"Pauline Oliveros was a senior figure in contemporary American music. Her career spans fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the '50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, poets gathered together in San Francisco. Recently awarded the John Cage award for 2012 from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Oliveros was Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-Residence at Mills College. Oliveros has been as interested in finding new sounds as in finding new uses for old ones --her primary instrument was the accordion, an unexpected visitor perhaps to musical cutting edge, but one which she approaches in much the same way that a Zen musician might approach the Japanese shakuhachi. Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others' sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Since the 1960's she has influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. Pauline Oliveros was the founder of "Deep Listening," which comes from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation and electro-acoustics. Pauline Oliveros describes Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening was my life practice," she explains, simply. Oliveros was founder of Deep Listening Institute, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation, now the Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer."

"As a soloist and chamber musician, Tomoko Katsura has appeared throughout the U.S., Japan, and Europe. The Japanese violinist started her studies at the age of five with Aiko Suzuki. She moved to New York when she was 11, and made her solo debut with the New York Symphonic Ensemble three years later. She graduated from The Juilliard School with the Bachelor and Masters degrees of Music, and the same year, she made her solo debut in Japan with the Tokyo Philharmonic and a national radio broadcast for the NHK FM Recital Series. In 2005, she moved to Amsterdam to join the Nederlands Kamerorkest where she was a member for 10 years. In 2014, she moved to France and created l'Ecarquilleur d'Oreilles with the cellist Guillaume Grosbard, to bring concerts to a much broader audience with the activities including monthly concert series in villages, as well as creating concerts in hospitals, retirement homes and prisons. She is also an active member of The Knights in NY since 2002, and bandArt in Spain led by the violinist Gordan Nikolic.

Her teachers include Masao Kawasaki, Dorothy DeLay, Harvey Shapiro and Anner Bylsma."

"Born in Russia, Natalia Tchitch made her studies of violin and viola in Central Music School and Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Maria Sitkovskaya and Fyodor Drouzhinin. She continues viola studies in Reina Sofía Music School in Madrid with Gerard Caussé. During her studies, she was awarded the special price of the competition Lionel Tertis in England (2000) and Grand Prix in the International viola competition in Almati (2001).

Since 1997, when she moved to Spain, Natalia Tchitch was a former member of Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia in Coruña and Opera de Paris Orchestra. As a soloist she appeared in stages of Montpellier Radio France Festival, Festival Sully, Festival of Santander among various others and in several occasions in different european halls. Chamber music and pedagogy are most important elements of Natalia Tchitch work.

She performs with musicians as Augustin Dumay, Gordan Nicolic, David Grimal, Isabelle Faust, Alain Meunier, Philippe Graffin, Pascal Moragues. From 2002 she plays in string trio with violinist Tatiana Samouil and cellist Pavel Gomziakov. Regulary performs In France and Spain with the musicians of the young generation, Since 2006 till now she is a regular member and leading viola of Ensemble Les Dissonances, In 2003 she was appointed assistant in viola class of professor Gerard Caussé at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, and since 2007 she is a professor of viola at the Academy "MUSIKENE" in San Sebastian in Basque Country."

"French cellist, first cello in Bandart orchestra in Spain, teacher-coach in the Youth orchestra of Catalonia (Jonc), Youth Canarian Orchestra (Jocan), Musikene Master Strings orchestra, invited in the next Aurora festival in Sweden as a chamber music coach and in the Brugges Academy in Belgium as a cello teacher, Celine Flamen did study in Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris where she rewarded 1er Prix in Cello and Chamber music.

She did then follow master classes beside Michel Strauss, Gary Hoffmann, Christoff Henkel and Janos Starker. She had been appointed Leading cello in several chamber orchestra in France, as well appointed in the Orchestre National d'Ile de France and had many collaboration with orchestras such Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre d'Auvergne, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Nederlands Kamer Orkest and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.

She is since 2015, more involved in making chamber music and played in Concertgebouw Amsterdam, in Elba Music Festival, Kamermuziek Festival Den Haag, Festival de musique de chambre de Thèze and as a solist with Vigo and las Menorca orchestras, in Aschau Festival in Germany and with the Youth Orchestra of Catalonia. She collaborates with Ensemble "0" in France which explores Modern Minimalistic Repertoire as she did create in Europe the solo cello and elctronics piece by Tristan Perich, Formations.

