LOOS artists 2023

  • Cecilia Arditto studied at the Conservatorio Julián Aguirre, in CEAMC Buenos Aires and at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where she graduated cum laude. Arditto’s music is performed all over the world: Borealis Festival (Norway), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), Innovations en Concert (Canada), and Festival Rümlingen (Switzerland), among others. She won the first prize in the prestigious Rychenberg Orchestra Competition 2020. Her cycle Musique concrète represented The Netherlands at the ISCM World Music Days Festival 2022 in New Zealand. She won the first prize of the National Opera in Mannheim in 2021 by writing an opera based on Albert Camus’ most famous book L’étranger.

  • Gerard Bouwhuis is a Dutch pianist, best known for his work on contemporary music. A graduate from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague under Geoffrey Douglas Madge, he is a member of the Xenakis Ensemble. Composers such as Louis Andriessen, Cornelis de Bondt and Martijn Padding have written works for him.

  • Mia Kogelman (1999) is a classically trained clarinetist (Royal Conservatory in The Hague) who expresses herself not only in music but also in other art forms. Art forms such as the visual arts, writing, and combining these with music. Experimenting and exploring have been the foundation of her process and have led her to create entirely new multimedia works.

  • I am a composer/pianist from Nepal currently based in the Hague. Having grown up in a Hindu/Buddhist environment, many of my creative ideas derive from my experience and fascination with the numerous and rich philosophical and aesthetic traditions that developed alongside these religions.

    My work explores the geometry of sound, the translations from a highly structured imaginary to the real, curvature, singularity and multiplicity, the differential. As a result, the performance of my works often requires musicians to measure out precise proportions, intervals, and gradations that are alien to our usual experience of music. It is therefore of great importance to me to be able to situate the musician in perspectives that allow them to perceive, to hear, to orient themselves around what must sound, so that they may find their own vibrant presence in it.

  • Kali is an ensemble based in the Hague. Our ensemble consists of Giuseppe Sapienza (clarinet), İdil Yunkuş (violin), Beste Yıldız (cello), and Nirantar Yakthumba (piano). We explore music that challenges us to have a direct encounter with its manifold — i.e., the dynamic spatiotemporal structures that generate sonic, and hence, musical forms — through different modes of listening. Thus, over the past years, we have developed close and ongoing relations with composers who share our aesthetic vision. Their collaboration with our ensemble continues to be crucial to the formation and development of our sound.

  • Myrto Nizami (1994) is a composer and pianist from Greece. She is often inspired by poetry and painting, philosophy, and the politics. In her music she seeks the fluid and airy plasticity of sound and the artistic dialogue between technology and physical sound material. She has composed music for acoustic instruments, voice, and electronics.

  • After completing her Piano studies in 2017 and Chamber Music in 2019, in 2022 Livia Malossi Bottignole gained her Bachelor's Degree in Composition with full marks cum laude. She is currently attending her Master's at Royal Conservatorium The Hague. In both countries she also attended various workshops about sound, multidisciplinarity and multimedia with artists like Cathy Van Eck, Enrico Malatesta, Scott Gibbons, Leandros Ntolas and Dganit Elyakim.

    Besides winning several competitions, her works have been played at Festival Nuova Consonanza in Rome (IT), Festival Gaudeamus in Utrecht and Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam (NL), Musiikkitalo in Helsinki (FIN), Accademia Chigiana in Siena (IT) and, as a member of In.Nova Fert collective, at 64° Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea - Biennale di Venezia 2020. She also won the Fromm Foundation Composition Fellows to join the 2022 Composers Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, the Juurilla Commissioning Grant from Versoi Ensemble (FIN-USA), while in 2023 she has been selected by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble 香港創樂團 for the project “Shapes Songs” in Hong Kong.

    In 2023 she signed a discographic and editorial contract with Digressione Music in Bari (IT) and Da_sh Edition in Madrid (ES), as a result of winning Da_sh Music 2022/2023 International Composition Competition.

  • He’s an improviser, composer, media systems designer and music curator resident in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

    His career has been developed around different artistic areas with a special emphasis in acoustic, electroacoustic and experimental music. His catalog includes works for solo instrument, ensemble, mixed media, guided improvisation, installation, performance, film and various performing arts. His works had been presented in 18 countries within the official program of different festivals, conferences and symposia about music and sound art mainly. His most significant professors are; Electroacoustic music with Roberto Morales, José Luis Castillo composition. (1996-2001) Sound Art and programming Åke Parmerud (1999-2006)

    Besides winning several competitions, her works have been played at Festival Nuova Consonanza in Rome (IT), Festival Gaudeamus in Utrecht and Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam (NL), Musiikkitalo in Helsinki (FIN), Accademia Chigiana in Siena (IT) and, as a member of In.Nova Fert collective, at 64° Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea - Biennale di Venezia 2020. She also won the Fromm Foundation Composition Fellows to join the 2022 Composers Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, the Juurilla Commissioning Grant from Versoi Ensemble (FIN-USA), while in 2023 she has been selected by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble 香港創樂團 for the project “Shapes Songs” in Hong Kong.

    In 2023 she signed a discographic and editorial contract with Digressione Music in Bari (IT) and Da_sh Edition in Madrid (ES), as a result of winning Da_sh Music 2022/2023 International Composition Competition.

  • BLANKSet is an ensemble for new music and improvisation, formed by Vitória Bento (saxophone), Nuno Morão (Basson), André Teixeira (piano), Alejandra Bejarano (double bass), Milena Khalil (eletronics).

  • BLANKSet is an ensemble for new music and improvisation, formed by Vitória Bento (saxophone), Nuno Morão (Basson), André Teixeira (piano), Alejandra Bejarano (double bass), Milena Khalil (eletronics).

  • Gert-Jan Prins focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and percussion and investigates its relationship with the visual.

    while he started his career as a drummer, his works include performances, sound-installations, compositions, electronic circuits

    and collaborations with other musicians, visual artists, composers, and dancers.

  • Gert-Jan Prins focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and percussion and investigates its relationship with the visual.

    while he started his career as a drummer, his works include performances, sound-installations, compositions, electronic circuits

    and collaborations with other musicians, visual artists, composers, and dancers.