Honored with 2021 Fromm Commissioning Award from Harvard University, MacADowell Fellowship, Salvatore Martirano Composition Award, Ettelson Composer’s Award, Chamber Music of California’s »California Prize«, and Nicola de Lorenzo Prize (three times), Selim Göncü aims to create a personal balance of contrasting polarities in his music. Raw gestures are contrasted with transparent textures, elegant timbres are interrupted/combined with abrupt impulses, obsessively-mechanical loops are interpolated with freely flowing improvisations.

His works have been performed by acclaimed ensembles including Ensemble InterContemporain, L’Instant Donné, Ensemble Proton Bern, Ensemble Échappé, Quatuor Tana, Stadler Quartett, East Coast Chamber Ensemble and Alarm Will Sound in festivals such as ManiFeste, Festival Musica, Firenze Suona Contemporanea, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and Missouri International Composers Festival.

Selim graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with the highest distinction and currently continues his doctoral studies in composition at University of California, Berkeley. His primary teachers are Franck Bedrossian, Clemens Gadenstätter and Edmund Campion.

He currently is Composer-in-Residence of New York based new music sinfonietta Ensemble Échappé and is contributing director of sfSound.

The music of composer Nina C. Young (b.1984) is characterized by an acute sensitivity to tone color, manifested in aural images of vibrant, arresting immediacy. Her experience in the electronic music studio informs her acoustic work, which takes as its given not melody and harmony, but sound itself, continuously metamorphosing from one state to another. Her musical voice draws from elements of the classical canon, modernism, spectralism, American experimentalism, minimalism, electronic music, and popular idioms. Her projects, ranging from concert pieces to interactive installations, strive to create unique sonic environments that can be appreciated by a wide variety of audiences while challenging stylistic boundaries, auditory perception, and notions of temporality. 

Young’s works have been presented by Carnegie Hall, the National Gallery, the Whitney Museum, LA Phil’s Next on Grand, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music Series. Her music has garnered international acclaim through performances by the American Composers Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Aizuri Quartet, Either/Or, the JACK Quartet, wild Up, and Yarn/Wire. Winner of the 2015-16 Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, Young has also received a Koussevitzky Commission, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Award, Aspen Music Festival's Jacob Druckman Prize, and honors from BMI, IAWM, and ASCAP/SEAMUS. 

IN 2019 Carnegie Hall commissioned "Out of whose womb came the ice" with the American Composers Orchestra: for baritone, orchestra, electronics, and generative video, commenting on the ill-fated Ernest Shackleton Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17.  Other recent projects include "Tread softly" that opened the NY Philharmonic’s Project 19, a violin concerto for Jennifer Koh from the Philadelphia Orchestra, and "The Glow that Illuminates, The Glare that Obscures" for the American Brass Quintet alongside an immersive audio-visual installation version commissioned by EMPAC showcasing their wavefield synthesis audio system.

A graduate of McGill University and MIT, Young completed her DMA at Columbia University. She is an Assistant Professor of Composition as USC’s Thornton School of Music.  She serves as Co-Artistic Director of New York’s Ensemble Échappé.  Her music is published by Peermusic Classical.

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Nicolas Mondon is a French composer born in 1980 in Nantes (France). He studied composition with P.Leroux, A.Gaussin, H.Radulescu, and graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (Master II, CNSMDP, 2011, Gérard Pesson). 
His previous studies included classical piano,  latterly with Jeff Cohen (vocal accompaniment) and Peter Feuchwanger, improvisation, jazz, gamelan, and composition. It was during this period that he discovered middle- and far-eastern music. In 2005 he took part in the « Voix Nouvelles » masterclasses at the Abbaye of Royaumont.  He studied computer music at I.R.C.A.M. (Paris) from 2009 to 2012, where he worked on the pieces for prepared disklavier Pianola/Phonographe I & II; his orchestral piece Berceuse-tableaux was premiered at the Salle Pleyel in Paris (2007). He was awarded the « Prix d'encouragement de l'Académie de Beaux-Arts » in 2010, Prix Chevillon-Bonnaud and SACEM Claude Arrieu prize in 2014, and received fellowships at Gargonza Arts (Italy, 2013) and Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, 2104). As a teacher, he was assistant to Michaël Lévinas for contemporary music analysis at CNSMDP.
Nicolas Mondon is currently a composer in research at IRCAM, a teacher at Vitry-sur-Seine and Massy (France), and the artistic director of the contemporary ensemble InSoliTus.

