"Ralph Beerkircher

Lives in Cologne. Studied classical guitar, then jazz guitar at the Musikhochschule Cologne. Prize winners at jazz competitions in Leverkusen, Leipzig and Getxo / Spain and jazzart - 2004 / NRW.

He plays and composes for his current formations "Arnie Bolden" with Christian Thome and Stephan Meinberg, "ensemble hks" with Christof Thewes, Robert Landfermann and Dirkpeter Kölsch. Current CD: "Nervous Meditation" at Jazzhausmusik, also "DaDaMaFz" with Matthias Schubert, Achim Tang and Joe Hertenstein and his own quartet with Claudius Valk, Volker Heinze, Roland Höppner. Current CD: R.Beerkircher Quartet "Morphin" at nrw-jazz. He was a long-standing member of the Weltvolksjazzensemble "Novotnik44" and plays in the "Matthias Broede Chambertrio".

Worked in Munich, Cologne, Bonn and Düsseldorf in numerous opera and theater productions. Guest at the Beethoven-Orchester Bonn. Played by Gerry Hemingway, David Liebmann, Taylor Ho Bynum, Steven Bernstein, Gabriele Hasler, Moritz Eggert, Sebastian Hess, Efrat Alony, Henning Sieverts, Peter Fulda, Nils Wogram, Dirk Raulf, Michael Heupel and Gunnar Plümer"

-Shraeng Duo Website (http://www.shraeng.de/bios.html)
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"Elisabeth Coudoux (born Fügemann) is a cellist at the interface of different musical genres: free improvisation, experimental music, new composed music and jazz. After studying classical studies as a basis, a jazz study was conducted in Cologne with Frank Gratkowski and Prof. Dieter Manderscheid. In addition to her own project (eg Emissatett for what she composed), she is a cellist in many ensembles and works in interdisciplinary projects with dancers, visual artists and writers. She is the initiator and member of IMPAKT, a newly founded collective for free improvisation in Cologne."

-Elisabeth Coudoux Website (translated by Google) (http://www.elisabeth-fuegemann.com/biographie.html)
2/3/2023

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"Besides his own project like Hübsch's Longrun Development of the Universe, Drift and Hübsch's Primordial Soup he founded the ENSEMBLE X and co-leads the Multiple Joy[ce] Orchestra together with Matthias Schubert and Frank Gratkowski.

Hübsch is part of many collective projects and ensembles and works as side man in various projects. Carl Ludwig Hübsch performed with musicians like Arthur Blythe, Michiel Braam, Thomasz Stanko, Paul Lytton, Lester Bowie, Jasper vant Hof, Paul Lovens, Ernst Reijseger, Angelika Sheridan, Peter Keller, Thomas Lehn, Martin Theurer, Gunda Gottschalk, Axel Dörner, Ute Völker, Gino Robair, Philip Zoubek, Le Quan Ninh, Michel Doneda, Scott Fields, Michael Vorfeld, Uwe Oberg, Ulrich Phillipp, Franz Hautzinger, Sebastian Gramss, Nils Wogram, Frank Köllges, Udo Moll a.m.o. throughout the planet.

He participated in numerous projects like e.g.

• The F-Orkestra
• Oktoberorchestra Amsterdam 1994
• Humannoise Congress
• Hannes Zerbe / Willem Breuker Blech Band 1995
• Matthias Schubert Sextett 1997
• Kammeroper "Idyllen" von Thomas Beimel 1999
• Matthias Schubert Quartett 2002
• European Tuba Quartett from 2000
• Markus Eichenbergers Domino Orchestra 2003
• Toyteens `lil Rosies (Klare, Buhrs, de Jode, Hübsch)
• Post No Bills ab 1995
• Adam Noidlts Missiles
• Carl Ludwig Hübsch/Harald Kimmig Duo
• Adam Noidlts Missiles
• Thomas Heberers LipL from 2007
• Achim Krämer Georg Wissel Carl Ludwig Hübsch
• Franz Hautzingers Trompetenorchester 2008
• Bik Bent Braam / Braam Hybrid Tentett
• Ensemble [H]iatus from 2008

fellowships or study travels lead Hübsch troughout the continents, e.g.to India in 1997 for studies with Ramamani (Karnataka College of Percussion)or to Namibia in the year 2000, to the USA ( OMI-Arts Stipendium 2002) • but also to closer places like Essen (Jazzpott Award 2003 ) or to Basel (2008 / 2009 Residency of the Stiftung Bartels Fondation) Huebsch's work is documented in numerous radio and CD productions."

