Nora Fischer (voice)
Award-winning singer and storyteller Nora Fischer is renowned for her adventurous approach to live performance and her creative and genre-defying collaborations. Originally trained as a classical singer, she developed a strong interest in the many other music genres and art forms around her. She learned to use her voice in a wide range of techniques at the Complete Vocal Institute in Copenhagen, nourished her hungry brains by studying Philosophy and Musicology at the University of Amsterdam, and learned to channel her creative performance ideas at the Music Master for New Audiences and Innovative Practices at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
Remco Menting (percussion)
Remco Menting graduated from the jazz department of the Conservatory of Amsterdam. He is the permanent drummer of jazz trio Kapok, among others. With the unusual line-up of horn, guitar and percussion, Kapok is ‘booming’ in the jazz world. The band has played at all the major jazz venues and festivals in the Netherlands, was the winner of both the Dutch and the European Jazz Competition and won an Edison for the album Kapok, released in 2014. Remco also plays piano and vibraphone and is a composer. As a trainer and conductor, he leads a team building session at Sparkle Academy under the name Pulse using percussion.
Lucky Fonz III (libretto)
Lucky Fonz III has earned a special place in the cultural landscape in recent years. As a singer-songwriter, he made six albums, including such beloved hits as “I Got a Girl,” ‘Boys’ and “Linde with an E. As a live performer, Lucky conquered festivals such as Lowlands and Pinkpop, as well as cabaret audiences with his theater show. As a writer, Lucky Fonz III published several columns, poems and short stories. He also wrote the English-language libretto for the song cycle “The Secret Diary of Nora Plain,” described by The New York Times as “a haunting cycle about privacy, surveillance and erotic obsession.
Morris Kliphuis (composer)
Morris Kliphuis (b. 1986), after preliminary studies in classical composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, studied jazz horn at the Conservatory in Amsterdam. His master’s research focused on the possibilities of applying the compositional techniques of the music of Stravinsky and Janaçek to jazz. He has since played and worked as a composer both in the Netherlands and internationally in various ensembles.
