Gabriel Keen studied at Dartington College of Arts and London College of Music. He won second prize in the 5th British Contemporary Piano Competition, and has recently recorded works by contemporary composer Brian Inglis for CD release.

Hyelim Kim is a composer, Korean daegeum flutist, and ethnomusicology researcher, dedicated to connecting cultures through music. She holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London. Hyelim has collaborated with renowned international orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre National de Montpellier, and has participated in prominent festivals including the London Jazz Festival and the K-Music Festival.

Danny Kingshill has worked as a player and musical director for Cyclops Theatre Company and the Amici dance company. He has had a wide experience as a workshop leader. He has been a member of improvising groups Boyg and In Sand and is a member of Tonbridge Philharmonic.

Caroline Kraabel has performed and recorded with improvisers including Robert Wyatt, Louis Moholo, Cleveland Watkiss, Hyelim Kim, Annie Lewandowski, Susan Alcorn, Mark Sanders and Veryan Weston (the trio CD – Playtime, and a duo CD project on Emanem - Five Shadows.

Keyboardist and vocalist, Olga has been playing music since she was five years old. Starting, as most children do, with classical music, her musical life took her through many genres and bands. Genre has never been a focus for Olga’s musical practice, she tends to regard music as a practice of purposefully organized sound rather than sets of rules and traditions.

Ross Lambert is an Irish free improvisation guitarist and “magnetic and vibrating sources” player. Visual artist. Writer. Designer.

Dominic Lash is a freely improvising double bassist and electric guitarist who the Free Jazz Collective has called an “exceptional creative musician”. He also both writes and performs composed music and, as an academic, researches and writes about film.

Double bassist, David Leahy has been an active member of the free improvisation scene ever since his arrival from New Zealand in 1998. He is also an improvising dancer and works at Trinity Laban as a lecturer to both music and dance students. He is particularly interested in spatialized performance practices and has explored and performed alternative approaches to performance with a wide array of improvisers and with larger groups such as; LIO, Oxford Improvisers, the Free Range Orchestra (Canterbury), the Wuppertal improvisers, and Orquesta Foco (Madrid).

Les Petroleuses are multimedia improvising “arsonists” Gill Whiteley and Lyn Hodnett.

Tracy Lisk is a percussionist who mainly performs on drum set, based in Philadelphia PA. Lisk’s history as a painter informs the substance of her improvisations which contain references to rhythmic structures while maintaining a fluid, suspended continuity.