Anna Arkushyna was born 1989 in Lutsk, Ukraine. Graduated from Kyiv Special Music College in 2009 (Music Theory department, Composition-class by prof. Alla Zagaykevych) and from National Music Academy of Ukraine in 2014 (Composition-class by prof. Yevhen Stankovych). In 2017 she completed the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Composition-class by prof. Beat Furrer). Since 2015 till 2019 Anna was student at the IEM Graz, class by prof. Marko Ciciliani and prof. Daniel Mayer. Since 2020 she is a student of composition-class by prof. Franck Bedrossian in the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
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Anna is participant in workshops of composition by P. Billone, A. Posadas, C. Iannotta, G. Staebler, S. Newski, M. Andre,
R. Cendo, A. V. Gorne, J. Reis,  also took lessons with D. Kourliandski, C. Bauckholt, S. Gervasoni. 
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She is finalist of the composer's competition “Step to the Left-4” (St.-Petersburg, 2011), third-price-winner of the “Pre-art composer’s competition” in Switzerland (2017). Anna was also finalist of the “Ö1-Talentebörse Kompositionspreis 2020” in Austria. In 2021 she was awarded with "Musikförderungspreis der Stadt Graz". She was selected for the Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music 2022/2023 in IRCAM, Paris.
 
Her music is widely performed during the many festivals and projects in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Holland, Austria, Croatia, Chile, Mexico, Lithuania, Japan, Slovakia, Switzerland by ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Airborne Extended, Cantando Admont, Nostri Temporis, Amsterdam Collage Ensemble, Ensemble Spectrum, Kwartludium, Pre-Art-Solisten, MozArt Sinfonietta Salzburg and many others.

Solo project of Dominik Kowalczyk since 2000.

> Ukrainian composer and conductor 
> Royal College of Music (London, UK)

Maxim Kolomiiets
Composer, oboist, music curator.
Maxim was born in 1981 in Kyiv.
He graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine as an oboist (2005) and as a composer (2009) and from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln as a composer (class of Johannes Schöllhorn, 2016). He took part in International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city (2013), and reading sessions by Ensemble MusikFabrik.
He is the winner of the national competitions Gradus ad Parnassum (Kyiv, 2000), Step to the Left (Saint Petersburg, 2012) and III Prize on Vareler Komponistenpreis (Oldenburg, 2015).
He took part as the performer in many Ukrainian and foreign festivals and master courses: historically informed performance with Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (2007) and contemporary music with Ensemble Recherché (2007, 2008), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt (2010), impuls academy (Graz, 2011), Per suonare l'oboe (Freiburg, 2011).
As a solo-oboist played with orchestras Kyiv soloists, Musica Camerata, Russische Kammerphilharmonie St. Petersburg. Together with the Ukho Ensemble he realized the Ukrainian premiere of the concert for oboe No.2 by Luca Francesconi, as also ensemble pieces by P.Boulez, S.Gervasoni, B.Ferneyhough, L.Berio, G. Kurtag and many others.
Maxim took part in master classes in Montepulciano (Italy, 2015) under direction of Johannes Schöllhorn, Florence Millet and Werner Dickel as an oboist, a composer and a conductor.
He was a participant of the Kyiv conductor master classes under the guidance of Luigi Gaggiero (2016).
His music has been performed at the international festivals : MATA-Festival (New York), Summer New Music Courses in Darmstadt (Darmstadt), New Talents (Cologne),  Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn (Warsaw), World Music Days  (Leuven), Other space (Moscow), Gogolfest (Kyiv), Contrasts (Lviv), Randfestspiele (Zepernick) etc.
Among the performers of his music are Ensemble MusikFabrik (Cologne), Ascolta (Stuttgart), Lions Gate Trio (U.S. und Europe), Neo Quartet (Gdansk), Ukho Ensemble (Kyiv) , the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Kyiv), Kyiv Chamber Orchestra (Kyiv), Syrinx Flute Quartet (Moscow), Ensemble Nostri Temporis (Kyiv), GAM-Ensemble (Moscow), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Moscow), Vladislav Pesin (Moscow), Ian Pace (London), Helen Beldsoe (Cologne), Hayk Melikyan (Yerevan).
Since 2015 he is the solo-oboist of the Ukho Ensemble for contemporary music (Kyiv).
Co-founder of Ensemble Nostri Temporis and founder of the ensemble of ancient music Luna Ensemble. Gogolfest music curator (since 2017).

Anthony Pateras is an Australian composer and musician. Active since 1999, his practice spans modern classical, abstract electronics, experimental rock, piano improvisation and film soundtrack.

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