Worked for radio stations, music publishers, festivals and concert organisers as well as a music consultant. Since 2007 with the Podium Gegenwart of the German Music Council, since 2010 its project manager.

He has premièred over 270 pieces, most of which are dedicated to him. His repertoire consists almost exclusively of the latest pieces, which often require a great deal of physical effort, use electronics or which no one else wants to play. He holds a doctorate, is a member of stock11 and Lange//Berweck//Lorenz, and lives in Berlin.

Author in the field of new music. Editor of the series ‘Contemporary Music for Flute’ at Bärenreiter Verlag, where her books ‘The Techniques of Flute Playing’ have also been published. Artistic director of the Landesjugendensemble Neue Musik Niedersachsen. Member of the advisory board for the Künstlerhof Schreyahn. Winner of the FEM pin of the German Composers' Association.

Jury Spartenoffene Förderung Berlin 2016-2019, board member IG Jazz Berlin 2019-2021, various project management, composer for radio and television productions.

Studied guitar and composition at the Musikhochschule in Munich.
With the Monika Roscher Bigband: Echo Jazz, Förderpreis d. Landeshauptstadt München, Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis, Theatertreffen Berlin: Woyzeck and Das Große Heft (composition).

Studied in Munich and received scholarships in Bamberg and Paris.
He has been the conductor of Ju[mb]le, a youth ensemble for contemporary music in Bavaria, since 2014. In addition to his artistic activities, he has regularly curated various contemporary music projects since his student days - he was artistic co-director of the aDevantgarde Festival from 2010-2017 and has been in charge of the publication series ‘Neue Töne’ since 2016.

Studied sociology and political science in Stuttgart, where he founded the multimedia magazine Harakiri in 1993.
Subsequently freelance author for various music magazines and daily newspapers as well as book publications. From 2000 to 2014 he was editor-in-chief of Intro Magazine and from 2011 to 2014 he was also Director Media Content at the Hörstmann Group. Operator of the labels onitor, Scheinselbständig and Cereal/Killers as well as the art edition Edition Fieber.
Thomas Venker holds academic and artistic lectureships at the Folkwang University, the University of Paderborn and the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Monheim Triennale.

Ariel William Orah is an Indonesian artist based in Berlin, specialising in socially engaged art and diaspora. Based in Germany for 12 years, he combines economics, sustainability and empathy in his practice, exploring social and climate injustice as well as identity and memory. His main media are sound and performance art, with works at Hamburger Bahnhof and CTM Festival Berlin, among others. He founded Soy Division in 2017 and is co-founder of the Mutating Kinship Lab and L-KW. In addition to his art, he is dedicated to curatorial and artistic research projects, especially performing arts and sound.

Hanna Fink is a musicologist, music theorist and cultural manager specialising in contemporary music. She teaches music theory at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and is involved in projects on composition pedagogy and music education. She organises concerts and workshops of new music in Cologne and the Ruhr region and has been ensemble manager for the chamber music ensemble hand werk (Cologne) since 2017. She is currently Chairwoman of the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Ruhr e.V. and the Cultural Advisory Board of the City of Essen. She writes specialist articles, writes for new music magazines and is responsible for the reconstruction of MusikTexte.

Julia Cloot is a literature and musicologist. She has been working as a curator and deputy managing director of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain since 2013, where she initiates programmes such as ‘Jazz Connects RheinMain’ and ‘Wald? Wald!’ programmes. She has written around 120 publications on new music, literature, music theatre and performance and is honorary chairwoman of the German Music Council's Federal Committee for Cultural Diversity and a member of the jury for the Karl Sczuka Prize for Radio Drama at SWR.

Sophie Emilie Beha works in various contexts, including music, text, language, curation, improvisation and dramaturgy. She is an author and presenter for various public broadcasters and writes regularly for newspapers and various specialist magazines. Both on stage and in front of the camera, she presents podcasts, panel discussions, festivals and concert introductions. In Cologne, Beha curates concerts and festivals. In 2021 she was nominated for the German Jazz Journalism Award, and since 2022 her curatorial work has been supported by NICA artist development. She has been on the jury of the German Jazz Award since 2023.

Studied General and Comparative Literature and Romance Studies (French). Studied at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder.

