Born in Mexico City in 1978, Santiago Gutiérrez Bolio is a classical guitarist and composer living and working in Denmark. He has performed extensively in Europe, the U.S., and Mexico.  Santiago has appeared on stages such as Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City, Spigelzaal at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato in Mexico, and “Other Minds” Festival in San Francisco. His repertoire includes a wide range of activities; from improvisation and composition to Baroque, Renaissance, and traditional Latin American music both as a soloist, and in chamber ensembles.

Santiago Gutiérrez Bolio has been published by Berben Editions in Italy. also, he was commissioned by ensembles and performers such as Kammerkoret CAMERATA, Mobius Trio, Duo Inviolata, Michael Kudirka, and David Tanenbaum. In 2017 Santiago co-founded CRAS-Ensemble, a project dedicated to the collaboration between diverse art forms and new music written within the guitar sextet format. In 2008, Santiago developed the project SOUNDS OF MEXICO– an international platform for the promotion of Mexican classical music and the collaboration between Mexican musicians and artists from other countries. Finally, in 2011 he was named one of Mexico’s cultural ambassadors among other important artists who stand out in the promotion of Mexican cultural legacy around the world.

https://santiagogb.com

Described as a composer of masterful craft with a genuine clarity and purity of vision (Guitar Review), music author Dušan Bogdanović has developed a personal synthesis of contemporary classical, jazz and world music. His work numbers over two hundred published compositions, including a variety of commissions for solo guitar, chamber ensembles, orchestra and multimedia. He also has numerous CD recordings. Early in his career, Dusan received the only First Prize at the Geneva Competition and gave a highly acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1977.

Dušan’s theoretical work includes Polyrhythmic and Polymetric Studies, Counterpoint for Guitar and Harmony for Classical Guitar published by Edizione Curci, as well as Tradition and Synthesis published by Doberman/Production d’Oz. After having taught at the Belgrade Music University and at the San Francisco Conservatory, Dušan was engaged by the Haute école de musique de Genève from 2007 to 2020.

https://dusanbogdanovic.com/

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Iranian composer & improviser Golfam Khayam has created music that is described by Al Jazeera as "Innovative art and a perfect testament to the universality of music.” She has spent many years of extensive research on the traditional Persian idiom as well as education and experience of the Western classical idiom. In conclusion, she has developed a personal language that reframes Middle Eastern and Western music in contemporary compositions.

She is a winner of Rostrum of Composers' “Windows of the World” in Paris, as well as the recipient of Arvo Part Center annual scholarship residency, Golfam has appeared extensively as a performer-composer and her music is being performed worldwide. She has received commissions from highly recognized musicians and ensembles including Opera aix en Provence, Klangwerkstatt Berlin, New West Symphony USA, Basel Music University FHNW, Multimod Geneve, as well as multimedia projects and film music produced in cooperation with the legendary Iranian filmmaker Kiarostami. Since 2016, Golfam has joined the prestigious German record label ECM Records.

https://www.golfamkhayam.com

Composer, guitarist, writer and psychiatrist, Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart was born in Velletri (Italy) in 1988. Kevin obtained his classical guitar diploma at the Conservatorio S. Cecilia in 2012, alongside his degree in Medicine from Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in 2013. At the moment, he is serving as an adjunct head physician of the psychogeriatrics department at the University Hospital in Lausanne(Switzerland).

From 2016, Kevin has been studying composition supervised by Angelo Gilardino and Dusan Bogdanovic. His music has been played by Alberto Mesirca, Cristiano Porqueddu, Angelo Colone, Francesco Dominici Buraccini, Giovanni Martinelli and Lorenzo Micheli Pucci. His Variazioni su El Testament d’Amelia will be recorded by Cristiano Porqueddu as a part of the Novecento Guitar Variations collection, which is going to be published by Brilliant Classics in the near future. His scientific and musical activity has always been accompanied by a strong interest in literature, which led him to publish in 2017 his first novel, Adamo, available on Amazon.

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