"An Italian composer born November 8, 1960 in Roma. Giuliano D'Angiolini studied composition at the Rome Conservatory, ethnomusicology at Rome University and the Accademia Chigiana in Sienna, as well as computer music in Padua. A musicologist and ethnomusicologist, he is the author of many writings on medieval music, music of the various oral traditions and contemporary music; he has also recorded broadcasts for Italian Radio. In his compositions Giuliano D'Angiolini has preferred smaller groupings and is interested in sound per se and its development, rejecting any kind of narrative and formal writing. His works include Ho visto un incidente (1992) first performed by Marie Kobayashi at the Italian Institute in Paris; Encore chorals (1998) premiered by the Ictus Ensemble at the Abbey of Royaumont during the Voix Nouvelles festival; Notturno in progressione (2004) first performed by the Parisii Quartet; Orizzonte fisso, bordoni mobili (2007) given its premiere by the ensemble 2e2m at the Présences festival; Scomposizione del moto ondoso (2010)."

"Tonino Battista - Gaeta, 1960: Composer and conductor, he has always been interested in the development of contemporary musical thought also in relation to new technologies. In 1986 he founded, organized and directed for eight years the Artisanat Furieux, a chamber orchestra of varying sizes mainly dedicated to the study and dissemination of the music of our time. He was also permanent director of the Logos Ensemble for six years, and of the Veni Ensemble in Bratislava for four years. He studied piano with Eugenio De Rosa in Rome, choir conducting with Gabriella Agosti, composition with Guido Baggiani, graduating with full marks from the "F. Morlacchi" Conservatory of Perugia. He attended the conducting course held by Daniele Gatti at the Milan Conservatory, then specializing under the guidance of Peter Eötvös in Hungary and subsequently in Holland. He attended the Composition courses of Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1981 and with Luigi Nono, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jesùs Villa-Rojo, Franco Donatoni, Coriùn Aharonian and Joan Qunjoan; conducting with Leonard Bernstein, Daniele Gatti and Peter Eötvös; choir conducting with Adone Zecchi; chamber music with Sigfried Palm and Hans Deinzer; electronic music with Giuseppe Di Giugno, Walter Branchi and Barry Truax. He studied Computer Music at the Computational Sonology Center of the University of Padua with Alvise Vidolin and Sylviane Sapire. His works have been commissioned and produced by important international cultural institutions including Internationale Ferienkurse-Darmstadt, Vertical Music Festival-Rome, Italian Electronica Music Festival-Madrid, Spaziomusica-Cagliari, International Music Festival-Zaragoza, Music Project-Rome, Perugian Notebooks of Contemporary Music, Herrenhaus-Edenkoben, International Eötvös Institute Foundation, ISMEZ, Gansenji-Japan, Evenings of New Music -Bratislava, Spolecnost pro Novou Hudbu-Praha, GRAME - Lyon. International television and radio broadcasters (RAI, Radio Nacional de España, Südwestfunk Baden Baden, WDR, Slovak Televizija, Narodne Radio Krvatia, etc.), newspapers and specialized magazines have dedicated ample space to his artistic activity. His works are regularly present in the International Seasons and in the main New Music Festivals, performed by internationally renowned Formations and Soloists (among others: Ars Ludi, Veni Ensemble, Logos Ensemble, the Artisanat Furieux, Tetraktis Percussion, Sikorsky String Quartett, GRAME Ensemble, Gubbio Festival Ensemble, Elisabeth Grard, Gabriele Mirabassi, Ronald Sebesta, Enzo Filippetti, Roberto Fabbriciani, Ciro Scarponi, Andrea Franceschelli, Hiroko Morishita, Benjamin Kobler, Lazslo Hudacsekens, Benjamin Kobler Maria Hrebickova). His compositions are published by Edipan and Semar in Rome and are recorded on CD by Edipan, Musica Verticale and PH Music Studios. In 1987/88 he developed a software for Computer Assisted Composition with Maurizio Giri implementing the so-called "Cellular Automata" and was invited by numerous International Universities and Symposia to lecture on this topic (eg: Politecnico di Milano - 1990, Università di Salerno - 1990, VII Colloquiums of Musical Informatics - Rome, 1988, Perugini Notebooks of Contemporary Music - Perugia, 1987, etc.). In 1998 he was awarded the Composer in Residence prize by Herrenhaus-Edenkoben and Deutsche Bank. During his stay in Germany he received the assignment for a composition that was studied and performed within the "International Seminar for Conductors" held by Peter Eötvös. In 2000 he was a guest in Residence at the GRAME Institute of Lyon for the realization of a work for voice and live electronic processing. Since 1985, alongside compositional production, he has developed an intense and brilliant activity as conductor, particularly dedicated to the music of the 20th century, collaborating with famous orchestras, ensembles and soloists, obtaining unanimous approval from the specialized press and the appreciation of the composers. In 1991, in collaboration with the Perugia Conservatory, he organized a seminar with Louis Andriessen, conducting his music for the first time in Italy in two public concerts. In 1996, following a course in conducting competition held by Peter Eötvös within the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, he was selected to direct the ENSEMBLE MODERN in Frankfurt in the performance of Mixtur of Stockhausen under the supervision of the same author, recorded live by Südwestfunk Baden-Baden. The electronic processing was carried out by Freiburg's Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des Südwestfunks directed by André Richard. He currently collaborates with the Kyoto Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and is regularly invited to numerous Festivals and Musical Seasons in different countries (Italy, England, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, Croatia, Slovak Republic, Spain, Bulgaria, etc.). Among other things he directed Bruno Maderna's Satyricon at the Spoleto Experimental Lyric Theater, the first ever performance of Adriano Guarnieri Orfeo's Opera singing ... he took away from the International Art Shipyard of Montepulciano in collaboration with Tempo Reale in Florence for the electronic part (work broadcast live on RAI Radiotre), the first ever performance of Maurizio Squillante Spiritus Mundi's Multimedia Opera produced by the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, the Pépito by Jaques Offenbach."

