APRIL VESELKO, Dance / Choreography
April Veselko is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. In 2016 she graduated from Dance's Start Up - Leggere Strutture Art Factory in Bologna, Italy. In 2018 she continued her dance training at MoDem PRO, Zappalà Danza Company in Catania, Sicily. She created several own projects (2010-2023) and worked with choreographers such as Matjaž Farič, Magdalena Reiter, Gregor Luštek, Gioa Maria Morisco, Snježana Premuš and others. Her short choreographies were honoured at the Opus 1 competition for young artists (Ljubljana, Slovenia), at the choreography competition 3...2...1... DANCE! (Krakow, Poland) and the FKM Choreography Competition (Belgrade, Serbia). April is currently a member of Tovarishia Dance Company and one of the directors of ŠIK and ŠIK Junior Dance Collective. In 2020 and 2024 she also participated in Neforma (Zavod Sploh) - performative events that connect musicians and dancers.

AUDREY G. PERREAULT, flute / improvisation
Audrey G. Perreault is a Canadian new music flutist based in Vienna, Austria. In her performances and artistic research, she draws inspiration from many art forms to rethink the new music concert. After completing her doctorate in flute performance at the Université de Montréal (Ca) with Lise Daoust in 2015, she studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (performance practice in contemporary music) with Eva Furrer and Vera Fisher. She is co-founder of the woodwind quintet Brevà (Ca) and the new music quartet Between Feathers (Au). G.
Perreault has worked with ensembles such as Nouvel ensemble moderne (Ca), Schallfeld Ensemble (Au) and Szene Instrumental (Au).

SINAN SAMANLI, composition
Sinan Samanlı was born on 21 March 1990 in Istanbul (Turkey). He studied classical guitar at Yıldız Technical University, musicology, music theory and composition (with Ahmet Altınel) at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul. In 2016, he began his master's degree in composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and since then has regularly studied composition with Beat Furrer and Bernhard Lang as well as occasional lessons with Pierluigi Billone, Raphael Cendo, Chaya Czernowin, Alberto Posadas and Simon Steen-Andersen. His instrumental music has been performed by Schallfeld Ensemble, ICE Ensemble, Ensemble Multilaterale and others at festivals in Austria, France, Finland, Ukraine and Turkey. In 2018, he was commissioned by Cantando Admont to compose a vocal piece with oud accompaniment, which was performed at the Brücken Festival in Styria.

ANNA GRENZNER, cello / improvisation
Anna Grenzner is a cellist and improviser specialising in contemporary music.
improviser who expands the boundaries of her music-making to include interaction with movement, performance, text and thought. In 2022 she completed the master's programme Performance Practice in Contemporary Music at Klangforum Wien. She is a member of the ensembles LaKT, Arxis, Zeitfluss or STIO, among others. In 2023 she received the BMKÖS starting scholarship for music as well as a scholarship for the Creation and Scenario in Music programme at the ZHdK in Zurich for 2024 and was selected as a scholarship holder for the Akademie Kontemporär 2023 in Hamburg. She has participated in contemporary music academies such as Impuls (Graz), Mixtur (Barcelona) or Ensemble-Akademie Freiburg and performed at festivals such as Musikprotokoll, Kultursommer Wien, Festival Ensems or Festival Resis. She has worked with composers such as Rebecca Saunders and Brian Ferneyhough as well as with performers from Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien and Ensemble Recherche. In the field of improvisation, she has worked with Elisabeth Harnik, Jöelle Leandre, Paul Abbott and Gunda Gottschalk, among others.

MAŁGORZATA GOŹDZIK, filmmaker
Małgorzata Goździk, or Goha for short (1989), completed her painting studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Her preference for psychology and movement led her to the medium of film. As part of her master's degree, she made a short documentary film, ‘The Cake’, which won the Grand Prize in the main competition of the 11th Okiem Młodych International Documentary Film Festival in Świdnica (an important competition for young filmmakers in Poland) in 2018 and was shown in the competitions of the ‘Okiem Młodych’ Youth and Film Festival in Koszalin, the Warsaw Film Festival, the Jihlava Film Festival and the Neisse Film Festival. After her studies, she developed mainly in the field of documentary film. An important experience was participation in the workshop ‘My Street Films’ for young documentary filmmakers as part of the 57th Krakow Film Festival under the direction of Bogdan Dziworski and Marcin Koszałka, where she shot the short documentary ‘Uraniwa’, as well as participation in the workshop Film Spring Open, where she developed her next film idea. Her recent documentary film project, ‘Dance with me, Dad’, which was realised from 2018 to 2022, was supported by the renowned producer Studio Munk (in cooperation with the Polish Film Institute) as part of the ‘First Documentary’ programme. The film was developed in the DOC LAB GO Development Workshop for documentaries (as one of the ten best projects in Poland) and was presented at the ‘Docu Talents FROM THE EAST’ pitching at the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Krakow Film Festival.

ABOUT LAKT ENSEMBLE
LaKT Ensemble is a contemporary music ensemble focussed on exploring the relationships between sound and movement and new scenic approaches to music. Their belief in the potential to expand music through interdisciplinary work leads them to seek expanded musical expression through dramaturgy, lighting or costumes; to invite artists who place the body at the centre of their work, and to place a particular emphasis on the musicians' bodywork and movement. The group works on staging the existing musical repertoire in close collaboration with dancers and choreographers, stages its concerts, commissions new pieces from composers at the interface of sound and physicality, realises its own staged musical productions and curates the Coalescence series, where the ensemble invites external artists to collaborate.