Artists
Adam Koch Christensen
Grew up in Præstø and began violin at age five. Prizewinner at major international competitions, including Tibor Varga (2019), Brahms (2020) and Salzburg Mozart. Currently enrolled in the soloist program at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Adomas Palekas
Lithuanian sound artist investigating environmental entanglements within electronics and sound. He works with self-derived extended electronic circuits, integrating biotic and abiotic forces as active collaborators within his emergent sound works.
Alexander Hatini
Studies composition with Matthew Grouse and organ with Mark Baumann at MGK Sankt Annæ Gymnasium.
Andrea Parkins
Electroacoustic performer, composer and intermedia artist combining electronically-processed accordion with electronic feedback, object sounds, and live-processing. Exploring connections between body, material, sound and space.
Andrew Power
British cellist based in Copenhagen, working with contemporary music and expanding the cello through collaboration, interdisciplinary performance, and new formats.
Anna-Maija Terävä
Dancer, performer and occasional teacher based in Darmstadt, working in dance, theatre and performance art.
Annika Tudeer
Performer and artistic director, founder of Oblivia in 2000. Currently pursuing an artistic research PhD at MUK, Vienna
Anton Rune Lindström
Anton Lindström Composer, instrument builder, musician and mandolinist from Gothenburg Sweden, based in Copenhagen. His music deals with the nostalgic, the juvenile and the absurd, incorporating analog electronics, folk tones, and other vernacular elements.
Ars Nova
Ars Nova Copenhagen is a Danish-based vocal group with singers from seven countries and concerts in more than 40 countries. Their repertoire spans from Josquin to Cage, placing Renaissance music alongside the music of our time.
Athansia Kotronia
Swedish-Greek composer based in Denmark. Her work focuses on poetry and ancient music, using fragments of harmony, rhythm, melody, and text. The concert marks her debut as a composer from the Soloist degree at The Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Bjarke Mogensen
Internationally acclaimed accordion virtuoso from Bornholm. Winner of multiple international awards including the European Broadcasting Union New Talent competition — all firsts for an accordionist.
Bjørn Axel Dahl Lumholt
Studies composition with Daniel Fladmose at MGK.
Cake Of Day
Experimental wind duo of Mathilde Schelin (clarinet) and Stine Benjaminsen (recorder), exploring the unique sound between clarinets and recorders through improvisation and active audience participation.
Christopher Moy
Versatile guitarist, vocalist and improviser. Member og KlangLab. Based in Basel, he collaborates widely in Europe and co-creates the Stop, Drop, and RollUFA sextet.
Copenhagen Contemporary String Quartet
String quartet playing exclusively contemporary works, creating programmes specific to each space and audience. Consisting of Amalie Kjældgaard and Sofie Thorsbro Dan (violin), Mina Fred (viola) and Andrew Power (cello).
CRAS
Guitar sextet of six classically trained guitarists, founded in 2017. Based on the question of how tomorrow’s music engages with the present, CRAS collaborates with composers from around the world.
Daniel Høyberg
Studies composition at MGK Sankt Annæ Gymnasium.
Dino Georgeton
American/Greek percussionist and researcher based in Basel, he combines performance, sound installation, and research on politics in Western music. Member of KlangLab.
Ear Transplant
Copenhagen-based organisation for contemporary music and interdisciplinary art, led by composers Joss Smith and Matthew Grouse. Somewhere between a concert production platform and an ensemble.
Esbjerg Ensemble
Esbjerg Ensemble spiller klassisk og ny kammermusik med kompromisløs kvalitet og anerkendes for nyskabende og alsidige programmer. Ensemblet består af ti passionerede musikere fra hele verden, udvalgt for deres unikke kvaliteter, dedikeret til at spille på højeste niveau.
George Kentros
Experimental violinist based in Sweden. Has commissioned over 200 works from composers across 21 countries and founded avant-garde art club SEKT, consistently challenging the norms of contemporary music performance.
Jena Jang
A Korean experimental musician, audiovisual artist, and DIY instrument builder currently based in Prague. Their practice combines noise, power electronics, danger music and drone with improvised vocals in body-driven somatic performances.
Juha Valkeapää
Helsinki-based vocal artist and performance maker with a 30-year career spanning performance, installation, and soundscape work.
Kasper Houmøller
Danish composer exploring the intersection of electronic music production and classical music. His work engages with disability, ephemerality and endurance.