-Carl Ludwig Hubsch Website (http://www.clhuebsch.de/index.php/en/projects-en)
2/3/2023

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"Fabian Jung was born in 1988 in Hamm, Germany. Meanwhile he lives and works as a drummer in Cologne. One focus of his work lies in the field of improvised music. Here he is concerned both with the exploration of new sounds, for example through the preparation of various objects, as well as the classical free-jazz playing. ÊHe played with John Butcher, Tetsu Saitoh, Sebastian Gramss, Leonhard Huhn, Philip Zoubek, and others."

-Zietkunst.EU (translated by Google) (http://www.zeitkunst.eu/frischzelle/index.php?cont=artists&volnum=Fabian Jung&lang=d)
2/3/2023

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"Robert Landfermann Doublebass born 1982 in Bonn.

Studies:

1998 - 2002 Doublebass lessons in Bonn with Gunnar Plümer

2002 - 2007 Jazz-Doublebass in Cologne "Musikhochschule für Musik und Tanz"

2007 - 2009 special degree "Konzertexamen" with Prof Dieter Manderscheid

since 2011 teaching Jazz Doublebass at the Folkwang university of arts in Essenworked with:

Joachim Kühn, John Scofield, Lee Konitz, Yo-Yo Ma, Django Bates, Tomasz Stanko, Barre Philips, John Taylor, Lenine, Dave Liebman, Simon Nabatov, Chris Potter, John Hollenbecks 'Claudia Quintet', Hilmar Jensen, Urs Leimgruber, Jim Black, Peter Evans, Manfred Schoof, Tobias Delius, Achim Kaufmann, Julian Argueilles, Frank Gratkowski, Thomas Lehn, Mederic Collignon, Gerd Dudek, Stephane Guillaume, Charlie Mariano, Kinan Azmeh, Markus Stockhausen, Cino Palagliesu, Rudi Mahall, Tetsu Saitoh, Claudio Puntin, Steffen Schorn, Axel Dörner, Wolfgang Haffner, Ian Thomas, Ben Perowski, Danny Gottlieb, NDR BigBand, Rhani Krija...Concerts:

In about 50 Countries on 5 Continents:

China, Indonesia, Russia, USA, Canada, Australia, South Corea, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Dominicanian Republic, Salvador, Brasil, Bolivia, Equador, Columbia, Tunesia, Maroc, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Togo, Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Cape Verde, Belgium, Holland, Poland, Danmark, Luxemburg, France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Zyprus, Kasachstan, Kirgistan, Bulgaria, Albania, Rumania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway...

In famous Concerthalls:

Sydney Opera, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Mozartsaal Wien, Cité de la musique Paris, Megaron Musikis Athen, L'auditori Barcelona, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Theatre Marni Brussels, "stone" NYC, Beethovenhaus Bonn, Bozar Brussels, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Brucknerhaus Linz, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Philharmony Essen, Philharmony Cologne, Philharmony Luxemburg, Filharmonia Krakowska, Krzysztof Penderecki Centre for Music, NOSPR Concert Hall Katowice, Konserthuset Stockholm...

On national and international Festivals:

Vancouver Jazzfestival, North-Sea-festival, JazzNow Sydney, Kopenhagen Jazzfestival, Jazzfest Berlin, Casa del Jazz Rom, London Jazzfestival, Glasgow Jazzfestival, JazzNoJazz Zürich, 12points! 2010 Stavanger Norway, 12points! 2008 Dublin, Moers Jazzfestival, Jazz.pt Lissabon, Duketown Festival s'Hertogenbosch, Coimbra Jazzfestival, The Hague Den Haag, Portalegre Jazzfestival, Salzau Jazz-Baltica, Jazzfestival Burghausen, INNtöne, Leverkusener Jazztage, Elbjazz, Hamburger Jazztage, Münster Jazzfestival, Jazzrallye Düsseldorf, Traumzeit Festival, Gnaua festival Essauira...Awards:

