"Swiss pianist Judith Wegmann started to play the piano at the age of six. Shereceived her education at the famous Jazz School of Lucerne and the Swiss Jazz School of Bern with Roberto Domeniconi, Olivier Truan and ChristyDoran, focusing on Modern Jazz and Free Improvisation. Subsequently she earned a Bachelor and a Master's degree with highest distinctions in Classical Studies(Pedagogy and Piano) from the Music Universities in Neuchâtel and Lucerne. She continued studying with renowned musicians including Sebastian Risler, Karl-Andreas Kolly, Tobias Schabenberger, and Gerardo Vila, and attended Master Classes in Switzerland, France and Austria. Recently,she completed a second Master's degree at the Conservatory of Basel (with Fred Frith and Alfred Zimmerlin), concentrating on free improvisation and Contemporary Music.

As a classical pianist Judith performs on stage on a regular basis and in different chamber music formations. Her ability to switch between different genres allows her to engage in classical, contemporary as well as improvisation-based projects. Judith frequently conceptualizes concert programs, taking management responsibilities from the early stages of planning to the public performance. Her concerts have been performed in Switzerland as well as abroad - for example "Bach, Schumann et l'ombre de Nico" with Alexandre Caldara (F/CH, 2006) or the performance series "Outdoor-Dialoge" with Claudia Bucher (2009/10). Cross-disciplinary projects are an important aspect of her work. Collaborations with composers, visual artists and writers foster new approaches and paths, as in"Schwarzberg" with Swiss composer Werner Bärtschi and Arno Camenisch (2011). She was hired bythe "Kunsthalle Basel" for the widely celebrated Swiss premiere of afro-american composer Julius Eastman's "Songs for a mad King"in 2013. In thesame year she participated in the production "Manon -Soundtrack des Lebens" for the "young stage" of the theater Biel-Solothurn. Further projects are planned for the near future.

In 2011 and 2015 she was awarded a distinguished grant "Förderpreis" by the canton of Zug, Switzerland, which supported some of her most innovative projects. In 2013 she founded the New4Art Ensemble. Her work with this ensemble was awarded a prize by the city of Biel "Werkbeitrag". This award she also received in the years 2014 and 2015. Judith has been a member of the board of the Society of Free Improvisation ("Werkstatt für die freie Improvisierte Musik") in Bern since 2015 and is head of their"open workshop-". In 2017 her first Solo CD was released by HatHut records,which received a positive international reiew."

"Marlies Debacker is a Belgian pianist and performer of free improvised music, free jazz as well as contemporary classical music based in Cologne. She does extensive research on the sound possibilities of her instrument with a focus on resonance, pedal work, inside piano playing and the use of various preparations, thus allowing her to move between the conventional sound of a piano and various percussive and pseudo-electronic sounds. Apart from playing the piano she often performs on vintage keyboards as well.

Following her bachelor studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerp, she studied her masters degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, followed by a masters degree in Contemporary Music at the Folkwang UdK Essen, with Benjamin Kobler and Prof. Barbara Maurer.

Debacker is a curator of the 'Plattform Nicht Dokumentierbarer Ereignisse' - a concert series for improvised music that has an over 15 year long tradition in Cologne. Debacker is also member of IMPAKT, Cologne's young collective of improvisers. She is an active performer of contemporary music, solo and with Trio Abstrakt.

Debacker performed at various festivals such as Acht Brücken Köln, Biennale del arte Venezia, IMPULS! Graz, PGNM Biennale Aktueller Musik Bremen, Serious Series Berlin, Klangspuren Schwaz, NOW!-Festival Essen, has participated in theatre works of Schauspiel Köln ("Aus dem bürgerlichen Heldenleben") as well as other transdisciplinary projects and has been invited to residencies such as "human noise congress 2019" "

"Lukas Briner (*1991, Aarau) is a drummer and composer in various bands and styles. Lukas studies drums with Marcel Papaux at the Jazz School in Lausanne and completes a master's degree in jazz composition with Emil Spányi, Pierre Audétat and Jacques Demierre. During this time he was able to establish contacts with the francophone scene and play concerts with Pierrick Pédron, Pascal Auberson and at Sunset/Sunside in Paris. He then studied in Lucerne with Pierre Favre, Gerry Hemingway and Norbert Pfammatter. In the course of his studies, Lukas deepened his interest in freely improvised music and attended master classes with Okkyung Lee, Günter Baby Sommer, Peter Evans and Sabine Vogel.

Lukas plays concerts in the dark with percussionist Nicolas Wolf under the name of night shadow noise, in which the sound possibilities of a reduced set-up are explored and a special context is created through the darkness. In the new quintet Hyla Crucifer, texts from a wide variety of sources are set to music in a dark jazz/pop setting. The Trio Leib with bass clarinetist Kevin Sommer and guitarist Cyrill Ferrari stands at the interface between free-punk outbursts and slowly expanding sound structures. With the eight-piece band Pamplona Grup, for which he also composes, Lukas plays over a hundred concerts at home and abroad and records his first album "hoi" in 2016 at the Konk Studios London. Lukas is a sideman in Vera Baumann's "Kein" feat. John Voirol, Scarlet Mary and other bands active.

In his solo project Plunderphobia Lukas devotes himself to electronic music and works at the interface between music and film. Using audio and video sampling, he deconstructs and alienates found footage and releases his first EP "Somnambulisme" in 2019. As a composer, Lukas has a penchant for unusual instrumentations, such as in the "Sirenenelegie" for two theremins, violin and viola, performed at the NODE Festival Lausanne with Lydia Kavina and Thierry Frenkel on the theremins. Other compositions include "...avec les cymbales retentissantes" for organ and four percussionists, "Sans Toit Ni Loi" for two guitarists and drums on rooftops and "Nothing Man Makes" for choir (Inmates' Voices Tour/Album 2015).

Lukas has been teaching at the music school in Zollikofen-Bremgarten since 2018 and also gives private lessons. At the workshop for improvised music in Bern (WIM) he moderates the open workshop in co-leadership with Judith Wegmann."

Nicolas Wolf is a German drummer, involved with the projects playlist duel, canned swing - traditional swing, solo-performances, 1000 m.ü.M., WedekindWolf, nous, après le déluge, schlafkonzerte, mørk, Steiner - Friedli - Wolf, rumble in the jungle - musical boxing match, nachtschattengeräusche - cymbal duo, lily - improvised songs, sommerwolf, improvised music, berufsmusiker - dauerperformance.