Emily Koh
Emily Koh (b.1986) is a Singaporean composer+ based in Atlanta, Georgia whose music reimagines everyday experiences by sonically expounding tiny oft-forgotten details, and explores binary states such as extremities/boundaries and activity/stagnation. She especially enjoys collaborating with creatives of other specializations. Described as “the future of composing” (The Straits Times, Singapore), Emily is the recipient of awards such as the Copland House Residency Award, Young Artist Award (National Arts Council, Singapore), Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize (Asian Composers League), ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Prix D’Ete (Peabody), and the Macagnoni Prize for Innovative Research (University of Georgia). Her work is supported with commissions, grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, National Arts Council (Singapore), Opera America, New Music USA, MacDowell, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, American Composers’ Orchestra, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, the Paul Abisheganaden Grant for Artistic Excellence (National University of Singapore) and others. Described as “beautifully eerie” (New York Times), and “subtley spicy” (Baltimore Sun), Emily’s music has been performed around the world, and is published by Babel Scores (Europe) and Poco Piu Publishing (worldwide). Emily is currently Associate Professor of Music Composition at the University of Georgia, USA.
Anothai
Anothai Nitibhon finished her PhD in composition from the University of Edinburgh and is now working at the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music (PGVIM). As a composer and artist, she creates and curates many concerts and exhibitions and is involved in many activities that promote collaborations between musicians/artists from different disciplines and musical cultures. Since the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music’s establishment in 2013, Anothai has initiated and led various international projects, such as the 'PGVIM' International Symposium and ASEAN Youth Ensemble. Both projects, which became a mutual platform for creative discussions and reflective inquiries, contributed to the musical development in Southeast Asia and advocated community engagement projects such as the PGVIM Children's Music Theatre and the Music Makes Changes Programme at PGVIM.
Ken Ueno
A Rome Prize and Berlin Prize winner, Ken Ueno is a composer, performer, sound artist, and scholar. Leading performers and ensembles around the world have championed Ueno’s music. His piece for the Hilliard Ensemble, Shiroi Ishi, was featured in their repertoire for over ten years. Another work, Pharmakon, was performed dozens of times nationally by Eighth Blackbird during their 2001-2003 seasons. In 2011, a portrait concert of Ueno’s music was featured at MaerzMusik in Berlin. As a vocalist, Ueno is known for inventing extended techniques and has performed as a soloist in his vocal concerto with orchestras in Boston, New York, Warsaw, Vilnius, Bangkok, Sacramento, Stony Brook, Pittsburgh, North Carolina, and Berkeley. As a sound artist, his installations have been commissioned and exhibited by museums and galleries in Beijing, Guangzhou, Taipei, Mexico City, Art Basel, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong. One of his largest projects, Daedalus Drones—an installation featuring a fence-labyrinth housing a swarm of choreographed flying drones, designed for performance with instrumentalists—was installed at the Asia Society of Hong Kong and featured in the New Vision Arts Festival in 2021. More recently, in 2024, he was the featured guest composer for the Takefu International Music Festival, where the Arditti String Quartet premiered his latest string quartet. Earlier in 2024, he was a featured performer at Freespace’s Noise Fest in Hong Kong.
Ueno currently serves as a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His writings have been published by the Oxford Handbook, the New York Times, Palgrave Macmillan, The Dance Review (TDR), and Wiley & Sons. His bio appears in The Grove Dictionary of American Music. www.kenueno.com
Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Jason Thorpe Buchanan is a tri-continentally active composer, intermedia artist, and music technologist. His works explore multiplicity, causality, behavior, and the integration of live performance with technology. He has been recognized internationally as recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship (Hamburg), an American-Scandinavian Foundation Grant, fellowships and commissions from EMPAC, Royaumont (France), MICF, the International Horn Society, Eklekto Percussion (Switzerland), TIME SPANS (NYC), Tetractys New Music (Austin), and more, including selection as Artist-in-Residence at USF Verftet (Norway), the Embassy of Foreign Artists (Switzerland), nomination for the Gaudeamus Prize, and as a 2024 Bogliasco Aaron Copland Fellow (Italy). Commissions have included collaborations with Alarm Will Sound, Talea Ensemble, Ensemble Interface (DE), Nikel (Israel), EXAUDI (UK), Slagwerk Den Haag (NL), Eklekto Percussion (CH), Iktus Percussion, wild Up!, the Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble, TACETi, Académie Voix Nouvelles Ensemble (FR), the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Line Upon Line, and others. Scenes from his multimedia opera Hunger received performances at Darmstadt, The Industry’s FIRST TAKE (L.A.), and MATA (NYC).
