ALEX CHORNY (1993*) was born in Ukraine, studied Piano and Composition at Kyiv Music Academy and Hanns Eisler High School of Music in Berlin. He took part in various contemporary music festivals such as Kyiv Music Fest, Contrasts Lviv, 2d2n, Mehrlicht, Forum Neue Music, Crescendo UDK, including the contemporary opera project at Deutsche Oper Berlin. In addition to contemporary classical music, he composes music for theatre, movies, video games, and various media shows, which have been staged in the USA, Germany, India, the UK, Ukraine, and other countries. Besides his lessons with Yevhen Stankovych, Eun Hwa-Cho, and Hanspeter Kyburz, he took masterclasses and seminars by Beat Furrer, Helmut Lachenmann, Simon Steen-Andersen, Johannes Schöllhorn, Sergej Newski and Dmitri Kourliandski.