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Richard Barrett

Richard Barrett was born in Swansea in 1959. He studied composition with Peter Wiegold.
In 1984 he went to Darmstadt Summer Courses to attend the lectures of Brian Ferneyhough and Hans-Joachim Hespos. He has received numerous prizes for his compositional output including:
Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (1986),
Gaudeamusprijs (1989, for the string quartet I open and close)
British Composer Award for chamber music (2003, for the string quartet 13 selfportraits)

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György Kurtág

György Kurtág was born on 19th February 1926 at Lugoj in Romania, not far from the birthplace of fellow hungarian György Ligeti. Both young composers hoped to study with Béla Bartók in Budapest in 1945, but Bartók died in America and Kurtág went on to study piano, composition and chamber music with other teachers at the Budapest Academy. Among his early works was a Korean Cantata which expressed solidarity with the North Koreans in the Korean War against the US, but he reached the age of thirty-three before he was willing to give any of his works opus numbers.

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Agust

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.

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School Of Language

School of Language is a pseudonym of Field Music's David Brewis. The album Sea From Shore was released during Field Music's break from band activities in 2008. A second solo record, Old Fears, will be released in April 2014. Both School of Language albums were self-produced at Field Music's studio in Sunderland in the north-east of England.

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Norman Skipp

Norm Skipp is a NZ/UK composer/sonic artist, video artist and online editor/compositor based in Manchester, UK He creates innovative sound and visual compositions often in collaboration with a diverse range of artists. He completed a Music degree (composition) in New Zealand in 1994 studying with Jack Body, Ross Harris, John Elmsly and John Rimmer. In 2007, while in residence at the Centre Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris, he studied with Gérard Pape, Jean-Claude Risset, Trevor Wishart, Curtis Roads, Harry Halbreich, Agostino Di Scipio and Makis Solomos.

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Lee Tobin

Dublin, Ireland. Jazz, Rock and Classical influences. More info on leetobin.com

Piotr Kurek

Polish composer and musician, working and living in Warsaw. Piotr Kurek studied classical piano and played drums but is most known from his activity in dance theatre and electronic music. Co-founder of ever changing project Ślepcy, emerged in the late 90’s and collaborated with various record labels including Ambush (London), Kool.POP (Berlin), Cock Rock Disco (Berlin), Klangkrieg (Berlin), Unknown Public (London) and Crónica (Porto).

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stefano tedesco

Stefano Tedesco is musician and sound artist.
He has solo projects using vibraphone, percussion, objects, electronics and feedback. His sound installation are based on field recordings. Other projects involve video, dance. He is member of the David Toop trio together with Phil Durrant. He performed in trio with Rhodri Davies and Joe Williamson, as well as with Tim Hodgkinson and Elio Martusciello and recently with Stefano Pilia and Andrea Belfi.

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Thomas Brinkmann

Thomas Brinkmann (born 1959) is a highly regarded German producer of experimental minimal techno music. Although experimenting with records since the early eighties, he gained wide reputation with his re-workings of material by fellow artists Mike Ink and Richie Hawtin released in the second half of the 90s. These productions were made by playing physically modified vinyl records on highly customized turntables with an additional tone arm.