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Participants The double bass player and singer, Irina-Kalina Goudeva, was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She studied double bass with prof. Todor Toshev at the Sofia State Conservatory (graduated in 1990 with Golden Medal and a full merit) and Franco Petracchi at the Geneva Conservatory of Music (receiving the First Virtuoso Prize in 1993). While pursuing her activities as a principal player in orchestras such as the Young World Orchestra, Ars Musica Chamber Orchrestra (Sofia, Bulgaria), Simphonietta Lausanne, Orchestre de Chambre de Neuchâtel (both in Switzerland), and the Orchestra of the Royal Danish Theatre (Copenhagen), she has always found great inspiration in chamber music an collaborated with many ensembles such as “Ensemle 415”, “Swiss Consort”, “Kordepan” in Switzerland and “Aphrodisiac” in Denmark. Possessing an eclectic nature, Irina-Kalina experiments with crossovers between different genres of music and has with equal intensity devoted herself to music from renaissance and baroque to modern tango, jazz and electro acoustic music. She also incorporates her contralto voice as an integral part of the performance, thus adding a new dimension to the expressivities of her instrument. Her passion for contemporary music connected her to ensembles such as “Contrechamps” (Switzerland), “Athelas Sinfonietta” (Denmark) and since 1998 she is a solo double bass player at the Contemporanea Interactive Art Ensemble in Copenhagen (Denmark). A part from staging “traditional” concerts with contemporary music, the ensemble often includes visual and verbal aspects as theatrical performance and poetry and in preference stages concerts in unusual surroundings. The musicians of the ensemble frequently take part in international and experimental theatre projects, in which they participate both as musicians and actors, as a kind of integrated performance. In this contexts Irina-Kalina created in may, 2004 the music -theatre performance “Lavarayaha, which she performed in many countries in Europe till now, as well as the music – theatre performance “The Seventh Woman”, which was premiered in may, 2005 in Copenhagen. Among Irina- Kalina ’s future assignments are presentations of both spectacles in Europe, USA, China, Australia and Japan in year 2005/2006, In 2004 Irina-Kalina released her first solo CD “Irina-Kalina Goudeva – voice and double bass” containing contemporary (acoustic and electro- acoustic) music and she is planning a second one in year 2006,which will premiere 11 pieces, written for her from the composers Julia Tzenova, Fuzzy, Lars Graugaard, Kim Helweg, Lars Hegaard, Jexper Holmen and Yael Acher. A prize - winner of several international and national competitions (among others Special Prize of the Jury – at “Giovanni Botstein”, Parma, Italy; First Prize and Gold Medal at “Svetoslav Obretenov”, Provadia, Bulgaria and First Prize at “Stefan Gougarev”, Kjustendil, Bulgaria) Irina-Kalina has performed as a soloist and recitalist in Bulgaria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Australia, South America, Cuba, USA. Ejnar Kanding (born 1965) is a Danish composer. He studied composition with Ib Nørholm and Ivar Frounberg as well as music theory with Yngve Jan Trede at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, acquiring a Master in both subjects in 1993, and completing the Solo Composition Class with a debut concert in 1996. Furthermore, Kanding has attended seminars and workshops at IRCAM and studied with Lev Koblyakov in Jerusalem. Important performances include Synthese 2001, 31e Festival International des Musiques et Créations électroniques de Bourges; International Computer Music Conference, Cuba 2001; ISCM World Music Days, Hong Kong 2002; The Interactive Arts Performance Series, New York City 2003. Kanding is artistic director of ensemble Contemporánea, specializing in the performance of electro-acoustic music. The main focus is on a cutting-edge use of the latest digital innovations, realized through multi-media projects, audio-visual concerts, Internet presentations, etc. The ensemble has performed in Asia, South America, New York City, France, Switzerland, Germany, Ireland and Scandinavia. Since 2001 he holds classes in composition at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and also teaches in DEIM in Århus. He has played in several international festivals (e.g. Denmark, Bulgaria, France,China, South America, USA)
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