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LORIN'S PROMENADE THROUGH THE ART BASEL 25
ANAHITA ABBASIS' music, described as "a dizzyingly sophisticated reverie, colorful and energetic", according to the Guardian, "goes even more radically with the creation of dense and pulsating textures". Winner of many awards, her works have been commissioned by numerous renowned soloists and ensembles worldwide. She curates concerts, acts as a juror in composition competitions and is a founding member of the Schallfeld Ensemble in Graz-A, as well as the IFCA (Iranian Female Composers Association) in NYC, USA. Born and raised in Iran, she studied in 2005 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz-A with Beat Furrer and Pierluigi Billone, in close collaboration with Georges Aperghis, among others. She currently lives in New York and Paris. http://anahitaabbasi.com CargoSpaceConcerts
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MARTINA COPELLO, Argentine pianist, graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of the Arts in Buenos Aires. Winner of the 7 Lagos and the Cairo Shimmer Prize in 2021, she recorded her first album COBRE, dedicated to contemporary Argentine music. From 2022, she will continue her studies at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin with Wilhelm Latchoumia. She participates in festivals such as Mixtur, Impuls and lucerne and collaborates with renowned composers. Her artistic activities have led her to perform in Europe and South America.. martinacopello.com music
PATRICIA DALLIO, Musician Improvisation Composer
Her electronic lute performances are designed to produce sound through improvisation and free themselves from the rigid constraints of the computer. Their fields of experimentation are lined with spaces that are designed by several people. In his creations, text, movement, images and sounds coexist in reactive and interdependent complementarity. His sound universe is organic and mobile, where the layers of acoustic and electronic textures complement the present, the sounds, the images, the words and the sensations. http://patriciadallio.com
FOJAN GHARIBNEJAD, a Kurdish-Iranian composer born in Tehran, received percussion and later violin lessons for 4 years. After graduating from the Tehran Music College, she went to the Tehran University of Art. She soon worked with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and the Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra. She continued her studies in composition and music theory at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. It has received numerous national and international awards and is performed by outstanding contemporary music ensembles in contemporary music festivals and concert series around the world. CargoSpaceConcerts https://www.kereshmegharibnejad.com
ULYSSE GOHIN is a sound artist, visual artist and musician. He first studied crafts (Olivier de Serres), then contemporary art (HEAR Strasbourg) and finally electro-acoustic composition (Strasbourg Conservatory). His work combines these different fields and takes the form of installations, performances, concerts and visual works. The misappropriation of devices and found objects plays a central role in his approach. His sound and movement installations deal with questions of space, hearing and energy conversion. They create subtle vibrations that breathe in time and space, inviting us to sharpen our perception.
ALONSO HUERTA, born in Mexico City in 2000, is a composer and ondes martenot player based in Strasbourg, France. With a background in classical and jazz guitar, he is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in electroacoustic composition at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) in the class of Tom Mays and has been studying ondes martenot with Christine Ott and Thomas Bloch since 2019. Since his arrival in France, he has received instrumental composition lessons from Annette Schlünz, Daniel D'Adamo and Ivan Solano. His work focuses on acousmatic and mixed music, with a strong interest in real-time electronics, spectralism, psychoacoustics, saturation, audionaturalism and ethnomusicology. Alonso is also passionate about creating new repertoire for the Ondes Martenot and is actively involved in various multidisciplinary projects with the instrument.
JACOB LYON, interdisciplinary artist and designer, born in Paris in 1990, graduated with a DNAP in Design at the Beaux Arts de Saint Etienne and a Master in Environmental Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History. Having moved from exhibition production at the Frac Centre Val de Loire to exhibition installation with the Breaded Escalope for their retrospective at the Kunsthaus Baselland, for the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Lyon and to cultural mediation for the same Biennale as well as that of design in Saint Etienne, Jacob explores the contours of contemporary artistic production. His interest in the technical limits of cultural spaces also led him to work for the cinema in decoration or in the theater, where he collaborated as a scenographer on the projects of Samuel Hackwill or Loriane Kunsendi. His curiosity also led him to explore the wine industry, where he developed research on bread making. His plastic practices tend to develop alternative forms of occupation of his environment, using inferior materials to give answers to the various needs he encounters there.
