Artists

Aedín Cosgrove (1966)

Irish set- and lighting designer as well as co-artistic director of Pan Pan Theatre in Dublin. Cosgrove works as a freelance designer in all areas of professional theatre production and in Opera and Dance. 

Ali(reza) Ostovar

Interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. He is known for his electroacoustic music, sound colors, performances, and audio-visual art. He completed his master’s degree in “Integrative Composition” at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in 2018.

Anahita Abbasi ((f. 1985))

Iranian composer who lives and works between New York, Graz, and Paris. Abbasi is committed to exploring both the emotional and intellectual aspects of music, with her works often creating mysterious and challenging listening experiences that invite listeners on a journey of discovery and reflection.

Andreas Borregaard (1981)

Danish accordionist. As both soloist and chamber musician, he communicates the accordion’s broad palette of expressions to a wide audience. He collaborates with composers from all over Europe and is actively influencing the development of his instrument’s use and repertoire. 

Anna Flodmark

Anna, a multifaceted pianist educated in Stockholm, Oslo, and Copenhagen, specializes in contemporary music. She collaborates with composers, performing solo and chamber works. Passionate about genre-crossing and artistic exploration, she is currently a freelance musician based in Copenhagen.

Anton Friisgaard

Is a multifaceted musician with a wideranging background in electronic music production and composition and with multiple releases on labels spanning the globe. His artistic curiosity is evident in his many collaborations with classical ensembles, his live performances with electronic pioneer Gunner Møller Pedersen, his in-depth investigations of tapeloops and his most recent Stroom-release 'Teratai Åkande', where he has worked with local balinese Gamelan musicians. 

Aske Kai Tengberg

Aske Kai Tengberg is a composer based in Copenhagen. With a distinctive artistic approach, he explores diverse musical expressions and collaborates across genres. Passionate about creative exchange, he looks forward to engaging with fellow artists and discovering new perspectives in music.

Asli Emre

Asli Emre is a composer and pianist with a distinctive artistic voice. She explores diverse musical landscapes, blending classical traditions with contemporary influences. Passionate about innovation, she creates evocative compositions that bridge genres and artistic expressions, actively engaging in international music projects.

August Fogh Hauskov

Danish composer studying at MGK with teacher and composer Daniel Fladmose.

Aya Yoshida (1992)

Aya Yoshida is a composer born in Kobe, Japan, and residing in both in Denmark and The Netherlands. She began composing at the age of six under the guidance Mrs. Yasuko Osato. In 2014, she moved to Copenhagen and completed her postgraduate studies in composition with Niels Rosing Schow and Jeppe Just Christensen.

Bastard Assignments

Bastard Assignments are Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, Caitlin Rowley, and Josh Spear, four composer-performers making experimental music. They work collaboratively and have developed a shared practice encompassing concert music, movement work, online pieces, text, video, and improvisation.

Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete (1978)

Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete is an artist with various working methods all originating in sound: performance, composition, poetry, theatre, plastic, and visual arts. Born in Lyon, he has studied in Mexico, France, Netherlands, and Portugal.

Bill Dietz ((1983-))

American composer and writer. Since 2012 he has been co-chair of the Music/Sound Department at Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in New York. His work on genealogies of reception and the “political aesthetics of listening” is often presented – not only at festivals, in museums, and academic journals, but also in apartment buildings, magazines, and on public streets.

Cake Of Day

Cake Of Day is an experimental woodwind duo founded by composers and musicians Stine Benjaminsen and Mathilde Schelin. Both members have a keen interest in language and literature, and almost all of Cake Of Day’s own works are text-based in some form.

Camille Helt Haarder

Camille Helt Haarder has a diverse background as a music communicator, record label manager, and performing musician. She has studied to be a church organist, played rhythmic music on electric bass, and released a wide range of electronic music that draws on musique concréte, drone music, and the more extreme forms of ambient music.

Chamber Collective

Chamber Collective is a non-profit collective dedicated to creating a sustainable platform for young artists. The collective collaborates with composers and promotes a sustainable composition environment by reperforming newly written music. They are based in Copenhagen.

Christian Eggen (1957)

Norwegian conductor, composer, pianist, and artistic director of Oslo Sinfonietta. His work ranges from contemporary music through multi-genre projects, installations, television, and radio dramas to film, theatre, jazz, opera, and classical music. 

Clara Iannotta ((f. 1983))

Italian composer and curator, working between Berlin and Paris. Her works are characterized by their theatrical style, where sound and gesture are closely connected. As a result, her scores function as choreographies with detailed instructions for the instrumentalists.

