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Paweł Biliński

Born: 1987

Born in 1987, Paweł Biliński is a versatile composer, arranger and keyboard player. Since 2007 he has been involved in many musical projects and is currently still pursuing new ones.

His main instrumental focus is synthesizers, piano, other keyboard instruments and virtual instrumentation. He was involved in organizing rock jam sessions in Bielsko-Biala from 2008 to 2010, engaging many professional musicians. He was also involved in this regular event as a keyboard player.

His characteristic composing style is highly influenced by French impressionists and British folk composers from the 19th and 20th centuries, but developed using modern instruments such as synthesizers mixed with some 70’s progressive rock characteristic composing elements.

Lara Somogyi

Lara Somogyi is a Los Angeles-based harpist and contemporary classical performer-composer.  Known for her work with electronics and pedal fx her work is focused on forging a new artistic identity for the harp. Born and raised in Kauai, Hawaii and New York, Lara is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and in 2018 was awarded as an honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) for her contributions to her field.

Years of sculpting her sound and developing her set of contemporary expressions on the harp led her to write compositions for solo harp and electronics.  Finding company and comfort in vast sonic expanses and exploration ushered her to a renewed clarity of expression and identity with the instrument. Her debut full-length album ! was released in 2022 via Mercury KX, an imprint of Decca Records & Universal Music, which Pitchfork praised for "combining the mundane and the fantastical."

Tamsin Dearnley

As a child, Tamsin couldn't decide if she wanted to be a harpist, a trapeze artist or an expert on Japanese art. So she hedged her bets: six years of nagging persuaded her parents to let her have harp lessons; as a more rebellious eighteen-year-old she (politely) informed her parents she was taking up a year's place in a circus school before going to university to read Japanese.

When performing and composing, Tamsin is now glad of her somewhat eclectic musical education: as a beginner harpist she learned to play medieval and traditional music by ear; as a broke student she learned on the job to play jazz in a wine bar; as an adult she went back to basics to improve her technique and sound, becoming a passionate advocate of the versatility of the lever harp. She is particularly interested in promoting the lever harp as a jazz instrument. 

Catriona Bourne

Catriona Bourne is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist who has performed at venues and events including London Jazz Festival, Wilderness Festival, Sinfonia Smith Square, Kings Place and Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music. She has experimented with flute and live electronics, recently performing a solo set of her own arrangements and improvisations in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall.  Although she studied classical harp throughout school, Catriona is most excited by the opportunities to improvise and compose for the harp. She has always had an interest in folk, and combines this with her love of jazz through her original compositions.

Amanda Whiting

Highly-acclaimed Welsh harpist & composer and a virtuoso in her field,

this classically trained musician has quickly established herself as an

essential player on the world jazz scene, carving her own unique sound,

following on from the paths forged by Ashby and Coltrane.

She has previously toured extensively with her own band (Aidan Thorne on bass

and Jon Reynolds on drums), as well as with Matthew Halsall, Greg Foat, Rebecca Vasmant,

DJ Yoda and Chip Wickham.

With three solo albums on Jazzman Records, and a remix project with

Patricia Giurleo

NYC based harpist.

Carol J Levin

Carol J Levin has established a unique niche as Seattle's improvising harpist. Returning to the harp after classical training in her youth, she has been embraced by jazz and free improvisation communities for her creative voice and for extending the capabilities of the harp beyond its expected style. Carol plays frequently in duos, trios and large ensembles including CHA, Levitation, The Likes Of, Christian Pincock's Scrambler, Beth Fleenor's Blindfold Ensemble, Rain City Jazz Orchestra, and Steve Treseler's Game Symphony Workshop.  She has guested with the Jazz Connection, Starbucks Chorus (Street Requiem at Benaroya Hall), the Phinney Neighborhood Chorus, Neil Welch's Coltrane Expressions, the Seth Alexander quintet, Women's Rockin' Jazz, at improvisation concerts in the Wayward Music series, the Racer Sessions and Gallery 1412

Kane Mathis

Born: November, 1975

Performing on the 21-string Mandinka Harp and the Turkish Oud, Kane Mathis renders compelling interpretations of these traditional musics. Years of study with generous masters have given Kane a rare opportunity to share these traditions with other cultures. Kane began taking trips to The Gambia, West Africa in 1997 and has continued rigorous study of the Mandinka Kora. Over the past ten years his performances have earned him recognition by the Gambian president, The Gambian minister of culture, and both national television and radio of The Gambia. Kane’s primary kora teachers are Malamini Jobarteh of Brikama, The Gambia and Moriba Kouyate of The Gambia. The Jobarteh family remain one of The Gambia’s most important musical legacies

Julie Campiche

Born: May 29, 1983

Harpist Julie Campiche’s work is an on-going process of musical innovation. Through research and experimentation she has developed the use of electronic effects that enhance the scope of her improvisational work. She has a very personnel technique and her own musical language. Julie introduced her harp into the world of jazz and contemporary music in a very organic way. She now performs in numerous European clubs and festivals on a regular basis. Through her innate curiosity and desire for new experience she plays with groups that have diverse instrumentation and esthetics. Be it theatre or contemporary performance, octets or duos, compositions or free-style improvisation, Julie infuses her music with an urgent fragility

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