Panayiotis Kokoras studied composition with Yannis Ioannides, Henri Kergomard, Kosta Varotsi, and classical guitar with Evangelos Asimakopoulos in Athens, Greece. In 1999, he moved to England for postgraduate study at the University of York where he completed his MA and PhD in composition with Tony Myatt. His works have been commissioned by institutes and festivals such as the Fromm Music Foundation (Harvard), IRCAM (France), Guggenheim (New York), MATA (New York), Gaudeamus (Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), IMEB (France), Siemens Musikstiftung (Germany) and have been performed in over 1000 concerts around the world. His compositions have received 98 distinctions and prizes in international competitions and have been selected by juries in more than 350 international calls for scores. He is president of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (ICEIM-ICEM) and a founding member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA) and from 2004 to 2012 he was a board member and president. Kokoras’ sound compositions develop functional classification and matching sound systems written on what he calls Holophonic Musical Texture. As an educator, Kokoras has taught at the Technological and Educational Institute of Crete, and, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Currently, he is Regents Professor of Composition at the University of North Texas and director of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI).

Cellist, composer, arranger, orchestrator. Player member of Philharmonia Orchestra, Cellophony, Minerva Trio

Marina Khorkova studied composition at the National Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. After her academic work, she received fellowships from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, and the German Academic Exchange Service, to continue her research at the State Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, among them from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, the Lieselotte Klein Foundation Berlin, and the Arts Foundation of Baden-Wuerttemberg. In 2011 she was awarded the DAAD’s Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, and the Ernst-Krenek Prize from Impuls 2011, in addition to a commission for a new work for Klangforum Wien. &#13;
Khorkova’s works have been performed worldwide, by such ensembles as the Klangforum Wien, Thürmchen Ensemble and Ensemble Handwerk (Cologne), camerata variabile Basel, Ensemble Ascolta (Stuttgart), Kairos Quartet and Ensemble LUX:NM (Berlin), the Vinca Quartet (USA), Lyris Quartet (Los Angeles), Ensemble Nostri Temporis (Kiev), Trio Accanto (Freiburg), Archos Qaurtett (Poland), the Studio for New Music, the Mark Pekarsky Percussion Ensemble, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra (Moscow).&#13;
Her works have been premiered at numerous festivals, most recently the musikprotokoll series with Klangforum Wien at the Steirische Herbst Festival 2012 (Graz), but also the Wittener Tage fuer neue Kammermusik 2012, Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2014 (Staubach Honoraria Preis), Unerhörte Musik im BKA (Berlin), the tonArt-Festival (Esslingen), at the International Conference “Micronality. Praxis and Utopia” (Stuttgart), The New Music Triduum (Krakow), IN-BETWEEN Berlin  St. Petersburg, the Multimediales Festival “Sinfonie der Bilder” (Stuttgart), a double portrait concert as part of the “frau musica (nova)” series presented by Deutschlandfunk (Cologne), the project “Musikalische Lyrik – Das Lied als Experiment” in cooperation with the Neuen Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, and the “Moscow Autumn” festival of new music. Her works have been broadcast by numerous national radio services, including WDR 3 and ORF.&#13;
Marina Khorkova has also given numerous lectures and demonstrations of her research and works, and has been invited as artist-in-residence to numerous institutions, among them at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow, the Music Academy Basel, and the Academy of Music Krakow.
Fellowships:
2013-Eckrnförde Künstlerhaus Otte
2014-Villa Sträuli Winterthur
2014-Villa Aurora Los Angeles
2015-Akademie Schloss Solitude
2015-Künstlerhof Schreyahn

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Sven Daigger, born in 1984 in Eberbach am Neckar (Germany) and raised in Heidelberg, has composed works for music theatre, orchestra, along with chamber, dance and vocal music. He studied with Peter Manfred Wolf, Adriana Hölsky and Wolfgang Rihm in Rostock, Salzburg and Karlsruhe. In 2012 he completed his Diploma studies with honors. He has also studied Music Theory with Birger Petersen and Jan Phillipp Sprick in Rostock since 2009. He has received numerous commissions, including from the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the State Theatre in Hamburg, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the State Theatre in Cottbus, as well as the German Music Council, the State Museum in Schwerin and the North German Youth Philharmonic. Sven lives and works in Berlin. www.svendaigger.de


Selected Prizes

Aufenthaltsstipendium im Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop (2017)
Arbeitsstipendium des Berliner Senats (2016)
Baldreit-Stipendium der Stadt Baden-Baden (2015)
Stipendiat der Akademie Musiktheater Heute der Deutschen Bank Stiftung (2013 - 2015)
Caspar-David-Friedrich-Stipendium (2013 -2014)
Komponistenresidenz durch das Beethoven Haus Bonn (2013)
1st prize 2011 Earplay Donald Aird Memorial Composer Competition, USA (2011)

Performances

Staatsoper Hamburg
Gewandhaus Leipzig
Konzerthaus Berlin
Badische Staatstheater Karlsruhe 
Staatstheater Cottbus
Oper Frankfurt
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor (Michigan)
ARD Musikwettbewerb, München
Heidelberger Frühling 
Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern
San Francisco International Arts Festival 
Salzburg Biennale
Contemporary Art Festival Budapest, Ungarn
„Brücken“ - Festival für Neue Musik in Mecklenburg Vorpommern 		
Mendelssohn Bartholdy-Festival Rostock / Paris
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Composer of contemporary classical music based in Brussels.

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