Tomma Wessel

Recorder player Tomma Wessel focuses on performing early and contemporary music. She has been a guest at major venues and festivals. Her intensive collaborations with composers led to the creation of dozens of new compositions, including by Luc Brewaeys, Alvin Curran and Frederic Rzewski. Wessel is co-founder of the ensemble Apsara and she has performed with ensembles such as Ictus, ChampdAction and SPECTRA.

Matthew Shlomowitz (°1975) is a London based composer, raised in Australia. Many of his works are grouped into series: Letter Pieces are open score works combining physical action and music, while pieces in Popular Contexts combine recognisable recordings with instrumental music. He periodically writes articles, co-directs the new music group Plus Minus and runs a podcast called Soundmaking with Håkon Stene.

Ward De Jonghe (°1990) is a composer and chemistry teacher from Ghent. He studied piano with Daan Vandewalle, harmony, counterpoint and fugue with Marc Masson and composition with Daan Janssens at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent. He took part in master classes and workshops with Dai Fujikura, Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen and Arditti Quartet, among others. His music has already been performed by Goggles, Koi Collective and Nemø Ensemble, among others.

Composer Oren Boneh writes music characterized by its energy and dynamism. Its foundation is made up of contrasting characters, ranging from abrasive and mechanical to humorous and supple. The music plays with listener expectations in order to create unpredictability and friction. Boneh has been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble intercontemporain and Ensemble Fractales.

Sarah Wéry discovered music through cello and improvisation. She studied composition in Germany and Liege. In Berlin, she expanded her creative field and immersed herself in electronic music. Thus, she explored other sound and production techniques. Nowadays based in Brussels, her work explores the nature of sound through pre-sampling, everyday objects, concrete sounds and the combination of electronic and live music.

Annelies Van Parys is een van de toonaangevende componisten van België. Ze schrijft zowel solo- en kamermuziek als grote orkestcomposities. Ze legt zich hiernaast toe op opera, muziektheater en installaties, waarbij de dramatiek van deze werken haar instrumentale schrijven aanvult. Van Parys is huiscomponist bij Muziektheater Transparant en professor compositie aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium van Brussel.

Frederik Neyrinck studied piano and composition in Brussels, Stuttgart and Graz. He worked with various orchestras and ensembles such as Asko|Schönberg, Nadar Ensemble, Klangforum Wien and Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen. I SOLISTI, Odysseia Ensemble and SPECTRA made recordings of his music. From 2020 to 2024, he was Artist in Residence with I SOLISTI. He is also very active in the field of (children's) musical theatre and opera, a.o. in a residency at LOD muziektheater.

Marta Gentilucci is a composer of instrumental, vocal, and electronic music. She completed her studies in vocal arts as a soprano in Italy, her Master’s in composition and computer music in Germany, as well as a PhD in composition at Harvard University. She was selected for the two-year programme in computer music at IRCAM. She is Assistant Professor in Composition at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.