"To Minorities, Immigrants and Homosexuals. For Freedom and Liberty." 
Composed / Arranged in 2011, Manchester, England. Performed in April 2012 by Contemporary Chamber Players of The University of Memphis. Conducted by Kamran Ince.

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Composer/ Sound Editor
Tuğba Uçar is a Turkish composer and teacher. Her works include microtonal and electronic elements. She studied composition master's with Ahmet Altınel at the Mimar Sinan Conservatory in Istanbul and she finished her composition master's under Prof. Dirk D'Ase at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK). Uçar's compositions were performed in the Süreyya Opera, Marmara University of Istanbul, Government Culture Associations Istanbul and MUK. Her composition “Tranquility” was selected by the Wien Modern Ensemble and performed on 09.11.2018. She has written music for a symphony orchestra, named “Seven Structures of Human”, which was selected as one of the winners of the competition “Tratto”, and performed on 11.04.2019 at the Radiokulturhaus by the MUK Orchestra. Other works include her composition “MAYA” for Live Electronic and Ensemble, performed on 27.05.2019 in the MUK and “SEGMENTS” for solo accordion selected for Wien Modern Ensemble in 2019. The video art concept for the Music Theater Festival of WUK was exhibited at the festival between 12.09.2019 and 21.09.2019. Since she is a member of ÖGZM, her work “On the Road” for percussions, fixed media and live electronics will be performed at the concert “Crosstalks” at the Kulturzentrum by the Minoriten in Graz in September 2020.

She has worked as an arranger and sound editor for MEM Music Productions for eight years, together with Turkish composer and arranger Tuğrul Karataş. In cooperation with her musician friends, she founded and conducted the Avrasya Chamber Orchestra, which performed arrangements of Turkish Folk Music. 
The orchestra came under her direction among others, in the Pierre Cardin Art Collection, where she received a certificate of recognition. As a music teacher, she worked at Arsu Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi Istanbul. For her scientific work on the third piano piece from op. 11 by Arnold Schönberg, she was awarded third place at the Department of Music of Marmara University Istanbul.

Born in 1989 in Kosovo - Yugoslavia. Fehmiju, started playing the accordion and piano at the age of eight. He majored in violin in Istanbul Fine Arts University State Conservatory setting from the age of 11. He studied composition from an early age and entered the university's composition department in 2007. In 2014, he graduated from musicology at the same university. He worked as a theory lecturer at the same university for two years between 2012 and 2014. In 2015 he moved to Japan where he studied computer music for one year as a research student at Kunitachi College of Music and started a doctorate program at the Sonology Department of the same university in the spring of 2016. 
He attended workshops of musicians such as Domenico Nordio, Flamur Muco, Atilla Aldemir, Edward Sielicki, Jan Risberg, and Gürer Aykal. In 2010, he participated in the World Choir Competition held in China as a member of the chorus representing Turkey and won the gold medal three times. Received the second prize at the 2012 Turkish Ayvalik International Composition Competition. Fehmiju, exhibited at the 2016 Seoul International Computer Music Festival, 2018 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and North Macedonia - Ohrid Summer Festival. He Received the first prize at the 2018 Istanbul MIAM Composition Competition. In the spring of 2019, he joined the Sound R&D of KORG Inc. Since December 2019, he has been a member of the bFaaaP (Barrier-free assistant as a pedal for Piano) project. In March 2020, Fehmiju received a PhD in the Computer Music Composition - Sonology Department at Kunitachi College of Music. Fehmiju also continues his further research, performances, and compositions as a freelance artist.
Fehmiju is the project leader of the Japan side and product manager of the Korg Fisa Suprema project.

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