Copenhagen Contemporary String Quartet

Copenhagen Contemporary String Quartet is Denmark's newest ensemble for contemporary music. They debut at KLANG 2025 as an ambitious string quartet that wants to disseminate and communicate today's best new compositional music to a wide audience. Their concert programs are carefully tailored to the individual concert hall and the specific audience.

Dai Fujikura (1977)

London-based composer born in Osaka, Japan. He moved to the UK at fifteen and studied under Sir George Benjamin. His work has been performed by orchestras all over the world, he has collaborated with artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian, and he has received numerous awards, including the Ivor Novello Award and the Silver Lion from the Venice Biennale. 

Daniel Bernhard de Jesus Christiansen

Danish composer studying at MGK with teacher and composer Daniel Fladmose.

Daniel Høyberg

Danish composer studying at MGK with teacher and composer Daniel Fladmose.

Diana Soh (1984)

Singaporean composer residing in Paris since 2011. Having written for a wide range of instrumentation – from chamber and orchestra to dance, film, vocal, multi-media, and site-specific works – she is currently interested in theatre and in the integration of technology into her compositional practice.

Dorte Bjerre Jensen

Dorte Bjerre Jensen is a choreographer whose work is anchored by an evolving artistic inquiry into multisensory relations of ecological attention through movement, participatory performative scores, live art installations, workshops, and writing. 

Du Yun (1977)

Chinese-born composer, performer, and vocalist living in New York. In 2017, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone. She works at the intersection of opera, orchestral music, theatre, cabaret, musical, oral tradition, public performances, electronics, visual arts, and noise.

Elisabeth Kiss

Elisabeth Kiss is a textile designer and visual artist who experiments with color, materials, and composition in textile-collages that combine found objects and materials with a strong tactile narrative. Her colorful works range from decorations of entire spaces to smaller works.

Ensemble Contrechamps

Ensemble of soloists specialized in creating, developing, and disseminating instrumental music of the 20th and 21st centuries. For more than forty years, the ensemble has been dedicated to highlighting the diversity of aesthetics and formats making up the contemporary and experimental music scene.

Ensemble intercontemporain

An ensemble for contemporary music founded by composer and conductor Pierre Boulez in 1976. Under the artistic direction of French conductor Pierre Bleuse, the 31 soloist musicians work in close collaboration with composers, exploring instrumental techniques and developing projects that interweave music, dance, theater, film, video, and visual arts.

Éric-Maria Couturier (1972)

Cellist and soloist in Ensemble intercontemporain since 2002. He also regularly performs on the major international stages as a soloist and with the Talweg trio. He has created the music video games such as Plague Innocent Tale / Requiem, Dying Light, and Vampyre.

Evagoras Apokidis

Greek-Cypriot composer. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nicosia, a master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Music and has studied privately with Tasos Stylianou. He is currently studying for a Ph.D. at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Gustav Riber

Danish composer studying at MGK with teacher and composer Daniel Fladmose.

Hae-Sun Kang (1961)

South-Corean violinist and soloist in Ensemble intercontemporain since 1994. She has premiered countless works, chief among them Pierre Boulez' Anthèmes II for violin and electronics which she recorded for Deutsche Grammophon She was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2014 and awarded the Grand Prix In Honorem by the Academy Charles Cros in 2022.

Håkon Guttormsen

Håkon Guttormsen is a Norwegian trumpet player based in Denmark for 10 years. A graduate of the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, he has played major jazz venues across Scandinavia. Active in jazz, free improvisation, and swing, he is a sought-after collaborator across many genres

Halvcirkel

Is a Danish string trio founded i Copenhagen in 2015, consisting of violist Mika Persdotter, violinist Bettina Marie Ezaki and cellist Nicole Hogstrand. Their work reflects a contemporary take on classical music, balancing tradition with experimentation and always pushing the boundaries on the string trio format. In 2024, Halvcirkel signed with FatCat Records’ modern classical imprint 130701 to release their first album of entirely original compositions, titled 'Vida.' 

Hanne-Marie Le Fevre

Hanne Marie le Fevre is a Danish performance artist and classically trained mezzo-soprano. Her work spans a wide range of genres, from solo performances of church oratorios and masses to experimental installations and cross-aesthetic collaborations. In 2024, she received Klang Festival's Pelle Prize.

