Bernardino Beggio was born in Padova. He has studied at the Music Academy and at the University of Padova and afterwards at the Music Academy of Gdansk and Cracow). He has started to compose after many years’ experience of directing the Interensemble, as pianist and as music organizer. He performed as piano soloist and with Interensemble over the world, often presenting world premieres of works by composers of various nationalities. As a composer he is particularly interested in the relationship between the word and music, in the symmetry and similitudes between verbal and musical languages, other than in research of simplicity and logical intelligibility of which some of contemporary North American composers such as Tom Johnson and Steve Reich were fond of. He has composed for chamber music groups and solo instruments, for string orchestra and for wind instruments, for the theatre and for experimental cinema. His music has been performed in most european countries and USA and broadcast from the national radio networks of Belgium, Croatia, Rumenia, Poland, Sweden, Spain as well as from Italian Rai. He has been requested for engagements from the Theatre Européen de Musique Vivante, from Festival del Flauto and Antidogma Musica in Turin, and from Accademia San Felice in Florence and Nuova Musica Festival in Senigallia. He has been in the jury committee of the international music contests New Music for New Pianist.

 

Composer and Psychologist, Michele Biasutti was awarded diplomas at the Padova Conservatory of music. A prize-winning composer (International Composer Competition L. Russolo, International Competition of Bourges, Concour International de Composition de la Societé de Musique Contemporaine du Québec, International Competition Pierre Schaeffer, ... ), his works were radio broadcast (rai, orf, rne 2, Radio Bratislava, rtsi, hrt, Radio Canada) and selected for International Festivals (isea 95 in Montreal, isea 96 in Rotterdam, Soundbox in Helsinki, vi bscm in Rio de Janeiro, jim99 in Paris, vii bscm in Curitiba). His music was performed in Festivals in Europe (Music Now in Dublin, Purcell Room in London, Musica Verticale in Rome, Aspekte in Salzburg,Triduum in Klagenfurt, Society for new music in Prague, Concerts à la Villa Gillet in Lyon, Musiques d’aujourd’hui in Marseille, Neue Musik in Freiburg;Encuentros mùsica europea in Madrid,...) in North and South America (m.i.t. in Boston, smcq in Montreal, San Francisco State University, New York University, III Bienal Internacional de Música Elettroacustica in San Paulo,...), in Japan, Korea (Seul International Computer Music Festival 2003) and Australia (Interfaces, ACMC 2000 in Brisbane). He was composer in residence at the University of Massachusetts. He collaborated with International Centers for electronic music. He is active as music organizer, currently scientific director of the Computer Art Festival in Padova. He is in the jury of international competitions of composition.
As a researcher in psychology of music, he received a Ph.D. at Padova University, discussing an experimental research about the perception of environmental sounds. For reason of research and advanced study Biasutti spent time at Indiana University in Bloomington and at the University of California at Berkeley. His writings have been published in several international psychological reviews. Among them: International Journal of Psychosomatics, Rivista di Musicoterapia, Hearing Research (Elseiver). He is the author of the books: Scholar Autonomy and Educational Research(cleup), Environmental Sound Education (La Nuova Italia). He has taught at the Conservatories of Novara and Venice and is researcher at Padova University.
Michele Biasutti specializes in ecological music, music which seeks to return to the essential elements of human nature, re-evaluating the primary sphere of human auditory perception. He is interested in the relationship between scientific thought and the logic of music, applying the results to his composition and research. Biasutti has composed for the theater, for chamber ensembles, and for orchestra. His works for instruments and live electronics deepens the possibilities of interaction between technological developments and instrumental resources.