SWR-Jazzpreis 2014

NRW-Förderpreis 2013

WDR-Jazzpreis 2009

New German Jazzaward 2009 with Frederik Köster Quartett

Horst und Gretl-Will Stipendium - Culture-Price of the City of Cologne 2009

German Member of the European Jazz Orchestra connected to the EBU in 2008"

-Robert Landfermann Website (http://robertlandfermann.com/biography.html)
2/3/2023

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"Jeffrey Morgan (born March 20, 1954) is an American jazz musician and composer. He has been heavily active in the fields of free jazz and improvised music.

Morgan started studying the Performing Arts: Music; Dance; Experimental Theater; Ethnomusicology; Philosophy of Aesthetics; and Eastern Religion at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 1973. During his education he attended the legendary Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY, and studied under Karl Berger, Don Cherry, and Oliver Lake as part of his external studies program. Moreover, in 1976 he created his first compositional work for music and dance - Distress Mistress, and performed his first ensemble work, The Delirium Dimension.

In 1977 he created his first multi-media interdisciplinary work - Galactic Visions, a composition for music, dance, slide projectors, costumes, and light design. Over the next several years he conceptualized and composed a few collaborative interdisciplinary works, such as It's Only Money, C.A.S.H, Transient Landscapes; and Mykrocozm, wherein he also had directing and acting responsibilities. In 1982 Morgan co-founded Presto Chango, a musical theater/performance group that incorporated costumes and stage design along with Andrew Woodruff and Bob Heywood. Two years later together, along with Paul Hoskin, he co-founded the New Art Orchestra in Seattle, Washington. He also worked for Muzak as supervisor to re-evaluate their library of music.

In 1987, Morgan moved to Birmingham, Alabama and worked with dancers Mary Horn and Susan Hefner; he also started an ongoing collaboration with LaDonna Smith. In 1988, he made his first tour in Europe with the Seattle-based trio Clank together with Johnny Calcagno and Charly Rowen, as well as working with several international musicians from Denmark, England, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. Since 1991, he has resided in Cologne, Germany, remaining active in the field of jazz and improvised music. He has also engaged in collaborations with Alan Silva, Keith Rowe, Peter Kowald, Paul Lytton and Xu Feng Xia just to name a few.

From 1991 to 1996 he organized the Drang in Klang festival for experimental and improvised music, and in 1994 he established another open-door workshop for Conceptual Composition and Improvisation in Cologne, which led to invitations to lead other workshops in Bielefeld, Hamburg, Lisbon, Leeds and Wuppertal. Also, in 1994 he composed another interdisciplinary work entitled In the Shadow of the Gambler which was performed in Cologne and Krefeld. Moreover, he has led three classes through a group process focused on Installation and Performance: "Elements"; "Haunted House"; and "N-Station" respectively, at the Tekniske Skole in Copenhagen."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Morgan_(musician))
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"Matthias Muche (D) trombone, born in 1972 lives in Cologne and works as musician and media artist. He studied trombone at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, in Rotterdam and at the "Hochschule für Musik" in Cologne with Bart van Lier, Henning Berg and Paulo Alvares and also audiovisual media with Anthony Moore at the academy of media arts cologne. Muche works in several formations, e.g. with the James Choice Orchestra, Das Mollsche Gesetz, Nils Klein Tentett, Schäl Sick Brass Band and with Mischa Mengelberg, Larry Ochs and Robyn Schulkowsky, having concert tours through Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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As media artist, Muche combines contemporary music with new media in his audiovisual works. his latest works were presented in bern, paris and during the Art Cologne. Together with Sven Hahne he has been Artistic Director of the FRISCHZELLE festival for Intermedial Performance since 2004. Furthermore he is founder member of ZEITKUNST, which is an association for the advancement and conveyance of audiovisual art."

-Timeart Ensemble Website (http://zeitkunst.eu/index.php?zone=proj&feld=hots)
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"Joker Nies is an electronic musician specializing in micro-noise music using customized and circuit-bent instruments. He lives in Köln, Germany."

