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Ben Duinker
Ben Duinker Percussionist Ben Duinker is equally active in music performance and academics.  In 2009 he won first prize for Percussion at the OSM Standard Life Competition, where he also received the prize for best interpretation of a Canadian work.  He has performed as a soloist in Canada, USA, Germany, and Switzerland, and with L’Orchestre Francophonie Canadienne, the McGill Symphony, and Symphony Nova Scotia.  As a chamber musician Ben has recently performed at MusiMars (Montreal), ... Read More

Diego Espinosa
Diego Espinosa   Diego Espinosa (1978-) Mexican multi-percussionist who founded The Electronic Hammer computer-percussion trio and Ear Massage percussion quartet with whom he has been awarded the 2nd Prize at The International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2009 and 3rd Prize at The International Percussion Competition, Luxembourg 2005. He has been a steady member of many different ensembles in Holland, such as: Atlas Ensemble, Amsterdam percussion group, Slagwerk Den Haag, Ziggurat Ensemble, Insomnio Ensemble, Soil Ensemble and ... Read More

Hans Fjellestad
Hans Fjellestad Los Angeles filmmaker/musician Hans Fjellestad has screened in theaters, galleries, museums, and festivals throughout the world and on television networks including Showtime, MTV, ABC News, Adult Swim, PBS, and BBC. Fjellestad's filmography as writer/director includes award-winning feature documentaries “Sunset Strip” (2012),  “Moog” (2004),  “Frontier Life” (2003),  “When The World Breaks” (2010). He also wrote/produced  “The Heart Is A Drum Machine” (2009), and  “Lords of Chaos” (2012). As musician, Fjellestad has toured internationally and ... Read More

Sandra Joseph
Sandra Joseph Sandra Joseph actively performs with a wide variety of musical ensembles and genres. She is a freelance percussionist with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Orchestre Metropolitain. She plays with Sixtrum Percussion Ensemble since 2010 and is the narrator in How Great Turtle rebuilt the World, a percussion show for family audiences.  Her interest in theatre had brought her into several projects that integrate chamber music, story, creative movement, singing and dance ... Read More

Ross Karre
Ross KarreRoss Karre was born in 1983 in Battle Creek, MI and is currently living in Brooklyn, NY. With formal studies in music, video, and cinema (Doctorate of Musical Arts and MFA in Visual Art from UCSD), Ross draws from his expertise in these fields while employing elements from a variety of disciplines: concert music, theatre, lighting/projection design, cinema, documentary, and installation. Ross is a full time member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and ... Read More

Weiping Lin
Weiping LinWeiping Lin is Assistant Concertmaster (Stimmfhrerin 1.Violinen) of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (RSO-Wien) and a well-respected violinist for contemporary music in Austria. Not only has Weiping Lin performed numerous premieres, including several new works dedicated to her, she has premiered works by the composers Luna Alcalay, Christoph Herndler, Volkmar Klien, Gerd Kühr and Ming Wang.As a chamber musician and soloist Weiping Lin has performed numerous concerts in countries throughout Europe ... Read More

Shawn Mativetsky
Shawn Mativetsky  Versatile percussionist Shawn Mativetsky performs in a variety of musical genres with dynamism and skill. Equally at home in Indian classical music, world music, and contemporary/new music, Shawn also composes and performs for dance and theatre. Exponent of the Benares gharana, and disciple of the legendary Pandit Sharda Sahai, Shawn Mativetsky is a highly sought-after tabla performer and educator. He is active in the promotion of the tabla and North Indian classical music ... Read More

Stefano Scodanibbio
Stefano ScodanibbioStefano Scodanibbio, contrabass soloist and composer, was born in Macerata, Italy, in 1956. In the 1980s and 1990s his name became prominently linked to the renaissance of the double bass, playing dozens of works written especially for him in major festivals throughout the world by composers such as Bussotti, Donatoni, Estrada, Ferneyhough, Frith, Globokar, Sciarrino, and Xenakis. He has created new techniques extending the colors and range of the double bass heretofore thought impossible ... Read More

Sonar Quartett
Somei SatohSomei Satoh was born in Japan in 1947 and currently lives in Tokyo. Largely self-taught as a composer he came to musical creation through the spiritual exercises of both Shintoism and Zen Buddhism. In early 1970s, after his attending the Nihon University of Art, Satoh joined the Tone Field performance group, an experimental inter-arts ensemble which performed his earliest composition. These early compositions include those for solo piano or for piano with electronics in ... Read More

Third Coast Percussion
Third Coast Percussion Hailed by the Chicago Reader as “one of the finest new-music ensembles in the country,” Third Coast Percussion uses an impressive array of percussion instruments to create a performance experience like no other.  With exceptional talent and dedicated artistry, this “sonically spectacular” (Chicago Tribune) quartet combines the driving intensity of drums, the beautiful warmth of marimbas and vibraphones, and the surprisingly exotic sounds of everyday objects to make music that is playful, ... Read More

Susanne Zapf
Susanne Zapf Susanne Zapf, born in Thuringia/Germany, studied the violin with Ilan Gronich in Berlin, Grigory Zhislin in London, and Keiko Wataya in Amsterdam. Her particular leaning towards chamber music, participating in symphony orchestras and her work in the Sonar Quartett have given many facets to her musicianship. In her view, there is no contradiction between embracing the historical performance practice of the Baroque and Classical periods, exploring free improvisation, participating in multi media projects, ... Read More