Mehrdad Gholami Website Biography Iranian flutist, Mehrdad Gholami, received presidential award and Iran’s National Elites Foundation scholarship to continue his training at the University of Tehran, where he studied with Dr. Azin Movahed. During his time in Tehran, Mehrdad won numerous solo and chamber music competitions in Iran such as Fadjr International Music Festival, Iran…
Ashkan Behzadi Website Biography Ashkan Behzadi, a recipient of 2025 Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize and a 2021–2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, is an Iranian-Canadian composer based in New York. He earned his DMA in composition at Columbia University, where he studied with Fred Lerdahl, George Lewis, and Georg Friedrich Haas. Prior to this,…
Santiago Bogacz Biography Collaborations with Yarava As RKC Jury RKC 2024 Santiago Bogacz served on the jury for the 8th RKC (2024).
Manolis Ekmektsoglou Website Biography Manolis Ekmektsoglou studied composition in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece with Dimitri Papageorgiou and in the University of York (PhD) with Thomas Simaku. He also spend a year in Hannover studying acoustic and electronic music (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover), with Professors Ming Tsao, Gordon Williamson and Joachim…
Karen Keyhani Website Biography (b.1979) belongs to the new movement of contemporary music in Iran; a movement that has its roots as much in the Persian classical music as in Western contemporary classical music. As a composer and Santour player Karen has been inspired by contemporary and classical poetry as well as traditional music. Karen’s…
Elke Swoboda Biography Collaborations with Yarava As RKC Jury RKC 2022 Elke Swoboda was the head of the jury for the 7th RKC (2022). RKC 2021 Elke Swoboda served on the jury for the 6th RKC (2021).
Oscar Pablo Di Liscia Website Biography Oscar Pablo is a Musician and Academic born in Santa Rosa (La Pampa, Argentina). He earned a Bachelor degree in Music and a Doctoral degree in Humanities and Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR, Argentina). He was the Director of the Electronic Composition Program at the Universidad…
Annesley Black Website Biography Annesley Black is a Canadian composer based in Frankfurt am Main. Her works span from purely instrumental music, electronics, video performance from orchestra and chamber music to theatre, solo performances and installations. She has appeared as an improviser and sound-director in Canada, Austria, Switzerland and in Germany. Her collaborations with renowned…
Madjid Tahriri Biography Madjid Tahriri (*1981 Tehran) is an iranian composer. He holds a Bachelor’s degree of Arts (piano, musicology) from the Azad University, Tehran in 2004 and was pianist in the iranian „Melal-Orchestra“. From 1995 to 2006 he took lessons in piano, music theory, ear training, counterpoint, harmony, Orchestration and composition with Afshin Rabetian,…
Mesias Maiguashca Website Biography Born in Quito, Ecuador, the 24th of December, 1938. Studied at the Conservatorio de Quito, the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.), the Instituto di Tella (Buenos Aires) and at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Productions in the Studio for Electronic Music WDR (Cologne), the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Musicale (Metz),…