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Hanna Komorowska is a pianist, educator and music researcher from Poland who is fascinated by the influence of the past on contemporary music composition. She began studying piano playing at the age of six and was quickly attracted to music theory and history. 

“I feel most comfortable playing chamber and contemporary music. I’m deeply interested in cross disciplinary arts collaboration. Constant study and pursuit of (music) knowledge in all forms excites me.” H. Komorowska

Hanna received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Classical Piano at Paderewski Academy of Music where she studied under the renown performer an pedagog, Professor Anna Organiszczak. Additionally, she studied with Jose Maria Curbelo Gonzalez of the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias and Emanuele Arciuli at Accademia di Musica in Pinerolo, Italy. She was awarded, Third Prize at the VI International Piano Duo Competition in Ełk, Poland, 2019. Her article, “‘Le Soleil’ by Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil- Against the Background of Contemporary European Art Inspired by Sunlight,” was published in the Book "Od Neolitu do Soundscape u. Z Badań Młodych Muzykologów" (Gacek & Pucia) in 2022. 

Hanna Komorowska is currently based in Malmö, Sweden. 

“Through music, you can communicate from the heart and soul, and sometimes peculiar workings of our minds. Music has a super special way to reach inside us, make us think and feel things we never have before. This is why I sing.” Sofia Habel

An Australian country-girl at heart, Sofia Elisabeth Laursen Habel is a singer dedicated to delivering technically accurate, emotionally honest performances. Her drive for accuracy and authenticity has profoundly drawn her to opera, musical theatre and art song. Sofia completed her Bachelor of Music degree with an Honours in Classical Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) in 2020. She graduated with First Class Honours. She was also a member of the Opera Scholars Australia program at MCM for their 2019/2020 season. Habel was the inaugural recipient of the Alex Rathgeber Performing Artist Scholarship in 2019. She received the award for Most Outstanding Performance in a Musical from the University of Melbourne Musical Theatre Association in 2017 for her performance in Fame! The Musical. 

In both Denmark and Australia she performed a series of recitals. Amongst them were, “A Celebration of Spring” Horsham Arts Centre, sponsored by funding from IgniteLab from Melbourne University, September 2019, “Klassisk Koncert ved Daugbjerg Kalkgrubber,” at Daugbjerg Limestone Mines, Viborg, in August 2022 and “On Home Ground,” at the Warracknabeal Racecourse, December 2023. 

Sofia Elisabeth Laursen Habel is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Sebastian Robin Craig is a composer whose works for small ensembles have been produced primarily in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles California. Born in Louisville Kentucky, Craig was influenced at an early age by the work of the esteemed jazz drummer Horacee Arnold, Craig’s maternal uncle. Craig studied modern dance at the University of California at Berkeley under former Martha Graham soloist David Wood. Ironically, Wood’s instruction regarding choreography would lead to Craig’s pursuit of music composition. Craig moved to Los Angeles in 2002. There he eventually met composer Mark So whom continues mentor him and inform Craig’s work.

“A song lives in the mind as a virus lives in the body. It’s transmitted similarly, pneumatically. You can’t hum a symphony nor a string quartet but the tune- the song, remains ingeniously contagious.” SRC

Modern Art Song is Craig’s current focus. Anomalous is a vehicle for that pursuit. Craig’s work has been funded by The Fleishhacker Foundation, The LEF Foundation, Meet the Composer, The San Francisco Arts Commission, Theater Bay Area and The Zellerbach Family Fund. New Langton Arts and Intersection for the Arts are amongst the organizations whom have invested institutional support in his work. 

Craig resides in Copenhagen, Denmark.