LIEDDUO KÖRBER-WONG – the German soprano Sophia Körber and Singaporean pianist Yun Qi Wong have been making music together since 2015, performing regularly at concerts and song recitals in Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and North-Rhine Westphalia. Their debut CD TABUMATOR was released in 2021, consisting solely of world premieres. This was celebrated in fono forum as a "strong artistic statement of the highest level". In 2023, the duo performed at the concert series "achtelton" in Hitzacker and were the opening act of the Musik 21 Festival in Hannover, where they gave the world premieres of works including those of Americ Goh as well as Michael Maria Ziffels. Both Körber and Wong are dedicated to shining the spotlight on works of European and Asian composers yet to be performed. They aim to make innovative Lied programmes which are socially relevant and current accessible to audiences.

Sidney Corbett was born in Chicago in 1960, the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, though he grew up without a religious upbringing. At the end of 1968 the family moved to Los Angeles, California, and from 1974 he began to learn the electric guitar and play in various bands – first blues and rock, later jazz fusion. In 1977, Corbett began writing his first original compositions, short piano pieces in quartal harmony. “For me, the guitar fret-board was a very small universe,” he once said in a SWR feature about his work, “the world is a much larger place.” This realization led him to study music, philosophy and composition at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and then at Yale University, where he earned his doctorate in 1989 with a thesis on Edgar Varèse’s “Hyperprism.” His teachers included Pauline Oliveros, Bernard Rands, Frederic Rzewski, Jacob Druckman, Martin Bresnick, and Morton Subotnick. Personal encounters with Toru Takemitsu and John Cage also made a lasting impression on the young composer. From 1985 to 1988, he was also a member of György Ligeti’s composition class in Hamburg, certainly his most formative influence. Exceedingly strict, Ligeti demanded not only impeccable craftsmanship but also individuality and the constant questioning of all aspects of art.

Moritz Eggert was born in Heidelberg in 1965. After studies in Frankfurt, Munich and London he has expanded his compositional oeuvre constantly, with a special focus on musical theatre (19 operas so far), vocal and instrumental music as well as conceptual and performance works. His work is often exploring extremes, both in the exaggeration of aspects of the musical material and the physicality of the performers. Contrary to the typical image of “serious” academic music, his music often uses irony, parody or satire as the means to engage an audience, but also doesn’t shy away from emotionality or melody when needed. As a blogger (“Bad Blog of Musick”) and author he is a well-known critical voice in contemporary music, very often discussing current topics of cultural politics like #metoo, gender equality or the misuse of power in classical music. Among his best-known works are the cycle “Hämmerklavier” for piano solo and the song cycle “Neue Dichter Lieben”. Eggert is a pianist and has also appeared as a conductor, actor and singer on stage. His current projects include the opera production "Die letzte Verschwörung" (Volksoper Wien), which will premiere in March 2023 and new concertos for percussionist Konstantyn Napolov and violinist/violist Elisabeth Kufferath.

Alexander Keuk (*1971) ist a composer, singer, music journalist and moderator, based in Vienna and Dresden. In his early years, his education included singing, piano, bassoon and music theory. Later on, he studied composition at the university of music "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden with Hans-Jürgen Wenzel and Wilfried Krätzschmar. Keuk got several awards and was a fellow of the Musikfonds of the Deutscher Musikrat and the Kulturstiftung Sachsen. He is a member in several renowned choirs and a founder of the performing arts collective DEI FUNK WuK. His catalogue contains more than 70 compositions, vocal and for orchestra. Recently he had commissions by the MDR Sinfonieorchester and the Dresdner Kammerchor.