Lila Wildy Quillin (b. 1999) is a New York based composer originally from the Atlantic coast of Maryland. Having spent much of her life investing in the visual arts, film, and architecture as well as composition, Lila is especially dedicated to exploring the relationships between music and other fields of design. In her young career she has worked with performers and ensembles including International Ensemble Modern Academy, Divertimento Ensemble, Ensemble Suono Giallo, JACK Quartet, the Zodiac Trio, Elena Urioste, Tom Poster, and Anthony McGill.

Lila is currently pursuing her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center under a Graduate Center Fellowship and Provost Enhancement Fellowship. She has a Master's degree from McGill's Schulich School of Music, where she studied with Philippe Leroux under the Edith Jacobson Low-Beer Fellowship, and holds her bachelor's degree in composition from New England Conservatory, where she studied with Efstratios Minakakis and John Mallia under the Presidential Distinction Scholarship. She has also studied with Dr. Judah Adashi at Peabody Preparatory, where she was the recipient of The Peabody Preparatory Achievement Award in Composition in 2016 and 2017. She has been the composer-in-residence for the Chamber Music by the Sea festival since 2018, and has attended Divertimento Ensemble’s International Workshop for Young Composers (2023), Darmstadt Fereinkurse (2023) Lucerne Festival (2022), ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week (2022), New Music on the Point (2021), Zodiac Music Festival and Academy (2019), Curtis Summerfest Young Artist Summer Program (2016), and Interlochen Arts Camp (2015). In her free time, Lila enjoys studying piano and playing clarinet in improvisation-based ensembles, as well as sketching, painting, and animating. 

www.lilawildyquillin.com

pianiste et compositeur chinois 
—CNSMDP

Hanze Liu （2001*）
Un jeune musicien et compositeur
CCOM, Pékin, Chine 🇨🇳 -> CNSMDP, Paris, France🇫🇷

I am a composer. Metaphorical transformations of extra-musical contents and models are a constant in my compositional work. I consciously seek the intermedial friction associated with these transformations. Thus, for example, elements from haptics, spatiality or kinetics, but also psychological, socio-political and linguistic phenomena, are key issues in my work concepts and language has a powerful role when I work with them. Alongside conceptual questions, however, there is always a clear commitment to the sensual in music - to all that can only be experienced by hearing, performing or showing. 
Decisive new impulses for my work have recently come from two different perspectives: my involvement with computer-assisted composing methods and sound synthesis as well as the collaborative work with the artist Valentina Pini. Her playful and highly intelligent visual language, often related to alchemy and magic, is very inspiring and reflecting upon the materials, notion of space and more generally about concepts of visual art has influenced my artistic perception and thinking. 

I've written works for, with and without electronics which have been premiered by ensembles like ensemble recherche (Germany), Galatea Quartet (Switzerland), Ensemble Ascolta (Germany), ensemble proton (Switzerland). 
I live currently in Zurich and teach orchestration at Zurich University of the Arts.

Ege Sayar is a Turkish composer born in 1998. His passion for music and composition ignited in his early childhood, and he has since demonstrated unwavering dedication to exploring a diverse range of musical genres.
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Ege graduated with honors from his bachelor's degree in classical music composition at the HKU Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands. He studied with Jeroen D'Hoe and Caroline Ansink, supported by a talent grant. Additionally, he completed an Erasmus exchange semester at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in Germany, studying with Fredrik Schwenk. Currently, Ege is pursuing his master's at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in Austria with Sarah Nemtsov. He holds a merit scholarship and the position of assistant student of the Universität Mozarteum Composition Department.
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Over the past years, Ege has actively participated in various festivals, workshops, and masterclasses alongside renowned composers. His compositions have graced the stages of prestigious international festivals and events. He has also won several competitions and reached the finalist stage in others. Ege has received significant commissions, and he is currently engaged in meetings for further opportunities.
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His music has received premieres and performances in Türkiye, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, England, Cyprus, Russia, Azerbaijan, China, Hong-Kong, Australia, United States, Canada.
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The concepts he seeks to explore in his music may vary. Rather than adhering to a specific musical style, he strives to draw inspiration from every era and genre, spanning from the past to the present.

Pengyi Li was born in Jinan in December 1999. He studied composition with Professor Xu Zhitong since the age of 12. In 2013, he was admitted to the High School Attached to the Central Conservatory of Music and graduated in 2019. He is currently an undergraduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music  study with Greek composer, theorist and conductor Stratis Minakakis. In recent years, his music has been devoted to exploring the fusion and collaboration of multi-dimensional sound, trying to make every timbre full of vitality and existence value.
He has been invited to participate in many composition projects, including AMF Festival (2018), reMusik Festival in St. Petersburg (2021), New music in clarinet call for works in Florence (2022), BME Festival(2022), DePaul New Music Residency (2022), Lucerne Festival (2022), MayFlower Art Center's call for works (2022). He has won more than 20 awards in composition competitions internationally, among which are: Won the grand prize in the Barletta International Composition Competition (2018), the second prize and the first prize in the California String Composition Competition (2018, 2019),won the first prize in the solo piece category, the second prize in the chamber piece category in the Vienna "Academia Musica" composition competition   (2021), the third prize in the Lithuanian Future Symphony International Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition (2018), and Honorable Mention Award in the Vienna Graz Composition Competition  (2020) )and Japan IseShima International Composition Competition(2022), etc. His works have been performed in more than ten countries and cities including the United States, Italy, Russia, Serbia, etc.  He also has cooperation with performers Carmine Marcello Rizz, Jarrett Hoffman, Emilio Checchini, as well as the Serbian Radio Symphony Orchestra Strings, Lithuanian LMTA Chamber Ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Ensemble (part of the performers), Syntagma Piano Duo, IEMA Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente and Ensemble Court-circuit.

https://alessandromassobrio.com

Self-taught composer, he completed the studies in theoretical philosophy and hermeneutics at the University of Turin with the philosopher Gianni Vattimo and marine bioacoustics with Gianni Pavan at C.I.B.R.A. – the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research of the University of Pavia. Additionally he holds a teaching qualification in philosophy. 

He studied classical guitar in Italy, Turin, and later attended composition master classes and private lessons with Mark Andre, Detlef Heusinger, Claus Steffen-Mahnkopf and Uroš Rojko, as a stipendiat of the Experimentalstudio des SWR in Freiburg and Warsaw, as well as a composition class with Pierluigi Billone at the Dipartimento Fieri-Aglaia at the University of Palermo. Also active in audiovisual art he collaborated to the realization of several video art installations, live cinema performances and avant-garde film projects.

His personal research addresses the topic of temporality in music/sound and the correlation between listening and thinking.

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