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Alessandro Milia (born in Cagliari, Italy) has been developing for several years a personal style of composition founded on his university research on hybridization of different aspects such as orality and experimental music. He studied composition with Franco Oppo, Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez, André Bon and Salvatore Sciarrino, and he studied musicology with Antonio Lai and Ivanka Stoianova. In 2015, Alessandro has closed his Ph.D thesis entitled Variations et variantes dans l'oralité et dans la création musicale expérimentale, le langage musical de Franco Oppo, Horatiu Radulescu et Alessandro Milia (Université Paris 8). He has published several articles: Franco Oppo, appunti sulla figura e sullo stile (Musica/Realtà 2011) and Spectralism and Traditional Oral Music in the Style of Horatiu Radulescu (University of Edinburgh 2012). Alessandro is also teaching at a conservatory in Paris. Some of his recent compositional works include: Giorzi'eFrores (2011) for solo mandolin Ed. Les Produtions d'Oz (Canada), Sonata (2013) for solo piano Ed. ArsPublica (Italy), Musica per quartetto d'archi… gli universi isomorfi (2013) for string quartet, Gli Specchi di Giorzi (2014) for ensemble, L'Uovo di Brancusi (2014) for flute and string quartet and Reminiscenze dall'uovo (2015) for bass flute, viola and cello.

Macarena Rosmanich, a Chilean composer based in Germany, is one of the most active international voices of a growing scene of Latin American female composers. Although her career has developed mainly in Europe, her eagerness to motivate future female composers in her country of origin, makes her have permanent contact with the contemporary Chilean scene. 
The concept of intertextuality is at the center of her work. Each piece is linked to other pieces, through elements that are then developed in a new context, generating a universe that interacts and evolves internally. This universe is not isolated, but also discusses or is inspired by narrative literature, poetry, art, as well as social and political events.  All this works as an engine that triggers a flow of sound relationships that give rise to her work. 
"The close relationship between compositional work and literature, has led me to conceive spaces that complement each other and merge into a unity through music. My approach seeks to provide the poetic form with a new temporal dimension, a sort of collaboration between sound and word that transcends conventional boundaries. In essence, my purpose is to blur the boundaries of pre-existing form and structure in a work, rearranging them in such a way as to configure a new work, thus redefining the essence of the original. This process not only involves a stylistic transformation, but also seeks to open up new routes of interpretation, allowing the musical composition to dialogue in a unique way with the poetry and, in turn, establish a richer and more dynamic connection with time."
Her work ranges from chamber and vocal music to works for orchestra and musical theatre. She has worked with numerous international soloists, orchestras and ensembles, such as Musikfabrik, Kommas, Via Nova, Mosaik, Recherche, Multilatérale, United Instruments of Lucilin, KNM Berlin, Vertixe Sonora, L'ART POUR L'ART, Reflexion K, Broken Frames Syndicate, among others. 
Her works have been performed in Latin America, Germany, France, Italy, England, Spain and Luxembourg. 
She studied at the University of Chile where she graduated with distinction and continued her postgraduate studies with composer José María Sánchez Verdú at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf and later a master's degree in composition at the University of Freiburg with Johannes Schöllhorn.
Macarena Rosmanich lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

https://rosmanich.com/

Contact: macarosmanich@gmail.com

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Alberto Cavallaro - Saxophone
Federico Tramontana - Percussion

Kaliomene | Rheinische Frauenschola is a female vocal ensemble directed by Ximena Gonzalez and based in Wiesbaden (Germany). Its repertoire includes gregorian chant, hildegard von bingen's music as well as new music specially composed for the ensemble and church acoustics. Focal point of Kaliomene | Rheinische Frauenschola is the creation of immersive concerts with analog live visuals - through the collaboration with composer Raphaël languillat and light artist Katrin Bethge.

Chiara Percivati is a clarinettist, performer, and sound researcher. Her artistic and research work focuses on exploring, questioning, and expanding the symbiotic relationship between performer and instrument. Whether through material hacking or digital augmentation, her practice unfolds as a continuous process of designing, making, and becoming with a multitude of clarinet variants.

She conducts research in clarinet preparation and augmentation as a PhD candidate at the Orpheus Institute and the University of Antwerp. She works as a researcher at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, where she is currently developing a project on digitally driven approaches to clarinet and bass clarinet preparation.

She has performed across Europe and North America as a regular guest of new music collectives such as Ensemble Modern, Schallfeld Ensemble, mdi ensemble, and Ensemble for New Music Tallinn.

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