William BROOKS (U.K.)

• Education: Music and mathematics, Wesleyan University, USA; Musicology and composition, University of Illinois, USA
• Previous & present employment: professor of music, University of York, U.K. ; professor emeritus, University of Illinois, USA
• Publications & artistic achievements: contributions in the Cambridge History of American Music; Cambrigde Companion to John Cage; publications; awards and commissions from the Newberry Library, the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain, etc.
• ORCiM project & general interest: American music, work of American experimentalists from Ives forward

Alessandro CERVINO (Italy/Belgium)

• Education: 2006-present: doctoral student docARTES; Post-Graduate student Queen Elisabeth College (Brussels); Master in Music (Conservatories of Milan and Brussels); studied piano with Paolo Bordoni, Aleksander Madzar and Jan Michiels
• Previous & present employment: free-lance concertpianist; research-fellow at Lemmensinstituut (Leuven, Belgium)
• Publications & artistic achievements: recitals (Italy, Switzerland, Belgium...), lecture-performances, conference-papers...
• ORCiM project & general interest: Analysis for performers; his research focuses on the piano sonata in contemporary music (Carter, Boulez, Csiarrino) and, more specifically, aims at understanding which kind of information, drawn from an analysis of the score, can be useful for a performer
  

 Kathleen COESSENS (Belgium)

• Education: doctor in philosophy (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); graduated in piano and chamber music at the Conservatory of Brussels and the Alfred Cortot Institute in Paris; she studied philosophy, sociology and psychology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel   
• Previous & present employment: after teaching and performing music for 10 years, she is now professor and post-doctoral researcher at the vrije Universiteit Brussel (Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science) and teaches at the Conservatory of Antwerp.
• Publications & artistic achievements: monographs, articles, performances
• ORCiM project & general interest: merging both artistic experience and academic expertise, her research is situated at the crossings of science and art, human creativity and cultural representations, looked at from and embodied, epistemological and philosophical point of view
  

Darla CRISPIN (Canada/U.K.)

• Education: Doctoral Degree (BMus, MMus PhD) in Historical Musicology King´s College (London, U.K.); Concert Recital Diploma (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, U.K.)
• Previous & present employment: 2008-present: Senior Research Fellow in Creative Practice (Royal College of Music, London, U.K.); 2003-2008: Head of Graduate School (Royal College of Music, London, U.K.); 1997-2002: coordinator of Postgraduate Studies (Guildhall School of Music, London, U.K.)
• Publications & artistic achievements: book chapters, publications in Refereeds Journals, Refereed Conference Papers; concertpianist: numerous performances in North America, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany...
• ORCiM project & general interest: imagination, silence in the work of Schoenberg; more generally her work involves re-reading the solo piano music of the Second Viennese SChool through focussing upon performance, as well as developing ideas about linking music and physical motion with historical imprinting, and working with colleagues to generate meta-level discourses about practice-as-research and its relationship to culture and education
  

Paulo DE ASSIS (Portugal)

• Education: 2003 PhD in Music (University Aveiro, Portugal); 1997 Soloist Certificate in piano (Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany); 1994 Certificate of Artistic Mastery in piano (Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany); 1989 Certificate of Licentiate in Piano (Gulbenkian Conservatory Braga, Portugal); he studied with Michel Béroff, Tibor Szasz, Vitaly Margulis and Sorin Melinte.
• Previous & present employment: present:post-doc researcher a Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Esthética (Lisbon University, Portugal); researcher at the Giorgio Cini Foundation (Venice, Italy) and Luigi Nono Archive (Venice, Italy); independent writer and concertpianist; external collaborator at the Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal)
• Publications & artistic achievements: monograph (Luigi Nono), refereed articles, lectures, concerts, recitals, recordings, musical compositions
• ORCiM project & general interest: ´Urtext´- status in current performance practice; performance oriented edition of Nono´s pianoworks
  