Jennifer Walshe (1974)

Irish composer and professor of Experimental Performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart. In addition to her activities as a composer, she frequently performs as a vocalist, specializing in extended techniques.

Jenny Graf Sheppard

Jenny Graf Sheppard activates peripheral places and states through sound composition, improvisation, and participatory works. Her recent works deal with the multi-sensory aspects of listening and how relations and ecologies can be sensed and enacted through sound. 

Jeppe Just Christensen ((1978-))

Danish composer and music theorist. His work explores everyday objects, movement, childhood, and nostalgia, often incorporating amateurism, folk music, and street music. He creates one-man-band concepts and reconfigures found objects and instruments both musically and visually. 

Jonas Færgeman

Danish composer studying at MGK with teacher and composer Daniel Fladmose.

Josias Neergaard

Danish composer studying at MGK with teacher and composer Daniel Fladmose.

K!ART

K!ART is an experimental music ensemble and creative platform based in Copenhagen directed by curator Mikkel Schou. The ensemble is characterized by an exploratory and holistic approach to curation and presents intermedial music events ranging from experimental instrumental music to music-theatre, multimedia-, and performance art works. 

Kirstine Lindemann

Danish composer. With a particular interest in the body and movement as compositional material, Lindemann's work revolves around the investigation of the spaces where we grow into each other and the places where we are delimited. In 2024 she received Klang Festival's Pelle Prize and in 2025 she received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Honorary Award, and that same organization’s 2021 Talent Award.

Leon Thomsen

Danish composer studying at MGK with teacher and composer Daniel Fladmose.

Louis Aguirre (1968)

Cuban composer residing in Denmark. Aguirre was educated as a composer, violinist, and conductor at the University of Arts in Havana, Cuba. His award-winning compositions have been labelled “music from hell” and “not for the faint of heart”, and a number of his works are inspired by the Cuban Santeria religion and its religious texts.

Louise Schrøder

Louise Schrøder studied piano performance and specialised as an accompanist at the Syddansk Musikkonservatorium with Tove Lønskov og Marianna Shirinyan. After her graduation in 2006 she led the touring company Den Rullende Opera until 2016. As an accompanist and rehearsal pianist she has worked at Den Jyske Opera, Den Ny Opera, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Operaakademiet, Polyhymnia and Opera på Grænsen.

Lucas Ounissi (1998)

French trombonist who has been a soloist in the Ensemble Intercontemporain since 2024. Notably, he performed Luciano Berio's Sequenza V at the Philharmonie de Paris in 2022.

Ly Tran

Classically trained singer/performer who works in the field of contemporary music, often exploring themes both connected to own experiences and related to current matters. Her approach is characterised by openness and curiosity, and through her collaborations with composers she is continuingly seeking new ways of expression.

LYD PORT

LYD PORT is a cross-aesthetic duo formed by Mai Ane Pil Siedentopp and Morten Schmidt in 2017. Their works, which range from music drama to sound installations, explore the limitations and freedom of humans and machines, and question our connection to – and disconnection from – nature.

Marceau Lefèvre (1993)

Bassoonist and soloist in the Ensemble intercontemporain since 2023. Before then, he was the principal bassoon of the Brussels Philharmonic from 2017 to 2023. Lefèvre is a much sought-after chamber musician and soloist, regular invited by leading festivals and orchestras such as the the Orchestre national de France, the Hallé orchestra in Manchester, and many others.

Marcus Lease

American composer and sound artist educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and based in Copenhagen. 

Martin Hirsti-Kvam (1991)

Martin Hirsti-Kvam is a Norwegian composer of conceptually oriented works. Utilizing electronics, visual elements, and sampling in dialogue with live performers, he attempts to give new perspectives and reflection to what constitutes music, listening, and live performance. 

Maryanne Amacher ((1938-2009))

American composer and installation artist. She is particularly known for her work with the psychoacoustic phenomenon known as “auditory distortion products”, her many collaborations with John Cage, and the multi-part drama, Intelligent Life, which, while never fully realized, reveals much of Amacher’s thinking on the advancement of music.

Nastaran Yazdani (1987)

Iranian composer living in France. After studying piano, musical theory, and composition in Iran, she continued her studies at École Normale de Musique de Paris in the class of Éric Tanguy.

NEKO3

NEKO3 is a Copenhagen-based trio consisting of pianist Fei Nie and percussionists Lorenzo Colombo and Kalle Hakosalo. They work towards the creation of a new musical language and repertoire, seeking to integrate music, visual art, installations, body performance, and other forms of art into one conceptual whole.

