Riley: In C & Young: Composition 1960

Gareth Davis - bass clarinet  

Davis's broad and generally unanchored musical tastes have allowed him to participate in recordings, projects and performances that include contemporary classical music, free improvisation, orchestral music, rock, noise, and electronica. He has worked with composers such as Jonathan Harvey, Toshio Hosokawa, and Bernhard Lang, whose works he has also premiered. Gareth has performed with various ensembles and performers (Arditti Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart), improvisers (Elliott Sharp, Frances-Marie Uitti), and electronic artists (Merzbow, Robin Rimbaud). He has also contributed to multimedia works by artists such as Christian Marclay and Peter Greenaway.   

Roland Dahinden - alphorn and trombone   

The Swiss trombonist and composer, originally from Zug, studied at the Musikhochschule in Graz with Erich Kleinschuster and Georg Friedrich Haas, and also at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Florence with Vinko Globokar. Roland specializes mainly in contemporary music, improvisation, and jazz. He has played almost all over the world and has collaborated with important musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Miles Davis, Pièrre Favre, George Gruntz, and Quincy Jones, and composers such as Peter Ablinger, Maria de Alvear, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, and Christian Wolff.   

Robin Rimbaud | Scanner - electronica  

Scanner is a British artist Robin Rimbaud. His work traverses the experimental realm between sound and space, bridging an astonishing range of genres. Since 1991 he has worked extensively in sound art, creating concerts, installations and recordings, and to date has created music for 75 contemporary dance productions, including works for the Royal Ballet of London and Merce Cunningham. He is dedicated to collaborating with cutting-edge artists, having worked with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan, among others.  

Agathe Max - violin  

Agathe is originally from France but now lives in the UK. She plays electric violin combined with electronica and analogue stomp boxes. Her musical collaborators include Rhys Chatham, Carla Bozulich, Farewell Poetry, and Animal Hospital, while she has also worked on dance projects including Carolyn Carlson Company and Jo Marsalo, and on music for film, theater, and various installations.  

Pau Sola Masafrets - violoncello  

Pau Masafrets plays both improvised and composed music with a sense of freedom and responsibility for himself, for the music, and for his fellow players. He says that his body, which is in space, is the expressive material with which he performs, and he uses the cello as an instrument in itself. Masafrets also embarks on composing and improvising. Masafrets is involved in projects combining free improvisation, contemporary jazz, contemporary classical music, musical theater, and performances such as the AMOK orchestra, SonCe, Geography Umane, and Ell Sol.

John Eckhardt - bass guitar 

A player who has worked with Helmut Lachenmann, Pierre Boulez, the Klangforum Wien and musikfabrik. In recent years, he has also focused on his own work, tryingto respond artistically to the challenges of our society related to the climate crisis. John has contributed to over 30 recordings, including Iannis Xenakis' masterpiece "Theraps" (Mode Rec.) and three internationally acclaimed solo recordings. These are united by an interest in low frequency and spectral immersion, spatial depth and themes of repetition and evolutionary process.

Arthur Klaasens - hoboe

As a player, arranger and programmer, Arthur Klaassens is always looking for unusual angles on the repertoire of traditional and experimental music. He studied oboe at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and has cultivated his technique and broader musical outlook with, for example, Lucas Macias Navarra and Alexey Ogrintchouk. Klaasens is the first Dutch owner of a lupophone, a new type of bass oboe developed by Guntram Wolf. His debut CD Ratio was released in 2021 on the Dutch label 7MNTN Records. His album "Couleur Locale" was also released on the same label and features him as a member of the unique Cortado Wind Trio consisting of flute, alto oboe and bass clarinet.

Daniel Havel - flute

Daniel Havel studied flute at the Brno Conservatory and then with Radomír Pivoda at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Since 2007 he has been a member of the orchestra of the National Theatre in Prague and in 2012 he was a solo flutist of the Czech Philharmonic. He is a member of the Ostrava Banda and Prague Modern, ensembles focused on contemporary music, and regularly collaborates with orchestras such as the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, PKF - Prague Philharmonia, Czech Philharmonic, Prague Chamber Orchestra and others. He has performed with the Ostrava Band at Carnegie Hall (NY), Lincoln Center (NY), the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht and the Prague Spring Festival. As a soloist, he regularly participates in performances and premieres of works by contemporary Czech composers (Miloslav Kabeláč, Jan Hanuš, Diego Soifer, Dai Fujikura) and collaborates with the French bassoonist and conductor Pascal Gallois.

Martin Švec - percussions

Martin Švec is a graduate of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, where he is also currently enrolled in a doctoral programme focusing on electronic percussion instruments, which he also teaches. He is a member of the orchestra of the National Theatre in Brno and the EnsembleSpectrum in Bratislava. As a soloist he has appeared with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc and the Prague Philharmonic in works by Daniel Šimek, and as an orchestral player he has performed with the Brno Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic, Ensemble Opera Diversa, Ostrava New Orchestra and Berg Orchestra, among others.

Barbora Jágrová - light design

After completing her bachelor's degree at JAMU, she began to study lighting design in the studio of Pavla Beranová and Vladimír Burian, which gave her the opportunity to participate in projects and learn from many personalities of contemporary art from the Czech Republic and abroad. Currently, she works mostly in the Czech Republic, where she focuses on concert and festival lighting. She primarily works on lighting design for performance, classical dance and opera.

On Prague Music Performance

Prague Music Performance Institute & Festival was founded by Czech pianist Jan Bartoš and late Zenon Fishbein (Manhattan School of Music in New York) in 2010. The project organically combines a festival with an educational institution. PMP thematically connects concerts, master classes, workshops, lectures, and residencies. The projects primarily focus on classical music, jazz, and experimental music. However, PMP also endeavors to include other fields of art such as the fine arts, film, or literary art.

The list of renowned artists PMP has introduced throughout its history includes Alfred Brendel, Anthony Braxton, Brad Mehldau, John Zorn, Murray Perahia, Ivan Moravec, Phantasm, Quatuor Diotima, Garth Knox, Barry Guy and Maya Homburger, Miroslav Srnka, Mahan Esfahani, Saleem Ashkar, Esperanza Spalding, Dave Douglas, Greg Cohen, Joey Baron, Ikue Mori, Mary Halvorson, John Medeski, Marc Ribot, Kenny Wollesen, Julian Lage, Peter Evans, Thurston Moore, Adrian Belew, Einstürzende Neubauten, Jarboe, David Thomas, and many others.