Organization biographies

Stichting Solaris is specialized in creating and organizing contemporary music performances in an accessible and engaging way for a broad audience, often through combining the contemporary music with other art forms in unusual settings.

Claudio F Baroni, founder and artistic director

Claudio Baroni is a composer specializing in experimental music. His work involves a systematic exploration of timbral qualities, sound strength, and nature. Baroni intentionally avoids incorporating specific aesthetic or cultural references in his compositions, opting for a focused abstraction. His creations establish closed sound universes with distinctive physics and temporal experiences. Currently based in Amsterdam, Baroni’s music is published on Unsounds and Moving Furniture (Amsterdam). Since 2021, he has been the curator of the Festival ECHONANCE, which centers on experimental contemporary music.

Baroni’s educational background includes piano and acoustic studies at the Universidad de Humanidades y Artes de Rosario, Argentina. He holds a Master’s in Composition from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Lucie Nezri, producer

Lucie Nezri is a composer, artist, and performer born in Hyères (FR) and currently based between Den Haag (NL) and Berlin (DE). 

Over the past years, Lucie has played a vital role in the Echonance Festival’s
commissioned projects, working closely with invited composers at key moments of
their creative process. Her contributions span a wide range of artistic and technical
support, from interpreting their ideas into practical solutions to guiding them
through the possibilities of the Utopa organ’s MIDI functionality at Orgelpark. By
bridging the gap between concept and realisation, she has helped ensure that each composer could explore the full potential of their work, making her presence an essential part of the festival’s collaborative spirit.

Albert Manders, financial director

Albert Manders maintains a multifaceted career as a composer, flutist, and creator and organizer of artistic events. Interested in all sides of artistic expression and cultural management, he has worked in the US and the Netherlands in many roles including chamber musician, artistic leader, financial director, stage performer, producer, and marketing manager. He has created a number of music-theater projects including Eendagsliederen, Passing Sounds and SLOT.

Isabelle Vigier, design

Isabelle Vigier is an independent art director and graphic artist known for the elegant and thoughtful works she develops for the art world, music festivals and ensembles, independent record labels, dance companies and the publishing world. She is also a visual artist working primarily with photography and video, including collaborative works with dance makers or composers. She is co-founder of the experimental music label Unsounds, releasing albums and digital projects as well as limited editions with great attention for design for over two decades.

Clare Gallagher, sound engineer

Gallagher Audio Engineering was established in the Netherlands in 2002 after more than a decade of international touring. The broad array of major orchestras, ensembles, and premier concert halls in the company resume is testimony to Gallagher’s expertise in this challenging area of the live sound industry.

Tao G. Vrhoveg Sambolec , moderator.

Tao G.V. Sambolec is Amsterdam-based artist with a particular focus in sound, new media, real-time interaction, and questions of contemporary mediation in relation to the sense of (bodily) presence.

He earned his PhD in Artistic Research from Faculty of Fine Art at University in Bergen, Norway, where he was the recipient of Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship (2013–2016).