Organisers

Vanessa Lann (NY, 1968) studied composition at the Westchester Conservatory of Music, Harvard University and Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Lann works in the Netherlands as a composer, university professor (Webster University Leiden: musicology, mathematics, Eastern philosophy, multimedia) and visiting composition lecturer (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht).

Lann’s work is performed in venues all over the world including the Berlin Philharmonie, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw and De Doelen. Commissioned by renowned soloists, ensembles and festivals, her music is featured on more than ten recordings and is published by Donemus. Her most recent CD, moonshadow sunshadow, is a compilation of pieces from the past 25 years, on the ATTACCA label. She recently received the 2019 Buma Classical Award for being the most-performed Dutch composer worldwide.

Lann also serves on international juries for composition and performance competitions, as well as in national and international government bodies planning structural support for creative and artistic projects and programs.

www.lann.dds.nl

Tze Yeung Ho (b. 1992) is a Helsinki-based Norwegian composer. He is an organiser and founder of the Periferien -nyMusikk Oslo concert series. He is also currently an Endringsagent (Impact Agent) for Music Norway. Tze Yeung chaired the Norwegian chapter of the UNM (Ung Nordisk Musikk) festival between 2018 and 2021 and has been a board member of nyMusikk komponistgruppe in Norway.

Tze Yeung received his PhD degree in music composition from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and his master’s degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has been a visiting student in the phonetics department at the University of Helsinki and has held lectures and talks at the Estonian Arts Academy, Mahidol University (Thailand), Sibelius Academy (Finland), SOUND 59 festival (Russia) and the high SCORE festival (Italy).

Tze Yeung is the first prize recipient of the 14th composition competition of Festival International de Musiques Sacrées (CH), Evivakören’s and Exaudio’s choral composition competition (FI) and Land’s End Ensemble’s 17th annual composition competition (CA). His collaboration with writer Linda Gabrielsen, hvorfor pusen received the second prize of Shanghai New Music Week’s Chamber Opera Composition Competition. His works have additionally received a series of commission, production and working grants from the Norwegian Arts Council, Norwegian Music Funds, TONO, Music Norway, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Nordic Culture Point and Nordic Culture Fund.

Irina Hasnas, born in 1954, studied composition at the Ciprian Porumbescu Music Conservatory in Bucharest with teachers such as Aurel Stroe, Stefan Niculescu, Theodor Grigoriu. She completed her PhD in musicology at the Music Academy of Cluj.

She worked as an editor  at the Romanian Broadcasting Music Publishing House. Since 1978, she is a member of the Union of Composers and Musicologists in Romania and she has been collaborating with various magazines publishing articles of musical criticism.

Between 2000 -2014, she was a member of the World Music Group of the European Union of Radio and Television, and in 2009, she was elected to the Coordination Office of that group.

Since 2007, she is an associate professor at Spiru Haret University,  in the music program within the Faculty of Socio-Human Sciences. She is also producing shows at Radio Clasic in Colors, in Romania.

Dušan Bavdek. born in 1971, is an Associate Professor of composition and music theory as well as a Vice Dean for quality and international affairs at the Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana.

His works have been performed as a part of subscription cycles of Slovenian orchestras and choirs and at concerts in Europe, America, Asia in Australia. He has led many compositional workshops, lectured at various academies of music in Europe and USA and acted as a jury member of competitions in composition in different European countries.

Beside his artistic work, he was Head of Department of Composition and Music Theory at the Ljubljana Academy of Music, President of the National Matura Commission for Music and is still active as the Artistic Leader of International Activities of the Society of Slovene Composers.

Alexander Strauch, born 1971 in Munich, is focussed to vocal music, chamber and orchestral music and music theatre. He wrote commissions for the Bavarian and Saxonian State Operas, for the Munich Biennale for Contemporary Music Theatre. His music is performed by Munich Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen, Radovan Vlatkovic, Christopher Robson, Quartetto Maurice, Carin Levine, Moritz Eggert, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Georg Glasl, Leopold Hurt, Peter Tilling, Johannes X. Schachtner, Xsemble Streichquartett and the Ensemble piano possibile. Alexander had residencies at Cité internationale des Arts in Paris and International Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg. He studied in Munich and Frankfurt/M. with Hans Zender and Isabel Mundry. His music is recorded and broadcasted by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Deutschlandradio. He is artistic director of the aDevantgarde-Festival, chair of the Ensemble NKM – Neues Kollektiv München, conductor of Rainbow Sound Orchestra Munich and initiator of JUMBLE – Youth Ensemble for Contemporary Music of Bavaria.