Silvia Simons - Australia

Grew up in Zurich, Switzerland, but studied Music composition and Drama at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Some of her compositions have won her recognition and prizes from national and international composition competitions. They have been performed in Australia & Europe and also been broadcast by ABC FM. She performs and experiments (mainly using flute & voice) with other musicians and improvisation plays a seminal role in her work. As well, she creates music for visual media.

Piotr Sarnecki - Poland

Cracovian composer.

Gardika Gigih Pradipta - Indonesia

Greaduated from Indonesian Institute of Art. Composed pieces for solo performers, chamber ensembles and orchestra.

LG12 - England

The LG12 collective is a group of young musicians studying at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music. Each member's role encompasses composition, improvisation and multi-instrumental performance, with a commitment to seeking out new ways of integrating individual expression with collective creativity.

Christoforos Christofi - Cyprus

Graduated from Ionian University of Corfu, Greece, at the Composition Department in 2011. He studied under the professors Joseph Papadatos and Dimitri Maragopoulos. He attended many seminars with distinguished professors including composer Murray Schaifer at the very first World Acoustic Ecology Conference and the second IASJ Jazz Education Conference with Dr. Guther Schuller and Dr. Theodor Antoniou. He already composed works for small and large ensembles and one for symphonic orchestra. Many of his duos for piano and wind where played by university students and one solo for viola was lucky enough to be performed by the viola master P. Sylverthorne of Royal Academy of London, in a concert given in Corfu.

Chase Christensen - USA

Lives in Kearney, Nebraska (USA). He began composing in 2009.

Ringtone Competition 2011

Nancy Andrew - USA

Lover of small melodies.

Ringtone Competition 2011

Michal Jakub Papara - Poland

Michał Jakub Papara – composer and music theorist. He was born in Cracow in 1984. In 2003 he graduated from the Władysław Żeleński State Secondary Music School in Cracow (violin class). He studies composition with professor Józef Rychlik, and computer music with Ph. d. Mateusz Bień at the Academy of Music in Cracow. In 2010 he graduated from Music Theory studies at the same Academy (master thesis under professor Teresa Malecka ). In years  2003-2006 he studied musicology at the Jagiellonian University (received the degree of bachelor). He has received the following awards or distinctions: 1st prize for “Odyseja – I kwartet smyczkowy” in the 7th Tadeusz Ochlewski Composition Competition in Cracow (2009); 1st distinction (1st prize was not granted)  for “Klątwa starych zegarów” for piano trio in the 2nd Marek Stachowski Competition for Young Composers in Cracow (2009); 2nd prize (ex aequo) for “Moje starchy” for two pianos and two percussion in The 51th Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers in Warsaw (2010); and 2nd prize (ex aequo) for song “A może to świat płonie…” for female voice and piano in the 18th Adam Didur Composition Competition in Sanok (2010). For his artistic achievements in the academic year 2009/2010 he received the scholarship of polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage..

Ringtones no.: 2, 6, 11 (2010)

Jakub Polaczyk - Poland

Jakub Polaczyk is a young polish composer, born in 1983 in Cracow, where he graduated with honors from the piano performance studio of I. Rolanowsaka at the W. Żeleński Level II Music School (2005) and musicology at the Jagiellonian University - master diploma (2008) under superviosn of Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz. Presently studies composition with Marcel Chyrzński, orchestration with Krzystof Penderecki and computer music with Marek Chołoniewski at the Academy of Music in Cracow. In 2008/2009 semester he studied on a scholarship from Socrates-Erasmus program in the Royal Conseravtory of Music in Brussels, where he hone his compositional techniques in the class of Jan van Landeghem. He consultated his works with: Marta Ptaszyńska, Krzysztof Penderecki, Per Norgard, Sukhi Kang, Peter Swimmen, Rebecca Sanunders, Christian Wolff, Richard Ayres and Bart Bouckaert. He has won many prizes in the composers’ competitions including: 1st pize for Combinations on Olympus for Solo Trombone in the 5th PWM T. Ochlewski Composition Competition in 2007 in Cracow, 1st pirze for Oratio Fatima for mixed choir in the John Paul II Days Composition Comeptition 2008 in Cracow, Special Award for Jam.exe for string orchestra in the Interational Compostion Competiton in Jeju in South Korea (2009). www.jakub.polaczy.com
Ringtones no.: 3, 5, 8

Ilari Hylkila - Finland

Finnish composer Ilari Hylkilä (b. 1978) has composed music mainly for wind orchestras and symphony orchestras. Lately he has also made songs for singers and music for video clips. Hylkilä has won a Finnish march composition competition Sotapojan Taivas two times ( Honour March/year 2004 and The Hero Story/year 2008)  and his piece of music (Unknown Legend) has been voted audience’s favourite song in a wind band composition competition called “Suut messingillä” (2005). www.ilarihylkilla.com
Ringtones no.: 1, 9, 14 (2010)