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Patricia Felber Rufer studied Geography and Social Anthropology at the University of Bern and the University of Arizona, USA. Rufer completed her Ph.D. at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL in NRP49 “Landscapes and habitats of the Alps”. Between 2007 and 2011 she was the assistant at the Department of Geography of the University of Bern. From 2010 to 2015, she was the president of the “Gender Equality” working group of the Swiss Academies of Sciences Switzerland. Rufer has publications on the situation of junior scientists at Swiss universities. From 2013 to 2018, she was the ‘Equal Opportunities Officer’ at the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Bern.

Patricia Felber works as a social scientist on the topics of university development, university culture and career development. Her latest Publication is in 2016: Assessment of the Career Situation of Young Female Scientists in Switzerland. Recommendations for gender-appropriate academic career paths. Swiss academies communications, Vol 11, No 2, 2016.

Tønder Hansen has been working as the leader of the new music/sound art organization SNYK, which arranges the festival G((o))ng Tomorrow in Copenhagen, among others. Tønder Hansen has been based in Norway previously, between 2000-2006, when he worked as manager and producer for Cikada, and as a head producer with Ultima. With his experience in the field of contemporary music and broad international network, he is currently the artistic director of Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival.

Serge Vuille is a Swiss programmer, percussionist, and composer engaged in the stage of contemporary and experimental music. He developed an open and engaged vision of today’s music with the Kammer Klang series and the We Spoke percussion and electronics ensemble, where he was the artistic director for five and ten years respectively. In April 2018, he took over the artistic direction of l’Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva. As a musician, he plays with the London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta, l’Ensemble Ictus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Martin Creed Band as well as solo at the Huddersfield HCMF, London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF), Les Schubertiades, SMC Lausanne, Musikpodium der Stadt Zürich and DruskoManija, Vilnius. He composes concert music as well as multimedia pieces that are performed in Switzerland, England, Germany, Lithuania, the United States, Peru, and Brazil. Serge also teaches experimental music and coaches the percussion ensemble at the Royal College of Music in London.

Elisabeth Treydte studied musicology in Frankfurt/M. and Vienna and she was a researcher at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (2014-2018). Since 2019 she is a researcher at Archiv Frau und Musik Frankfurt/M., focusing on the project “Setting the Tone for Women in Music! Equal Opportunity for Women Composers.” Her Ph.D. Project is on discourses and gender-stereotypes about contemporary male and female composers. 

Manos Tsangaris is composer, drummer and installation artist, one of the most important representatives of experimental music theatre. His compositions are internationally acclaimed and have been performed at several renowned festivals and theatres. In 2009 he was appointed a professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von WeberDresden, and, in the same year, elected as a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (director of the music department in 2012). He has been a member of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste since 2010 and a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2017. Tsangaris was artist-in-residence at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) for the 2012-13 academic year; he has, since October 2012, been the artistic director (from2016) for the Munich Biennale for Music Theatre (together with Daniel Ott). In the academic year, 2017/18 Tsangaris is Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Tsangaris founded the Internationale Institut für Kunstermittlung (www.iike.de). He has done research in the field of scenic anthropology. Since the 1970s, he has repeatedly taken performance conditions to be an essential theme of his compositional work, expressed in different artistic formats.

Nicoll is currently studying with Prof. Yvi Jänicke at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and is the winner of the 2016 Elisa Meyer Vocal Competition. She has also recently won the 2016 Masefield Competition for Innovative Concerts for her concept “TRANSIT” and performs regularly with renowned ensembles for contemporary music such as SolistenEnsemble Phønix16 Berlin (@ashesandglory) and Ambitus Extended in Vienna. 

Lydia Rilling, Chief Dramaturg at Philharmonie Luxembourg, is the Artistic Director of the rainy days festival. She has shaped the festival as a focused response to pressing cultural themes, offering a multiplicity of audiences – newcomers and specialists alike – a forum to experience and think about concert music in all of its diversity. She co-initiated the red bridge project, crossing the boundaries between music, dance, visual arts and film. As a writer, journalist and moderator, she has worked for institutions including Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and Berliner Festspiele. As a musicologist, she has edited books on 20th and 21st-century music, Gustav Mahler and American music. Rilling studied Musicology and Comparative Literature in Berlin, Paris and St. Louis, was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York and taught musicology at Universität Potsdam from 2011 to 2016. 

Lona Gaikis is a Postdoctoral researcher, author, curator, and lecturer in philosophy, music, and art. Her research involves the meaning of music in artistic practice and study of the “new key” in analytic philosopher Susanne K. Langer (*1895; †1985). Active as a curator and engaged with sub- and club cultures in music and the arts, she founded the platform czirp czirp – experimental and sonic arts in 2009. Lona Gaikis holds a master degree in Fine Arts and Ph.D. in Philosophy/Arts and Cultural Studies. 

Jocelyne Rudasigwa began the double bass at the age of 16 and decided two years later, to do her job after having hesitated for a long time with theater. The various productions in which she participates lead her to reconnect very quickly with her former loves and she decided in 2014 to link all her disciplines in her solo project. In addition, she performs in different music-oriented bands of today, both in classical and jazz than so-called popular music and improvisation (Boulouris 5, Eustache, Vortex). It is in this modernity that she develops the search for its musical language.

Dahlia Borsche is a musicologist and curator. In 2019 she has taken on the position as Head of Music at the DAAD Artist-In-Residence program. Dahlia Borsche was active as a promoter, DJ, coordination manager, and producer (CTM Festival Berlin, Labor Sonor, et al.). From 2014-2019 she co-curated CTM’s discourse program. As a musicologist, her most recent engagement was at Humboldt-University’s Chair for Trans-Cultural Musicology in the Department of Musicology and Media Studies. Her research interests focus on contemporary and transcultural music processes, thereby expanding traditional discipline boundaries to the fields of sound, urban and cultural studies.