AIODE – Apocalypse

NICOLA HEIN

Nicola Leonard Hein is a German guitarist, composer and sound artist in the field of improvised music and free jazz. He conducts research in the field of music aesthetics and cybernetics and is Professor of Digital Creation at the Lübeck University of Music.

 

SARA GLOJNARIĆ
Sara Glojnarić is a composer whose artistic practice deals with pop culture, its aesthetics and socio-political consequences, nostalgia and collective memory, as well as the vast network of pop cultural data and its by-products created through their juxtaposition. Her works, which include opera, orchestral and chamber music pieces, as well as video works and multimedia installations, have been premiered by internationally renowned ensembles.

 

MALTE GIESEN
Malte Giesen, award-winning composer and head of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, formed his musical expertise through studies with renowned teachers in Stuttgart, Paris and Berlin. With scholarships from renowned institutions such as the GdF MH Stuttgart and the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, as well as numerous awards, including the German Music Competition 2009 and the Ernst-von-Siemens Music Foundation Composition Prize 2021, he has made his mark on the contemporary music scene.

 

SUSANNE FRÖHLICH

Susanne Fröhlich is a recorder player and, in addition to early and traditional music, is primarily dedicated to contemporary music, improvisation and new concert formats. She regularly gives concerts and workshops in Europe and abroad. As a former founding member of the recorder quartet QNG – Quartet New Generation, she performs both as a soloist and in various formations, as well as in several art and music theater productions. Susanne Fröhlich lives and teaches in Berlin and has held a teaching position at the University of the Arts since April 2010.

 

MARC SINAN
Marc Sinan is a composer and guitarist. He lives and works in Berlin and releases recordings of his works on ECM Records. His mostly full-length works address current socio-political issues and have been performed at festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Istanbul Festival, MaerzMusik and at venues such as the Wuppertal Opera, Humboldt Forum Berlin, Gorki Theater and Wiener Konzerthaus. In his work, he explores new ways of collaboration between artists in a transcultural and transmedia context.

 

DANIEL EICHHOLZ
In addition to his passion for classical and contemporary music, Daniel Eichholz has been active for years in the electronic music scene and in the pop/rock sector as a live and studio drummer as well as a composer. As a drummer, he plays with the multi-gold award-winning 2raumwohnung, Squintaloo, Schulz and Soehne and has worked as a studio drummer for Marlon, Tenement and Tocotronic, among others. Concert tours have taken him to China, South Africa and North America.

 

MAGDALENA CEREZO
Magdalena Cerezo is a pianist specializing in contemporary music who explores the role of the piano in new music with the aim of challenging the traditional connotations of piano culture. In addition to her solo activities, she plays in the duo LAB51 and the trio f:t, is an honorary member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and pianist of the Arxis Ensemble. In 2021 she completed her concert exam with Nicolas Hodges at the HMDK Stuttgart, since 2018 she has been a lecturer at the HfM Karlsruhe.

 

VIOL YIP
Viol Yip is an experimental composer, performer, improviser, sound artist and instrument maker. She is interested in creating new self-made instruments and sound works at the intersection of composition, performance and improvisation, exploring various relationships between materiality, space and our musical bodies in music.