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Yannis Kyriakides (with Anne La Berge & Wiek Hijmans)

Composer and sound artist Yannis Kyriakides born in Limassol, Cyprus, grew up in England, and has been based in Amsterdam since 1992, where he studied composition with Louis Andriessen and Dick Raaijmakers after graduating in musicology at York. He also holds a PhD from Leiden University for his artistic research entitled Imagined Voices.

As a composer and sound artist, Kyriakides is drawn to the possibilities of creating new hybrids and intersections between media. His artistic practice is not confined to a single tradition or form but instead searches for ways to generate fresh experiences of listening. Central to his work is the exploration of the relationship between music, words and images. In both his concert compositions and installation pieces, he has repeatedly investigated how language can merge with sound: encoding text into sonic systems, synthesizing voices, or projecting text to shape the perception of music. These experiments extend beyond mere accompaniment, opening up new ways of experiencing meaning in sound. In recent years, his curiosity has turned toward interactive and generative scores, where performers and audiences alike engage with music as a live process that evolves in real time.

https://www.kyriakides.com/

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Anne La Berge (with Yannis Kyriakides & Dario Calderone)

Anne La Berge , a composer, improviser, and flutist who has spent her career pushing at the edges of both written and improvised music, drawing as much from storytelling and sound art as from traditional composition. Her work is rooted in the social and political currents she lives within, music that moves between the poetic and the political. Many of her pieces are built as open, multi-level structures, where performers follow flexible cues and shape the music together in the moment, often via phones, tablets, or laptops that give them genuine real-time agency. She is part of MAZE, as flutist and composer and for the upcoming festival she has created a new work called Pause Then that will find its MAZE premiere on 25 October.

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Dario Calderone (with Anne La Berge & Wiek Hijmans)

Dario Calderone is a multidisciplinary artist, composer and musician, born in Rome and currently based in Amsterdam. He has made a significant contribution to the development of the solo double bass repertoire and his work spans composition, sound installation, recording, and community-based practices. He is deeply informed by Deep Listening as a method for artistic research, social engagement, and ecological awareness. In 2025, he co-founded Eco Acoustics, an artist-run platform that fosters listening as a tool to connect human and more-than-human worlds. His ongoing research includes dream yoga, collective dreaming, and listening to dreams as practices for community building and social transformation. His new work Dreamfield will be performed on 25 October in Splendor.

https://dariocalderone.com/