Anton Iakhontov Biography Patrick K.-H. (aka Anton Iakhontov) – composer, video- and media-artist, navigating through graphical sound, animation, interactive performances, tangible and spatial sound, multivarious collaborations with contemporary dancers and butoh to graphic collage and acousmatic composition. Along with his creations as a director, he is an author of music / video for over 40…
Paul Clift Website Biography Paul Clift (b. 1978 in Melbourne, Australia) is a composer of instrumental and mixed music. Since 2016, he is based in Basel, Switzerland. His music often attempts to make concrete associations with concepts such as collective memory and historical musical traditions, notably through the integration of archival recordings in his works.…
Elnaz Seyedi Website Biography Elnaz Seyedi was born in Tehran in 1982, she studied composition with Alireza Mashayekhi, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Jörg Birkenkötter, Caspar Johannes Walter and Michael Reudenbach in Tehran, Bremen, Essen and Basel. She has received awards and scholarships like Stuttgarter Kompositionspreis in 2025, International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) in Frankfurt am Main in…
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,…
Joachim Heintz WebsiteElectronic Department Director Since 2017 Biography After studying literature and art history, Joachim Heintz began his composition studies in 1995 with Younghi Pagh-Paan and Guenter Steinke at the Hochschule fuer Kuenste, Bremen. He composes for instruments and electronics, concerts, installations and performances. With his software instrument ALMA he has improvised with many musicians…