Emma Franz is an Australian filmmaker and musician whose debut feature, Intangible Asset Number 82, screened in competition at prestigious festivals around the world. She has been invited to present her work at the Smithsonian Institution, Lincoln Center, and elsewhere.

Alex Jimenez Ruanova is a composer. His compositions reveal folkloric influences from Latin America and have been performed in international forums and concert halls. He has received important commissions from music ensembles and orchestras, as well as numerous prizes and recognition.

 Enrico Minaglia was born in Bologna and lives in Rome. He graduated in composition, conducting and philosophy. Works in his catalogue include pieces for orchestra, ensemble, voice, solo instrument and electronics. He has also written soundtracks for short films, documentaries, theatre plays, video-art and art exhibitions. As an arranger and conductor, he has been working on several TV/movies/theatre soundtrack productions, for the major Italian broadcasters and theatres. In 2016 he won the Kompolize Composition Competition in Berlin, in 2019 he got the 3rd prize at the F.J. Reinl Composition Competition of Vienna, and the Honorable Mention at the 40th “Valentino Bucchi” Composition Competition in Rome.

Elena Langer’s colorful, dramatic, and often humorous music has become increasingly familiar to audiences through her pieces, operatic, vocal and orchestral. Her 2016 hit for Welsh National Opera, Figaro Gets a Divorce, was described by Rupert Christiansen in the Daily Telegraph as “that rare thing: a modern opera that exerts an immediate emotional impact”. Elena Langer studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her works have been performed at Zurich Opera, Carnegie Hall, Grand Theatre de Geneve, Opera National du Rhin, Welsh National Opera, Shakespeare’s Globe, Hong Kong Academy of Arts and the Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden. Elena is currently working on an opera based on Nikolai Erdman’s play The Suicide, to be performed at the Stanislavsky Theatre in 2022.

Rozalie Hirs is a Dutch composer and poet whose music spans vocal, orchestral, and electronic. She often combines traditional instruments with electronic sounds. Her poetry includes printed collections and interactive digital poetry, created with visual artists and graphic designers. Performers of her music include Amsterdam Sinfonietta, ASKO | Schönberg ensemble, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bozzini Quartet, Formalist Quartet, Klangforum Wien, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, and Slagwerk Den Haag. Hirs also performs her own compositions, mostly for international festivals. Her music scores are published by Donemus Publishing, her CDs by Attacca Productions, and her poetry books by Singel Uitgeverijen | Querido.