Aránzaxa Hernández
Composer, violoncellist and General Secretary of Women in Music, Spain where she works on archive digitalization, concerts organitation, is aroad manager and organises round tables. She has worked until 2010 as a teacher of violoncello, chamber music and orchestra teacher in “Authorized Center Castilla II”, Paulina Harriet St, Valladolid. As a composer she has written works for “Bleed but not dead”, International Street Theatre Festival, Valladolid, and chamber music, while, as a cellist she is a member of the Adartia Trio dedicated to the performance of music by women composers.
Ljubinka Hadži-Jovančić
(Belgrade, 22nd June 1944) studied piano and composition at the Music Academy in Belgrade and subsequently taught at the Music School in the same city. Her principal works include: Ouverture (1973), for symphony orchestra, which won a prize in the BEMUS Competition (Belgrade Music Festival), a Piano Concerto (1978), recorded by RTB (Radio-Television Belgrade), Studija, for four instruments (1980), which won prizes in the Competition set up by the Association of Serbian Composers and performed during Yugoslavian Review of Composers. Among her other works: are the Psalam za gudace (Psalm for strings) (1982/83), Molba Svetom Kralju, for wind quintet, Sazvežda, variations for piano (1981), and the Concert for violoncello and strings (2004).
Maija Hynninen
(b. 1977) She has made name for herself in only a short space of time as the composer of works incorporating the human voice, live electronics and multidisciplinary performances. She entered the Sibelius Academy in 2003 to study with Paavo Heininen while also working for a violin diploma at the Norwegian Academy of Music. She’s added to her studies an ERASMUS exchange year in Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart with Oliver Schneller and Piet Meyer. The studies in electronics will continue at IRCAM Cursus 1 2012–13. Her music has been presented and commissioned by YLE (Finnish broadcasting company), Viitasaari Time of Music -festival, Helsinki Chamber Choir, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, the International Maj Lind piano competition, Jaana Kärkkäinen, Andrea Carola Kiefer, Susanne Kujala, Juho Laitinen and Lauri Sallinen. She has participated in courses for young composers organized by Acanthes, Ircam, Orkester Norden and Avanti! and masterclasses of Unsuk Chin, Philippe Hurel, Oscar Strasnoy, Rolf Wallin, Karin Rehnqvist, Magnus Lindberg and Jonathan Harvey among others. At the moment she focuses solely on composing with the support of Finnish Cultural Foundation and Arts Council of Finland.