Pedro Vaz, Maputo, 1977.
Graduate in painting at Fine Arts Faculty – Lisbon University (2006). Lives and works in Lisbon.
His artistic work focuses on a research on nature and landscape making use mostly of painting, video and installation. Personal contact with the place is central to his practice and projects very often include a field tour.

The works of the composer and conductor, Valerio Sannicandro, are the product of different cultural influences and of his own reflections about the parameter 'space' that he researches consequently, first as compositeur associé at IRCAM (Paris), then at the Technische Universität (Berlin) where he got a Ph.D. in Musicology and at Experimentalstudio (Freiburg). Compositions like Strali (2002), Fibrae (2005), Ius Lucis (2006/2007) and Forces Motrices (2010) are the most outstanding examples of his interest in large orchestral instrumentations, as well as of his concern with the role and the aesthetic of (live) electronics. He is currently working at Experimentalstudio of SWR (Freiburg) on Finesterrae, a new work for voices, viola and live-electronics. He has been awarded among others the Claudio-Abbado Prize from the Academy of Berlin Philharmonics in 2014, the Musica Viva Composition Prize, München in 2002 and 2010, the Giga-Hertz production Prize as well as the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (2000). His works have been recorded on CD for Wergo and Telos Music Records. He has been invited at the Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto) and is new music advisor at the Philharmonisches Orchester Cottbus (Germany). His works are published by Edizioni Suvini-Zerboni (Milan).

Hugo Vasco Reis is a composer, researcher and PhD candidate at KUG (Graz, Austria), based in Zurich and Porto. His artistic practice extends to acoustic music, electroacoustic music, sound art and installations, making collaborations with ensembles, musicians, fine and visual artists.

His recent compositions include an investigation into the sound and perception phenomena, approaching agencies of listening and mediation, with the aim of including apparently silent sounds from the sonic environment in artistic practice.

Nuno da Rocha studied Composition with Vasco Mendonça, Carlos Marecos, Luís Tinoco, Carlos Caires and António Pinho Vargas.

During the summer of 2009 he participated in the ‘19th internationale sommerakademie09’ in Austria, where he worked with the composer Nigel Osborne, the maestro Michael Wendeberg and the widely recognized contemporary musical group ‘klangforum wien’.

In February 2010, he took part of the ‘16th young composers meeting’ in Apeldoorn (Netherlands) with the ‘de ereprijs’ orchestra. This meeting was directed by Louis Andriessen, Richard Ayres, Martijn Padding, Jan van de Putte, Micheal Smetanin and Helena Tulve.

By commission of Antena 2/RTP, he wrote ”Quatro Últimas Canções, quatro personagens a partir do romance de Vasco Graça Moura” as the mandatory piece for the contest ‘Prémio Jovens Músicos 2012′ in the category of Vocal performance.

He won the 3rd prize of the Antena2/RTP Composition Contest 2012 with the piece “O que será do rio without John Cage?” for baroque orchestra.

He was one of the selected composers to the TENSO Young Composers Workshop 2014 – Mechelen (Belgium). Afterward he was one of the three finalists of the TENSO Young Composers Award in Copenhagen (Denmark).

He was selected to the ENOA Workshop "Composing for Voice" with Magnus Lindberg and Barbara Hannigan where he premiere his work "I could not think of thee as piecèd rot" for Soprano and Orchestra.

In June-July 2015, he took part of the ENOA Workshop “Opera Creation - Reflection” with Fabio Vacchi (Aix-en-Provence, France). Later (September 15), he joined into another ENOA Workshop with Martin Crimp (Ghent, Belgium).

In October 2015, he premiere his last score for orchestra. "RESTART", commission by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal). This work was inserted in the opening concert of the new Gulbenkian season 15-16.

Nuno da Rocha was the Young Composer in Residence 2015 at Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal). As a result, he premiere three new works in the season.

In July 2016, he was one of the composers in residence “Song and Creation Residency” - Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (France).

In November 2016, his first album was released - “Mesmo que faça frio” - works for children choir.

Nuno da Rocha is one of the nominated composers for the TOTEM (Théâtre Opéra Texte et Écriture musicale) 2017-18, La Chartreuse - Villeneuve lez Avignon - Festival d’Avignon (France).

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