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Sally Beamish

Sally Beamish (born 26 August 1956, London) is a British composer of chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music.
Beamish studied the viola at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she received lessons from Anthony Gilbert and Lennox Berkeley. She later studied in Germany with the Italian violinist Bruno Giuranna. As a violist in the Raphael Ensemble, she recorded four discs of string sextets.

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Christophe Fellay

Internationally renown Christophe Fellay has composed, directed and performed his creative brand of music for everything from theater,dance, cinema and concerts to performance art, written word and music festivals the world over. In addition to performing as a featured act at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Christophe has played around the world from Europe (London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Paris, Nantes, Dijon, Zurich, Berne, Geneva, Montreux) to the United States (Seattle, Atlanta, San Francisco, New York.

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Taku Unami

Taku Unami (宇波拓) is a Japanese improviser, usually on guitar or laptop. He has appeared on a multitude of often surprising recordings, some of them composed, on his own Hibari label and elsewhere. He has played and recorded, among many others, with Taku Sugimoto, Kazushige Kinoshita, Mattin, Burkhard Stangl, Mark Wastell and Bertrand Denzler.

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Charlie Peacock

Charlie Peacock (born Charles William Ashworth, August 10, 1956, also goes by Charlie Peacock-Ashworth) is a songwriter, record producer, musician, and writer, best known for his work in the field of Contemporary Christian Music. He was born in Yuba County, California. Ashworth studied at the California State University, Sacramento before becoming a professional musician and is currently working on a Masters degree in Theological Studies at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Sylvia Hallett

Sylvia Hallett studied music at Dartington, and then spent two years studying composition with Max Deutsch in Paris. She now works both as a composer and as an improviser, and has had pieces performed in Britain and Europe. She has played in many international festivals since the late 1970s, working with several well-known and respected musicians, including Lol Coxhill, Maggie Nicols, Phil Minton, Evan Parker, and the groups Accordions Go Crazy, LaXula, British Summer Time Ends, The London Improvisers Orchestra, and the London Hardingfelelag.

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Ryu Hankil

Ryu Hankil (류한길) was born in 1975 in Seoul, South Korea. He worked for about two years as a professional graphic designer. Hankil was a keyboard player in two famous Korean indie pop groups, but eventually left the groups because he was tired of typical music making and sounds. Then he started his own solo electro pop project, Daytripper, and released two solo albums, A Collector (2001) and Brownpaper (2004).

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Julian Anderson

Julian Anderson (born April 6, 1967 in London) is a British composer. Anderson studied at Westminster School, with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music, with Alexander Goehr at Cambridge University, with Tristan Murail and on courses in composition by Olivier Messiaen, Per Nørgård and György Ligeti. Anderson's publisher describes his music as "…characterised by a fresh use of melody, vivid contrasts of texture and lively rhythmic impetus. He has a continuing interest in the music of traditional cultures from outside the Western concert tradition.

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