Aled Start (b. 1988)

Runner-up, Ty Cerdd Young Composer of Wales 2014
Finalist 2012 Daryl Runswick Prize. 
Overall Winner, 2010 Young Composer of Dyfed
Winner, 2009 Trinity College of Music String Quartet Composition Competition 
Age group category winner, 2009 Young Composer of Dyfed

Works have been performed by the Alba Brass Quintet, O Duo, Vardanyan String Quartet, Lunar Saxophone Quartet, Trinity College Early Music Ensemble, Meridian String Quartet, John Richards’ Dirty Electronics Ensemble, The Orion Orchestra, Contemporary Music Group (CMG) at Trinity and several other chamber ensembles.
Aled graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2012. He studied / took seminars with Donnacha Dennehy, Lynne Plowman, Paul Barker, Graham Fitkin, Mark Lockheart, Edward Jessen, Heiner Goebbels, Tristan Murail, George Fenton, Michael Finnissy, Christian Wolff and Dominic Murcott. His tutors were Stephen Montague, Errollyn Wallen, Deirdre Gribbin and Gwyn Pritchard.

His past interests were dominated with opera and setting texts to compositions, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Work Without Hope which received several performances in London, to Leeds poet Julian Turner’s Mynydd Hyddgen for Leeds Lieder Festival 2009.

Starting in 2009, Aled organised several concerts and was bandleader, organiser and composer for The Raw Stories Collective (www.therawstories.co.uk); a new music group blurring scored and improvised compositional techniques comprising 10 musicians including acclaimed violinist Satoko Fukuda, avante garde pianist Pat Thomas and counter tenor Gordon Waterson. The libretto is supplied by American poet Daniel Moore. 

His current interests are pared-down ensemble sizes and working with singers, percussion and string timbres.

Aled has keen and broad interests including travel, philosophy and cycling. He is fluent in English, Welsh and Arabic.


We both enjoy playing new music of any genre, so do get in touch if you would like us to record something for you.

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Gabriele Cosmi (1988), compositore. Consegue gli studi di composizione, con il massimo dei voti e la lode, laureandosi al Conservatorio G.Palestrina di Cagliari (A.Guaragna, Daniele Bravi, E.Carta) ed al Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Milano (Alessandro Solbiati). Di fondamentale importanza per il suo percorso è l’incontro con Ivan Fedele, con il quale si perfeziona all’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia a Roma, con il massimo dei voti e la lode. Suoi lavori sono stati commissionati ed eseguiti in stagioni e teatri tra i quali il Gran Teatro la Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Teatro Verdi di Pisa, Teatro Verdi Trieste, Auditorium Toscanini della Rai di Torino, Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, Auditorium della Radio Nazionale Svizzera di Ginevra, Teatro Elfo Puccini di Milano, Théâtre National de Liège, Società del Quartetto di Milano, Società dei Concerti della Normale di Pisa, Accademia Filarmonica Romana ed in festival quali Biennale di Venezia, Milano Musica, Musica Strasbourg, Rai Nuova Musica, London Ear Festival e tanti altri. Interpreti della sua musica figurano orchestre ed ensemble quali Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai di Torino, Coro Orchestra del Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Coro ed Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi, Enesemble Contrechamps, New European Ensemble di Amsterdam, solisti de Ensemble Intercontemporain e Percussion de Strasbourg. La sua musica è stata diretta da Massimo Zanetti, Francesco Lanzillotta, Carlo Boccadoro, Gérard Korsten, Gregory Charette e tanti altri. Ha composto musica sinfonica, lirica, da camera e per il teatro eseguita in Italia (Milano, Roma, Venezia, Firenze, Torino, Cagliari…), Grecia (Atene), Stati Uniti (Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco), Francia (Strasburgo, Parigi), Germania (Berlino, Dusseldorf), Gran Bretagna (Londra), Peru (Cuzco, Quito), Belgio (Bruxelles, Liegi), Spagna (Madrid, Valencia) Israele (Tel Aviv), Sviz- zera (Ginevra, Basilea, Lugano), Portogallo (Lisbona, Montijo), Polonia (Varsavia, Cracovia, Gda- snsk). Premiato in venti concorsi internazionali, nel 2013 è finalista al Concour International de Geneve. Nel 2015 viene selezionato dalla Rai di Torino per rappresentare l’Italia durante l’International Rostrum of Composers dell’Unesco a Tallin. Nel medesimo anno viene nominato compositore in residenza presso l’Académie de France a Roma (Villa Medici). Nel 2017 riceve dal Presidente della Repubblica Italiana Sergio Mattarella il Premio Goffredo Petrassi per l’anno 2015. Suoi lavori sono stati trasmessi da emittenti radiofoniche quali Rai Radio 3, RTP (Portogal- lo), Euro Classic, RTS (Svizzera), Radio France, RTV (Slovena), Radio Press (Corsica), ABC (Au- stralia) e dalle emittenti televisive Rai 5, Rai Scuola e Rai Educational. Ha tenuto corsi di Semiografia della musica antica e contemporanea, Teoria della musica, Analisi delle forme compositive, Orchestrazione, Forme sistemi e linguaggi presso i conservatori di Foggia, Campobasso, Sassari, Rovigo, Modena e Mantova. Tutta la sua musica, sino al 2019, è edita da Edizioni Suvini Zerboni Milano.

Award-winning composer, producer, performer, and educator of ElectroAcoustic music, Vahid Jahandari is a dynamic transdisciplinary musician, specializing in global music studies. Award-winning composer of acoustic and electronic music, Jahandari's works have been performed and recorded in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has received awards, including first prizes at 2Agosto and Pejman competitions for His orchestral and chamber music, and commissions include the Grammy nominee ensemble, PubliQuartet.

Jahandari is a multi-instrumentalist and improviser who works across various genres and mediums. His music has been selected and performed at numerous festivals, including ISCM World Music Days in Estonia, the World Saxophone Congress in Croatia, SXSW, SEAMUS, SPLICE, and many more.

An interesting string quartet for weddings and functions.

Mystery & Wonder is a small label started in 2017. It is run by Elizabeth Millar and Craig Pedersen.

Many of our releases focus on sound art, improvisation and compositional works that give attention to the musical possibilities inherent in combining or superimposing closely amplified elements with acoustic elements.  We are interested in work that takes care with sound and timbre, structure and form, is close, direct and in high-definition. But most off all, we are interested in work that defies our understanding of all this and moves us in ways we don’t expect, work that stands on its own.

We are lovers of the album as physical object. We custom cut the majority of our sleeves with high-quality paper using an industrial die-cut machine.  Our latest releases include some combination of obi strips, hand printed covers, scores, photographs, and liner notes. With the exception of a few, releases are hand-assembled.

We also actively organize concerts in Montreal and elsewhere.  You can read more about our events here.  To stay actively updated about our releases, concerts and tours, please consider signing our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/cMOzLr

Italian composer based in Paris. Check the website for more information!

Composing, writing and performing vocals and lyrics.
Singing voice embraces as classical academic skills as a contemporary ethereal and experimental sounding. 

Concerts took place in the following countries:
Russia ↟ France ↟ Belgium ↟ Switzerland 

Songwriter / vocalist of the neoclassical dark ambient project "Day Before Us" (France) and the symphonic power metal band "Stonehenge" (Russia).

Kari Juusela is a composer, cellist, and educator who currently teaches for BerkleeOnline and is the former Dean of the Professional Writing and Music Technology Division at Berklee College of Music.

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist based in Bristol, UK. Available for wedding bookings and other special events.

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