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International soloist and regular percussionist of the AskoISchönberg ensemble, Noè Rodrigo specializes in contemporary music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and collaborates with different ensembles and orchestras around the world.

He has been invited to some of the most important festivals in Europe such as the Printemps des Arts Festival in Monte-Carlo, the International Festival of Music and Dance in Granada, or the Edinburgh International Festival, where he performed as soloist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, together with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Matthias Pintscher.

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Steve Reich has been called “the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times). Starting in the 1960s, his pieces It’s Gonna Rain, Drumming, Music for 18 Musicians, Tehillim, Different Trains, and many others helped shift the aesthetic center of musical composition worldwide away from extreme complexity and towards rethinking pulsation and tonal attraction in new ways. He continues to influence younger generations of composers and mainstream musicians and artists all over the world.

Double Sextet won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 and Different Trains, Music for 18 Musicians, and an album of his percussion works have all earned GRAMMY Awards. He received the Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo, the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge award in Madrid, the Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall, and the Gold Medal in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and awarded honorary doctorates by the Royal College of Music in London, the Juilliard School in New York, and the Liszt Academy in Budapest, among others.

One of the most frequently choreographed composers, several noted choreographers have created dances to his music, including Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Jirí Kylián, Jerome Robbins, Justin Peck, Wayne McGregor, Benjamin Millepied, and Christopher Wheeldon.

Reich’s documentary video opera works—The Cave and Three Tales, done in collaboration with video artist Beryl Korot—opened new directions for music theater and have been performed on four continents. His work Quartet, for percussionist Colin Currie, sold out two consecutive concerts at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London shortly after tens of thousands at the Glastonbury Festival heard Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead) perform Electric Counterpoint, followed by the London Sinfonietta performing his Music for 18 Musicians. “There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them,” The Guardian.

Julia Wolfe’s music is distinguished by an intense physicality and a relentless power that pushes performers to extremes and demands attention from the audience. She draws inspiration from folk, classical, and rock genres, bringing a modern sensibility to each while simultaneously tearing down the walls between them.

Wolfe’s recent premieres include Pretty, premiered in June 2023 by conductor Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic. Co-commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Pretty is a raucous celebration — embracing the grit of fiddling, the relentlessness of work rhythms, and inspired by the distortion and reverberation of rock and roll.

unEarth, commissioned and premiered in June 2023 by the New York Philharmonic, is a large-scale work for orchestra, men’s chorus, and children’s chorus that addresses the climate crisis. Performed in three movements, the 40 minute piece is realized with spatial staging and scenic design projected on a large circular screen.

Her Story, a 45-minute semi-staged work for orchestra and women’s chamber choir, received its world premiere in September 2022 with the Nashville Symphony, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, the vocal ensemble Lorelei, and stage direction by Anne Kauffman. Co-commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and National Symphony Orchestra, Her Story invokes the words of historical figures and the spirit of pivotal moments to pay tribute to the centuries of ongoing struggle for equal rights and representation for women in America.

In addition to receiving the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Wolfe was a 2016 MacArthur Fellow. She received the 2015 Herb Alpert Award in Music, and was named Musical America’s 2019 Composer of the Year. Julia Wolfe is co-founder/co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music collective Bang on a Can, and she is Artistic Director of NYU Steinhardt Music Composition.

Her music is published by Red Poppy Music and G. Ricordi & Co., New York (ASCAP) and is distributed worldwide by the Universal Music Publishing Group.

Born in Tokushima City, he graduated from the Department of Composition at Tokyo University of the Arts. His life's work, which took 37 years to complete, includes works such as "Shunkin Sho," "Ada," "Joruri," "Wakahime," "Shizuka and Yoshitsune," "Sumida River + Kusabira," "The Tale of Genji," "Ai-en," and "Pagoda of Happiness," as well as "Miki Minoru's Nine-Piece Japanese History Opera," which explore the spirit and periods of Japanese history dating back to 1600. He also composed orchestral works such as "Phoenix Triptych," including "Symphony for Two Worlds," and "Memories of the Earth," which connect East and West. His chamber and solo works, such as "Marimba Spirituals," "String Quartet," and "Arc of the East," which have been performed thousands of times in Europe and the United States, are largely commissioned by overseas organizations and have become part of the international repertoire. His choral works include "Requiem," songs such as "Hana Monogatari," and works for Japanese instruments such as "Gyoin." His best-known film scores include "In the Realm of the Senses." 
He also founded the Japan Music Group, Miki Opera House (formerly Utaza), Yui Ensemble, Orchestra Asia, Aura J, Asia Ensemble, and the Yatsugatake Hokuto International Music Festival, and was engaged in unprecedented creative activities internationally as a composer, artistic director, and producer for various performing groups and music festivals. 
In addition to publishing numerous scores and CDs, he has written books such as "Japanese Musical Instrument Method," "The Creation of the Opera "The Tale of Genji," and "Miki Minoru, 35 Years of Journey with the Shinso." He has received the Arts Festival Grand Prize, Arts Festival Award, Giraud Opera Award, Tokushima Prefecture Culture Award, Medal with Purple Ribbon, Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, Yonden Arts and Culture Award, The 20th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize She is the first Japanese person to receive the Arts and Culture Award, and was awarded the Tokushima Prefectural Honor Award (posthumously in December 2011). He was a visiting professor at Shikoku University.