Nikolaus von Bemberg (1991)

Pianist and multi-instrumentalist renowned for his surprising and unconventional programs. He specializes in contemporary mixed media works and music that incorporates performative elements. At the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, he recently conducted an artistic research project challenging the role of the classical pianist. 

NJYD

Danish quartet which, since their beginning in 2014, have performed new compositions in a relevant and captivating way. The untraditional crew – flute, saxophone, guitar, percussion – creates new sounds and is the foundation for experiments which leads to development of exciting new experiences.

Oslo Sinfonietta

Norway’s oldest running contemporary ensemble. Established by the Norwegian composer Asbjørn Schaathun in 1986, the ensemble is under the leadership of Christian Eggen, who is artistic director and chief conductor. 

Paraskeva Kucherova

Danish/Ukranian composer studying at MGK with teacher and composer Daniel Fladmose. 

Pauline Oliveros ((1932-2016))

American composer and accordionist. As one of the key figures in the development of the practice known as “deep listening”, she emphasized the importance of paying attention to sound in all its forms and contexts. Her works often blended elements of improvisation, meditation, and non-traditional music-making techniques.

Raven Chacon ((f. 1977))

Composer, performer, and installation artist born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, USA. Of Navajo descent, Chacon is known for his innovative approach to music and art, often exploring themes of identity, culture, and time. Chacon received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his composition Voiceless Mass.

Ricardo Nillni (1960)

Argentinian/French composer.  Since 1987, he’s been living in Paris, where he’s studied with Guy Reibel, Gérard Grisey, and Paul Méfano at the Paris Conservatoire. His music is characterized by its fluidity, its formal transparency and its use of particularly dense sonorities.

Rob Durnin ((1998-))

Copenhagen-based composer and performer. His music often fixates on the characteristics and architectures of musical technologies, as well as novel manners of interacting with them. As both pianist, performer, and curator, he is a member of the experimental ensemble K!ART. 

Roksana Małolepszy

Roksana, a dedicated musician, holds a Master of Music from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. Specializing in classical music, she has collaborated with symphony orchestras, excelling in both contemporary and traditional repertoire. Roksana is committed to creating meaningful cultural experiences and fostering collaboration across diverse musical projects.

Sarvin Asa

Sarvin Asa, an Italian-Iranian cellist, performer, and improviser, trained in Italy, Norway, and Denmark. She specializes in contemporary performance, collaborating with top musicians and festivals like Chigiana and Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Since 2019, she has explored free improvisation and composed for interdisciplinary projects.

Siri Dybwik

Norwegian dancer, choreographer, and lecturer at the University of Stavanger. In 1999 she established the dance company Dybwikdans, which aims to create artistic experiences of the highest quality for the youngest children. In 2021, Dybwik started her own theater, Elefantteatret in Stavanger.

Sofia Gubaidulina ((f. 1931-2025))

Composer born in Chistopol, Tatarstan, Soviet Union. In her music, she often incorporated elements of both Russian folk music and religious symbolism, which was controversial in the Soviet Union, where her music was considered challenging to official doctrine. At the age of 93, she passed away in March this year, leaving behind one of the most important oeuvres in contemporary music. 

Sophia Sagaradze

Georgian composer based in Copenhagen. Currently, her artistic work focuses on multichannel electronics, sound spatialization, interactive installations, and multidisciplinary performances. In 2022, she received the talent prize from Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s Foundation.

Stephanie Barber

Stephanie Barber is a writer and artist. Her literary/visual hybrids consider the basic philosophical questions of human and non-human existence (its morbidity, profundity and banality) with playfulness and humor. 

Svafa Thorhallsdottir (1981)

Music teacher, vocalist, and choir leader educated at the Conservatory of Reykjavik with additional master studies at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. She has a great interest in the musical development of children.

Tanya Tagaq ((f. 1975))

Canadian/Inuit singer whose unique vocal expression has roots in Inuit throat singing. Her music draws as much on electronica, metal music, and industrial influences as it does on traditional forms of expression. She is known for her artistic collaborations that challenge conventional genre boundaries.

Throat Pleats

Throat Pleats is an experimental musical project by percussionist Niki Johnson and composer-clarinettist Solomon Frank. Since 2017, they have worked with sound as a visceral, theatrical, and material experience across contemporary classical music, performance art, and queer nightlife spaces. 

Umut Talay

Danish composer studying at MGK with teacher and composer Matthew Grouse.