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Alex Welch ~ Viola

Viola player, freelancing with Metropole Orkest, session musician for TV, radio and musicals. Member of Moving Strings since 2018. Since 2021 Maya and I have been researching the intersection of instrumental technique, movement practices and mindfulness. I have been meditating regularly since 2018.
https://alexwelch.nl/

Maya Felixbrot ~ Viola

I'm a musician, Violist and composer. In my artistic and professional practice I reconnect sound and movement, through music and the Laban Bartenieff Movement System. I compose my own music, often electro-acoustic, and music for theater, dance, film and visual arts, and perform as a soloist and with ensembles. I'm the co-founder and co-artistic leader of ensembles Moving Strings (moving musicians, ensemble in residence at Gaudeamus and Splendor 23') and Zvov (dada cabaret). I co-curate Screen Dive (online platform for experimental musical games). Games, improvisation, discipline and its multiplicity are for me a means as well as a meaning. I teach, coach and facilitate gatherings for people from age 0-100~, from varied backgrounds. I have a BA in Viola from The Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance, BA and MA in composition from The Royal Conservatory, The Hague. I'm a Certified Movement Analyst and Educatore (Emove, ISMETA, 2022).

Irene Sorozabal ~ Voice and Recorder

Irene Sorozábal is a Spanish recorder player and singer based in Amsterdam. She performs a variety of music ranging from medieval to contemporary classical music as well as improvised and original music. Irene sings in ensembles like Capella Amsterdam, Bachkoor Holland and Omroepkoor. She also plays recorder in the renaissance consort The Royal Wind Music.

As a performer, singer and composer, Irene collaborates with visual artists, theatre makers and choreographers. She has composed music for theatre works by Abhishek Thapar (SpringUtrecht 2021), Sonia Kazovsky with Maya Felixbrodt (Mondriaan Fonds 2022) and Jimmy Grimma (Debatable Lands 2020). In 2022, Irene released her first compositions for jazz quintet with the label TRPTK. The album is called Kurkuma, it was supported by Amarte Fonds and featured as album of the week in Passaggio Late Night NPO4.

Irene curates a performance series for independent makers called Encuentros funded by Fonds Podium Kunsten (2021) and Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (2022). Irene studied in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She obtained a Bachelor degree on recorder with Erik Bosgraaf in 2018. She is currently studying a master in historical singing with Xenia Meijer at the same institution.

irenesorozabal.com/

Camille Verhaak ~ Clarinet

Clarinettist, maker, performer in interdisciplinary productions and of new music ensembles, teacher.

Where the Sounds Are @ Encuentros

Yung-tuan Ku ~ Percussion

Born in 1988 in Taipei, Taiwan. Yung-Tuan received her percussion bachelor in National Taiwan Normal University in 2010 and completed her percussion master study in Conservatorium van Amsterdam with “Cum Laude” in June 2015.
She is the prize winner of International Percussion Competition Luxembourg 2012, Tromp Percussion competition 2014, and AHK Eindwerkprijs 2015. In 2016, She received the scholarship from Jan Pustjens Foundation for her solo music theater-Mimocussion and supported by Stichting Eigen Muziekinstrument to purchase marimba and vibraphone.
She is now an artist member of Studio MAPA Nederland and Platform for Artists Nederland Taiwan.

www.yungtuanku.com/

Geerte de Koe ~ Violin

I am a Dutch violinist and workshop leader with a special interest in cross-arts and improvisation. I collaborate and create new work with dancers, electronic musicians, visual artists, actors, and a variety of musicians with different musical backgrounds from all over the world. To share my passion for music and composition with others, I work as a workshop leader with a wide range of communities.
www.geertedekoe.com/

Jonathan Nagel ~ Double-bass

Jonathan Nagel’s artistry is kindled by a craving to
convey emotions and tell stories. Continuously
they seek to abandon borders between genres,
striving to merely rely on whatever means it takes
to create a certain image or feeling. In an implied
juxtaposition of traditional and contemporary art
forms, their work portraits socioeconomic and
mental states of our times. Their artistic practice
includes music, poetry, improvisation, physical
theater, performance art, and dance.

Formerly trained as a classical and jazz contrabass player, they have been questioning art education for years during their studies at Universität der Künste (Berlin, DE), Rytmisk Musik- konservatorium (Copenhagen, DK), University of

the Arts (Philadelphia, USA), Prins Claus Conservatorium (Groningen, NL). Eventually they graduated as Master of Music from the European Jazz Master program at Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Amsterdam, NL) in 2018. They have worked with internationally esteemed performing artists such as Katie Duck, Sharon Smith, Michael Moore, Axel Dörner, Tristan Honsinger, Simon
Rose, Vincent von Schlippenbach, Richard Scott,
and many others. Currently they live and work in
Amsterdam and Berlin.

Throughout the past years they have recorded and released several music albums with jazz and experimental music groups and have performed round about 80 public shows per year with bands and theater groups on stages in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Greece, Poland, Romania, Denmark, Finland and Norway. In 2021 they took on the adventure to produce their first
own stage show, 'eventually'. The music for 'eventually' has been released as their first solo
album in the summer of 2022.
www.jonathannagel.de

Noortje Kohna ~ Viola
https://www.forwardandup.nl/

Manuela Tessi ~ Choreographer

Born in Milano, Italy, I live in the Netherlands since 1999. I graduated from the Theaterschool in Amsterdam (Modern Theatre Dance department) and have spent the last several years creating, performing and teaching.
In my movement research I have an interest in movement prior to dance as a formal language, I believe that content and functionality provide form. I look for sensuosness and embodiment in dance, often referring to kinesthetic empathy, how is the movement being read by the spectator not solely with the eyes and intellect, but perceived on a visceral level.
Live music plays an important role in my performance work. What drives me in the work is the desire to deeply understand the relation of musicality of movement and sound.
Since 2004 I have studied and worked with Katie Duck, who has been one of my greatest creative influences alongside the many dancers and musicians who have collaborated with her.
Some of the most recent projects include Unfolding , a duet with musician Vilbjørg Broch, a choreography for Ikaros , a piece by composer Aspasia Nasopoulou for November Music Festival 2018, All at Once, a quartet with dancers Thalia Laric , Kristina Johnstone and pianist Coila-Leah Enderstein, two solo works created in collaboration with Vincent Cacialano and Paul Estabrook, The Loom, a Berlin quartet with flutist Friederike Wendorf, dancer Mata Sakka and pianist Rieko Okuda, Dutch based duo El Otro with guitarist Arvind Ganga. In 2015 I created The Weight of Words , a performance installation that investigated the relationship between figure, movement and projected text. I have been working as a dancer with Makiko Ito in her project Wonderland since 2006, a series of performances of music and dance for children and family. At the moment I am working on the Shell, a solo to be presented in May 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa.