sculptor Thomas Kadziola

Since Thomas Kadziola made his debut at the Artists' Autumn Exhibition in 1989, he has worked traditionally in stone, iron, bronze and wood with people as a point of departure, but he has also created conceptual works, such as the installation "Character Minimination Machine", which was exhibited at Rumklang in Vordingborg in 2003, and the land art work "Kong Knud's Mound" at Horslunde under LandArt Lolland Falster 2007.

However, he is best known for his stone heads. You can find them all over the country, from Dronninglund Art Centre in North Jutland to Svendborg, Copenhagen, Albertslund, Borup, Vordingborg, Nykøbing Falster and Nakskov.
Thomas Kadziola has participated in a number of international symposia over the years. From 1997 at the Aswan International Granite Symposium in Egypt to the Limestone Symposium in Les Géants du Nideck, Alsace in 2007. Most recently, in 2018, he participated in Kunstbetriebe in Lübeck with the work "Ib".

Thomas Kadziola has also participated in several exhibitions in Denmark and abroad and is a permanent member of the artists' association Stokrosebanden in Nykøbing Sj.

composer Wayne SiegEL

Since moving from the US to Denmark in 1974, Wayne Siegel has been a constant source of inspiration and a breath of fresh air for the Danish music scene. Early in his musical career, he drew inspiration from countless sources of American music – especially from folk music and American minimalism. The computer and electronic music were integrated into his music, allowing him to expand his musical ideas.

He often uses computers for interactive sound and music, allowing performers, dancers and even the weather to control and influence his compositions. In the music for the dance performance Sisters, the two female dancers help shape the music in real time, and in the work Two Hands (not clapping), Siegel goes one step further. Here he becomes a performer himself. With his hands he shapes the music, controlling sounds from the computer like the conductor in front of the orchestra, combining beauty and humor. In the work Everyone Talks about the Weather, for pipe organ and weather satellite Siegel creates a computer system that both composes and performs the music. At Aarhus Festuge 2013, the computer played on the large pipe organ in the symphonic hall in Aarhus for 12 hours continuously. It is also a computer program developed by the composer that creates the music in Siegel's permanent 12-channel audio installation Outside-In, a site-specific work created for the permanent 12-channel sound system installed in the Atrium of the Royal Library overlooking Copenhagen harbour.

Since 1986, Wayne Siegel has worked as a teacher, inspiring several generations of composers in the field of electronic music, first as head of the DIEM (Danish Institute of Electronic Music) and from 2003 to 2018 as professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus.

See waynesiegel.dk