Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer, researcher and technologist. His work in recent years has focused on new models of interaction between a live musician and new technologies, including motion sensors, AI, live-generated 3D visuals, VR, analogue synthesizers, new interactive instruments, bio-sensors, and internet-based scores.

Zubin has performed at many international festivals and international venues including the BBC Proms, London Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK) Melbourne Festival (Australia), Festival Présences (France), Klang Festival (Denmark), Podium Festival (Germany), and November Music (Netherlands).

Zubin has collaborated with many of the world’s leading composers and premiered more than 130 works. Recent collaborations include those with Alexander Schubert on his internet-based WIKI-PIANO.NET, which has been performed in 23 cities, and with Philip Venables on an upcoming concert-length work using pianos, electronics and live video, exploring the life of artist David Wojnarowicz and his experience of the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/burketurner/

Luke Tierney is an artist manager, supporting the careers of traditional and contemporary art music performers and composers. He is the Founder and Director of Tier 1 Arts, offering artists support through a management and/or agent capacity (including Emily Granger, Julian Day, and Bree van Reyk) and production and marketing support for a range of ensembles.

Luke’s experience spans across the music industry, with previous roles in radio production, arts funding, orchestral management, and education.

Composer Lyle Chan is known for his socially-conscious works combining powerful emotional impact and intellectual rigour. His most personal and confronting work is his 90-minute String Quartet, a memoir of his years as an AIDS activist in the 1990s. It was hailed by American composer John Corigliano as “a serious and deeply felt work of art born out of a seemingly endless plague.”

He was awarded the Orchestral Work of the Year prize in Australia’s Art Music Awards for his orchestral song cycle My Dear Benjamin, which Chan wrote upon meeting a 95-year old Wulff Scherchen living in Australia and discovering he was the little-known war-time love interest of composer Benjamin Britten.

Lyle Chan’s most notorious composition is Wind Farm Music, commissioned by human rights lawyer Julian Burnside and dedicated to Australia’s unpopular then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott in protest against the government’s anti-renewable energy stance. The work that first brought him widespread recognition was Rendezvous With Destiny for narrator and musicians – based on US political history – commissioned by the Art Gallery Society of NSW and performed by Bob Carr, former Foreign Minister of Australia and NSW Premier.

His recent major commissioners include Sydney Symphony Orchestra for its 50 Fanfares project. For the Debussy Centenary in 2018, he was commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music to compose three diversely-scored Sonatas to fulfil Debussy’s final project that he left unfinished on his early death. Also in 2018 he was commissioned by the Art Gallery of NSW Foundation for a work to be performed during the exhibition of The Lady and the Unicorn, the famed 16th century tapestry making only its third ever trip outside of France.

His work has been programmed at major arts institutions such as Sydney Opera House, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Brisbane Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, Melbourne Recital Centre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and others.

Lyle Chan spent over a decade at ABC Classics, where as Artists & Repertoire Manager he spearheaded the production of over 200 recordings, including every winner of the Best Classical category of the ARIA Awards between 1998 and 2008.

He is co-founder of Extended Play, the acclaimed festival of new music that ran in 2018-19 at Sydney’s City Recital Hall. He is currently a member of the 6-person international panel curating performances and conference papers for Classical:Next, the global annual meeting of classical music professionals in Rotterdam.

Martel Ollerenshaw is vice president of Europe Jazz Network, a board member of the Australian Music Centre and hcmf// (UK), and through her own creative production company Arts & Parts (UK) works with clients including Punkt Festival (NO), NICA artist development / Stadtgarten, Köln (DE), MILESTONES with Jazztopad (PL) and Pro Helvetia’s High Priority Jazz Programme (CH).

https://www.artsandparts.co.uk

Nat Bartsch is a Melbourne-based pianist and composer who moves effortlessly between classical, neoclassical, jazz and children’s genres. She has released six albums of original music – her most recent album, Hope, earned her an ARIA nomination for the second year running. Nat is the first female instrumental artist to be nominated in both jazz and ARIA categories.

As a composer, she has been commissioned to write for ensembles including Plexus, Inventi Ensemble, Muses Trio, and is currently studying at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music with Stuart Greenbaum.

Philippa has worked internationally both as a performing musician and as a manager of projects and artists. She has lived in Berlin for over 20 years, returning regularly to Australia. As a violinist, she toured, recorded and performed internationally with orchestras and chamber music formations, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Ever keen to venture off the beaten track, she explored contemporary classical music early on.

Philippa made the move to artist management in 2007 and worked at a prominent international agency for several years and later at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, before moving on to found Real Arts in early 2019, which was inspired by her desire to more closely connect the artistic scenes of Australia and Europe. Alongside its activities today in the realm of opera/chamber/orchestral concerts, Philippa’s company takes special interest in contemporary and improvised music, interdisciplinary projects, and listening for voices which might otherwise be missed within the confines of existing traditional structures in the music industry.

Rae Howell is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. She is founding director of Sunwrae: a touring ensemble, label and sheet music publisher, and works across a range of genres in collaboration with performing and visual artists, in film, theatre, dance, concert hall, and multimedia productions.

She has studied music at Melbourne University, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, New York University Steinhardt, and has produced a large catalogue of original music albums, sheet music publications, collaborative recordings and sound designs.

Rae has been awarded a UNESCO Aschberg Bursary, a Finzi Trust Scholarship and Guildhall Trust Scholarship (UK), the Eric Stokes Award (USA), and most recently the inaugural MOMENTUM Commission through the Australian Music Centre. She is a fellow of Yaddo and the Millay Artist Colony in New York, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska, The Banff Centre Canada, and has been Visiting Composer for numerous projects and residencies in the USA, South America, West Africa, Europe, Palestine, Vietnam, and Australia.

Rae has performed her music at festivals and concerts worldwide including Australia House London for the Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip and Sir David Attenborough, the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House Vietnam, i=u Festival London, SxSW Festival USA, Golden Plains Festival, Brisbane Festival, The Famous Spiegeltent, Camden Haven Music Festival and the Museum of Modern Art in Salvador, Brazil. Other career highlights include projects for One Off Makery (AUS), Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre London, Puppets with Guts (UK), and ‘Rabbitsss’ with media artist Jon Cohrs (USA).

Tamara Kohler is an Australian flutist, noted for her “fearless execution” in new music performance. She is Co-Artistic Director of art music ensemble Rubiks Collective and incoming Director of the UK based charity, Contemporary Music for All. Tamara is passionate about opening access within the arts for underrepresented voices, working with arts charities Raw Material (UK) and Short Black Opera (AUS) to design and support meaningful community platforms.

Working between Australia and the UK, Tamara is interested in exploring creative work and community engagement abroad.

Depending on how you rate music, Chris Lloyd is not one of the finest pianists of his generation. He’s probably not even one of the top ten finest young musicians in his generation.

But he does have a few things that should make you stand up and listen closer.

Independence. Individuality. Irreverence. Want to feel something at a concert? Want to witness a performance by someone who actually feels something? Quite apart from being solely concerned with what is right, Lloyd is devoted purely to transmitting story, emotion, and expression in his performance.

The next generation of musicians will reclaim classical music as something they own that they want to share with you, no longer pillars of an antiquated museum of things past. Fully educated and fully confident of their abilities to communicate with the audience.

Chris Lloyd, far from being the finest pianist of his generation, is aiming to pave the way for the next generation.