"Samuel Reinhard (b. 1980) is a Swiss composer. Guided by minimalist and aleatoric tenets, Reinhard's work emphasizes repetition and extended duration. His compositions are not unlike tapestries, built from shifting horizontal threads between which emerge unexpected resonances as they iterate and layer. From a distance unassuming and all but eventless, Reinhard's work is nonetheless driven by constant, subtle inner change. In his compositional practice he engages with sonic matter and processes like instrumentation and recording on a granular level, while interrogating and exploring the intricacies of perception and the act of listening itself. He earned his MA in Contemporary Arts Practice (Music & Media Arts) from Bern University of the Arts, and has been awarded grants and artist residencies from the Swiss Arts Council, the Music Commission of the City of Bern, the Department of Culture of the Canton of Bern, and others. Reinhard lives and works in New York City."

"Paul Jacob (PJ) Fossum is a Copenhagen based pianist, synthesist and composer. Born and raised in Canada, he studied classical music in his childhood, and grew into more rhythmic and improvised musics in adolescence. He moved to New York to study at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where he studied with Reggie Workman, Sam Yahel, Jane Ira Bloom and Kirk Nurock among others. While in New York he dove headlong its jazz and improvised music scenes, being moulded into a versatile and genre defying artist. In 2020 he moved to Copenhagen to pursue a masters degree in performance at the Rythmic Music Conservatory with research into electro-acoustics pertaining specifically to the piano and transducers.

He is currently touring with his solo-project electro-acoustic project Amalgamation-Integration using an electronics-augmented piano. He also works in a duo called Estuary with New York-based vocalist/composer Judette Elliston. Additionally he composes site-specific pieces, including: Guitar Summit CPH 2024 for 30 guitars and room (2024); Music for 5 Pianos (2022); TEXTING suite for small improvising ensemble, audience, and cell phones (2023); and Svømme for 5 spatialized transducer-piano sound-system, and 9 piece ensemble (2022)."

Francesco Bigoni: "Born in Ferrara, Italy, 1982. With an early interest injazz, he takes his first clarinet and saxophone lessons in Ferrara. He attends masterclasses held by Steve Lacy (1998) and Andy Sheppard (2000). He attends the international summer jazz workshops in Siena, Italy. After the 2001 edition he has been granteda scholarship for the 13th IASJ meeting in Helsinki (2002).He plays with Enrico Rava's "Under 21" quintet between 2004 and 2005.He attends the Permanent Workshop held by Stefano Battaglia in Siena from 2004 to 2008. He also starts playing in his Theatrum groups, and in the Outvestigation quartet (since 2007). He's a member of El Gallo Rojo (www.elgallorojorecords.com) label/collective since 2005. Inside the collective, he takes part in various projects, well represented in festivals; he produces about 20records; he organizes a meeting of creative music collectives in Massa Lombarda (RA). In 2006-2007 he writes and performs live music for the play "Metallo", written and performed by Emiliano Pergolari and Michele Bandini and produced by Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria.In 2007 he joins the band Houdini's Cage, making the album Memories Of A Barberafter an Italian tour. The record is released by El Gallo Rojo, and marks the beginning of his friendship with Greg Cohen. In 2008 he is invited by the American bass player to join his new band Argus, that plays its premiere at Polis Jadran Europa Festival in Pula."

"Carolyn Goodwin is a clarinet, bass clarinet, alto and soprano saxophone player, born in Ireland (1983), and based in Copenhagen. Her work to date has seen her traverse many genres as a performer and creative artist, including opera, theatre, alt-pop and jazz, as well as the fields of contemporary and improvised music.

Carolyn has premiered contemporary chamber works (Irish Composers Collective, Crash Ensemble), working with composers such as Steve Reich, Bill Whelan and Hayden Chisholm. She has toured in Europe and North America with American band Bon Iver and Irish band Fred.

She has worked extensively in the world of theatre as a performer, composer, and arranger (ThisIsPopBaby, Corcadorca, Rough Magic, Cork Opera House, Abbey Theatre, Betty Nansen Theatre) receiving awards for her work (Edinburgh Fringe First, Irish Times Theatre Award).

Carolyn finds inspiration in traditional music from her native Ireland as well as other cultures. In 2016 she undertook field studies in Bamako, Mali, investigating the balafon playing tradition of the Mandinka people. In 2018 she was artist in residence at Laboratorio Artistico de San Agustin in Cuba, and in February 2019, she was artist-in residence at Mandagsklubben 5E in Copenhagen."

Her current projects include: Thou Sonic Friend with Peter Tinning (guitar, effects) and Birgitte Lyregaard (vocals, percussion, objects), We Go Where We Go with Spencer Gross (guitar) and Lars Emil Madsen (piano/keyboards), and Clang Sayne with Laura Hyland (compositions, nylon string guitar voice), Matthew Jacobson (drums, objects) and Judith Ring (cello, voice), Carolyn is also a member of Extemporize Orchestra, a supergroup of Scandinavian-based improvisers.