BIOGRAPHIES
The Composition Mentors and Coordinators
Dr. Nahla Mattar is composer, educator, researcher and associate professor at Helwan University HU, Cairo, Egypt. She was the director of Umm Kuthum museum (2011-2014). Mattar got her doctorate of musical arts DMA, in composition from Arizona State University (ASU) in spring 2005. Fellow Researcher at Arts, Media and Engineering program, ASU, 2003-05. Mattar's goal is to write expressive music that blends music with visual and theatrical rituals, exploring cultural pluralism and interconnectivity topics. https://maestramattar.wixsite.com/composer
Sune Kølster is a composer from Denmark, with a Master in Film Scoring from Conservatory of Southern Denmark, 2013, and a Bachelor in Musicology from University of Copenhagen, 2004. Making his living partly as a film- and media composer, partly as a symphonic / chamber composer. Since starting out in the Copenhagen underground punk scene in the late 90s, Sune have been through a lot of genres as singer, musician and composer, and his passion for the greek/turkish rembetiko, was his gateway into middleeastern maqam tonality. http://bedremusik.dk
Associates
Dr. Søren Møller Sørensen is as associate professor in Musicology from University of Copenhagen, one of Denmarks leading researchers in Arabic music as well as avantgarde contemporary music, and therefore an obvious choice as guest lecturer on the workshop 2021, where he will attend the whole week, as well being observing the proces as a part of his research.https://kunstogkulturvidenskab.ku.dk/ansatte/?pure=da/persons/1813
Sara Koppel, Artist and animator, multi award winner for her personal short animation films, as well as a pioneer in the use of hand drawn animation in augmented reality, designed the amazing poster and visual artwork of the workshop, and is taking tare of the visual part of “Between Two Cultures”. http://nakedlovefilm.com
Emil Nørgaard Munk, award winning film director and documentarist, with his wonderful fresh approaches on the documentary genre with films like “Gushegu Exile” about the belief in witchcraft in Ghana, “Imagining My Father” about the life of his late father, and “When Denmark Closed Down” about covid-19 lockdown from the perspectives of 100s of kids from Denmark, is the perfect person to be documenting the BTC21.
www.dfi.dk/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/person/emil-norgaard-munk
Bjarke Mogensen, worldclass accordeonist, who already at a young age is a star on the international classical soloist scene, playing with orchestras all over the world. He is going to present his unique and custom-build quarter tone accordion on the workshop, as well as performing the piece “Crocodile Tears” by Sune Kølster, in the Cairo Opera House with Cairo Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by danish conductor Peter Ettrup Larsen.