Sagardía was born in Asuncion, Paraguay and lives in Germany. He studied composition with Adriana Hoelszky, Nicolaus A. Huber and Günter Steinke as well as electronical composition with Dirk Reith. In recent years his music and screenplays have led him to cooperations with ensembles and musicians such as follows: Ensemble Kaleidoskop, Ensemble Gelber Klang, Network Ensemble Testklang and the Helios quartet as well as with artists from the field of film and graphics. Website: https://sagardiaoffice.wordpress.com/

Simon Steen-Andersen is a Berlin-based composer, performer and installation artist, working in the field between instrumental music, electronics, video and performance within settings ranging from symphony orchestra and chamber music (with and without multimedia) to stagings, solo performances and installations. The works from the last 6-7 years concentrate on integrating concrete elements in the music and emphasizing the physical and choreographic aspects of instrumental performance. The works often include amplified acoustic instruments in combination with sampler, video, simple everyday objects or homemade constructions. Simon Steen-Andersen received numerous prizes and grants - latest the Nordic Council Music Prize and the SWR Orchestra Prize 2014, the Carl Nielsen Prize (DK) and the Kunstpreis Musik from Akademie der Künste in Berlin 2013, the International Rostrum of Composers, the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm Residency 2010 and the Kranichsteiner Music Award 2008. 
Website: http://www.simonsteenandersen.dk/

Sarah Nemtsov was born in Oldenburg, Germany. In 1987, she got her first music lessons, around the same time she began writing her first compositions. Between 1989 and 1993 she participated in numerous concerts and recordings of the REIL TRIO as a recorder player. At the age of 14 she 
started playing the oboe. Since 1998 she studied composition at the Hanover Hochschule for Music and Theatre with Nigel Osborne as a „young student“. In 2000 she began with her regular studies at the same institution with Johannes Schoellhorn and Klaus Becker. After her graduation in both disciplines in 2005, she began with her post-graduate studies in composition with Walter Zimmermann at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Website: http://www.sarah-nemtsov.de/

Simon Loeffler lives in Copenhagen at the moment. Studies in Copenhagen, Berlin, Aarhus and Bruxelles. He has worked with several  groups across the globe such as Curious Chamber Players, Speak Percussion, Ensemble Adapter, Soundinitiative. He is currently working on a piece for Ensemble Adapter and Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart. Website: www.simonloeffler.dk

Thórunn Gréta Sigurdardóttir received basic musical education in piano performance at music schools in East Iceland and graduated from the Junior College in Egilsstadir. She studied piano performance and composition in Reykjavík College of Music and completed a pre diploma in composition in 2008. She furthered her studies in composition at Iceland Academy of the Arts, completing her B.A. in 2011, and at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, Germany, completing her M.Mus. in composition in 2014. She has attended several masterclasses in composition, piano performance and improvisation in Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Germany. She has composed concert music as well as music to installations, video art and animation in collaboration with visual artists and poets. 
Website: http://thorunngreta.is/