"Udo Schindler is a German improvisation musicians (bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, saxophone, flute, cornet, also accordion, guitar, percussion, analog synthesizer) and architect. Schindler was active in the 1970s in Franconia first as rock and rock jazz musician before he had flute lessons at the conservatory Nuremberg. Subsequently, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and worked as an architect. In the 1990s he turned to contemporary music (Arch.Ensemble) and improvised music (Schindler.Interferenz.3). In addition to the single tube instruments (saxophones and clarinets), he studied the cornet. In addition to his sound research, he also worked as a director, performer, musician and composer for various theater productions. In the following years he performed with solo and duo projects at new music festivals (Musica Viva, Klangaktionen, etc ...), jazz, experimental music, among others. This led to collaborations with musicians like Hubert Bergmann, Gerry Hemingway, Eddie Prevost, Sebi Tramontana, Georg Wissel, John Russell, Blaise Siwula, Frank Gratkowski, Hans Koch, Urs Leimgruber, Elisabeth Harnik, Katharina Weber and Frank Paul Schubert. In addition to his activities in solid cast he initiated in Munich a series of concerts to free improvisation in ad hoc to test instrumentation."

"Ingrid Schmoliner (* 1978 in Villach) is an Austrian musician (singing, piano) of New Music and Jazz - which also touches improvisation and volkmusik. Life and Work

Before her classical studies at the Kärntner Landeskonservatorium in Klagenfurt, Schmoliner had a piano interest in improvised, experimental and contemporary music. Further, she was trained in classical singing but also in jazz singing. As a gastsolist, she sang at the Graz opera in the opera Buio by Hannes Kerschbaumer. The composer Denovaire wrote the Solostimme for her as an altist in the Muata Erdn choir.

Together with Pascal Niggenkemper (double bass) and Joachim Badenhorst (saxophone), she released the album Watussi. In the Trio Taro (with Matthias Erian and Martin Schönlieb) she recorded the CD flaechten (Ostblock). There is also a composition for piano solo by and with Ingrid Schmoliner on record and two albums of the trio Para with Elena Kakaliagou (horn and voice) and the contrabassist Thomas Stempkowski. She also worked with Xu Fengxia, Clayton Thomas, Marco Eneidi, Daniel Lercher, Susanna Gartmayer and Frantz Loriot.

He is also active as a music teacher. She also teaches in the disciplines of overtone singing and yodeling. She has also devoted herself to "researching pianos and the ideal wood preparations for years."

Schmoliner received the promotion prize for music in Carinthia in 2013."