 

Jean-Luc Darbellay
Swiss composer of orchestral, chamber and vocal works that have been performed across Europe successfully; he is also active as a conductor.
Mr. Darbellay graduated from clarinet studies at the Konservatorium Bern and had composition studies with Cristóbal Halffter and Dimitri Terzakis. He then attended masterclasses at the IMF Lucerne with Heinz Holliger and Klaus Huber and, as an assistant, with Edison Denisov. Furthermore, he attended seminars in Paris with Pierre Boulez and conducting classes in Bern and privately with Franco Ferrara.
In 1978, he founded the LUDUS Ensemble, for the performance of contemporary music, and later, in Russia, he founded the Spectrum Ensemble, featuring both Russian and Swiss musicians. Since 1994, he has served as president of the ISCM (Swiss branch), and he is a member of the composers group known as Lacroix.
His works have been broadcast on MDR (Leipzig) and Radio France, performed at Présences (Paris) and the St. Petersburg Festival (Russia) by many great soloists, especially cellist Siegfried Palm and have represented Switzerland at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers.
As a conductor, he has toured in Canada, China, Malaysia, South Korea, and the USA, in addition to the whole of Europe. He is married to the clarinettist Elsbeth Darbellay, and their son, Olivier, is a cellist and French hornist.
Edition Modern/Tre Media Musikverlage publishes his works.

Yuji Itoh
Born in Nagoya (Japan) in 1956, he completed post-graduate studies in composition and conducting at Tokyo Gakugei University, and learned with Jo Kondo privately.
From 1978, his works have been played in Japan and abroad, for example the festival in Tokyo, Bourge, Linz, Senigallia, etc.
He produced and supervised many concerts, for example, “A Guide to Better Appreciation of 20th-century Music”(12 concerts in 4years,given by Kodaira City, Tokyo.) etc.
And since 1999, he has been continuing “YS Project” with the pianist Satoko Inoue.
As of 2003, they have made 15 concerts in Roma, K_ln, Paris, Lille, Bremen, Münster, Bucharest, Cairo and Tokyo. Those concerts are for introducing Japanese contemporary music and have the collaboration works with the composers and performers in all over the world.

The term "Musical Alchemist" best describes modern music composer Robert Scott Thompson. Combining his mastery of the electroacoustic, contemporary instrumental, pop and avant-garde genres into a swirling cohesive whole, he is an important pioneer on music's new frontier.
Robert has earned degrees from the University of Oregon School of Music and the Graduate School of the University of California at San Diego, where he
completed the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the studies of music composition and state-of-the-art computer applications to music synthesis, digital recording and sound processing. He has received music and video-artawards from significant international festivals, had his compositions performed by some of the world's leading instrumentalists and ensembles, earning him recognition from such mentors as Pulitzer Prize winning composers Bernard Rands and Roger Reynolds, and avant-garde music notable Joji Yuasa and Gordon Mumma. In 1991 he was named a Fulbright Research Scholar to Denmark and continued his compositional activities at the Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music in Aarhus.
Robert is Director of the Center for Audio Recording Arts (CARA) in the School of Music at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia where he heads up a program in audio engineering and in the applications of computer technology to recorded music and sound design. In addition, he is a member of the composition faculty and teaches a broad spectrum of courses in composition, orchestration, analysis and world music. He was the 1994 recepient of the Georgia State University Distinguished Honors Professor Award.
Prior to joining the Georgia State University faculty, Robert was a Research Assistant at the Center for Music Experiment (CME) Computer Audio Research Laboratory at the University of California at San Diego (CARL) - ow known as CRCA. During his time at CARL he was involved in digital audioresearch and composition using music by F. Richard Moore as well as other related projects.
Recent awards include the "Menzione d'Onore" in the 1994 Luigi Russollo Competition in Varese, Italy, the 1999 Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition in Bourges, France and the 1995 Irino Prize Foundation Competition in Chamber Music Tokyo, Japan.
Robert's The Silent Shore was released in 1996 by Oasis of Canada as the first recording on their new Mirage label which is devoted to Ambient Music. This recording presents an extension of Robert's work in the Ambient genre, which has been on-going since 1976. Influences as diverse as Chopin and Satie, Stockhausen, Varese and Cage, and Bowie and Eno can be heard in Robert's music. Robert says that his first love is the electronic music synthesizer but he is also active as an expressive vocalist, cellist, pianist, guitarist, video artist, computermusician, recording engineer and producer.