contemporary classical

Michael Snow is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music. He is considered one of the most influential experimental filmmakers. Originally a professional jazz musician, Snow has a long-standing interest in improvised music, as indicated by the soundtrack to his film "New York Eye and Ear Control". As a pianist, he has performed solo and with other musicians in North America, Europe and Japan.

Antoine Beuger (b. 1955 in Oosterhout, Netherlands) studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at Sweelinck Coservatorium in Amsterdam 1973-78.
In 1990 he began composing after an interruption of about 10 years. Two years later he founded Edition Wandelweiser together with composer/performer Burkhard Schlothauer.
Since 1994 he's been active with the conception and organisation of KLANGRAUM, a concert series at Kunstraum Düsseldorf. During the years 1995-2001 he was working together with visual artist Mauser as artistic director of "Werkraum", Place for Interdisciplinary Artistic Events, Cologne.

Aram Ilyich Khachaturian, (Russian: Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян or Aram Il'ič Hačaturjan) (1903 - 1978) was a Russian composer of Armenian origin. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia (then a part of pre-Soviet Imperial Russia) to a poor Armenian family. In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but at first he did not study music or learn to read it.
In 1921, he traveled to Moscow to join his brother, unable to speak a word of Russian.