LIST OF DELEGATES
Ania Popowska (She/Her)
Head of Communications. Contact person for Delegate Programme,
Borealis
ania@borealisfestival.no
+47 936 62 339
Tze Yeung Ho (He/Him)
Artistic Director,
Borealis
tzeyeung@borealisfestival.no
Agnes Hvizdalek (She/Her)
Managing Director,
Borealis
agnes@borealisfestival.no
Yumi Murakami (She/Her)
Advisor for Art and Contemporary Music, Music Norway
yumi@musicnorway.no
Jennifer Gunn (She/Her)
Advisor, Music Norway
jennifer@musicnorway.no
Amanda Cook (She/Her)
Editor-in-chief, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
USA
editor@icareifyoulisten.com
Amanda Cook is the Director of Communications at American Composers Forum, where she also serves as the editor-in-chief of the online publication I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek (He/Him)
Editor-in-Chief of Seismograf
Denmark
andreo@seismograf.org
Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
is the Editor-in-Chief of Seismograf since 2021 and music critic at Kristeligt Dagblad. Has written for a wide range of Danish and international media, including The Quietus (UK), Positionen (DE), MINT Magazine and Jazz Forum (PL), Neural (IT), Raw Vision (UK), and Kunstkritikk. Co-author (with Lars Muhl) of HVA’ SAA! En guides rutsjebanetur gennem Aarhus – før, nu og i fremtiden, and contributor to Man skal høre meget – an anthology on music criticism.
Fabienne Krause (She/Her)
Director, Classical:NEXT
Germany
fabienne@classicalnext.com
Fabienne Krause is director of Classical:NEXT – the biggest international professionals’ meeting dedicated to classical and art music, with 1,500+ artists, managers, presenters, orchestras, labels, educators, press, media, publishers and more. Since the first edition in 2012, she has
developed this networking event with a focus on the future of the genre. Over the years, around
6,500 professionals from 60 countries have joined Classical:NEXT and made it the largest international gathering and
platform for classical and art music.
Fielding Hope (He/Him)
Co-director at Counterflows Festival
UK
James Black (He/They)
Artistic Director
Klang festival
Denmark
james@klang.dk
Artistic Director of Klang festival, Copenhagen and composer. Originally from Bristol, UK, based in Denmark since 2013. Black’s work lies at the intersection of score music and performance art, encompassing all forms of media in a deep exploration of themes including queer identity, Catholicism, and loss.
Karolina Dąbek
Music critic and editor of Ruch Muzyczny
Poland
karolina_dabek@pwm.com.pl
Karolina Dąbek is a music critic and the editor of the Polish classical music magazine “Ruch Muzyczny”. She holds a PhD in Music Theory and is a lecturer at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow. Her primary research interests include 20th-century avant-garde music as well as experimental and spatial contemporary music.
Kate Molleson
Writer and broadcaster, BBC Radio 3 & 4
UK
katemolleson@yahoo.com
Kate Molleson is a writer and broadcaster with a specialism in contemporary and marginalised music. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Composer of the Week and BBC Radio 4’s arts programme Front Row. She was a music critic for the Guardian for several years and her award-winning debut book Sound Within Sound (Faber) offers an alternative history of 20th century music. She lives in Edinburgh.
Ketil Gutvik (He/Him)
Executive Director
nyMusikk
Norway
ketil@nymusikk.no
Ketil Gutvik is executive director of nyMusikk in Oslo. Also responsible for the production of nyMusikk’s concerts at the Ultima Festival, several sound installations, and tours and concerts across other Norwegian cities. Gutvik’s background is as guitarist within the field of jazz and improvised music. He is founder of several concert series in Oslo, such as Drazztic Acoustic, Fritt Fall and Gutvik Ukentlig. Recent profiled activities include world touring with Paal Nilssen-Love’s ensemble Large Unit.
