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Martina Lupi

Martina Lupi is more than just a voice: she is a seeker of invisible frequencies, an artist who has successfully carried the ritual power of ancestral instruments into the sophisticated textures of contemporary songwriting.

After years of experimentation with the Tupa Ruja ensemble, where the didgeridoo and harmonic singing became instruments of pure narration, Martina now arrives at her long awaited solo debut: "Dannate Salvatrici" (Damned Saviours), (Filibusta Records). 

This album marks the birth of a new singer-songwriter persona, where the word becomes flesh and the sound becomes archetype. At the heart of the project resonates the "Sound of Distance," an aesthetic and philosophical concept that Martina explores alongside the pianistic sensitivity of Alessandro Gwis. Here, distance is not absence, but a vibrant territory of anticipation, a fertile void where the piano, electronics, and Martina’s world instruments engage in a dialogue to evoke what is distant, yet profoundly present. 

Warren Galea

Born: April 1, 1991

Warren Galea is a Maltese Jazz Guitarist, Pianist, and Composer whose work blends Modern Jazz language with Classical structures and experimental composition. He has performed across Europe, the United States, and Asia. In May 2019 he released his debut album: The Odyssey, featuring Andy McKee on bass and Adam Nussbaum on drums. Later that year he became the first Maltese artist to perform at the iconic Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City, playing with his trio in the Blue Note Jazz Festival. 

Other international performances have included Nublu 151, ShapeShifter Lab, Rockwood Music Hall, the Bitter End, Williamsburg Music Center (NYC), the Honey Hive Gallery (San Francisco), the Octopus Literary Salon (Oakland), the Jazz Educators Network Conference (JEN) 2019 (Reno, Nevada), DDC, The Water Cube (Beijing), Katara European Jazz Festival (Doha, Qatar), the Malta Jazz Festival, the Dusseldorf Jazz Rally, Europe Day Festival (Vienna), Teatro Adriano (Cagliari, Sardegna) 'Les Sons d' Une Ile’ (Paris).

Simon-Mary Vincent

Born: April 19, 1967

Recipient of the Innovation in Business 2024 “Most Innovative International Composer & Performer” and “Musical Education Excellence” as well as the 2023 “Most Innovative Piano Music Composer UK” awards and nominated for a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists in 2014, Simon-Mary Vincent is an Anglo-Hungarian performer and composer of acoustic and electronic music, who has been challenging the boundaries of genre and musical expression with a highly personal language since the early 1990’s.

“Visionary and expressive”, “rich and surprising”, “incredibly individual”, “masterful compositions”, “an immersive experience”, Simon-Mary’s music has attracted praise and radio play from critics as varied as Fran Wilson, Lauren Redhead, Ben Watson, Julian Cowley, Nick Luscombe, Robert Hugill, Robert D. Rusch, Massimo Ricci, Gilles Peterson and Mr. Scruff, and has been reviewed in publications including The Wire, International Piano, De:Bug, Knowledge Magazine, Straight No Chaser, Dragon Jazz, Avant Music News and Jazzwise.

Keyna Wilkins

Keyna Wilkins is a pioneering Australian/British composer-musician. She was one of three finalists for the Australian Art Music Awards for Individual Excellence in 2021 and 2018 (APRA/AMCOS).

As an innovative soloist her solo show explores stream-ofconsciousness improvisations alongside her composed pieces, often using loop pedal and visual projections and inspired by contemporary human rights issues, astronomical phenomena and philosophy.

She has collaborated with six detained refugees from their prison cells via zoom, victims of Australia's brutal mandatory refugee detention laws for nine years, on music, poetry and art collaborations.

Matías Formica

Born: December 11, 1986

Born in the city of La Plata. Flutist, saxophonist, composer and arranger. He began his studies of transverse flute at the age of 14 (year 2000) with maestro Martín Saenz. He studied with Pablo Ledesma, Rodrigo Domínguez, Juan Pablo Di leone, Juan Pablo Arredondo, among others. In 2013 he attended the workshops of popular music in Curitiba (Brazil), participating in the MPB (Brazilian popular music) ensemble in charge of André Marques and the improvisation perception workshop in charge of Lea Freire.  In 2019 he attended the SIM program in New York, and took classes with Tony Malaby, Tim Berne, Ralph Alessi among others. He participated in various projects, as instrumentalist arranger and composer, Matías Formica group, Mingus Project, El Domo, Quinteto Ledesma / Alarcón / Edward / Carracedo / Formica, José Perez Vargas Group (JPV), H.u.M.o, among several others.

Sebastian von Keler

Born: March, 1986

Sebastian von Keler is a saxophone player and music educator based in Berlin (Germany). He likes not to think of musical genres and to remain open minded as much as possible, collaborating with musicians from all backgrounds and drawing inspiration from popular, improvised, classical, jazz and contemporary music alike. Sebastian is open for all kinds of projects and constantly works on defining his very own voice on wind instruments and in composition. Hes a Member of TONHAUFEN DELUXE, MONOGLOT, JONAS WINTERHALTER BIGBAND, JANTO's OKTAEDER, the MARC MEZGOLITS QUARTET and the reggae collective THE TREE BROTHERS.

Christophe Gervot

Born: March 23, 1968

Welcome to Christophe Gervot's musician page ! He lives and works in F-44780 Missillac, where he settled down for all his activities governed by French law. He is a pianist (he studied piano and singing with his personal teacher from 1976 to 1988 and was graduated several times from the "Concours national de Musique" and once from the "Concours de Piano Madeleine de Valmalète"), and a keybordist. He studied flute, singing and percussion instruments during 4 years too at middle school and was awarded the Brevet des collèges. He is a composer, a lyricist and a performer, and sometimes reads texts of literary heritage