Tido DEJAN (Haiti)  associate researcher ORCiM

• Education: (previous/current): PhD in Music Theory, University of Paris Sorbonne; MM in Choral Conducting Temple University, Philadelphia; BM in piano, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Studied Orchestral conducting with Constantin Bugeanu (Bucharest) , Sergiu Comissiona (Aspen), Ferdinand Leitner (Siena).
• Previous & present employment: Free lance conductor and teacher; various tenures as associate conductor, chief conductor and music director of various institutions (incl. Lisbon, Pleven, Vidin, Havana, Philadelphia) fellow of the Gulbenkian Foundation; consultant for the French Ministry of Culture.
• Publications & artistic achievements: Concerts (worldwide); recordings, master classes, seminars and lectures in various HE institutions; articles in peer-reviewed journals; advisor for several festivals and competitions; composer of film music; fellow of the Menuhin Foundation.
• ORCiM project & general interest: Synoptic Formal analysis and musical performance. Interactions of Gestalt-Psychology and phenomenology in the formal analytical system devised by Constantin Bugeanu and resulting concrete applications for performers.
  

Anne DOUGLAS (U.K.)

• Previous & present employment: visual artist and research professor at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, U.K.; initiated and led the On the Edge research programma (2001-present)
• Publications & artistic achievements: publications
• ORCiM project & general interest: dynamic role of the artist within the public sphere
  creative process of the artist

Gerhard ECKEL (Austria)

• Previous & present employment: since March 2005: Professor of Computer Music and Multimedia at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM), University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz (KUG), Austria; since October 2007: head of the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM)
• ORCiM project & general interest: takes both an artistic and scientific interest in matters of sound and music; sound synthesis, processing and rendering

Hubert EIHOLZER (Switzerland)

• Education: PhD Philosophy (University of Oxford, U.K.); degree in piano (Conservatory of Fribourg, Switzerland)
• Previous & present employment: 2002-present: Vice-Director and Head of Research deparment at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland) 
• ORCiM project & general interest: research advisor ORCiM; he is interested in the development of music research that deepens our understanding of musical composition, performance and musical perception and that is relevant tot the work of music practitioners
  

Mieko KANNO (Japan/U.K.)

• Education: DPhil (University of York, U.K.); Concert Recital Diploma (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, U.K.)
• Previous & present employment: 2001-present: teacher at Durham University (U.K.) where she is the director of the Centre for Contemporary Music; free-lance top ranked solo violinist 
• Publications & artistic achievements: laureate of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition (1989); prizewinner of the Hannover international Violin Competition and Jacques Thibaud International Music Competition; recordings, premières, broadcasts; articles,...
• ORCiM project & general interest: she explores the musical potential of today´s world through peforming contemporary music and through working with composers and computers. Her particular focus is on the formation of aesthetic expression in yet unformed music
  

Catherine LAWS (U.K.)

• Education:1996 PhD University of York; piano studies (Winchester) 
• Previous & present employment: 1997-2007: Associate director of Music Dartington College of the Arts; Visiting Lecturer at Plymounth University U.K.); free-lance lecturer, performer and researcher; concertpianist in contemporary U.K. music groups ([rout] and Black Hair)
• Publications & artistic achievements: recordings, articles, performances  
• ORCiM project & general interest: explores the modes of listening at play in the preparation and performance of Feldman´s long works for solo piano; in general her research lies in two areas - contemporary musica performance practices and the relationship between music and language
  

Tania LISBOA (Brazil/U.K.)

• Education: 2000 PhD University of Sheffield; 1992 MA in Music Performance (City University London, U.K); 1989 Postgraduate Diploma Guildhall School of Music (London, U.K.)
• Previous & present employment: 2001-present: research fellow at the Centre for Performance Science of the Royal College of Music (London, U.K.); concert cellist
• Publications & artistic achievements: recordings, recitals, articles, book chapters
• ORCiM project & general interest: her practice-based research focuses on performance science, teaching and learning, and her main current projects concentrate on string playing
  

Stefan ÖSTERSJÖ (Sweden)

