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Jenni Hogan is a prolific solo and chamber performer and composer praised as “ravishing” (The Guardian) and for her ability to “knock off complex phrases, harmonics and extended techniques with such subtlety you’d hardly know what was involved” (BBC Music Magazine). Recent highlights include performing at St John’s Smith Square, on Sounds New BBC Radio 3, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Barbican as a soloist and in chamber groups. Jenni is currently completing her PhD at the University of Leeds supervised by Scott McLaughlin and Emily Payne, where she is researching a reversal in the traditional sound/movement hierarchy.
Shakeel Kimotho is a dancer and choreographer trained at The Urdang Academy, Associated Studios Performing Arts Academy, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and The Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Recent credits include Joe in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Spirit of Beau Bells in Dick Whittington and His Cat at the Norwich Theatre Royal, Hud/Dance Captain in Hair, Ensemble in Pippin, Ensemble in Matthew Bourne’s Lord of the Flies, Dancer in 80s Flashback and Ensemble/Dwarf/Puppeteer in Imagine Theatre’s Snow White.
Alastair White is a Scottish composer and writer. Recipient of a Tait Memorial Trust Award (2021), and shortlisted twice for a Scottish Award for New Music (in 2019 and 2020) and Creative Edinburgh Award (2019), his work has been described as "a whole exciting new genre of art" (BBC Radio 3), "perfect" (Vogue Italia), “genuinely original" (TEMPO), and "the height of compositional magnificence" (Fanfare). His music is released by Métier and Navona, and his scores are published by UMP. He is currently composer-in-residence for the Ljubljana-based .abeceda [new music ensemble] and teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. He publishes and speaks internationally on his research interests in composition, musicology and philosophy, which include the theory of contingency dialectics and its methodological implications in fashion-opera.
Gemma A. Williams is a fashion curator and previously ran the Fashion Space Gallery at London College of Fashion. She is currently the film curator for the Shaded View of Fashion Film Festival. Her area of interest is emerging Chinese designers and she is the author of Fashion China (Thames & Hudson). She has worked for the Business of Fashion, Conde Naste Shanghai and Shanghai Fashion Week. She writes about the China market from a B2B perspective for luxury publication Jing Daily, where she is the Director, Editorial Strategy and Content.
Niki Zohdi is a composer, tenor and conductor born in Blackburn, Lancashire. He completed his music undergraduate degree at Goldsmiths in 2019 and continued to study for his masters degree in composition at the same institution under the tutelage of Roger Redgate. Niki is currently halfway through his PhD in composition at the University of Leeds and is supervised by Mic Spencer and Martin Iddon. His PhD is a practice-led project in composition looking at musical quotation in complex music by exploring compositional approaches that examine varying levels of identifiability and unidentifiability of existing materials in complex musical contexts. He is engaged and interested in the relationship between early music and the New Complexity. As a singer, Niki continues to study with Ashley Stafford and frequently sings with various cathedral choirs in the north of England, as well as with Leeds Baroque and Borealis. He has also been a guest soloist with various other ensembles throughout the UK.
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