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Kristi Kapten is an Estonian concert pianist. She is the winner of the Tallinn International Piano Competition (2011) and holds a phD in artistic research. As a soloist Kristi has given concerto performances and recitals in many European countries and in China. She has performed in festivals like Concerti del Tempietto (Rome, Italy), Edinburgh International Festival, St Magnus International Festival (UK) and Palermo Classica (Italy). As a sensitive stage partner Kristi has established partnerships with outstanding singers and instrumentalists. Her piano trio, formed in Glasgow in 2011, has become a well-known ensemble among Scottish audiences. The Kapten Trio was chosen for Chamber Music Scotland`s Residency Project in the years 2017 – 2019. Kristi has studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Bachelor; phD) with Prof. Peep Lassmann and at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Masters) with Prof. Fali Pavri. Kristi teaches Vocal Chamber Music at the EAMT and supervises students in artistic research.

Fernanda Ermelindo studies in the MA Dance Studies at the University for Music and Dance Cologne. Previously she studied dance at the Faculdade Angel Vianna in Rio de Janeiro. After her BA she continued her studies in New York City. As a contemporary dancer she has worked for the companies CMDC, Cyclo XXI Ballet Contemporâneo and Urbanus Triple Dance. She also was a member of the dance company De Funes Dance. As an assistant, Fernanda worked with the artist Anabella Lenzu and as a research assistant with the musicologist Marcia Taborda. She has teaching experience in ballet, contemporary dance and improvisation. Fernanda is also a certified English/Portuguese translator. 

Lars Frers is currently employed at the University of South-Eastern Norway, where he is the head of the university’s PhD program in culture studies (currently on a research leave). In his research, Lars is collaborating with people coming from many different disciplinary backgrounds, focusing on the multisensory, the peripheral, and grey zones. He teaches theory of science and research ethics and multimodal qualitative methods. His current projects explore failure in professional practice and ethics in using video based research methods.

Laurenz Gemmer’s artistic focus lies on piano improvisation, in which he has cultivated a unique, intuitive style of playing that is characterized by a crossing of stylistic borders while constantly striving for authentic musical quality. His studies with Paulo Álvares, Florian Weber and Hubert Nuß at the music colleges in Cologne and Osnabrück provided a thorough musical foundation in the areas of New Music, Jazz and “classical music”, thereby creating tensions among which Gemmer’s particular artistic expression evolves. He performs in and works for various band formations, dance and theatre productions, all of which are striving for unique musical expression through innovative sound timbres, custom-made compositions and improvisational spaces on the cross roads between musical genres. In a second musical identity, Gemmer is working on the fusion with a prepared semi-acoustic vintage grand piano (CP70) and software.
Gemmer teaches at the music colleges in Freiburg and Cologne.

Constanze Schellow (Dr. phil.) teaches and researches as Junior Professor on cultures of knowledge and mediation in dance at the Center for Contemporary Dance at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. She is particularly interested in projects that question the body and movement in their social and reflexive possibilities in a wide variety of social contexts, and that stimulate dialogues from dance with practitioners in other fields. From 2018-2021, she led the international research project "Theoretical turn? On the institutionalization of theory/s in contemporary dance education" funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in collaboration with the dance programs at SNDO Amsterdam, Parts Brussels, Uniarts Stockholm, HZT Berlin, among others.