KlangLab
Swiss experimental music ensemble working in close collaboration with composers to develop new pieces, treating rehearsal and creation as a shared sound laboratory.
Lars Lundehave Hansen
Lars Lundehave Hansen is a composer and sound artist. In his practice, sound is never immaterial, it takes presence in the room, occupies a sculptural position and becomes visible. With more than 25 years of experience, he is one of Denmark's pioneers in sound art.
Lasse E. Wamberg
Studies oboe at MGK Sankt Annæ Gymnasium.
Lauren Sarah Hayes
Scottish improviser, sound artist and scholar. She manipulates voice, drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software in a mix of experimental pop, techno, noise and free improvisation.
Leon Thomsen
Studies composition with Matthew Grouse at MGK Sankt Annæ Gymnasium.
Lotte Anker
Danish Saxophonist, improviser and composer working in a hybrid field between improvisation, experimental jazz, and contemporary music, exploring the manifold – and often idiosyncratic- qualities in sound, space and temporarily.
Mikael Szafirowski
Musician, producer and sound engineer working beyond jazz and fixed forms. Co-founder of Rooie Waas and the Royal Improvisers Orchestra. Member of KlangLab.
NOVO Quartet
Danish string quartet formed in 2018, performing over 75 concerts a year. BBC New Generation Artists 2025–27. Top prizes at Geneva, Heidelberg, Carl Nielsen and Trondheim competitions.
Nøgensnegl
Performancepraxis led by performance artist Iben Damkjær. Nøgensnegl creates non-verbal, sensory and site-specific performance experiences for children from age 4 and up.
Orest Smovzh
Ukrainian violinist based in Helsinki. Playing in unusual places, pubs, squatted buildings, saunas, elevators, and residential attics. Smovzh strives for a connection with diverse audiences whilst retaining a DIY feel of making raw art.
p.e.r.s.o.n.a.l.c.l.u.t.t.e.r
is an experimental performance group creating expansive, playful interpretations of new works, exploring choreographed movement and performativity.
Piotr Dubajko
Currently in the soloist program for double bass at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, he has performed with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Danish Opera and is an active chamber musician and soloist.
Rhea Dally
Rhea Dally makes experimental music and builds electronic instruments.
S. Gerup (1994)
S. Gerup grew up around Copenhagen and studied Classical Composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Simon Løffler and Bent Sørensen since at The Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Annelies Van Parys.
Silvia Cignoli
Classical and electric guitarist developing an original language between classical music and electronics, creating contemplative soundscapes described as emotional post-impressionism. Winner of the Fellegara Prize 2024.
Stine Hertel
Performance artist and lighting designer, co-founder of Rotterdam Presenta. Has collaborated with Oblivia as lighting designer since 2020.
Timo Fredriksson
Classical pianist, graduated from the Sibelius Academy. Has been performing and devising work with Oblivia since 2000.
Umut Talay
Studies composition with Matthew Grouse at MGK Sankt Annæ Gymnasium.
Ute Wassermann
Voice artist, composer and improviser known for her extraordinary, many voiced vocal sound-language, combining composition, improvisation and performance art. Her singing oscillates between electronic, animalistic and human qualities.
V Coloris
Copenhagen-based wind quintet blending folk and contemporary music. Regularly collaborates with prominent composers and frequently creates own arrangements of works with clear folk roots.
Vianne Cathérine Sali
Has already performed as an orchestral harpist with ensembles including the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Vinyl-terror & -horror
Vinyl-terror & -horror is an artist duo consisting of Camilla Sørensen and Greta Christensen, working at the intersection of sound and visual art through turntablism, installation, sculpture, composition work or live concerts.
William Fugl Mortensen
Studies composition with Daniel Fladmose at MGK Hovedstaden.
Yiran Zhao
Composer, performer and sound artist based in Berlin, working with the human body and other objects as compositional material
Zacarias Maia
Basel-based multidisciplinary musician active in contemporary music, free improvisation and music theatre. Artistic director of KlangLab.
Zola Mennenöh
German vocalist working across contemporary music, experimental and avant-pop. Known for her delicate, powerful voice, her practice explores expanded approaches to vocal expression. She holds a Soloist degree from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory.
Þórhildur Magnúsdóttir
Icelandic violist and performer based between Copenhagen and Reykjavík, holding a master's degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Currently exploring the possibilities of viola and electronics in improvisation.