"Was born 1988 in Lisboa, Portugal and started playing cello and trumpet at Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa at the age of 7. In 1999 joined Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to study classical and music theory and in the current year recorded his first album - Multiples - with Ernesto Rodrigues and José Oliveira out on Creative Sources Recordings.

Apart from work in music ensembles ranging for contemporary classical to free improvisation, also works with live music poetry, theatre and film-music. After lengthy residency in Lisboa, (1988-2016) moved to Berlin and has been active as composer and improviser in the scene.

Worked with some international and renewed artists like Ernesto Rodrigues, Jean-luc Guionnet, Margarida Garcia, Manuel Mota, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Sei Miguel, Tim Goldie, Jeffrey Morgan, Oren Marshall, Gerhard Uebele, Klaus Kurvers, Gabriel Paiuk, Nicolas Field, Jaime Fennelly, Blaise Siwula, Will Guthrie, Pawel Grabowski, Michael Thieke, Wade Matthews, Leonel Kaplan, Diego Chamy, Gabriel Paiuk, Barry Weisblat, Joe Giardullo, Jassem Hindi, Tisha Mukarji, Masahiko Okura, Taku Unami, Toshihiro Koike, Sharif Sehnaoui, Christine Abdelnour, Alexandre Bellenger, Carlos Zingaro, Romaric Sobac, Nuno Rebelo, Nuno Torres, Naoto Yamagashi, Heddy Boubaker, Gerhard Uebele, Guillermo Torres, Tomas Gris, Carlos Santos, Bruno Parrinha, Miguel Leiria Pereira, Miguel Ivo Cruz, Alberto Cirera, Nuno Morão, Mark Sanders, Dennis Gonzaléz, Alípio Carvalho Neto, Raymond Macdonald, Neil Davidson, David Stachenas, Lisa Ullén, D'incise, Cyril Bondy, Miguel Mira, Rodrigo Amado, Abdul Moimême, Monsieur Trinité, João Madeira, Álvaro Rosso, Gil Gonçalves, Marian Yanchyk, Filipe Passos, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Christian Wolfarth, Thanos Chrysakis, Bechir Saade, Kurt Liedwart, Miguel A. Garcia, Ilia Belorukov, Andrew Lafkas, Gao Jiafeng, Eric Wong, Johan Moir, Casey Moir, Magda Mayas, Matthias Muller, Alexander Frangenheim ...

Has performed and toured in all Europe. Released more than 30 albums of his own projects."

"Gábor Hartyáni started to improvise parallel to playing with the Colla Parte Consort renaissance ensemble and the Youth String Orchestra of Gödöllő 17 years ago. Later his attention shifted toward instant composition, jazz and world music. After his Sociology and Anthropology studies in Budapest and creating for two and a half years in Amsterdam, he moved to Berlin in early 2017. Besides working on his solo project TranceMutation he is the coordinator of the multidisciplinary Young Blood Initiative, founder of the world fusion collective Khayâl and the cellist of the electronic live act Schattenspiel, the jazz band Small Kingdom and Carlos Libedinsky's Magic Signs Orchestra."

"Guido Kohn is an improviser/cellist/noise musician. Born in Buenos Aires in 1988, he studied Chamber Music in Buenos Aires Conservatory and music composition with Ricardo Capellano, Marcelo Katz and Fernando Tarrés. He played tango for many years (winning the "Hugo del Carril" award in 2010 with his Barro y Pampa quintet) and later decided to move on to modern jazz music (Camila Nebbia Sexteto, Proyecto Jampara, Juan Bayon's Ultramar), original compositions and experimental music (Camilo Angeles's group "Palabra", or Amanda Irarrázabal's "Dactilar", "Arre" cello ensemble or the company "El Sueño de los Elefantes"), as well as free improvisation. He won a double scholarship from Argentina's National Fund for Arts in 2015 to participate in both levels of the Encounter of Composition and Improvisation which took place in Bariloche (Patagonia) and the Kirchner Cultural Centre. He participated in various tours and festivals around Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Japan, Spain and Germany, and has recorded various albums with musicians from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Perú.:

"Hui-Chun Lin (林惠君), Cello solo player, Performer, composer. born 1979 in Taiwan. Classical piano and cello education. Studied with Professor Peter Bruns at Dresden Conservatory. Postgraduate studies in improvisation with Tilo Augsten at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Worked as solo cellist and ensemble musician Improvisation, theatre music, contemporary music, dance performance, classical music, world music and cello solo with live electronics. Participated in a workshop with "Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble" at Carnegie Hall in New York 09/2006, also participated the workshop "Dave Douglas: Composition and Improvisation in New York 02/2010" Leipziger Jazztage 2007 (jazz festival) with "Beat Freisens Spelunkenorchester", Conducted an improvisation class at a middle school in Tainan/Taiwan 2008/09 "Artist in Residence" in Cité des Arts Paris 07/2010-01/2011. "Codes" Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music in Lublin (Poland) 05/2010. ​The CD Production "The Ballad Of Li Qingzhao And Su Dongpo" won the prize in der Kempener Paterskirche. 08/2015 "Streitraum Extra" with Laio Yiwu at Schaubühne Berlin, 12/2015 Dance/Music Improvisation "Suivre" with Jenny Haack, Jenny Döll, Bettina Neuhaus Musik: Michael Vorfeld - Perkussion, Barnaby Tree, 01/2016. "Improvisation XChange 2016" with Jenny Haack 07/2016 "RARA Festival" Sicily Italy 7/2016 Orchestral Whifftracks - Musik & Geruch, with Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, 09/2016

Hui-Chun Lin is a musician who moves fluidly among work in avantgarde music, world music, jazz and improvisation and also performance. Her repertoire encompasses traditional, experimental and classical music in equal measure. Her musical work is concerned above all with sounding out the intersections, boundaries and connections among genres, epochs and cultures. She is now also a musician, performer and cello teacher in Berlin, since 2011.

Since 2015, she starts to produce her own music, working with the Berlin Music Label "Maybee Records", and making music albums with variable musicians."