded the gold medal for excellence. They have achieved this. Their music has been played by the International Orchestra, the National Sinfonietta, the Ensemble, the Chamber Orchestra of Music, and the Cirque du Soleil. They have had performances in the capital, Northeast, the Moon, the rest of outer space, and the big concert hall. They have received commissions that came down from heaven on the wings of a golden dove.

Reviewers have variously described James Black's music as “played”, “it happened”, and sometimes “in several movements”. James Black is also a performer, and whenever They take to the stage the audience cry at the beauty of what they witness, before experiencing a transformation of their souls into a higher form.

In 2000-whatever, James Black received the prize. Everyone agreed that it was the right decision and no one was angry or bitter about the result. You are happy to hear that James Black won this prize, as it means that these things are awarded solely on the basis of quality. You are glad to hear it.

James Black has studied with everyone important and they were all very impressed. In their spare time - he has no spare time because of the obscene amounts of commissions that come his way. If they did have spare time they would spend it helping the less fortunate. Luckily their music has touched so many souls in a positive way that his karmic balance currently stands at +699994334 (the highest ever).

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