"Marcus Kaiser was born 1967. He studied cello at the Robert Schumann-Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf and visual arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf by Klaus Rinke. In 1997 he started Kaiserwellen, a space for interdisciplinary artistic presentations. He creates large-scale performative installations which include architecture, objects, video-projections and performing musicians, in which music and film are equivalent disciplines. 2001 he was awarded the Upcoming Artists Prize of the City of Düsseldorf."

"Jürg Frey was born in 1953 in Aarau, Switzerland. Following his musical education at the Concervatoire de Musique de Genève, he turned to a career as a clarinetist, but his activities as composer soon came to the foreground. Frey developed his own language as a composer and sound artist with the creation of wide, quiet sound spaces. His work is marked by an elementary non-extravagence of sound, a sensibilty for the qualities of the material, and precision of compositional approach. His compositions sometimes bypass instrumentation and duration altogether and touch on aspects of sound art. He has worked with compositional series, as well as with language and text. Some of these activities appear in small editions or as artist's books as individual items and small editions (Edition Howeg, Zurich; weiss kunstbewegung, Berlin; complice, Berlin). His music and recordings are published by Edition Wandelweiser. Frey has been invited to workshops as visiting composer and for composer portraits at the Universität der Künste Berlin, the Universität Dortmund and several times at Northwestern University and CalArts. Some of the other places his work has developed are the concerts at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf, the Wandelweiser-in-Residence-Veranstaltungen in Vienna, the Ny music concerts in Boras (Sweden), the cooperation with Cologne pianist John McAlpine, the Bozzini Quartet (Montréal), QO-2 (Bruxelles), Die Maulwerker, incidental music, as well as the regular stays in Berlin (where during the last years many of his compositions were premiered). Frey is a member of the Wandelweiser Komponisten Ensemble which has presented concerts for more than 15 years in Europe, North America and Japan. Frey also organizes the concert series moments musicaux aarau as a forum for contemporary music."

"Michael Pisaro was born in Buffalo in 1961. He is a composer and guitarist, a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble and founder and director of the Experimental Music Workshop, Calarts. His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991), London (Cutting Edge, 2007), Glasgow (INSTAL 2009), Huddersfield (2009), Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991) and elsewhere.

He has had extended composer residencies in Germany (Künstlerhof Schreyahn, Dortmund University), Switzerland (Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha'ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the U.S. (Birch Creek Music Festival, Wisconsin). Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Vienna, Merano (Italy), Brussels, New York, Curitiba (Brazil), Amsterdam, London, Tokyo, Austin, Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Cologne, Aarau (Switzerland), and elsewhere.

He is a Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2005 and 2006 Grant Recipient. Much of his music of the last several years is published by Edition Wandelweiser (Germany). Several CDs of his work have been released by such labels as Edition Wandelweiser Records, Compost and Height, confront, Another Timbre, Cathnor, Nine Winds and others, including most recently "transparent city, volumes 1-4", "an unrhymed chord", "hearing metal 1", "A Wave and Waves" and "harmony series (11-16)".

His translation of poetry by Oswald Egger ("Room of Rumor") was published in 2004 by Green Integer. He is Co-Chair of Music Composition at the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles. He has performed many of his own works and those of close associates Antoine Beuger, Kunsu Shim, Jürg Frey and Manfred Werder, and works from the experimental tradition, especially John Cage, Christian Wolff, James Tenney and George Brecht."

André O. Möller was born in 1962 in Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Works include "Blue/Dense" (2003), "In Memory of James Tenney" (2007), and "Musik für Orgel und eine(n) Tonsetzer(in)" (2003)

"Antoine Beuger (b. 1955 in Oosterhout, Netherlands) studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at Sweelinck Coservatorium in Amsterdam 1973-78. In 1990 he began composing after an interruption of about 10 years. Two years later he founded Edition Wandelweiser together with composer/performer Burkhard Schlothauer. Since 1994 he's been active with the conception and organisation of KLANGRAUM, a concert series at Kunstraum Düsseldorf. During the years 1995-2001 he was working together with visual artist Mauser as artistic director of "Werkraum", Place for Interdisciplinary Artistic Events, Cologne. Since 1996 he's been artistic director of edition wandelweiser records and since 2004 managing director of Edition Wandelweiser gmbh."

"Kathryn Gleasman Pisaro, is active as an oboist and a music historian.

As a music historian, she received her Masters and PhD degrees in musicology at Northwestern University, with a dissertation on experimental music in Britain in the 1960s. She regularly presents papers at national and international conferences, including the Third Biennial International Conference on 20th century music in Nottingham, England, the 17th Congress of the International Musicological Society in Leuven, Belgium, the Experience Project Pop Music Conference in Seattle, Washington, and the Canadian University Music Society Annual Conference in Lennoxville, Quebec. Articles and entries can be found in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Musicworks, the art journal Seitan, Crosscurrents and Counterpoints, and the International Double Reed Society Journal.

As an oboist, she received degrees from De Paul University and California Institute of the Arts. She has performed with a wide variety of artists and ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Fresno Philharmonic, the Burbank Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Symphony, and the Downey Symphony Orchestra. She has accompanied such well known performers as Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavoretti, the Moody Blues, Ray Charles, Harry Belefonte, Garth Brooks, Marvin Hamlisch, and Henry Mancini. She has also played in touring Broadway productions, including A Little Night Music, Aspects of Love, Beauty and the Beast, Cabaret, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific, and Showboat. She has recorded solo contemporary music for the oboe for Edition Wandelweiser Records, jazz with the City Lights Orchestra and the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, and rock music with the band Poi Dog Pondering. She has toured Europe six times as a new music soloist, performing in England, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Greece. Her concerto performances with the Valley Symphony Orchestra of Mozart's Concerto in C major, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2, and Charles Fernandez' Oboe Concerto, Sarah Wallin Huff's Elegy with the Santa Clarita Philharmonic, and, Bach's Concerto for Oboe d'amore, Gabriel's Oboe, and Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor on the American Victory Orchestra's concerts for the Daniel Pearl World Music Days.

She is currently on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts as well as CSUN. She has previously served on the faculty at Northwestern University, DePaul University, Ventura College, and Los Angeles Valley College. She coaches wind players at the Kadima Conservatory of Music, and has a private piano studio."

"Radu Malfatti is an Austrian trombone player and composer. He was born in Innsbruck, in the province of Tyrol, on December 16, 1943. He has been described as "among the leaders in redefining the avant-garde as truly on-the-edge art." His work "since the early nineties... has been investigating the edges of ultraminimalism in both his composed and improvised work." He also operates B-Boim, a CD-R only record label focusing on improvised and composed music, much of it his own."