Gianni Lenoci has played with Massimo Urbani, Steve Lacy, Joelle Leandre, Steve Grossman, Harold Land, Bob Mover, Enrico Rava, Glenn Ferris, Eugenio Colombo, Don Moye, Han Bennink, Antonello Salis, Carlo Actis Dato, David Gross, Paul Lovens, Sakis Papadimitriou, Georgia Sylleou, Jean-Jacques Avenel, John Betsch, Markus Stockhausen, Steve Potts, Carlos Zingaro, John Tchicai, Kent Carter, William Parker, and David Murray.
He also performs with contemporary dancers, multi-media artists and poets. Lenoci is a composer and performer of experimental notated and improvised works with a particular focus on Morton Feldman, John Cage, Earle Brown, Sylvano Bussotti and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Gianni Mimmo plays soprano sax and has composed in the fields of jazz and experimental music for over 25 years. His treatment of musical timbre and of advanced techniques on the soprano sax, to which he has monastically dedicated himself, have become the distinguishing features of his style. His work mainly focuses on relationships among distances, essentiality, and sincerity, and his productions have been reviewed by international magazines and web publications. His current projects include collaborations with musicians such as John Russell, Jean-Michel van Schouwburg, Hannah Marshall, Lawrence Casserley, Martin Mayes, Gino Robair, Damon Smith, Scott, R.Looney, Kjell Nordeson, Gerard Uebele, Chino Shuichi, Nicola Guazzaloca, Xabier Iriondo, Gianni Lenoci, Enzo Rocco, Angelo Contini, Stefano Pastor, Stefano Giust, Cristiano Calcagnile, Harry Sjöström, Marcello Magliocchi and with dancer Marcella Fanzaga, along with video artists and poets. He tours extensively in Europe and the USA, and runs the label Amirani records.
Ramin Arjomand is a New York-based composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. His composition teachers have included Stephen Jaffe, Gheorghe Costinescu, Fred Lerdahl, Jonathan Kramer, and Tristan Murail. His concert music has been performed by the New York Virtuoso Singers, Speculum Musicae, So Percussion Ensemble, the Columbia Collegium Musicum, and numerous independent ensembles and soloists in New York City venues.
As a pianist, Arjomand has performed widely as a soloist and in ensembles presenting his own works. His approach cultivates spontaneity and thrives on questioning the need for pre-conceived formal structures in composition and performance. In recent appearances as a piano soloist, his activity has focused on total improvisation. His electroacoustic music, based in a ProTools digital editing environment, works primarily with recorded improvised sound material.
From 1999-2001, while a doctoral fellow at Columbia University, Arjomand was the director and conductor of the University’s early music choir, Collegium Musicum. During this time he began to research the polyphonic technique of 15th century Flemish composers, whose music became the main focus of his concert repertoire with the Collegium. His doctoral dissertation essay, “On Contrapuntal Practice” (2005), is based largely on his research into this music. His interest in vocal music and in speech as music has led to a wide variety of concert, electroacoustic and music theater works that experiment with the human voice in different ways. In 2007, his work "Alma Redemptoris Mater" (2005) for 12-part a cappella choir was awarded First Prize in the New York Virtuoso Singers Choral Composition Competition and was premiered in New York City with Harold Rosenbaum conducting.
Arjomand has worked extensively as a composer, pianist, lecturer, and musical adviser with the Barnard College Department of Dance. His approach to dance theater composition emphasizes contrapuntal relationships between sound and movement. He has worked to develop collaborative models in which composer and choreographer can trust one another to work freely and independently toward a common goal. His collaboration with choreographer Laveen Naidu, like arrows in the hand of a warrior, daybreak (2004), was commissioned by the Barnard Dance Department and presented in Miller Theatre in New York City.
Arjomand completed his doctoral work in Music Composition at Columbia University in 2006. A much sought-after teacher, he has taught Harmony and Counterpoint, Composition, Piano, Chamber Music Coaching, Ear Training, and Masterpieces of Western Music. He is currently on the faculty at Columbia University.