Juro Kim Feliz, b. 1987.

“His music thrives in the sustained tension, like the kinetic energy emanating from the corners of a frame, the opposing forces holding up a house.” (Musicworks, 2022)

Toronto-based composer Juro Kim Feliz has internationally presented his work across Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. Born and raised in the Philippines, he studied composition at the University of the Philippines and McGill University under Jonas Baes and Melissa Hui. He also sought further mentorship from composers Liza Lim, Dieter Mack, Linda Catlin Smith, Katharina Rosenberger, and Japanese koto artists Hiroko Nagai and Masayo Ishigure. Since winning the Goethe Southeast Asian Young Composer Award (2009), he collaborated and received commissions and performances from artists including Continuum Contemporary Music, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Liminar, Ensemble x.y, Marilène Provencher-Leduc, Guy Few, Wesley Shen, and Renee Fajardo.

Feliz was awarded “Highly Commended” distinctions for "Hanggang sa Paglubog ng Araw" and "Kinalugarán" at the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis (2018, 2024) and was nominated for the “Excellence Award in Music and Entertainment” at the Golden Balangay Awards (2019) in Canada. Alongside serving as the composer-in-residence of Toronto-based New Music Concerts (2022-2023), he also completed artist residencies at the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (2018), Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (2019), and the Canadian Music Centre Ontario Library Residency (2018-2019). His music appeared in concert programs for the Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festivals (2009-2010), Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Music Festival (2009), Asian Composers League Festivals (2009-2015), Music Biennale Zagreb (2017), New Music on the Bayou (2017), MATA Festival (2018), Nief-Norf Summer Festival (2018), MUSLAB (2018), and Cluster XI: Digital Edition (2020). Music releases include "Hanggang sa Takipsilim" in “Mind & Machine, Vol. 4” (Ravello Records, 2022), "Gandingan sa Kagiliran" in “Millennial Masters Vol. 7” (Ablaze Records, 2017), and synth-pop independent releases under the moniker “Grumpy Kitty Boy.” His works are published under Babel Scores.

Alongside composition activities, Feliz served as producer and co-host of the community radio talk show "Sigaw ng Bayan" at CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal (2015-2017). Under the Canadian Music Centre Ontario, he produced the article/podcast miniseries "Nomadic Sound Worlds" (2018-2019) that explores and situates Canadian contemporary music within present-day global migration. As a writer, Feliz has written feature articles for Musicworks Magazine since 2020.

James O’Callaghan is a composer and multimedia artist based in Berlin. His work has been described as “very personal… with its own colour anchored in the unpredictable,” (Goethe-Institut). It spans chamber, orchestral, live electronic and acousmatic idioms, audio installations, video-music, site-specific performances, electronic dance music, and interdisciplinary collaboration — most recently with choreographer Edouard Lock and artist Lois Brown. In 2016 an album of his acousmatic works, Espaces Tautologiques, was released by empreintes DIGITALes, and his extended collaboration with Ensemble Paramirabo resulted in a portrait album of his works in 2019, entitled Alone and unalone.
	His music has received nearly forty prizes and nominations, including the ISCM Young Composer Award (2017), the Salvatore Martirano Award (2016), and the SOCAN Foundation John Weinzweig Grand Prize (2014). Significant nominations include those for the Gaudeamus Award (2016), Prix Métamorphoses (2018), and two JUNO Awards (2014, 2020). In 2021 he received the Prix Opus for “Composer of the Year.” 
	Active as an arts organiser, he co-founded and co-directed the Montréal Contemporary Music Lab. Originally from British Columbia, he lived in Montréal for 11 years and since 2022 has been based out of Berlin.

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