Maria was born and raised in Crete. She studied Classical Literature and holds a degree in Byzantine Music. From a young age, she was fascinated by music and lyrics, which led her to pursue a career in music, particularly singing.
Mayu started her classical western music studies on the cello when she was 6. She discovered modal music at the age of 18. Enchanted by the power and the beauty of these musical traditions she decided to focus on this style and began her musical journey with her cello through the Arabic, Turkish and Azeri traditions.
Natalia Kotsani is engaged in research on the analysis of vocal techniques, improvisation, and traditional vocal idioms of the Mediterranean. Her work focuses on combining empirical vocal practices with modern interdisciplinary approaches to enhance the voice.
Yasamin Shahhosseini was born in Tehran in 1992. She graduated from the Tehran Music School where she studied the oud. After that, she studied Persian traditional music at Tehran University. Yasamin has played with diverse ensembles of music, such as Tarak Paliz, Avaye Tehran, Derang, Tree Ouds Mahbang etc.
Born in Paris to a family of musicians, Shushan Kerovpyan was immersed from early age into Armenian and Middle-Eastern traditional musics. Her musical world is also strongly influenced by American folk, blues, soul music, as well as different folk musics from Latin America, southern Europe and the Mediterranean world.
Sakir Ozan Uygan was born in Burdur (Turkey, 1986). He started playing darbuka in young age. He studied at the Anatolian Fine Arts High School (2000) and then in Ege University in the State Conservatory of Turkish Music.
He participated in Concerts in Turkey and abroad (Tunisia,Switzerland, Greece & Germany). He is currently staying in Istanbul where he mainly works as a percussionist.
Mathieu Clavel is a rubab player from Switzerland. After various musical adventures, he found his calling within the deep resonances of the rubab in his early 20s.
Born and raised in Syros, Vangelis Apostolou was involved in music from an early age, playing the electric guitar, where he got his first contact with sound engineering, with portable multi-channel recorders of that time. He had as well weekly broadcasts behind the console on radio stations. In 2003 he moved to Rethymnon for his studies in Music Technology and Acoustics at the Technological Educational Institution of Crete, during the last two years of his studies he was employed as a teaching assistant and in charge of operations in the University's recording studio.
Giannis Chalkiadakis was born and raised in Chania, and his origins from the mountain village of Rogdia (Kissamos) had a significant influence on his musical education.
Born in Cairo, Mustafa Said is a musician, composer, musicologist, oud virtuoso and singer. Mustafa has founded Asil Ensemble for Contemporary Arabic Classical Music in 2003. Mustafa Said is a winner of the Aga Khan Music Awards 2019. He was the director of "AMAR Foundation for Arab Music Archiving & Research", from 2009 to 2022, which is the only organization in the Arab world that works in audio archiving Arabic music.
He has first started his cooperation with Amar Foundation in 2008 as an Artistic & Archive Manager (2008-2010) for an extremely rich collection of 78RPM discs (6500), wax cylinders (50) & tapes. He trained 11 engineers who worked on the audio archiving of this 10.000hrs music library. This was an extremely demanding & time-consuming project that Mustafa Said made it possible for his successors to continue.
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