«Sonic Boom» – Jury

Eva Boesch

Swiss cellist Eva Boesch is a fine chamber musician with a strong focus on contemporary music. As a member of highly acclaimed Trio Catch, she is a regular guest in venues such as Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Kölner Philharmonie, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin as well as at international festivals such as Ultraschall, Eclat, Musica Strasbourg and Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. Since 2009 she has been a member of Ensemble Garage, focussing on transdisciplinary projects, performance and music theatre. Eva Boesch participated in numerous world premieres and is closely associated with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Isabel Mundry and Márton Illés. She appears on several radio broadcasts and CD releases on the labels Bastille Musique, Col Legno, Wergo and Kairos.

Website → www.evaboesch.ch

Marie Delprat

Marie Delprat (1991) is a musician whose work merges sound, visual arts, and performance. She explores the interaction between digital and analog media to create immersive experiences that challenge perception and expression. Her practice blends visual abstraction with sonic experimentation.
Collaborating with other artists from different backgrounds and cultures is central in her work.
She can profite of the structure of the Hohschule der Künste Bern where she finished her Master in Creative Practice in 2020 in order to create her first creation, RAGE(S).
Marie became part of the Shapeplatform in 2025 and an associate artist at Dampfzentrale (Bern) in 2023 and has been part of the Friendly Take Over program since 2022. She also participated in the Creators Connection Program (2021-2023), a networking initiative linked to international music theater festivals. Represented by oh-la-la performing arts production since 2020, she received the Coup de Cœur Prize from the Canton of Bern that same year for her innovative approach to the physicality of sound.

Website → www.delpratmarie.com

Andreas Eduardo Frank

Andreas Eduardo Frank's oeuvre is diverse and characterized by close collaborations with outstanding artists from a wide range of disciplines at the international level. Starting from contemporary music, Andreas Eduardo works at various aesthetic intersections, between the real and the virtual, between music, performance, choreography, video, and theater. Whether as a composer, musician on stage, or curator, he explores the connections between artistic disciplines, socially relevant topics, and situations that occupy and accompany him in everyday life. His music is versatile and multifaceted, sometimes absurd, playing with seriousness and humor, precision and depth. His activities have led to numerous performances and concerts in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Australia, where he is actively involved not only in composition but also as a sound director or performer. His works are regularly performed by renowned ensembles and artists on the international stage of new music. He has received several awards for his work and is a prize winner of the composition competition of the state capital Stuttgart, artistic director of the Ensemble Lemniscate, part of the FESTIVAL RÜMLINGEN program group since 2021, and took over the artistic direction of the Gare du Nord Basel in August 2024.

Website → www.andreas-eduardo-frank.com

Uli Fussenegger

Uli Fussenegger, born in Austria in 1966, studied double bass with Franz Dunkler and Ludwig Streicher. After several years as a freelance concert performer in the field of early music on original instruments (including with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Concentus Musicus Wien), Uli Fussenegger specialized in contemporary music and became a member of Klangforum Wien in 1987. Intensive, long-standing collaboration with composers such as Georges Aperghis, Beat Furrer, Bernhard Lang, Matthias Pintscher, and Alberto Posadas led to countless solo works for double bass, which Uli Fussenegger premiered. In addition to his international concert activities as a double bassist, Uli Fussenegger works as a composer and improviser. His work has been documented on over 400 CD and DVD productions to date. He was also dramaturge for Klangforum Wien for over 20 years and worked as a curator in a wide variety of performative formats. This led, among other things, to intensive collaboration with director Christoph Marthaler. Uli Fussenegger was a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts/Music from 2009 to 2018, and has been a lecturer at the Ensembleakademie Impuls Graz since 1999 and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music since 2002. He has also been an instrumental coach at the lucerne academy since 2017. Since fall 2018, Uli Fussenegger has been the director and coordinator of contemporary music at the Basel School of Music and is thus responsible for sonic space basel.

Website → www.sonicspacebasel.ch

Lisa Nolte

Lisa Nolte works as a curator, music journalist, and cultural manager in Germany and Switzerland, primarily in the field of contemporary music and interdisciplinary productions. She is artistic co-director of the Zurich platform for experimental music SONIC MATTER and editor of the Berlin-based field notes magazine for contemporary music. In 2023, she co-initiated the international Z4 Studio Residency in Zurich for artists working in sound-based practices. Lisa Nolte was a board member of the International Society for New Music Zurich and was involved in the independent contemporary music theater scene in Berlin as a board member of ZMB e. V. As a freelance journalist, she has worked for the Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, and the music portal swissmusic.ch, among others. Project work has brought her together with festivals such as BAM! – Berlin Festival for Contemporary Music Theater and ZeitRäume Basel – Biennale for New Music and Architecture, as well as ensembles such as the Berlin ensemble mosaik and the Collegium Novum Zurich.

Eva Boesch © zVg

Marie Delprat © zVg

Andreas Eduardo Frank © Bettina Matthiessen

Uli Fussenegger © Claus Langer

Lisa Nolte © zVg