-Last.FM (https://www.last.fm/music/Joker+Nies/+wiki)
2/3/2023

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"Etienne Nillesen is an active voice on the European creative music scene, with regular performances across Europe, Asia, America and Africa.

His main focus is improvisation with ongoing collaborations including the trio OGU, and STØY, in which he is exploring all the possibilities of music, playing a snaredrum and a cymbal with all kinds of sticks, toys, bells and bows.

His interest in various forms of exploratory music gave him an opportunity to work with artists as, as well as the opportunity to work with artists such as Claudio Puntin, Philip Zoubek, Sebastian Gramss, Matthias Schrief, Shelley Hirsch, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Eivind Aarset, Florian Weber, Simon Nabatov, Ernst Reijseger (CN), Tom Arthurs, Robert Landfermann, Bram Stadhouders, Jeroen van Vliet, Udo Moll, Sebastian Duboc, Simin Tander, Frank Wingold, Frederik Köster and Matthias Muche. Beishan International Jazz (CN), Bohemia Jazzfest (CZ), OCT-LOFT Jazz (CN), Women in Jazz (DE), Jazzfest Berlin (DE), The Hague Jazz (NL), Madrid International Jazzfestival (ES), Catania Jazz (I), Caïro International Jazzfest (EG) and clubs all over the world."

-Schraum.DEe (translated by Google) (http://www.schraum.de/en/musicians/nillesen.html)
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"Sharif Sehnaoui is a free improvising guitarist. He plays both electric & acoustic guitars, with (or without) extended and prepared techniques, focusing on expanding the intrinsic possibilities of these instruments without the use of effects or electronics. He now resides in Beirut, his hometown, after more than a decade in Paris, where he started his career as an improviser in 1998, playing at Instants Chavirés as a member of several orchestras. He has since performed his music worldwide and played in many clubs & festivals such as Soundfield (Chicago), Moers, Konfrontationen (Nickelsdorf), Météo Music Festival (Mulhouse), CTM & Maerzmusik (Berlin), FEST (Tunis), Skanu Mesz (Riga), 100Live (Cairo) or Musikprotokoll (Graz).

In Lebanon, he actively contributed to the emergence of an unprecedented experimental music scene. Along with Mazen Kerbaj he created "Irtijal" (www.irtijal.org) in 2000, a yearly international festival that is the oldest improvised and new music festival in the Arab world. "Irtijal" celebrated its XVth anniversary in 2015.

He also runs two record labels: "Al Maslakh" (www.almaslakh.org) devoted to "publish the un-publishable" on the Lebanese musical scene. And "Annihaya" (www.annihaya.com), focusing on sampling, recycling and the displacement of various aspects of popular culture.

His main groups and projects include the "A" Trio (with Kerbaj & Raed Yassin), "Wormholes" an audio-visual performance with Kerbaj drawing live on a glass table, and Karkhana (www.karkhana-music.com), a Middle-Eastern based super-group combining musicians from Beirut, Cairo & Istanbul. He performs solo on the acoustic guitar using unique percussive techniques exclusively, and on the electric guitar mostly performing with dance (Atsushi Takenouchi, Omar Rajeh...) and composing music for film (Ghassan Salhab, Mai Masri...)

Over the years he has collaborated with several musicians including Michael Zerang, Paed Conca, Thierry Madiot, Fabrizio Spera, Franz Hautzinger, Xavier Charles, Tarek Atoui, Tony Buck, Maurice Louca, Susie Ibarra, Eddie Prevost, Jean-François Pauvros, Alan Bishop, Umut Çağlar, Michael Vorfeld or Saadet Turkoz to name but a few."