Jason serves as Artistic Associate and Lecturer in New Media and Digital Technologies for Music at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, Germany within the Hybrid Music Lab, as well as Artistic Director of the [Switch~ Ensemble] since 2012. He has formerly served as Managing Director of the New Music Initiative at the University of Missouri, Visiting Lecturer in Composition at UT Austin & Interim Director of the UT Electronic Music Studios, Department Chair/Lecturer in Composition, Theory, and Electroacoustic Music at the College of Music, Mahidol University (Thailand), Executive Director of the VIPA Festival (Spain), and Curator for the San Francisco Center for New Music. He holds a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music and is widely sought as a guest composer and lecturer at institutions such as the University of Chicago, Stanford University, TRANSIT (Belgium), MATA, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore), the Bergen Center for Elektronisk Kunst (Norway), and dozens of Universities throughout the United States and Europe. www.jasonthorpebuchanan.com
Scott Wilson
For the past three decades Scott Wilson’s music and sound art has explored the intersection of a variety of different and sometimes contradictory practices. Combining aspects of instrumental/vocal composition, field recording, immersive multichannel electroacoustic sound and visuals, cross-cultural collaboration, live coding and improvisation in works that are each a bespoke solution to a unique artistic problem, his output holds few firm allegiances to schools, styles or genres, and regularly transgresses the boundaries of the ‘acceptable’ to be found in even the most supposedly experimental fields of practice. A particular interest in collaboration has led to a rich range of output, including cross-cultural and interdisciplinary works. These and other pieces including hyperreal soundscapes using sound from the natural world, a collaborative musical palimpsest on classic Qawwali recordings, and music created by sonifying the particle collisions of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have been presented around the world. Also active as an educator and mentor for young artists, he is the co-director of Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre and teaches at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. www.scottwilson.ca
Christopher Dietz
Christopher Dietz composes music inspired by a wide variety of sources, both real and conceptual. Poetry, sound as sculpture and color, how toddlers play, deep time and the cosmos, rhythm as geometry, religion and politics, animal behavior, and the music of others are a few of the subjects that have informed his musical imagination. A similarly diverse approach to the creation of each new piece has resulted in a collection of works distinct in their surface features yet bound together by a common vitality, nuanced palette, and a commitment to engaging with others. His music has been performed by contemporary music ensembles including Alarm Will Sound, Decoda, Ensemble Échappé, NODUS, The Orchestra of the League of Composers, Ogni Suono, Duo Scorpio, The East Coast Contemporary Ensemble, and Trio Kavak as well as traditional ensembles such as L’Orchestre de la Francophonie, The San Jose Chamber Orchestra, The Orange County Symphony, The Toledo Symphony, and many university ensembles. Christopher holds degrees from University of Michigan, the Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Wisconsin. He was previously on the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory and is currently an associate professor of composition at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Jiradej Setabundhu
ej Setabundhu studied music with Bruce Gaston at Chulalongkorn University. He later attended the University of Southern California, studying with composer Donald Crockett, and Northwestern University as a student of M. William Karlins, Marta Ptaszynska, Amnon Wolman, Michael Pisaro and Stephen Syverud. In Thailand, he worked as an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Music, Mahidol University, the Conservatory of Music, Rangsit University, and as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music. He has been the recipient of the Michael Mason Scholarship, the NSCO Composers Award, the William T. Faricy Composition Award, the Yoshiro Irino Prize, and the Composers Guild Award. His composition has been performed in China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, Slovenia, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. Currently, he is a faculty at Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music, Thailand.Boon Hua Lien
Singaporean conductor Lien Boon Hua has gained prominence as one of Asia's leading interpreters of contemporary music, celebrated for his stylistic versatility and exceptional emotional depth. In recognition of this, he was invited to conduct the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at the Esplanade’s 20th anniversary concert. As Artistic Director of Wayfarer Sinfonietta since 2021, he has transformed the ensemble into a dynamic force in Singapore’s music scene. His international career includes engagements with prestigious orchestras such as the Polish National Radio Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and Sichuan Symphony, amongst many others. Alongside symphonic and contemporary repertoire, Lien is highly regarded in Chinese music and opera, recently appointed Conductor of the Singapore National Youth Chinese Orchestra and leading acclaimed opera productions in Singapore. He studied under distinguished maestros such as Bernard Haitink and Peter Eötvös and is a faculty member at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music. An award-winning conductor and a passionate advocate for Asian composers, he holds a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the Eastman School of Music.
