Peter Zombola was born on the 2nd of March 1983 in Budapest. At the age of 6 he began playing the clarinet and at the age of 8 also the piano. From 1997 to 2001 he attended the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music as a pupil of Miklós Kocsár and Miklós Csemiczky, then he studied composition at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest with Zoltán Jeney and György Orbán. In 2003 he won the 2nd Prize of the Semmering International Summer Academy and in 2004 the 2nd Prize of the composition competition of the Liszt Academy. An ex aequo 2nd Prize was given to his piece at the István Vántus Composers’ Competition in Szeged 2004. He received the Zoltán Kodály Scholarship of the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2007 and 2008. In 2006 he took his degree of composition and teaching with distinction and a year  later his diploma as a teacher of analysis, also with honours.
Several works by Zombola have been premiered at foreign and Hungarian music festivals alike. He composes film and incidental music as well. He has been a composer student of the Doctor of Liberal Arts faculty of the Liszt Academy of Music between 2006 and 2009, he got his PhD degree in 2010. He teaches at the Faculty of Singing and Music of the University of Dramatic and Film Arts since September 2004 and at the Eszterházy Károly College since 2009 and he works at the Hungarian Radio Music Groups as artistic leader.

Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music.  Her sound is frequently described as ‘maximalist’ ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-hopping’ and straddles the different worlds of contemporary classical, avant pop, electronica and experimental rock. 

Her music has been performed everywhere from the BBC Last Night of the Proms to flashmob body-percussion performances in the M6 Services, PRADA fashion campaigns, numerous films, installations and documentaries, pop festivals, clubs and classical concert halls worldwide and broadcast on Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6.

She has been Composer in Residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, RPS/PRS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA, the classical music representative for the 2009 South Bank Show Breakthrough Award and winner of the 2010 Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers.

Her recent piece Connect It was written for the BBC’s award winning Ten Pieces scheme which involved half of all UK Primary school children working on Connect It as well as Anna leading broadcasts, workshops and performances including at Radio 2’s Proms in the Park to 40,000 people.

 Anna's two EPs - Black Prince Fury and Jet Black Raider were released on Moshi Moshi Records to critical acclaim including Drowned in Sound's Single of the Year.

She performs with her band of classical musicians and a line up of Anna on clarinet and electronics plus two cellists, electric guitar, tuba and drums.  They have performed everywhere from Latitude to Ether festivals, la Gaîté Lyrique, Le Guess Who to classical music festivals and residencies.  

Recent projects have included collaborations with Laura Marling and The Stranglers for the first 6Music Prom, commissions for the Aurora Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and Living Earth Duo, Installations for Sleep-Pods in Singapore and Park Benches in Hong Kong and the world's first Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra.

Anna's debut album Varmints was released on Moshi Moshi/PIAS 6th March 2016

The Ensemble intercontemporain is a music ensemble of 31 soloists dedicated to the performance and promotion of music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
For almost 40 years, this permanent ensemble of highly professional musicians has been performing a demanding repertoire of orchestral music in all its diverse forms. Under the artistic direction of Matthias Pintscher  they are united by a shared passion for new music. 


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