SARAH NEMTSOV - GERMANY
Sarah Nemtsov (née Reuter) was born in Oldenburg, Germany in 1980. She is the recipient of several prizes and scholarships, such as the German Music Authors Prize (Deutsche Musikautorenpreis GEMA) in 2012, the Busoni Composition Prize (Academy of the Arts Berlin) in 2013, 2016 she won the international RicordiLAB composition competition, in 2018 she was awarded the Oldenburg Composition Prize for Contemporary Music. She got fellowships from various foundations, such as the German National Merit Foundation, Aribert Reimann Foundation, Berlin Senate, or Foundation Zurueckgeben, as well as a residence at Villa Serpentara (Italy) in 2011. 2014/2015 Sarah Nemtsov was composer in residence for Philharmonic Orchestra Erfurt (GMD Joana Mallwitz) and her orchestra pieces were featured in three symphonic concerts. In 2014 she was teaching (composition/music theatre) at the Musikhochschule Cologne. In 2018 (spring semester) she was teaching composition as a DAAD guest lecturer at the University of Haifa, Israel.
Nemtsov’s music is played by renowned ensembles – such as Adapter, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, ensemble modern, ensemble recherche, ensemble mosaik, Ensemble InterContemporain, HR Symphony Orchestra, Basel Sinfonietta, Solistenstenensemble Kaleidoskop, Ensemblekollektiv Berlin, ensemble Lux:NM, Accroche Note, Trio accanto, Ensemble Garage, Ascolta, Vortex ensemble, PHACE, Sonar Quartet, Asasello Quartet, MIVOS Quartet, Nomos Quartet, SCENATET, Phace, Trio Arbós, Neopercusión, Black page orchestra, Oh-Ton-Ensemble, or the Finnish Baroque Orchestra. She has worked with conductors such as Joana Mallwitz, Baldur Brönnimann, Michael Wendeberg, Jonathan Stockhammer, Franck Ollu, Evan Christ, Manuel Nawri or Ilan Volkov.
Her compositions are featured in various international festivals – for example at the Donaueschingen Music Days (2011 and 2018), Darmstadt Summer Course (2014 and 2018), Munich biennale (2012), ICSM World New Music Festival, Musica in Strasbourg, ECLAT Stuttgart, Bregenzer Festspiele, Holland Festival, Festival Ultraschall, MaerzMusik and Klangwerkstatt in Berlin, SPOR or Klang (Denmark), Musica Nova (Finland), Wien modern, Acht Brücken Cologne, Israel Festival or Klangspuren Schwaz. Several of her works are being published at Peer Music Classical Hamburg and since 2016 at Ricordi Publishing house. Several of her compositions are released on CD, amongst others two portrait CDs („A LONG WAY AWAY“ 2012, Edition zeitgenössische Musik/Wergo and „amplified imagination“ 2018, Wergo).
In 2015 Sarah Nemtsov founded a gallery and concert venue in Berlin together with her husband Jascha Nemtsov – „Raum für Kunst und Diskurs“. Also she initiated (as artistic director and composer) the project „Mekomot“ 2015-2016 – a concert tour with contemporary music and old jewish liturgical chants through abandoned synagogues in Germany and Poland.
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CATHERINE LIKHUTA - AUSTRALIAN
BORN 28 MAY
Catherine Likhuta is an Australian-based composer, pianist and recording artist. Her music exhibits high emotional charge, programmatic nature and rhythmic complexity. Catherine's works have been played throughout the United States, Europe and Australia, as well as in Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Her music has enjoyed performances by many prominent soloists (such as Peter Luff, Andrew Pelletier, Denise Tryon, Adam Unsworth, Paul Dean, Griffin Campbell, Ronald Caravan and Trish O'Brien), chamber ensembles (such as PLEXUS, Atlantic Brass Quintet, Western Brass Quintet, Queensland Symphony Orchestra Horns, U.S. Army Field Band Horns, HD Duo and Collusion) and large ensembles (such as Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Australian Voices, University of Georgia Hodgson Singers, University of Georgia Hodgson Wind Ensemble, Queensland Conservatorium Wind Orchestra and Orchestra of the National Radio of Ukraine). Catherine’s pieces have been played at several international events, including four International Horn Symposiums and two World Saxophone Congresses. Her recent residencies include the University of Connecticut, the University of Georgia and North Carolina NewMusic Initiative. She was the winner of the International Horn Society Composition Contest (virtuoso division) and the recipient of several awards, including two grants from the Australia Council for the Arts. Her music can be heard on Cala, Albany and Equilibrium Records.
Catherine holds a Bachelor's degree in jazz piano from Kyiv Glière Music College and a five-year post-graduate degree in composition from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv Conservatory). She is currently pursuing a PhD in composition at the University of Queensland. She has delivered presentations on her work at a number of institutions, including Arizona State University, Bowling Green State University, Butler University, Cornell University, Ithaca College, Queensland Conservatorium, Syracuse University and the Union of Composers of Ukraine.
Catherine is an active performer, often playing her own music. She was the soloist on the premiere and the CD recording of Out Loud, her piano concerto commissioned by the Cornell University Wind Ensemble, and the pianist on Adam Unsworth’s CD Snapshots. Together with her collaborators, she has given numerous recitals, including ones at the 18th World Saxophone Congress (Zagreb, Croatia), 50th International Horn Symposium (Muncie, IN, USA), Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University and University of Michigan.
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