Since 2002 organiser/managing director and artistic co-director of CTM (formerly club transmediale) - festival for adventurous music and arts, former member of the media lab aroma-agentur für Informationsdesign, founding member of the association DISK - Initiative Bild & Ton e.V., Co-initiator of the network I.C.A.S. - International Cities of Advanced Sound and related Arts, former head of the EU cultural project E.C.A.S. - Networking Tomorrow's Art for an Unknown Future (2010- 2015), member of the curator network IKT since 2008, member of the Berlin Council for the Arts for the field of digital cultures and experimental (pop) music since 2013, co-founder of the artist agency DISK Agency, Berlin. In addition, (co-)curator of various exhibitions at the interface of music and visual arts. In 2021, he founded the Polish Laguna Foundation to establish a House of Women Composers in the Polish voivodeship of West Pomerania.

Born in Tehran (Iran). Studied composition in Bremen, Cologne and Freiburg. Lives in Cologne, composes passionately and works internationally with various ensembles and musicians. Her artistic career has already been supported by many prizes and scholarships. In 2023 she will receive the Heidelberg Artist Award.

Moves in changing genres of pop culture, his work has been honoured with gold and platinum awards. Works as an A&R consultant for Universal Music/Vertigo. Involved with #verso (songwriters' association) as co-initiator of the international and cross-genre “Swop Camps”.

Echo Ho, a transmedia artist born in Beijing and based in Cologne, interweaves improvised music with real-time composition. She combines different media forms and integrates unusual poetic and narrative elements while drawing deeply from the philosophy of the Chinese instrument, the qin. With her long-running project SlowQin, she challenges traditional musical boundaries and interweaves diverse cultural, artistic, technical and philosophical concepts. Her works have been exhibited at venues such as the He Xiangning Art Museum and the ZKM. She is currently a PhD student at the Tangible Music Lab in Linz, Austria. 

Contemporary jazz, improvised music, contemporary music
2013-2019 Curator of the Serious Series in Berlin - series for jazz and improvised music
2016-2019 on the board of IG Jazz Berlin, managing director since 2020

Currently a consultant for jazz and international cultural relations at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts. Until 2023 Head of the Cultural Department of the district town of Leonberg, previously Head of Cultural Education and Participation at the Cultural Department of Esslingen am Neckar. Until 2018, Arts & Culture Officer at BASF SE in Ludwigshafen. Between 2012 and 2016 Managing Director of the German Jazz Union.

Studied jazz, rock and pop percussion at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and Communication and Cultural Management at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen.

Studied piano and composition for film and television at the Munich University of Music and Theatre. Teaches at the music academies in Munich and Hamburg.
In addition to commissions, she realises her own multimedia music theatre projects and works internationally with dance groups and video artists. Numerous CDs have been released on her projects. She received a scholarship from the international artists' centre Villa Concordia in Bamberg and was awarded the sponsorship prize of the City of Munich.

Active in the field of jazz and improvised music as well as electro-acoustic improvisation. Curator of ‘Come Closer’ and production manager of ‘Yiddish Summer Weimar’.

She performs contemporary, improvised and electro-acoustic music around the world and is particularly interested in intercultural and interdisciplinary projects. She lives in Montabaur in the Westerwald and is the artistic director of the local concert series Lauschvisite and the Landesjugendensemble Neue Musik Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar.

Ali Nikrang is a multidisciplinary artist and AI researcher who works at the intersection of music and artificial intelligence. He teaches as a professor at the Munich University of Music and Theatre and conducts research at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. As a classical musician and AI developer, he combines AI and music, for example through the composition tool Ricercar.

George Lewis is an American composer, musicologist and trombonist, as well as Professor of American Music at Columbia University. He is artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a corresponding member of the British Academy. Lewis is a pioneer of interactive computer music and explores the connection of music with race, gender and decolonisation.

Yağmur Uçkunkaya works in the field of AI technology, specialising in the combination of AI, art and music. She studied media informatics at the TU and FU Berlin, specialising in creative AI applications. During her time at the AI agency Birds on Mars, she developed Mouse on Mars, an AI singing tool that generates non-existent languages. She is currently studying Design and Computation and working on projects that explore emotional manipulation through technology. Her work has been presented at the Ars Electronica Festival, among others.

In her works, the German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf explores socio-political and techno-social concepts through radical listening, environmental storytelling and social composing. Her work includes instrumental music, AR installations and transdigital theatre, often in collaboration with partners such as d&b audio and Ars Electronica.

Moritz Simon Geist, a music producer from Dresden, has been creating electronic music with robots since 2012. His mechanical drum robot ‘MR-808’ marked the beginning of his international career. Geist has performed at festivals such as the Venice Biennale and SXSW and has received several awards, including the German Pop Music Award 2022.

Cymin Samawatie combines chamber music jazz with Persian poetry in her quartet Cyminology. In 2013, she founded the Trickster Orchestra, which develops contemporary art music for a diverse society. Her works have been composed for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Elbphilharmonie concert hall, among others, and Samawatie has received numerous awards, including the German Jazz Prize and the TONALi Award.

