Daan Vandewalle enjoys an international reputation as a specialist for New Music, with a focus on American piano music of the 20th and 21st centuries. He plays the complete piano works of Charles Ives, Messiaen, the Ligeti piano concerto, the Lutoslawski piano concerto, and works by Clarence Barlowe, John Cage, Sorabji, among others.

Her traditional Japanese sensibility combined with her knowledge of European historical performance practice form her unique vision. A specialist in contemporary music, Keiko has worked with many composers, including Helmut Lachenmann and Tom Johnson. "...purity of sound - breathtaking..." (audience response)

Stefan is the artistic director of Gallery of Tones. He is known as a particularly good accompanist, which can be heard in his duo with the saxophonist Paul van Kemenade. For several years now, Stefan has been immersing himself in composing semi-classical piano pieces, and has developed a teaching method with which all styles and levels can be trained.

The Armenian pianist was part of the premiere of our Pianolab production 'InnerTimeSpace' at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam. Together with Jan Bang, Samuel Rohrer, Tom Arthurs, Vahe Hovanesian and Keiko Shichijo, among others.

'Wandelweiser' composer, co-programmer of Pianolab Amsterdam at the Goethe-Institut. Dante has premiered more than 50 works, many of them written especially for him. He has performed at Constellation Chicago, Spectrum, Studio Z, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival, Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, Gaudeamus Music Week, among others...

"For many years Achim Kaufmann has been one of the most inspiring and exciting personalities of the European jazz and impro scene. His music demonstrates great harmonic subtlety and structural depth. As a brilliant pianist and composer, through his reflection of tradition, he has developed a nuanced, contemporary sound language that encompasses poetry, energy and abstraction in equal measure." Julia Neupert, SWR radio

The British pianist with German-Jewish roots has been steadily developing her identity in recent years. On the Berlin Label 'Jazzwerkstatt' this development can be followed. "... An unclassifiable venture... Julie consistently makes the piano, her voice and her deepest emotions sound awesomely and naturally inseparable." John Fordham - The Guardian

After recordings with the Brötzmann Oktett (Machine Gun, 1968) and Manfred Schoof (European Echoes, 1969) 1970 saw the birth of what is probably Europe's best-known trio, the Trio Brötzmann/van Hove/Bennink, with Han Bennink. His Musica Libera groups since 1980 have included Paul Rutherford, Radu Malfatti, Günter Sommer, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Marilyn Crispell, among others.

He collects and plays many electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments, sometimes self-made, such as the Keyolin (a combination of violin and keyboard). In 1995 he formed the trio Fuhler-Bennink-De Joode, based on the techniques of instant composing and instant arranging.