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Oliver Schneller was born in Cologne studied composition at Columbia University in New York where he completed his doctorate in composition with Tristan Murail in 2002. From 2002-2004 he worked in Paris as a "compositeur en recherche" at IRCAM where he also received important orientations from Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, George Benjamin and Jonathan Harvey. 

The focus of Oliver Schneller's compositional work lies in the creation of networks between musical instruments, architectural spaces and live computer processing. Often his works include spatial parameters such as particular combinations of instruments and loud speakers distributed throughout the performance space. His works have been presented at numerous international festivals and have been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, ensemble recherche, musikFabrik, Ictus and Court-Circuit. 

Schneller has held residencies at Cincinnati Conservatory, Takefu Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, Experimentalstudio des SWR Freiburg and is the recipient of the 2010 Siemens Award for Composition, the Fromm Prize (Harvard University), 2 ASCAP Awards, and fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center, Columbia University and the German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo. From 2009-2010 Schneller was on the composition faculty at Stuttgart Conservatory. Since 2011 he serves as professor of composition at the Conservatory of Music in Hannover. 

 

 

Yoshiko Kanda (Percussion) 

 

Born in 1970, studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and Master's degree of the university with Dr.Makoto ARUGA and Dr.Michiko TAKAHASHI. Yoshiko whose main interest is in comptenporary music, played several concerto for percussion by contemporary composers such as Maki ISHII and Motoharu KAWASHIMA, with Japanese reading orchestras. She has taken part in the Japan premier of a piece by Brian Ferneyhough,the Akiyoshidai International Seminer and Festival for Contemporary Music,and the Asian Composers' Legue Festival in Thailand, while has had recording sessions for broadcasting. She is currently working with young composers who write specially for her. Won the Scholarship Prize form Darmstad International Summer Festival for Contemporary Music in 1996 and 98, and was invited to the festival in 2000. Since 1996, she has been working on a series of her recital.