-Sharif Sehnaoui Website (http://www.sharifsehnaoui.net/bio.htm)
2/3/2023

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"Achim Tang was born in Berlin in 1958.early musical experiences playing recorder, trumpet, guitar and bassguitardouble bass since 1984classical training in Basel (with Walter Imholz) and Berlin (with RandallNordstr¿m)after 1987 studies with Wayne Darling at the Hochschule fŸr Musik unddarstellende Kunst in Graz (Jazzdepartment). Graduated summa cumlaude.1993 until 2004 as a freelancing musician in Vienna/Austria.Collaborations with numerous musicians from various aesthetic backgrounds, invitations to many international festivals in Germany, France, USA, Korea, China, Scandinavia, Czech Republik, Poland and other countrys, many CD releases as a sideman, personal projects, compositions for dance, theater and film1998 bis 2001 part of the educational project "Klangnetze" in Vienna, led by professor Hans Schneider and the guitarist Burkhard Stangl.after 2004 in Cologne: intensification of the educational work. Different projects with children and teenagers based on own conceptions, awarded by the Sparda Stiftung and the local government of NRW. Yet continuous activities as a freelancing musician, founding member of the musicians cooperative ZAM e.V., collaboration with the new music network in cologne, interdiciplinary projects with national and international artists, incresing involvement in the issues of art and societyafter 2008 artistic director of the educational project "Grundschule mit Musikprofil Neue und Improvisierte Musik" for the Offene Jazzhausschule Cologne, conceptional and pedagogic cooperation with the educational program of the international moers festival, intense cooperation with the Hochschule fŸr Musik und Tanz and the university of cologne (teaching assignments)in 2011 living in Moers as the 4th "Improviser In Residence" of the moers festival-Achim Tang Website (http://www.achimtang.com/)
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"Holger Werner (born 1981) is a German clarinet and saxophone player. He formed Holger Werner Trio with Fraser Gartshore and Sebastian Winne. From 2010 he played in Joe Wulf Sextett (Gentlemen of Swing), German Vintage Jazz Orchestra, Frederik Köster Jazz Orchester, Hannah Köpf Band, in Robert Landfermanns project Tiefgang, 3X3 (with Menzel Mutzke, Jan Torkewitz, Axel Lindner, Elisabeth Fügemann), Stefan Schultze Ensemble, The Multiple Joy[ce] Ensemble, Bellbird, Jakob Kühnemann Quartett."

-PanRec (http://panrec.com/artists/holger_werner_)
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"Georg Wissel *1964, Improviser, Composer, Sculptor of compressed air via (prepared) saxophones, clarinet and other soundsourcesWissel made his first important experiences in Improvised music recording and touring in the late 80ies in Germany, France and Southamerica as guest musician of 'Pöhlmusik' along with Jon Rose.Inspired by collaborations with electronic musicians, he began also (beside working on instrumental playing-technics) searching for new sounds by preparations,which by the time has become an integral part of his playing.

He is working internationally, performing solo under the title 'The Arte Of Navigation' and together with numerous exponents in Improvised music whilst he maintains long term collaborations with his duos along with Paul Lytton, Joker Nies and Tim O'Dwyer and ensembles like 'the WisselTangCamatta', 'Cajlan-Wissel-Nillesen', 'BlankDisk Trio' and 'Canaries on the Pole', Simon Rummel Ensemble, Wuppertaler Improvisations Orchester, La Grande Banda Metafisica... Wissel has been regular member of Frank Koellges' Adam Noidlt Missiles until his death in 2012.

Collaborations with ... Liz Allbee, Lawrence Casserley, Nicolas Collins, George Cremaschi, Gunda Gottschalk, Matthew Goodheart, Lou Grassi, Tomaz Grom, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Erhart Hirt, Peter Jacquemyn, Miako Klein, Frank Köllges, Matthias Müller, Dan Peck, Tim Perkis, Melvyn Poore, Manja Ristic, Alan Silva, Lukatoyboy, Michael Vorfeld, GeSuk Yeo, LondonImprovisersOrchestra, Norbert Stein's Pata on the Cadillac ... Festival appearances at e.g. "Moers Festival"; "Schumannfest", Düsseldorf; "RingRing new music Festival", Belgrade; "Humanoise Congress", Wiesbaden; "Triennale", Köln; "Free Music Festival", Antwerp, "TransArt", Bolzano, "Jazz and More", Sibiu, "Irtijal", Beirut, "Audio Art", Krakow, "Relincha", Valdivia, Chile"

-Georg Wissel Website (https://georgwissel.wordpress.com/bio/)
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"Philip Zoubek (* 1978 in Tulln an der Donau ) is an Austrian pianist of the New Improvisation Music. A striking feature is his highly energetic play, the limits of the pianos, which also include preparation techniques and actions inside the instrument.

