HYOID

HYOID is a Brussels-based ensemble of classically trained vocal soloists specialized in new music and transdisciplinary performance. The group strives to challenge and expand traditional concert formats, while cultivating close partnerships with composers, performers and artists of its generation. They perform a cappella as well as with instruments, tape or electronics, and adapt their line-up to each production.

Born in Vienna, Eva Reiter studied recorder and viola da gamba before continuing her masters specializing in contemporary composition. She performs as a soloist and collaborates with various orchestras and ensembles specializing in early and contemporary music. Since 2015, Reiter has been a permanent member of the Belgian ensemble Ictus, where she officiates as composer, instrumentalist and artistic advisor.

Koen Broos works with photography, exploring in his work the balance between radicality, aesthetics and light. He seeks the essence in the temporary and avoids freewheeling, striving for images that challenge the viewer.In an image-saturated world, Broos goes against the prevailing culture, eschewing the recognisable and focusing on shadow, twilight darkness and the not yet seen.

Born in Düsseldorf in 1977, Hannah Dübgen studied philosophy and modern languages at Oxford University. She then completed her studies in musicology at Berlin’s Humboldt University. She worked as a dramaturg in theatre and wrote the libretti for operas by composers such as Toshio Hosokawa and Søren Nils Eichberg. She wrote two novels: Strom (Flow, 2013) and Über Land (Cross-Countries, 2016).