Ondrej Veselý

Ondrej Veselý is a guitarist, writer, and composer specializing in contemporary music, with a focus on collaboration with living composers. He is the author of Music in Music, a book on polystylism in Eastern European music, and a radio host on Rádio Devín (Slovak National Radio), where he presents programs on new and experimental music.

In dangerous, reactionary, confusing times, Ukrainian soprano, conductor, and curator Viktoriia Vitrenko stands out as one of the leading voices of her generation in European contemporary music. At the beginning of this year, Vitrenko released her first solo album, Limbo (Kyiv Dispatch)—dedicated to Belarusian musician and activist Maria Kalesnikava—a powerful artistic response to isolation, trauma, and political injustice.

Viktoriia Vetrenko. Photo © Martin Sigmund/ECLAT Festival.
Valgeir Sigurðsson is a cross-genre composer and producer from Iceland known for his mixture of contemporary classical writing and use of electronic production familiar from popular styles. Sigurðsson has composed music for film and visual media, stage, as well as concert works and operas. He is also one of the founding members of the Bedroom Community label, which is a global collective of artists active in contemporary classical, alternative, and experimental music.
Valgeir Sigurðsson. Photo: Jónatan Grétarsson.
“There are places in my pieces, (even if I heard a piece many times) where I really do not know what is happening or what will happen. Those are places where one can feel the danger but also the vitality of existence. ”
Chaya Czernowin. Photo: Branthemannman.
Marc Sabat (born 1965) is a Canadian composer of Ukrainian descent living in Berlin since 1999. He is a pioneer in the field of contemporary just intonation music. Together with
Wolfgang von Schweinitz he has also developed the Extended Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation system.

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