Composer based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Basel, Switzerland

Contact: camilobornstein@gmail.com

Immigrant, nomad, traveller and sleepwalker. I make music too.

Clara Maïda lives in Paris and Berlin. 
Monographic CD "in corpore vili" (Edition RZ/DAAD Berlin, 2010: http://www.edition-rz.de/2773-106,2,0.html)
"Web-wave" in Digipack CD "Expériences de vol 10,11,12,13" (Art Zoyd/In-Possible Records, 2018: https://www.artzoyd.net/produit/experiences-de-vol-101112/)

She turned to music composition after studying PSYCHOLOGY at Nice-Sophia Antipolis and Aix-Marseille 1 Universities (Bachelor's Degree) and MUSIC at the University of Huddersfield (PhD by Publication in Composition) and Paris 8-Saint-Denis University (Master 2 in Music), at Nice and Marseille Conservatories of Music and Cefedem-Sud/Training Centre for Music Teaching (National Diploma for Piano Teaching, 1st Prizes in Composition and Piano).

She has attended the master classes and composition courses of H. LACHENMANN, P. MANOURY, T. MURAIL, G. GRISEY, M. STROPPA in the ACANTHES Centre and at the Paris Superior Conservatory of Music.

She was the guest of the Artists-in-Berlin programme of the DAAD (2007-08). 

She was the laureate of the BERLIN SENAT Composition Grant 2015 and the HORS LES MURS Programme 2012 of the French Institute (Paris).
Various other composition awards: KOMPOSITIONSPREIS DER LANDESHAUPTSTADT STUTTGART 2011 (1st Prize), BERLIN-RHEINSBERGER KOMPOSITIONSPREIS 2008, MUSICA NOVA 2017 & 2008 (Prague - Finalist), EARPLAY DONALD AIRD PRIZE 2008 (USA - Honorable Mention), PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2007 (Austria - Honorary Mention), AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE (Berlin, 2006 - Composition Grant), SALVATORE MARTIRANO MEMORIAL 2nd Prize, USA, 2003).

Commissions/Residencies: DONAUESCHINGER MUSIKTAGE, RADIO FRANCE, ART ZOYD (Valenciennes), CÉSARÉ (Reims), GRM (Paris), FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION (with 2E2M, ARDITTI QUARTET, L’ITINÉRAIRE, ACCROCHE NOTE and PROXIMA CENTAURI), French SACEM/Klang! festival, PARIS INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL, DAAD, AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE and E-STUDIO of the TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT (Berlin), GMEM (Marseille).

Her pieces have been performed by numerous ensembles within many festivals all around the world.

Her music has been broadcasted on different radios in Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia, Mexico and South Africa.

She has given lectures, seminars and master classes in various institutions in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and New York.
She was a Guest Professor of composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Barcelona) in 2015.

Several articles have come out in music journals and reviews of literature and psychoanalysis and two monographic CDs have been published.

Composer, performance artist, things maker
Currently based in Lausanne, Switzerland
www.elenarykova.rocks 

[For other recent pieces of mine please check my website or youtube channel]

Martin Iddon is a composer and musicologist. His musicological work largely focuses on new music in West Germany and North America. His music has been performed in Europe, North America, and Australasia.

Kaliomene | Rheinische Frauenschola is a female vocal ensemble directed by Ximena Gonzalez and based in Wiesbaden (Germany). Its repertoire includes gregorian chant, hildegard von bingen's music as well as new music specially composed for the ensemble and church acoustics. Focal point of Kaliomene | Rheinische Frauenschola is the creation of immersive concerts with analog live visuals - through the collaboration with composer Raphaël languillat and light artist Katrin Bethge.

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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