Zoubek studied piano at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna from 1996 onwards. He founded the Ubik quartet and took lessons with Uli Scherer before he enrolled at the Musikhochschule Vienna. In 2002 he moved to Cologne, where he studied with Hans Lüdemann, Frank Gratkowski and Marc Ducret. He founded the multimedia project Cauldron, with whom he won the composition competition of the bunker Ulmenwall Bielefeld and the cultural promotion award of the city of Herford; a DVD Q-Spektrum was created in 2003. With the group Snaut with Richard Koch (tp), Eric Schaefer (dr) and Christian Rainer (voice), he toured through Germany and Switzerland and became a prizewinner of the avant-garde competition for Young culture at the Düsseldorfer Altstadtherbst. Since 2004 he belongs to Achim Tang's Trio Torn, which performed successfully in 2011 in a quartet version at the Moers Festival. He was a member of the James Choice Orchestra ( Live at Moers, 2005), Ensemble Creativ, Org, Camera Obscura and the trio Muche / Zoubek / Tang. As a composer Philip Zoubek appeared with his own formation Philz. He also worked with Paul Lytton, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Ernst Glerum, Herb Robertson, Wilbert de Joode and Christian Thomé.

In 2008 he received the Horst and Gretl Will scholarship for Jazz / Improvised Music of the City of Cologne. Also in 2008 he founded the Trio Z3 with Benjamin Weidekamp and Christian Weber. The formation Z3 was born out of the idea of ​​the music of the Jimmy Giuffre -Trios of the 1960s."

-Wikipedia translated by Google (https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zoubek&prev=search)
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"Leonhard Huhn (born 15 June 1986 in Berlin) is a German jazz and improvisational musician (alto saxophone, clarinet, composition). He prepares his instrument, uses microtonality and advanced playing techniques.

Huhn grew up in Berlin; He has been playing saxophone since his thirteen years and was a member of the Landes-Jugend-Jazzorchester Berlin under the direction of Dieter Glawischnig, Joe Gallardo and Jonas Schšn. From 2006 he studied at the University of Music and Dance Cologne with Wolfgang Engstfeld and Frank Gratkowski. [1] Since then, he has been working mainly in the field of jazz, experimental music and free improvisation. With bassist Sebastian Gramss, he recorded a duo version of Duke Ellington's " Far East Suite ". After several years of working together in the Olaf Lind Quartet, he founded the quartet Schmids Huhn with Stefan Karl Schmid. His trio The Spruce (with Stefan Schšnegg and Dominik Mahnig) won the Tremplin Jazz Avignon Prize in France in 2014. In the band CAR, Huhn changes the sound of his saxophone up to the total alienation by means of electronics and synthesizers.

He is a member of the Multiple Joy (ce) Orchestra, the gRoBA Orchestra and several projects of the singer Pegelia Gold (most recently the septet " Les Polychromes ") and Hayden Chisholm 's microtonal alto saxophone octet. Since 2011, Huhn has been involved in experimental children's and youth theater productions by theatermontists. [2] He was a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation."

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"Stefan Schönegg (* 1986)

Born in Heppenheim, grew up in Konstanz. Studied classical contrabass and jazz contrabass in Berlin and Cologne, lives and works in Cologne.

Active in the tension field of improvised music, jazz, new music. Performances all over Europe, including the Moers Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Holiday Courses for New Music Darmstadt.

Founding member of the Cologne collective for improvised music IMPAKT.

