The TJK Ensemble is a transcontinental electro-acoustic trio
Nguyễn Thanh Thủyplays đàn tranh (Vietnamese zither). She is based in Sweden. Since 2012, Thủy is carrying out an artistic doctoral project at the Malmö Academy of Music concerned with gesture in traditional Vietnamese music. She studied at the Hanoi Conservatory of Music where she received her diploma in 1998, followed by a Master of Arts at the Institute of Cultural Studies in 2002. She has toured in Asia, Europe, the USA. She has received many distinctions. She has recorded several CD’s as soloist with orchestra and solo CDs. She has been working in cross-cultural context for many years, with both traditional and experimental music as a đàn tranh performer/improvisor; collaborates with many musicians and composers around the world.
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Kate Ryder"is an Australian pianist based in London. Her wide ranging experience encompasses solo work and collaborations with leading performers and ensembles in dance, electronics and theatre where she has established herself as a versatile and original performer. She has had many works created especially for her by composers in the UK and abroad. She has a particular specialism in working with extended techniques and unusual keyboard instruments – toy pianos, antique keyboards and prepared piano. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Middlesex University, London and since 2014 has been Creativeworks Entrepreneur in Residence at Kingston University, researching the "Superpiano" and other augmented keyboard instruments.
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Jakob RiisDanish composer, electro-acoustic musician and improviser now living in Malmö, Sweden. Jakob Riis is a former trombone player educated at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, where he studied composition as well. Since many years he switched his focus towards electronic music and electro-acoustic music and is considered a laptop pioneer on the Danish scene. Jakob Riis is primarily active in the experimental musical fields working with noise and electroacoustic music. He has composed music for bigband, chamber ensembles as well as electronic, acousmatic and electro-acoustic music for ensembles, solo perfomance and loudspeaker orchestras.
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