Lisa Nolte is artistic co-director of SONIC MATTER in Zurich and editor at field notes in Berlin. In 2023 she initiated the Z4 Studio Residency in Zurich. She works freelance for music magazines and has experience in management with various ensembles. As a member of the founding team, she was head of communications at ZeitRäume Basel from 2014-18. She also worked for BAM! and Zwei Tage Zeit / Zwei Tage Strom.

Lena Krause is Managing Director of FREO e.V. and is involved in cultural policy at the German Music Council and the German Cultural Council. She specialises in social, tax and funding policy. She was previously manager of ensemble mosaik.

After studying social sciences in Gießen and Tampere, he has been working as a curator since 2008. He has been music curator at Kampnagel since 2017 and music director of Kaserne Basel since 2021. Focal points: Pop culture on the fringes of experimental, electronic, contemporary music and the historical avant-gardes of the 20th century.

Eva Maria Müller studied cultural studies in Hildesheim and has been working as a freelancer in the new music scene since 2011. She organises festivals such as the Darmstadt Summer Course and was interim director of the Donaueschingen Music Days in 2022. In 2024, she will take over the management of Klangspuren Schwaz.

The German Society for Electroacoustic Music (DEGEM) promotes electroacoustic music and sound art on a national and international level. This includes the organisation of specialist conferences, courses, concerts and sound installations, international exchange and the release of publications and recordings, as well as a commitment to appropriate production conditions for electroacoustic music, suitable funding instruments and networking with other associations, interest groups, artists and institutions.

For 50 years, the German Jazz Union (formerly Union Deutscher Jazzmusiker e.V.) has seen itself as the voice of jazz musicians in Germany. In cooperation with international, national and regional jazz associations as well as jazz-related and interdisciplinary organisations, it campaigns for necessary improvements to the structural and financial framework conditions for performing and teaching jazz musicians. 

The German Composers' Association (DKV) is an association of composers of all genres and styles who are united by the idea of solidarity in representing the interests of all musical creatives and is committed to the interests of composers of all nationalities living and working in Germany in a variety of ways. The DKV represents the position of authors internationally and nationally vis-à-vis politicians and the public, as well as in shaping legislation on their social security.

The German Music Council (DMR) represents the interests of 15 million musicians in Germany and is the world's largest national umbrella organisation for music culture. It represents around 100 organisations and umbrella associations of professional and amateur music-making as well as the 16 state music councils. With its music policy work as a civil society actor, the association provides impetus for a vibrant musical life and is in constant dialogue with federal politics.

The Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband (DTKV), the oldest and largest professional association for musicians (founded in 1844), is organised nationwide with around 9,000 individual members and is the professional association for all music professions - composers, performers, music educators, etc. Membership of the Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband is a trade mark for the music professions.

In addition to representing interests vis-à-vis political, social and economic institutions and associations, the DTKV is primarily committed to improving the framework conditions for music and music education in Germany. It is committed to ensuring that the rights of freelance musicians in particular are protected and that musicians can make a living from their work. 

The Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (GNM) was founded in 1922, banned by the National Socialists in 1933 and refounded in 1948. The purpose of the society is to promote new music, taking into account its individual and social function, its further development and the mediation between theory and practice. It currently has around 300 natural and 50 co-operative members. The GNM represents Germany at the iscm World New Music Days and appoints a jury for the German submissions. 

The Initiative Musik is the central funding organisation of the Federal Government and the music industry for the German music industry. We strengthen the presentation and dissemination of music from Germany at home and abroad. Our programmes, projects and awards focus on supporting professional newcomers, musicians, live music clubs and music companies as well as expanding sustainable structures for rock, pop and jazz throughout Germany. 

Studied guitar and percussion at the Würzburg University of Music, 1982 Director of the Würzburg Hermann Zilcher Conservatory, since 2003 President of the German Music Council, since 2009 Honorary Professor at the Munich University of Music and Theatre.

Camille Buscot is a cultural scholar and has represented German jazz music in various associations and roles since 2016. Since 2022, she has served as Managing Director of IG Jazz Berlin, and since May 2024, she has held this position for the Deutsche Jazzunion e.V. She is also a board member of the Berlin Music Council.

Since June 2023, Caroline Scholz has been the Press and Public Relations Officer at the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. Prior to that, she held various leadership positions in cultural management, including at ensemble mosaik and Karsten Witt Music Management, as well as in project coordination for the Association of Music and Art Schools in Brandenburg and the University of Zurich.