He has his own quartet with the name ENSO with Leonhard Huhn, Nathan Bontrager and Etienne Nillesen and a trio with Philip Zoubek and Etienne Nillesen. Beside the Solospiel regularly with Leonhard Huhn and Dominik Mahnig in the Trio DIE FICHTEN ; With Leonhard Huhn, Stefan Karl Schmid and Fabian Arends in the quartet SCHMIDSHUHN ; With Julian Ritter, Dierk Peters and Dominik Mahnig in the Quartet BOTTER ; In SIMON NABATOV TRIO with Dominik Mahnig; With Nathan Bontrager, Nicola Hein and Dominik Mahnig in the quartet THE UNNECESSARY STRINGBAND ; With Gregor Siedl and Niklas Wandt in the trio NOTDURFT ; In the Quartett TOTENHAGEN with Laura Totenhagen, Felix Hauptmann and Leifberger; In the quartet UCHRONIA with Salim Javaid, Marlies Debacker and Dominik Mahnig and with many other great people more."

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"Angelika Sheridan (* 1965 as Angelika Flacke) is a German improvisational musician (flute, bass player) and music teacher.

Sheridan completed a classical flute study at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen ; As a departure she received the Folkwang Prize in 1990. She has been working as a concert flutist since 1990, and has been working in the field of free improvisation and interdisciplinary projects with fine arts and dance, among others, with Peter Kowald, Michel Doneda, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Hans Schneider, Gunda Gottschalk, Sebastian Gramss, Matthias Schubert, Dirk Marwedel, Wolfgang Schliemann, Alexander Frangenheim, Thomas Lehn, Lê Quan Ninh, Geraldine Keller, John Butcher and Paul Lytton. With Peter Kowald and Eckard Koltermann, she wrote the film music for My Heart - Nobody! By Helma Sanders-Brahms. She also participated in Butch Morris 's performance of the 1995 Wuppertal Testament. She is currently playing with the duo with Frank Niehusmann (current), since 2004 in the duo with Ute Völker, since 2006 in the Ensemble Hiatus, furthermore with the Ensemble X, Blind Date Quartet. (With Ulrike Stortz, Scott Roller and John Hollenbeck) and the Multiple Joyce Orchestra and the Insub Meta Orchestra.

Sheridan has a lecture for flute, improvisation and didactics at the Cologne University of Music and Dance ; also teaches at the music school in Monheim am Rhein."

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"Rie Watanabe was born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1979. In 1999 she began studying drums at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo under Makoro Aruga, Michiko Takahashi and Takafumi Fujimoto. Since 2005 she has studied at the College of Music in Karlsruhe under Prof. Isao Nakamura, Prof. Hans-Jörg Bayer, Prof. Jürgen Heinrich, Thomas Hoefs and Jochen Brenner.

Between 1999 and 2005 she was a member of the high-powered Ching-Dong Orchestra "Chanchiki tornade" in Tokyo, conducted by the composer Yuya Honda. She has also been a member of the New Music ensemble "Ensemble Bois" in Tokyo, conducted by Takeo Hoshiya, since 2003.

She has performed with a number of ensembles and orchestras, including the Musikfabrik Cologne, Klangforum Vienna, Chamber Ensemble for Modern Music Berlin, Ensemble Laboratorium, Ensemble 2x2 and the State Theatre of Baden.

She has also participated in several international music festivals, like the ISCM (Yokohama, Stuttgart), Witten Days for New Chamber Music (Witten), "Piano+" Festival (Karlsruhe), Klangwerkstatt (Berlin), "SINKRO" Festival, Vienna Festival Weeks, the electronic music festival "dBâle" (Basel), the ICMC (Basel) and others.

In 2004 she was awarded the Saji Keizo Prize by the Suntry Music Foundation for her performance in Chanchiki tornade, and in 2006, she received a scholarship from the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. The Japanese government awarded her a scholarship to participate in the Overseas Study Program for Artists in 2006. In that same year, Watanabe established a drums/electronic music duo together with Shingo Inao "Ryngo". In addition, she has played together with the pianist Marcelo Silvagama since 2007."

-International Ensemble Modern Akademie (https://www.internationale-em-akademie.de/en/iema/masters-degree-programme/year/2009-10/13722)
2/3/2023

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"Holger Werner (born 1981) is a German clarinet and saxophone player. He formed Holger Werner Trio with Fraser Gartshore and Sebastian Winne. From 2010 he played in Joe Wulf Sextett (Gentlemen of Swing), German Vintage Jazz Orchestra, Frederik Köster Jazz Orchester, Hannah Köpf Band, in Robert Landfermanns project Tiefgang, 3X3 (with Menzel Mutzke, Jan Torkewitz, Axel Lindner, Elisabeth Fügemann), Stefan Schultze Ensemble, The Multiple Joy[ce] Ensemble, Bellbird, Jakob Kühnemann Quartett."