JOHANNA MONK is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, writer and performance artist born in Montreal in 1967 and based in Rotterdam since 1994. Johanna Monk uses woodwinds, keyboards, vocals, spoken word, percussion, electronics and more to create a highly personal blend of avant-garde precision, brutal noise and a melodic sensibility that betrays her roots in various folk musics. Ongoing projects include Traumatic Octopus Experience (with Bruno FX da Silva and Philipp Ernsting), Muchmo (with Nora Mulder and Nico Chientaroli) and the Vanita Monk Orchestra (a multimedia big band led by Johanna).
NILOUFAR NOURBAKHSH, described as "crass" by WNPR and "darkly lyrical" by the New York Times, her music was considered a glorious laureate after studies with Lisa Weiss, Kendall Kennison, Laura Kaminsky, Daniel Weymouth, Matthew Barnson, Margaret Schedel and Daria Semegen all commissioned in the USA by major symphony orchestras and contemporary chamber music ensembles and performed at renowned festivals. As a founding member and co-director of the Iranian Female Composers Association, she is committed to music education. She is co-artistic director of the Peabody Conservatory Laptop Orchestra and performs regularly with her ensemble Decipher. She received a Ph.D. at Stony Brook University with Sheila Silver. CargoSpaceConcerts https://niloufarnourbakhsh.com
The Swedish cellist KAROLINA ÖHMAN performed numerous solo and chamber music premieres internationally. Invited to contemporary music festivals worldwide, she is a member of the Mondrian Ensemble Basel, Ensemble neuverBand Basel, Trio SÆITENWIND Basel, Ensemble SCENATET Copenhagen and the Curious Chamber Players Stockholm, and has been solo cellist of the Graubünden Chamber Philharmonic since 2016 and the cello-drums duo UmeDuo, founded in 2008 . She has won several prizes and scholarships, was accepted into the Migros Culture Percentage concert agency in 2010 and has been on the board of the FMD, ForumMusicDiversity Switzerland, since 2020. https://karolinaohman.com CargoSpaceConcerts
The flautist SERAINA RAMSEIER, currently studying for a master's degree at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva, is interested in music of all styles, especially contemporary music. She continued her education at the youth orchestra course at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, at festivals and academies such as the Sommerakademie Darmstadt, the Ensemble Akademie Recherche, with a central enthusiasm for the works of K. Stockhausen and performed, among others. with the ensemble Ars Nova. She received several prizes in Basel as well as second prize at the Swiss Youth Music Competition and performs as an orchestral, chamber musician and soloist. She has been on the board of the FMD, ForumMusicDiversity Switzerland, since 2020. https://www.musicdiversity.ch CargoSpaceConcerts
ELISE SCHIMANA
has been working as a composer, performer and radio artist since 1983. In her work she has been dealing with space / body / electronics for many years. She regularly cooperates with ORF Kunstradio and researches in the field of women's art and technology, as well as sound as a score. She gives lectures and composition workshops internationally and founded
IMA Institute for Media Archaeology
ELNAZ SEYEDI, born in 1982 in Tehran, studied composition with Alireza Mashayekhi, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Jörg Birkenkötter, Günter Steinke and Caspar Johannes Walter in Tehran, Bremen, Essen and Basel. 2017 winner of the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship from the city of Cologne. 2018/19 scholarship holder of the international Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) in Frankfurt am Main, 2020 residency scholarship at the Markgräflerhof in Basel. Performances in periods including Basel, Mixtur Barcelona, Now! Essen, Wien Modern, Darmstadt Summer Courses, Biennale Arte – La Biennale di Venezia, Acht Brücken Festival Cologne, Gaudeamus Muziekweek Utrecht, Tehran Electroacoustic Music Festival and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Her works are published by Edition Juliane Klein, Berlin. https://elnazseyedi.com CargoSpaceConcerts
The accordionist OLIVIA STEIMEL is particularly committed to contemporary music, which has resulted in over 70 premieres, recordings with NEOS, Wergo, etc. as well as many international appearances at renowned festivals in Europe, Brazil, Russia, Georgia and Canada. She has won prizes in numerous competitions and performs as a soloist (e.g. with the Basel Chamber Orchestra), with ensembles (musicAeterna, Phoenix, neuverband, etc.) and in chamber music (e.g. Trio SÆITENWIND). As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, she studied with Stefan Hussong (teaching diploma), Ivan Koval (concert exam) and Mike Svoboda (master of contemporary music). She has been a lecturer at the Würzburg University of Music since 2019. https://www.oliviasteimel.com
