Mentee and mentor pairings
She has performed and released internationally, and has been engaged in a number of artistic collaborations, among which extensively with composer Éliane Radigue.
Julia is (co-)author of books such as The Second Sound – Conversations on Gender and Music, Grounds for Possible Music, and Éliane Radigue – Intermediary Spaces/Espaces intermédiaires, among others. She is a researcher at the philosophical faculty at VUB Brussels, and has been teaching and lecturing on topics related to sound, music, gender, and space.
Daniel was an adjunct Academic Lecturer at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore (YSCTM-NUS) and adjunct Voice and Academic Lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore (NAFA).
When in Singapore, Daniel continues to promote Art songs, and art songs of past and contemporary Singaporean and Southeast Asian composers through his affiliation with 'The Sing Song Club' (Singapore). Daniel's current research project is titled "Sing like a 'real' man!" - negotiating masculinity and gender identity as gay men in vocal education. The project aims to examine the experiences of gay singers in classical vocal education and investigate how masculinity is performed, regulated and negotiated in Norwegian higher musical education institutions.
During the last seven years, through the organization Art Aparat that she co-founded, Maja led many projects that use music as a tool for intercultural learning, psycho-social support, social inclusion and organized trainings for artists, teachers and youth workers on the topic.
As a composer, she created music for film, theater, dance performances, TV, animated videos and o audio-visual installations.
Lucy trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, the Royal Northern College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Lucy has worked as a creative music leader and performer with a wide range of music and arts organisations both within the UK and internationally. She has worked extensively with orchestras across the UK and from 2012 – 2106 Lucy was the Director of SCO Connect, the Creative Learning Department of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Her main interests and specialisms are in music and health, music education and outreach, creative music making and cross-cultural and cross-arts collaboration.
She has worked in theatrical venues in the United States, and participated in various experimental music ensembles, both in the US and in Europe. She also wears the hat of a solo artist, and you can say that she is overall a person of a sound mind.
As a directing assistant, she has worked at the Operosa festival in Montenegro, at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona (Italy), the Abai State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (Kazakhstan), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Italy), the Jerusalem Lyric Opera Studio (Israel), and at the Ente Luglio Musicale Trapanese festival (Italy). She also completed an internship at the Arena di Verona Opera Festival in 2018. She has assisted prominent opera directors such as Marina Bjanki, Lorenzo Marijani, Alesio Picek, Martin Lloyd-Evans, and Latvian actress Rezia Kalnina.
Since 2021, Natalija has been a participant in the "Opera: Past, Present, Perfect!" project organized by the Music and Opera Theater Organization MOTO, where she co-directed the opera "Dečja soba" by Milenko Živković, which was performed at the closing of BEMUS 2021. This opera has become a permanent part of the repertoire of the Duško Radović Little Theater, performed throughout the country, and it has won the "Music Classics" award as well as a special award from MP Duško Radović.
In a co-production with MOTO and the Duško Radović Little Theater, Natalija directed the opera "Let's Make an Opera/Little Chimney Sweep" by Benjamin Britten, which also received a special award from the Duško Radović Little Theater. She is currently preparing the direction of the chamber opera "Čista voda" by composer Olga Janković. Natalija is a PhD student in the Department of Music Theory at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
Olaolu is also an ethnomusicologist whose research focuses on the documentation, retention, propagation and perpetuity of indigenous musical traditions as they evolve and are reimagined through time and space. He is presently a PhD candidate in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Thomas Hilder, Abimbola Adelakun and Gediminas Karoblis.
In 2022, he participated as composer and music co-producer on a short film project, as part of the Kazi Moto series for Triggerfish and Disney.
His acoustic compositions Ngolo Ngolo (for Djembe and Violin) and One Buzzy Evening (for Tenor Trombone and Percussion) are published by Verlag Neue Musik. At the University of Michigan, he teaches courses on Music in Africa, Global and Popular Music, Theory and Analysis of World Music, and Music and Philosophy.
His music has been presented in venues such as the Melbourne Recital Hall, National Concert Hall Dublin, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Ars Electronica, Casa da Música, and in events such as Weimarer Frühjahrstage fur zeitgenössische Musik, Wien Modern Festival, Cynetart and Música Viva. His work as a pianist and improvisor has been released by Creative Source Recordings and he has collaborated with musicians such as Chris Brown, Mark Applebaum, Carlos Zingaro and Evan Parker.
His writings reflect his approach to design and composition by articulating creative practice in a wider understanding of cultural theory. Pedro has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University (2007) and has been Music Chair for international conferences such as ICMC 2008, SMC 2009, ISMIR 2012. At Queen’s University Belfast, he has held posts as Director of Education and Acting Head of School in the School of Music and Sonic Arts and is currently Director of Research at the Sonic Arts Research Centre. In 2012 he was appointed Professor at Queen’s and awarded Northern Bank’s “Building Tomorrow’s Belfast” prize.