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"Carter Williams was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1976 and is based in Cologne, Germany. He is active as a composer, performer and computer musician focusing on new and experimental music. Carter's music draws its inspiration from the interaction between performers and technology as well as being rooted in historical performance practice and world music traditions. Recent compositions have investigated extended instrumental techniques (especially new methods for preparing string instruments), nonstandard instruments (e.g. viola d'amore, gu-zheng and baryton), improvisation, natural intonation/microtonality, live-electronics and live-video.

Carter's performance activities include work with traditional notated music, graphic scores, and free improvisation. A main focus of his work as a performer has been the revival of the viola d'amore and he has already premiered numerous new compositions for the instrument. In addition to concerts in Germany, his works and performances have been featured at numerous international festivals and new music centers including Acht Brücken Cologne, Musica Electronica Nova Wroclow, Garde du Nord Basel, June in Buffalo, Logos Stifting Gent, Osterfestival Innsbruck, and Les Hivernales Avignon.

Carter also works in the areas of Sound-Projection and Computer Music. In the Summer of 2003 he attended the stage de composition et d'informatique at Ircam (Paris) and has collaborated with numerous composers and performers to develop custom software for live-electronics and live-video.

In 2003 he completed a Ph.D. in Music Composition at the Sate University of New York at Buffalo, where his principal composition teachers were David Felder and Erik Oña and he studied computer music with Cort Lippe and Richard Dudas. Before coming to Buffalo, he earned a B.Mus. from Rice University in Houston. Carter is still active in higher education and has been invited to give guest lectures and workshops at various institutions such as the Musikakademie der Stadt Basel, the University of Huddersfield, Brunel University London, Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne."

-Carter Williams Website (http://carterwilliams.us/wordpress/)
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"Georg Wissel *1964, Improviser, Composer, Sculptor of compressed air via (prepared) saxophones, clarinet and other soundsourcesWissel made his first important experiences in Improvised music recording and touring in the late 80ies in Germany, France and Southamerica as guest musician of 'Pöhlmusik' along with Jon Rose.Inspired by collaborations with electronic musicians, he began also (beside working on instrumental playing-technics) searching for new sounds by preparations,which by the time has become an integral part of his playing.

He is working internationally, performing solo under the title 'The Arte Of Navigation' and together with numerous exponents in Improvised music whilst he maintains long term collaborations with his duos along with Paul Lytton, Joker Nies and Tim O'Dwyer and ensembles like 'the WisselTangCamatta', 'Cajlan-Wissel-Nillesen', 'BlankDisk Trio' and 'Canaries on the Pole', Simon Rummel Ensemble, Wuppertaler Improvisations Orchester, La Grande Banda Metafisica... Wissel has been regular member of Frank Koellges' Adam Noidlt Missiles until his death in 2012.

Collaborations with ... Liz Allbee, Lawrence Casserley, Nicolas Collins, George Cremaschi, Gunda Gottschalk, Matthew Goodheart, Lou Grassi, Tomaz Grom, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Erhart Hirt, Peter Jacquemyn, Miako Klein, Frank Köllges, Matthias Müller, Dan Peck, Tim Perkis, Melvyn Poore, Manja Ristic, Alan Silva, Lukatoyboy, Michael Vorfeld, GeSuk Yeo, LondonImprovisersOrchestra, Norbert Stein's Pata on the Cadillac ... Festival appearances at e.g. "Moers Festival"; "Schumannfest", Düsseldorf; "RingRing new music Festival", Belgrade; "Humanoise Congress", Wiesbaden; "Triennale", Köln; "Free Music Festival", Antwerp, "TransArt", Bolzano, "Jazz and More", Sibiu, "Irtijal", Beirut, "Audio Art", Krakow, "Relincha", Valdivia, Chile"

-Georg Wissel Website (https://georgwissel.wordpress.com/bio/)
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