As a passionate chamber musician, the Swiss saxophonist JONAS TSCHANZ is particularly dedicated to contemporary music. International performances in various formations took him to the important concert halls of Europe, Asia and North America. As a soloist he has performed with orchestras such as Camerata Schweiz, is an accredited member of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and is a regular guest at festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Huddersfield Festival (UK), Musikolog (AT) and Victoriaville (CAN). CD recordings and international radio recordings round off his work. He has been awarded several important awards and is an ambassador for the instrument manufacturer Henri Selmer Paris. https://www.jonastschanz.com CargoSpaceConcerts
STEFANIJA IWANIWNA TURKEWYTSCH - LUKIJANOWIYTSCH, born April 25, 1898 in Lemberg near Lwiw, Ukrainian composer, pianist and musicologist, received her first music lessons from her mother. After the First World War, she studied composition and piano at the Higher Music Institute in Lviv, then in Vienna and from 1925 in Berlin with Franz Schreker and Arnold Schönberg, completing her studies in Prague. In 1934, she completed her doctorate in musicology at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague on Ukrainian elements in the operas of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. She taught harmony and piano in Lviv, was a piano accompanist at the Lviv Opera and a pianist for the radio. Fleeing from the Red Army, she emigrated to Great Britain with her second husband in 1946 and worked on her compositions there. She created ballet music and an opera, composed four symphonies, liturgical music, chamber music as well as pieces for piano and art songs. She was the mother of the painter Soja Lissowska-Nyschankiwska. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanija_Turkewytsch
LESSJA UKRAJINKA, Lessja Ukrajinka * February 13 / February 25, 1871greg as Laryssa Petriwna Kossatsch, daughter of the lawyer Petro Kossatsch and the writer and feminist Olena Pchilka, in Svyahel, Volhynia Governorate, Russian Empire, today Ukraine; † August 1, 1913 in Surami, Tbilisi Governorate, Russian Empire) influential Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator and feminist. Her work, beginning at the age of 9, initially comprised folkloristic, traditional poetry, later impressionistic nature poetry and historical poetry. In 1884, two poems appeared in the Lviv magazine Sorja, where she used the pseudonym Lessja Ukrajinka for the first time. Despite her great talent for music, she turned to literature due to her lifelong affliction with tuberculosis and was taught privately by her mother and uncle Drahomanov. She penned numerous song lyrics, ballads and fairy tales. In the poem Contra Spem Spero! “Against hope I hope!”, which clearly stands out in her work, expresses all the will to fight and the optimism that never left her despite her illness. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessja_Ukrajinka
ANMARI MËTSA YABI WILI
Living and working on board of her cultural freighter Lorin in CH/FR/DE/NL, she has been initiating her projects with an avant-garde, interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking character since 1987, after receiving a.o. the music prize from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation, initially exclusively as a concert pianist. From 1990 to the present time, she has developed as a composer, performer with or without voice and as a visual artist to become a conceptual artist. In Holland she has initially made a name for herself as a visual artist through exhibitions at Art Rotterdam, Aanschouw Rotterdam, the Kaalstaart Festival in Breda and Amstedam, and the NECK OF THE WOODS gallery, Rotterdam. Interdisciplinary performances followed in Koffie&Ambacht, Roodkapje, Worm etc. Collaboration with international media, Alex Buess, Barbara Doll, Karin Dornbusch, Saskia Edens, Sonja Feldmeier, Aleksander Gabrys, Charlotte Hug, Adrian Laugsch, Eung Kwang Lee, Heinrich Lüber, Ueli Michel, Niki Neecke, Pauline Oliveros, Kaija Saariaho, Marianne Schröder, Shazeb Arif Shaikh, James Tenney, Lotta Wennäkoski, Jürg Wyttenbach, Iannis Xenakis, Agata Zubel and others. In 1998 she founded the ensemble LE DONNE IDEALI with, among others, Pauline Oliveros Portrait, KOREAexchange, ScAnDiNaViAnCoOkIeS, Giornate delle donne ideali and guests on International Women's Day and POLAND - WHERE ARE YOU?! In 2002 the syndromics variation band followed with works by, among others, Alex Buess, Conlon Nancarrow, Iannis MËTSA YABI y sus DRIVINGSOUNDS and intensifying the visual disciplines, she creates the production facility Kulturfrachter Lorin and founds her art company d r i v i n g s o u n d s & a r t s. Their activities take place in the cultural centers of Europe, North/South America and India. Since 2020 she has been President of the FMD, ForumMusicDiversity Switzerland.
www.drivingsoundsandarts.com www.lorinspromenade.com www.musicdiversity.ch
FMD, ForumMusikDiversität Schweiz
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