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Gerardo Gozzi, co-artistic director, electronics

Gerardo Gozzi is a performer, conductor, and composer. His music has been performed in prestigious venues in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Israel and China; and it has been performed by ensembles as Talea Ensemble (NYC), Exaudi (London), Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), Divertimento Ensemble (Milan), Ensemble Fractales (Brussels), Composers Ensemble (London). His composition mentors have been Azio Corghi, Stefano Gervasoni, Dai Fujikura, Simon Bainbridge, Oliver Knussen and Pierluigi Billone. Gerardo holds a PhD in Composition from the Royal Academy of Music, where he researched on the three-dimensional perception of the sound “aura” in the mental projection of the listener.

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Paolo Gorini, co-artistic director, piano & SeaboardROLI

Paolo is an Italian pianist and composer. He studied piano at the conservatoires in Brescia, Milan and Amsterdam, mentored by Mario Boselli, Paolo Bordoni, Andrea Rebaudengo, Emanuela Piemonti, Frank Peters and Ralph Van Raat. His activity focuses mainly on contemporary music. Since 2017, he is a member of the Nieuw Ensemble in Amsterdam and of Ensemble Resilience – furthermore, he frequently collaborates with the ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi in Milan. In Dicember 2015 he played Huang Ruo’s Chamber concerto “Yueh Fei” with the project “Score Collective” at Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. As soloist he played Maderna’s Concerto per 2 pianoforti e strumenti with LMC Ensemble during
Milano Musica 2015 Festival and Carter’s Double concerto in Orgelpark (Amsterdam) for the Prix Annelie De Man festival 2018. He worked with the pianist Hauschka during the Milano Piano City 2015 opening concert with the
project Music for seven key instruments and percussions. In duo with clarinettist Marco Danesi, he won the Storioni Toonzaal Prijs 2017, the Ysaye Interanational chamber music competition in Liege, and theat Salieri-Zinetti International chamber music competition. In 2016, his piece “Geometrie di vento” for Orchestra was commissioned and performed in Milan by the orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali.

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Marco Danesi, clarinets

Marco studied clarinet at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan with Sergio Delmastro, at the Juilliard School in New York with Charles Neidich, and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he earned a Master Degree. As a member of Duo Ebano, together with Paolo Gorini, he was awarded first prize in the Storioni Toonzaal Prijs 2017 and invited to play in prestigious venues and radio programmes in the Netherlands. The Duo Ebano was also awarded the second prize at the Yasaye International Music Competition in Liege (Belgium) and, more recently, the first prize ex-aequo in the Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition in Verona (Italy). Marco strives consistently to expand his artistic boundaries by exploring new music going beyond the conventions of classical performance to connect with audiences and collaborating with living composers. Beyond his commitment to Ensemble Resilience, he has performed with Dedalo Ensemble (Milan) and Asko-Schoenberg Ensemble (Amsterdam).

Tomek Szczepaniak, MATER & percussion

Tomek Szczepaniak has been interested in music since his early childhood. He started the music education by studying piano performance and singing in a famous choir Poznanskie Slowiki of professor Stefan Stuligrosz. When he was 15 years old, he started playing classical percussion. He graduated from Ignacy Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan and gained his MA in percussion performance from Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Since 2009 he has been collaborating with various Polish orchestras such Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Juventus, Collegium F, La Quttro Staggione L’autunno orchestra performing with Krzysztof Penderecki, Monserat Caballe, José Carreras, Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo, Serj Tankian, Leibach and Archive amongst others. In 2012 together with Anders Kann Elten he formed Phantom Duo. They successfully performed in Scandinavian countries and Poland. In 2013 they won the 2nd prize and in 2015 the 1st prize in Royal Danish Academy of Music ensemble competition and in 2014 they were accepted into semi-finals of the esteemed Danish Radio Channel II ensemble competition (P2 Kammermusik Konkurrence). He is very interested in multidisciplinary art projects and collaboration with artists working across different fields. His transdisciplinary projects include: Osmosis (2014) – a laboratory for dancers and musicians from Poznan and Berlin; a collaboration with a dancer and performance artist, Weronika Cegielska since 2012, creating site-specific performances in London, Poznan and Copenhagen; Travers (2018) – an international cross-disciplinary project based in Glyptoteket in Copenhagen for professional artists. In 2018 he also co-founded a Milan-based ensemble MONOC. The ensemble’s focus is combining sound and visual arts. They presented their interpretation of Timber by Michael Gordon with a live light installation at Parade Electronique at Contemporary Music Hub in Milan. He has performed with well-known ensembles specializing in contemporary music such as: Slagwerk den Haag, Ensemble Modern, Athelas Sinfonietta and Eccozone. Currently he also works on developing his own instruments to be used for new commissions but also for arranging old music.

Pablo Galaz, sound design

Pablo began his musical training as a classical guitarist. After earning a diploma in composition at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile in 2010, he continued his studies in composition at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) in the class of Stefano Gervasoni, supported by a French government scholarship. Pablo has also attended the Cursus 1 (Practical Training in Computer Music) and Cursus 2 (Specialized Training in Composition, Research, and Music Technology) at the IRCAM-Centre Pompidou; during that time he was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Art de Paris. In 2015, he was composer in residence at the Liszt School of Music Weimar (Germany). The next year, he finished a second Master degree in Musicology, Creation, Music and Society at the Paris 8-Saint-Denis University, where he studied with José Manuel López López. He is currently a PhD candidate in Music Composition at University of Huddersfield under the supervision of Aaron Cassidy.

Natalie Kulina, violin

Violinist Natálie Kulina mainly focuses on new music and interdisciplinary arts. Coming from the culturally abundant region of South Moravia in the Czech Republic, she grew up fostering her love not only for music, but also visual arts, theatre and literature, all of which are prominent in her personal musical projects.
She divides her time between guest work in various contemporary music ensembles, working closely with composers, recording newly written works and project participation in film and theatre.
During her studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (with teachers Ilya Grubert, Eliot Lawson and Heleen Hulst) Natálie has also taken up jazz, improvisation and historical performance, all of which she continues to explore.
Other than performing, Natalie works in production, currently serving as a programmer for Echoes of Nothing in the Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, alongside studying branding and researching and developing new forms and media of concert experiences best fit to the 21st century audience.