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Daniel
Agi - Flute Daniel
Agi was born in 1979 in Mashta-Azaar, Syria. He studied flute in the
conservatories of Cologne and Freiburg with Hans Martin Mueller and
Prof. Robert Aitken. Since the beginning of his studies he played as
principle flute in numerous german orchetras. 2004/2005 he played in
the Duisburg opera orchestra (Deutsche Oper am Rhein). Frequent tours
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Stephen
Altoft - Trumpet Stephen
Altoft is dedicated to the creation of new repertoire for the trumpet.
Stephen's experience encompasses a variety of music which has taken him
to venues and festivals across Europe, the United States and Canada. As
well as his programmes with electronics, he has played for the
Kammersinfonie Berlin, the Cornelius Cardew Ensemble, Klangforum Wien
and with duo Contour. Stephen studied trumpet at the University of
Huddersfield, England (1991-5) from which he gained a Masters degree
and the Ricordi Prize for Contemporary Performance. This was followed
by periods of private study with Markus Stockhausen (Cologne: between
1996-8) and, with assistance from the Music Sound Foundation, with
William Forman (Berlin: 1998-1999). More recently, Stephen has
developed microtonal trumpets, documented at www.microtonaltrumpet.com
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Lee Ferguson - Percussion Lee Forrest Ferguson studied as a scholarship student at the University of Iowa under Thomas L. Davis (1991-5). In 1995 he recieved a bachelor of music in percussion performance and then was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study with Bernhard Wulff at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, in Freiburg, Germany (1996-8). Lee was a member the the Freiburg Percussion ensemble which received first prize in the German Music School Competition for the category New Music (Leipzig 1998). He has played with Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Surplus, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, Musik Fabrik NRW and is a member of the New Music initiative, Suono Mobile. Lee is dedicated to the performance of new music in solo and chamber music and is a percussion instructor at the Southern Blackforest Music School in Tiengen, Germany. |
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Christian Kemper - Oboe Christian Kemper was born in Düsseldorf in 1969. He has
studied with Thomas Indermühle (oboe) and Bernd Asmus (music theory) at
the University of Music in Karlsruhe and has been teaching music theory
at various universities in south-west Germany. He is a co-founder of
ensemble Chambre d’écoute, which is committed to contemporary chamber
music, that is meaningfully combined with earlier music as well as
experimental concepts. He is a member of Ensemble Omega (Karlsruhe) and
“Initiative für Neue Musik Suono Mobile” (Stuttgart) and he plays as a
regular guest with Ensemble Surplus (Freiburg). He has given concerts
in many European countries, in the U.S., in South America and in
South-east Asia. Beside his occupation as a performer and teacher he is
also concerned with composition. |
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Alexander Grebtschenko Alexander Grebtschenko was born in Varna/Bulgaria in 1975. From 1993-98 he studied viola at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, before studying composition with Cornelius Schwehr and electronic music with Mesias Maiguashca. He has received scholarships from the ‘Donaueschinger Musiktage’ (1998), the 'Stipendium des Bundespräsidenten' for Composition at the Felix-Mendelssohn-Wettbewerb (2000) and had a residency at IRCAM in Paris. From 2002-4 Alexander was a recipient of a Landesgraduiertenförderung (Graduate scholarship) to carry out a research project in acoustics. Alexander Grebtschenko was a tutor of electronic music at the Institute für Neue Musik in Freiburg (1999-2002). In 2004 he was appointed a director of the newly formed Studios for Electronic and Electroacoustic music at the Music School in Constance, Germany |
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