"Born in Catania in 1962. Moved to Rome in 1980. Worked with Italian composers such as Sylvano Bussotti, Aldo Clementi, Franco Donatoni, Luca Francesconi, Adriano Guarnieri, Francesco Pennisi and Fabio Vacchi. Particularly significant his long term collaboration with Alvin Lucier and Salvatore Sciarrino. He has inspired a whole generation of composers from all over the world to imagine new works for flute: Giancarlo Cardini, Emanuele Casale, Luigi Ceccarelli, Philip Corner, Laurence Crane, Noah Creshevsky, James Dashow, Giuliano D'Angiolini, Fabrizio De Rossi Re, Mario Garuti, Simon Holt, Toshio Hosokawa, Juste Janulyte, Ricardas Kabelis, Bernhard Lang, Mary Jane Leach, Claude Lenners, Gabriele Manca, Yan Maresz, Rytis Mazulis, Mario Pagliarani, Maurizio Pisati, Fausto Romitelli, Nicola Sani, James Saunders, Salvatore Sciarrino, Stefano Scodanibbio, Matthew Shlomowitz, Howard Skempton, Lucia Ronchetti, Yoshihisa Taira, Emiliano Turazzi, Jacob TV and Caspar J. Walter have written new works for him.

Among the long list of first performances he took part, remarkable the ones by Terry Riley, Arvo Part, Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran and Kevin Volans. Performed at International Festivals all around the world: Venice Music Biennale, Pacific Music Festival (Sapporo-Japan), Musica (Strasbourg), Beethovenhalle (Bonn), Settembre Musica (Torino), De Yjsbreker (Amsterdam), IRCAM - Festival Agorà (Paris), Rachmaninov Hall (Moscow), Temporada (Buenos Aires), Festival d'Automne (Paris), Rikskonserter (Stockholm), Illikhom Theatre (Tashkent-Uzbekistan), Takefu Festival (Japan), Akademie der Künste (Berlin), Maerz Musik (Berlin), The Warehouse (London), Festival Archipel (Geneve), NUMUS (Aarhus), Orpheus Foundation (Gent), Auditori (Barcelona), Musica Nova (Helsinki), ULTIMA (Oslo), Ensem (Valencia), Wien Modern, Jauna Muzika (Vilnius), MusikHaus (Wien), Berliner Philarmonie (Berlin), Teatro alla Scala/Musica per la Resistenza (Milano), Orestiadi di Gibellina, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, New Directions (Lulea-Sweden), Bartòk Festival (Szombathely-Hungary), Philarmonie (Luxembourg), Centro Cultural São Paulo (Brazil), Rassegna di Nuova Musica (Macerata), Ukho Music (Kiev), Tectonics Festival (Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens Greece), Auditorium Stelio Molo RSI (Lugano, Switzerland). In 1990 he was one of the founders of Alter Ego, Italian leading group for contemporary music.

Released cds and vinyls with BMG Ariola, Ricordi, Capstone, EdiPan, Stradivarius, Die Schachtel, Mazagran, Mode Records, Megadisc, God Records, Atopos, Touch, Another Timbre, Modern Love, ANTS. He's author of a unique discographic project on minimalism in 3 parts and 7 cds (REPEAT!, by Die Schachtel 2007, Loops4ever by Mazagran 2011 and Again&Again by ANTS Records 2020)."

"London based pianist and conductor Mark Knoop is known for his fearless performances and individual interpretations. He has commissioned and premièred countless new works and worked with many respected composers including Michael Finnissy, Joanna Bailie, Bryn Harrison, Bernhard Lang, Matthew Shlomowitz, Jennifer Walshe and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. His versatile technique and virtuosity also brings fresh approaches to the standard and 20th-century repertoire.

Mark performs regularly throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia and in New Zealand, South Korea, Mongolia, United States of America, Canada and at festivals including Transit (Leuven), Ultima (Oslo), Huddersfield, London Contemporary Music Festival, Borealis (Bergen), Spor (Århus), Athelas (Copenhagen), and MaerzMusik (Berlin).

He performs with various ensembles including Plus-Minus (London/Brussels) and Apartment House (London), and has conducted EXAUDI (London), Scenatet (Denmark), and London Sinfonietta. His recordings of music by John Cage, Richard Beaudoin, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Peter Ablinger, and David Lumsdaine have been critically acclaimed."