Tacet(i) Ensemble
Established in 2014, Tacet(i) is Southeast Asia’s leading new music ensemble, dedicated to creating new compositions by both local and international composers and artists. Tacet(i) explores innovative works that integrate elements of music technology, improvisation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Each year, the ensemble premieres and collaborates on over 50 new pieces, showcasing its repertoire in Thailand, across Asia, Europe, and the United States. The ensemble has participated in renowned festivals such as the IntAct Festival (Thailand), Thailand New Music and Arts Festival (TNMAS), China-ASEAN New Music Festival (China), Tesselat Collective Collaboration Project (Japan), Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA, New York), Crossover Contemporary Music (Netherlands), Diffused Portrait (United Kingdom), International Computer Music Conference – ICMC (China), Spectrum New York (USA), Thailand-European Composers (Netherlands), and many more. Tacet(i) has received prestigious awards and funding from organizations such as the Siam Cement Group Foundation (Thailand), the British Council Grants – Connection through Cultures (United Kingdom), the Japan Foundation Grants (Japan), the Office of Contemporary Art And Culture (Thailand), Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council (Switzerland), the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music (Thailand), the Cornell Council for the Arts (USA), and Vasinee Food Corp (USA). Recently, the ensemble was featured in a series produced by CNN World as part of Piyawat Louilarpprasert’s interview, “Young and Gifted.” Tacet(i) has conducted residencies and creative projects at esteemed institutions across Asia, Europe, and the USA, including the Amsterdam Conservatory (Netherlands), Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University (Thailand), Chiang Mai University (Thailand), College of Music – Mahidol University (Thailand), the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen (China), Cornell University (USA), Graduate Center CUNY (USA), Guangxi Arts University (China), Ithaca College (USA), Royal College of Music (UK), Royal Academy of Music (UK), Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University (USA), Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music (Thailand), Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore), and Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland). Since 2017, Tacet(i) has partnered with the Thailand Music and Art Organisation (TMAO) to articulate the conception of new collaborative music and art. Tacet(i) and TMAO have curated several creative projects, offering a variety of events such as educational workshops, collaborative performances, and diverse concerts from Thailand to the global stage. Since 2019, Tacet(i) has served as the ensemble-in-residence for the IntAct Festival (Thailand) at the Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre, which has become a center for new music in Southeast Asia.
In 2024, Tacet(i) celebrates its 10th anniversary. Recently, Tacet(i) was awarded the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize (2024-25), recognizing it as the leading contemporary music ensemble of the year. With this recognition, Tacet(i) strengthens its place on the global music stage, pushing creative boundaries and serving as an inspiring ambassador for cultural exchange and creativity. The ensemble remains committed to enriching the contemporary music scene in Southeast Asia and globally. Tacet(i) pursues this mission through dedicated research in sound studies, technology, and interdisciplinary exploration, fostering collaborations with diverse artists, composers, and performers. For more information about our artists, performances, and events, visit: www.tacetiensemble.com.