from Civil disobedience - လ​ူ​ထ​ု​မ​န​ာ​ခ​ံ​မ​ှ​ု part 3​/​4, released February 24, 2021
Sound/Installation Artist – Composer – Performer based in The Hague, Netherlands.

Leonie captures her environment through field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and compositions for soloists and ensembles. She had recent residencies at New Media Society and Limited Access Festival (Iran), Forum Wallis (Switzerland), and The Story of Space Festival (India), and Berlin Circus Biennale (Germany), and Altes Finanzamt (Germany). She is a core artist at LOOS in The Hague and runs the radio branch of LOOS, Radio LOOS. Her works have been released through Musica Dispersa (Spain/UK), and Noise á Noise (Iran) and have been physically archived in the British Library.

Raised in the Ruhr District (Ruhrgebiet) in Germany, Leonie relocated to Los Angeles as a teenager. She studied classical guitar at Los Angeles City College, and received a Bachelor Degree in Composition along with a Minor in Dance Performance at California State University Northridge in 2010.

She then moved to the Netherlands and earned her Master’s Degree in Composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 2013, where she studied with Peter Adriaansz and Calliope Tsoupaki. She then completed a one-year course at the Institute of Sonology, where she focused on Field Recording and the Spatialization of Sound. In 2016 she finished the fourth and last year of the Contemporary Music Through Non-Western Techniques Program at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Rafael Reina as her principle teacher.

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Akane Takada is a Japanese pianist living in the Netherlands, graduated from Tokyo College of Music, The Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and Rotterdam Conservatory with M.A. in piano. She studied with Ellen Corver, Aquiles Delle Vigne and Stéphane De May. As a soloist she received the 1st prize in Competition Prix de Harmonie 2011 in Rotterdam, played the triple concerto of Beethoven with Codarts string orchestra (conducted by Arie van Beek) in De Doelen in 2010, and Scarlatti sonatas in the Anton Philipszaal (broadcasted Radio 4). In 2013 she was invited to the Festival Son in Madrid and Peñafiel Milenio celebrating the 1000th years of the foundation of the city.

Her master research includes contemporary piano repertoire and she has studied Stockhausen's piano works with Ellen Corver. In 2009 she was admitted to the Ligeti Academy instructed by ASKO | Schoenberg Ensemble where she concentrated on ensemble repertoire with conductors and composers such as Emilio Pomarico, Reinbert de Leeuw, Louis Andriessen and Brian Ferneyhough. She has also developed her musical skill through learning the Koto (a Japanese traditional instrument) and Javanese Gamelan. Both as a pianist and toy-pianist she is active in premiering pieces by living composers at international music festivals and master classes.

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