Leonie Reineke (She/Her)
Radio producer
Germany
leonie.j.reineke@gmx.de
Leonie Reineke is a radio producer for contemporary music at Südwestrundfunk, and a freelance author for the programmes of ARD and Deutschlandradio. She regularly offers courses on broadcasting work at universities and art colleges. She has served on various juries, including the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music and the Berlin Cultural Administration. In 2017, she was awarded the Folkwang Prize in the field of musicology, and in 2018 she received the Reinhard Schulz Prize for contemporary music journalism. Leonie is based in Cologne, Berlin, Baden-Baden and on German trains.
Marat Ingeldeev (He/Him)
Music journalist
Freelance
UK
marat.tremolo@gmail.com
Marat Ingeldeev is a music journalist, critic and researcher whose writing has appeared in Bachtrack, VAN Magazine, POSITIONEN, All About Jazz and Tempo, among others. He co-hosted the podcast violet snow (2022–24), took part in the Words on Music programme at Darmstädter Ferienkurse (2023), and has been involved in programming for Gnesin Contemporary Music Week as well as guest curating the magazine POSITIONEN. As a researcher, he is interested in metamodernism and music aesthetics.
Robert Barry (He/Him)
Writer
Freelance
UK
robertwilliambarry@gmail.com
Robert Barry is a writer and musician based in London. His byline has appeared in The Wire, Frieze, The Guardian, Art Review, The Atlantic Tribune, and a whole bunch of other places. He is currently Reviews Editor at The Quietus. His most recent book, Compact Disc, was published by Bloomsbury in 2020.
Roger Wilson (He/Him)
Black Lives in Music
UK
roger.wilson@blim.org.uk
Roger Wilson is co-founder of Black Lives in Music, a United Kingdom based initiative dedicated to addressing representation throughout the music industry. His experience is on both sides of the stage as musician, educator, tour manager and administrator. He is the driving force behind the BLiM/Association of British Orchestras/Musicians’ Union 10 point plan for inclusive recruitment in orchestras and Recruiting Classical, a ground breaking workforce development project to develop workforce representation in UK orchestras, now with nearly 50 musicians of colour actively working in UK orchestras. As Director of Operations, Roger manages many of BLiM’s national and international partnerships.
Simon Cummings
Composer and writer, 5:4
UK
5against4@gmail.com
Simon Cummings is a composer, writer and researcher based in the south of England. His acoustic music explores highly intricate, behavioural algorithmic processes. His electronic music typically begins with visual stimuli, used to sculpt time-frequency structures investigating the boundary between noise and pitch. As a writer, he is the author of contemporary music blog 5:4 and regularly contributes to print and online publications.
Stig Rasmussen
General Manager
BIT20 Ensemble
Norway
stig@bit20.no
Head of Bergen’s resident sinfonietta BIT20 Ensemble. Previously with Bergen International Festival and Stavanger 2008 European Capital of Culture, as well as ten years in the human rights field.
Dr. Thomas Schäfer (He/Him)
Director
International Music Institute / Darmstadt Summer Course
Germany
schaefer@internationales-musikinstitut.de
Dr. Thomas Schäfer is Director of the International Music Institute Darmstadt (IMD) and Artistic Director of the Darmstadt Summer Course. At the University of Hamburg (UHH) he studied Historical and Systematic Musicology, Modern German Literature and Philosophy. He is co-founder of the Working Group for Music in Exile at the Musicological Institute of the UHH. In 1997 he received his doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis about the compositional influence of Gustav Mahler in contemporary music. From 2000 to 2008 Thomas Schäfer was dramaturge for contemporary music at the Wiener Konzerthaus and curator of the Wien Modern festival.
Xenia Benivolski (She/Her)
Writer and curator
Canada
xeniaster@gmail.com
Xenia Benivolski is a Canadian writer, curator and PhD researcher currently working between sound studies, material culture, and visual art at LUCA/KUL in Brussels. Her work investigates the material and ideological lives of musical compositions and instruments as agents of political, spiritual, and territorial transformation, exploring how sonic artifacts register as living and sculptural forms; things with “thing-power”. Broader interests include the ontological status of instruments, the metabolism of monumental form, and the acoustics of memory and violence. Her writing regularly appears in Frieze, The Wire, and e-flux journal. In the fall of 2026 she’s a visiting researcher at Harvard University.