• Education: Dr. Stefan Östersjö studied with Gunnar Spjuth and Prof Per-Olof Johnsson at the Malmö Academy of Music (1987-1992) and also with Peder Riis and Magnus Andersson in Stockholm and Darmstadt. He continued his studies with a PhD project within the field of artistic research, carried out in 2002-2008.
• Previous & present employment: He is at present engaged in artistic research on improvisation in different cultural contexts at the Malmö Academy of Music, a project involving performers and researchers in The Netherlands, Vietnam and Sweden.
• Publications & artistic achievements: journal articles and conference publications, books (SHUT UP ’N’ PLAY! Negotiating the Musical Work. Lund University Press, Lund 2008), cd´s
• ORCiM projects & general interest: The performing composer, the listening performer
  

Juan PARRA (Chile/The Netherlands)

• Education: 2007-present: doctoral student docARTES; 2007: Master in Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (The Netherlands)
• Previous & present employment:free-lance performer, composer 
• Publications & artistic achievements: numerous compositions, performances, lectures (worldwide)
• ORCiM project & general interest: notation from a composer´s point of view, state of the art 
  

Michael SCHWAB (U.K.)

• Education:PhD in Photography (´Image Automation: Post-Conceptual Post-Photography and the Deconstruction of the Photographic Image´, Royal College of Art, London, 2008); MA in Photography (London College of Printing, 2000); M.A. in Philosophy (´Nietzsche and Heidegger: Metaphysics as Problem´, University of Hamburg, 1996)
• Employment: Tutor and E-Learning Coordinator, Royal College of Art, London; Research Associate, Y (Institute for Transdisciplinarity), Bern University of the Arts.
• Publications and Achievements: Since 2003 exhibitions and events focusing on artistic research; ´Paris´, 2008 (artist´s book); First, the Second: The Supplemental Function of Research in Art´, Zürich: Jahrbuch der Züricher Hochschule der Künste, 2009; ´The Power of Deconstruction in Artistic Research´, Working Papers in Art and Design, Vol. 5; ‘First, the second: Walter Benjamin’s theory of reflection and the question of artistic research’, Journal of Visual Arts Practice 7:3, pp. 213-223; Co-initiator of JAR, the Journal for Artistic Research (in preparation)
• ORCiM Project & General Interest: Observer and potential collaborator with particular interest in the role of spatiality in the context of artistic research; similarities and dissimilarities of research in music and visual art; questions of transdisciplinarity

Luk VAES (Belgium)

• Education:PhD (Leiden University (NL)/Orpheus Institute (B) 2009 - "Extended Piano techniques"); MM (SUNY at Buffalo (US) 1993); Higher Degree piano (Royal Conservatory, Ghent (B) 1989); private studies with Aloys Kontarsky (Cologne (G) 1989-91).
• Present and Previous Employment: coordinator of doctoral curriculum at the Orpheus Institute (B; 2010-); research fellow at the ORCiM (B; 2010-); liaison officer for the doctoral curriculum at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague (NL; 2010-); founding director of November Music Flanders new music festival (1998-2009); free-lance solo pianist & lecturer (1988-); free-lance recording producer (1992-); artistic director Steurbaut Sound Recording Centre (2003-2010).
• Achievements: prizewinner of solo piano competitions for new music (Belgium, Germany, Italy, US); concerts at the major new music festivals in the EU and US since 1988; award-winning CD with music by Mauricio Kagel; forthcoming book on extended piano techniques and related articles/conference appearances.
• ORCiM Project & General Interest: in general: practical applications of artistic research into matters of piano playing; concrete project: devising ways to perform the piano part of Ravel´s Tzigane  on a present-day piano with the original Luthéal sounds.

Joost VANMAELE (Belgium)

• Education: 2004-present: doctoral student docARTES; 1999-2004: postgraduate programme Orpheus Institute; 1993-1995: Aufbaustudium Musikhochschule Freiburg (Germany); 1993: Master in music - piano (Royal Conservatory of Antwerp)
• Previous & present employment: 2006-present: artistic staff member Orpheus Institute; 1994-2006: piano teacher at the municipal conservatory of Bruges 
• Publications & artistic achievements: prizewinner piano competitions, concerts, recordings, articles 
• ORCiM project & general interest: listening to ourselves; musical performance model (disposition-imagination-action); bio-cultural analysis of musical works