Stroppa (cancelled), Bianchi, Janssens, Sowa, Hettne, Jodlowski

Energy, virtuosity, mystery and an idiosyncratic use of pulsation feature Oscar Bianchi's music. His skillful manipulation of timbre often creates an acute sense of dramaturgy. He explores everything in between stasis and activity, longing for the depth of these two extremes. From a very refined harmonic awareness, Bianchi dramatizes musical forms through mastery of texture, in its thousand details.

Website Oscar Bianchi

Daan Janssens (1983) studied composition with Frank Nuyts, Godfried-Willem Raes and Filip Rathé at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, where he has been teaching composition and orchestration himself since 2016. Throughout the years, he has worked with renowned national and international ensembles as well as soloists, and has built up an intense collaboration with LOD muziektheater. He is currently working on his third opera, Brodeck, after a novel by Philippe Claudel, again in collaboration with Fabrice Murgia and commissioned by LOD (2021-2023).

Website Daan Janssens

Anna Sowa (1987, PL) is a Basel-based experimental composer and artist, who mainly focuses on exploring electronic music and fields of performing arts. She is interested in the intersection of movement, gesture and theatricality in relation to electronic and instrumental music. 

In 2021 she won the Fringe competition of the Fondazione Haydn Stiftung. As part of this prize, Sowa's opera Silenzio/Silence was premiered in March 2022 on the opera festival Larger Than Life in Bolzano (IT).

Website Anna Sowa

Jenny Hettne is a Swedish composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, with the exploration of sound and timbre as her most important focus. She mainly writes chamber music, sometimes mixed with electronics and always in a close and innovative collaboration with the musicians.  

Website Jenny Hettne