Francesco Filidei : ... And here they do not

— Composer —

Matthias Krüger is a composer of contemporary classical and experimental music. He has studied music composition at Cologne’s Hochschule für Musik und Tanz and at Columbia University in New York City, as well as French language in Cologne and Sorbonne University in Paris. He spent the 2021/22 year following the postgraduate Cursus in electronic and computer music at IRCAM, Paris. His principal composition teachers include Krzysztof Meyer, Fabien Lévy and Johannes Schöllhorn. Aside from his activity as a freelance composer, he is currently a doctoral candidate at Hamburg's University of Music and Theatre, researching on hybrid composition between music, dance and theatre. Between September 2023 and April 2024 he is composer in residence at Goethe-Institut of Montreal/Le Vivier as well as a Graduate Researcher at McGill University Montreal.
He has received numerous awards (including DAAD, Berlin’s Mendelssohn competition in 2013, Cologne's Zimmermann award in 2015 and Prix Chevillion-Bonnaud of Orléans 2016) as well as commissions and has had his music performed in Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the US and Canada as well as China and Japan, including festivals such as ECLAT Stuttgart, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Festival de Royaumont, Northwestern University New Music Conference 2014, Shanghai New Music Week and Mallorca Saxophone Festival, and venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, Centre Pompidou and Carnegie Hall New York.

His first portrayed disc "ain't nuthin' but fairy dust" was released in the fall of 2021 and has been longlisted for the German Record Critics' Award 01/2022.

Moscow based classical composer / arranger / sound engineer. Compose orchestral, ensemble music.

Contemporary classical composer based in Japan.

Takuto Muromoto - composer (*1997) - Japan, Tokyo / Austria, Graz

Dr. Shuhan Hu, Chinese composer and music theory researcher.

She began learning music at the age of 4 from her father, composer and professor in composition. She has been working at the College of Music, Nanjing University of the Arts since 2008, teaching composition and orchestration. She received her PhD in composition in 2019 from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Now she is chercheuse en acceuil at CNSMDP, under the direction of Prof. Frédéric Durieux, and also a private student of Tristan Murail.

During her master's studies at Shanghai Conservatory, she became interested in spectral music and began to study it systematically. Her master's dissertation is entitled "Research on spectral composition based on OpenMusic". In 2015, Tristan Murail started to give regular composition masterclasses to the students of Shanghai Conservatory, and so she attended his composition classes every year thereafter, profoundly influenced by him. Today, she remains a private student of Professor Murail, having regular private classes with him at his home in Provence. During her doctoral studies, she focused on music centered on timbre and sound with her doctoral dissertation entitled "Morphology of Gestures and Textures in Contemporary Music Centered on Timbre and Sound and their Structural Functions". Besides, she has also published two articles on spectral music in the Journal of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, "Art of Music," a very prestigious academic journal in China: Deciphering the Code of Spectral Music: The Concept of Sound in Spectral Composition (Art of Music, Sept. 2010, pp.125-130); On Techniques and Means of Orchestration in Spectral Composition (Art of Music, Sept. 2015, pp.123-131). 

Recently, she also participated in masterclasses with Liza Lim, Yann Robin, Francesco Filidei, Mauro Lanza, Johannes Schöllhorn and many other well-known composers, and has also received their recognition.

Her major works include Xiao, for alto flute (which won the Ex aeqvo prize in the A category of the 2008 Youth International Music Competition); Streaming, for three Chinese plucked instruments (which won third prize in the 2008 "Music of China" International Composition Competition); Le Trou de neige, for ensemble (premiered by the Israel Contemporary Players, conducted by Zsolt Nagy in 2016); The Sea as My Blood, for trumpet, doubled-bell trombone and percussion (will be premiered by Elision Ensemble at the end of 2024); Lamps, and Slices of the Night, for large orchestra (premiered by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zhang Liang in 2016); Portrait: Flowing Water, for large orchestra (premiered by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zhang Liang in 2018); Happy, Lively, Vengeful Teeth, for piano trio (premiered by Ensemble Fractales, conducted by Jean-Bernard Matter, at Schloss Reichenau, Austria, in 2019) ; While the Fishes Playing the Sonata, the Deeper the Water Is, the Longer the Song Is, for quartet of doubled-bell brasses (premiered by Ensemble Musikfabrik in Dec. 2020); Les Fleurs de pêcher s'épanouissent à travers les fissures des os, for solo cello (commissioned by Radio France, premiered by Marie Ythier at Festival Présences 2022), etc.

Francesco Filidei : ... And here they do not

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