She is playing all repertoire on gut wounded strings since 7 years, period during she could explore the cello playing from a different aspect. Her pedagogical approach is inspired from her personal research, based on the posture correction and muscles reinforcement. As a pianist, baroque cello player, improviser in very different kind of music, student in Alexander technique and Pilates and with a wealth of experience in different Orchestras in Europe, she tends to offer a maximum of point of views in order to help her pupils to find themself their own way of playing.

She plays a cello from Georg Thir, Austria 1780."

"Stephane Garin has performed:

- within the ensemble intercontemporain (EIC), the orchestra "les siècles", the orchestra of rouen opera, the radio france philharmonic orchestra, the brussels philharmonic... conducted by pierre boulez, péter eötvös, léon fleisher, philippe jordan, david robertson, pascal rophe, françois-xavier roth...

- with musicians, dancers, performers and directors such as pascal battus, antoine beuger, olivier bernet (persepolis sountrack), carl craig, pascal comelade, mathias delplanque, catherine divèrres, michel doneda, jürg frey, jean-luc guionnet, jean-philippe gross, julyen hamilton, ryoji ikeda, tom johnson, daunik lazro, pierre-yves macé, stephan mathieu, billy martin, seijiro murayama, phill niblock, moritz von oswald (maurizio), tristan perich, marc perrone, christian wolff, wax tailor...

founder of 0 (http://www.ensemble0.com/); member of les Dissonances conducted by David Grimal (http://www.les-dissonances.eu/); member of OPPB conducted by fayçal karoui (first percussion solo) (http://www.oppb.fr/); member of the ensemble of contemporary music dedalus conducted by didier aschour (http://dedalus.ensemble.free.fr/dedalus.html); member of the collective phonographer in basque country, soinumapa (www.soinumapa.net / www.audio-lab.org)

founder and member of the Garazi Philanthropik(s) Orchestra until 2008

artist associeted at the centrifugeuse (pau, france)"

"Melaine Dalibert is a French pianist and composer born in 1979. After studying piano in Rennes and Paris conservatories (with Joël CAPBERT and Pierre REACH), he dedicates himself to contemporary art creation as a performer (première pieces from Gérard Pesson, Giuliano D'Angiolini, Tom Johnson, Ahmed Essyad among others) while initiating a persona composition work based on rigorous generative systems. Melaine shares preoccupations with visual artists such as François Morellet, Véra Molnar or Marcel Dinahet, whom he has collaborated with, and his music is deliberately emancipated from any narrative purpose in order to highlight combinatorial games vacillating between order and chaos. His creations have been radio transmitted (France Musique) and played in many French and foreign museums and contemporary art centers."

"The saxophonist, clarinettist and composer Julien Pontvianne feeds on many musical traditions - from the renaissance messes or the indonesian gamelan to the music of sonic youth, paul motian or morton feldman - to offer his vision. Here, no ignition, or rather a single and single, at the beginning of the sound, which runs the long lock of time to its silent end. Agglomerations of sounds, tempered or not, of the resonant, of the continuous, sometimes taking the shape of songs, silhouettes which cut far away on the horizon, and will approach to you, then disappear behind, outside your field of view. Songs related to silence. If music should tell stories, julien invites news, and if it should go somewhere, that it is going to its end and that we enjoy the trip first of all. We live fully in the time and the sound that is offered, miraculous assemblies of heights, of ketological rhythms, in a territory sometimes close to the concept of ecology of sound loved by gérard grisey or the ecology of listening to salvatore sciarror.

Within groups such as the watt clarinet quartet, aum grand ensemble, kepler or abhra, against the current, it offers a kind of hedonist ascesis, a shaking meditation. In addition to his explorations as a leader, julien is one of the founding members of the collective and label onze hours onze, one of the most active in the young french scene. He plays in bands ranging from the 20's swing to experimental rock and the most contemporary repertoire. Winning many prizes and played among others in new-york, new-orleans, los angeles, montreal, china, japan, winning many prizes, in india, colombia and throughout europe."