Adrian Montufar
Oakland, CA, USA
Adrian Montufar works in free improvisation, concert music, and sound art, where he engages the connections between the voice and the body, exploring how technology can extend and disrupt them.
Annette Bauer
Montréal, QC, Canada
Annette Bauer is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and music educator with a background in early European and classical North Indian music styles. Her primary instruments are the sarode, a 24-stringed lute, and the many members of the recorder family. In combination with photography, she creates evocative soundscapes inspired by the natural world.
Ipek Eginli
Atlanta, GA, USA & Istanbul, Turkey
Ipek Eginli, a native of Turkey, is an electroacoustic music composer/performer. She holds a doctoral degree in piano performance and is the founder of a piano academy in GA, USA.
Jeff LaRochelle
Toronto, ON, Canada
Jeff LaRochelle is a Toronto-based woodwind specialist, composer, arranger, and producer. In addition to co-leading the Autobahn Trio for over a decade, he has been developing his own solo woodwinds/synth project called Gloomtube in recent years as a vehicle for multi-genre/disciplinary collaboration.
Katelyn Clark
Montréal, QC, Canada
Katelyn Clark is a historical keyboard specialist (harpsichord/organ/pianoforte) based in Montréal QC. Her work re-imagines the sound of early instruments and lost soundscapes.
Kim Farris-Manning
Ottawa, ON, and Montréal, QC, Canada
A fun-loving queer arbor-artist based in Ottawa and Montreal, Kim Farris-Manning creates works across disciplines, allowing ideas to grow and change; pieces are often made in versions, through a process of experimentation and collaboration with others. Working as an artist, arborist, forest technician and researcher, Kim often finds creative inspiration on the field and likewise brings an artistic lens to tree work.
Michel Von Loh
Los Angeles, CA, USA & Dessau, Germany
Michel is a classically trained guitarist and plucked string multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, CA, who enjoys creating interdisciplinary experiences that play with notions of time and space, truth and reality. A lifelong learner and educator, he often employs non-idiomatic improvisation, conceptual strategies and graphic representations in his projects.
Rashaan Allwood
Toronto, ON, Canada
Rashaan Allwood is a composer, pianist, organist and synthesist. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis which explores natural settings, improvisation, and cultural reflection in music at Western University.
Sarah Rossy
Tio'tia:ke/Montreal
Sarah Rossy is a Tio'tia:ke/Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist and educator unravelling themes of identity, healing and community connection.
Reza Yazdanpanah
Guelph, ON, Canada
Reza Yazdanpanah is a community-based musician, improviser, composer, and multi-instrumentalist with a Persian background.