Contemporary

Alarm Will Sound is a U.S. twenty-member contemporary-music chamber orchestra. Members of the ensemble began playing together while studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and have diverse experience in composition, improvisation, jazz, popular styles, early music, and various traditional musics from around the world. Alarm Will Sound's repertoire ranges from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced.

Jürgen Grözinger ist klassischer Perkussionist, DJ, Komponist und Kurator eines Festivals für zeitgenössische Musik.
Nach dem Musikstudiumin München und Stuttgart initiierte er schon früh innovative, die Grenzen zwischen den Kunstgattungen und Musikstilen durchdringende Projekte und gründete diverse Ensembles.
Wichtigste Formation wurde das Ensemble European Music Project (EMP).
Seit einigen Jahren ist er künstlerischer Leiter des Festivals „neue musik im stadthaus ulm“. Hier schuf er eine Plattform für sein Anliegen, aktuelle Musik in unterschiedlichsten Ausrichtungen zu präsentieren.

Bolivian composer, resident in the UK since 1984. Born in Cochabamba, he started musical life singing for guavas at Don Abundio's barber in Montero, eastern Bolivia. As a child folk musician, he sang and played the charango at peña Ollantay, a folk club famous in the 1960s in Cochabamba. Teen age and hormonal changes put and end to that. Studied at Instituto Laredo - a specialist music school in Cochabamba - then at Universidad Católica Boliviana in La Paz, then had lessons in Japan with Takashi Iida for one year and with Akira Ifukube for two years.

Eric Mingus was born in New York City on July 8, 1964. He grew up through a maze of twists and turns, some musical, some just bizarre. There was the teenage gig as a lighting and stage director for a Borscht Belt comedy club, an early 20s stint as an amateur boxer, and of course, three months spent as house martini mixer in the boardroom of the Old Grandad whiskey company. All along, music was a staple.