He studied with Hopkinson Smith at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, a leading research and teaching institution on the field of historically informed performance practice, receiving his Master of Arts degree in 2016.
As lutenist he has been performing with various established as well as up-and-coming artists: Graindelavoix, Sollazzo Ensemble, dolce conforto, il gusto barocco, Lauttencompagney Berlin, as well as solo. His debut CD Bella incognita was released on Glossa in 2019.
Since 2017 he has been curating me:mo, a series of video essays on music and art history.

Alek Tarkowski, PhD, born in 1977, is a sociologist, a creator of digital public policy and a researcher on digital society. He is the co-founder and president of the Digital Centre Foundation, a think-and-do tank building digital civic society in Poland. Tarkowski’s work centres on public policies and strategies to allow digital technologies to serve the goals of openness, cooperation and engagement.

Tarkowski serves as member of the Board of Directors of the Creative Commons organization and of the Executive Committee of the CC Global Network. He’s a member of the Internet Governance Forum Polska steering committee and the Programme Council of the SWPS School of Ideas. Tarkowski co-founded Communia, a European association that works for the digital public domain, and Poland’s Open Education Coalition (KOED). He is a graduate of the Leadership Academy for Poland (2017), and in 2016 was named as a New Europe 100 Challenger. Tarkowski advises public institutions and NGOs on the use of digital technologies, working with entities including the National Audio-visual Institute, the National Institute for Museums and Public Collections, the European Cultural Foundation, the Information Society Development Foundation, the Orange Foundation and the Museum of Warsaw.

photo credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg

A cultural manager who graduated in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw and Project Management from Warsaw School of Economics. Head of the Polska Music programme at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Creator of the digital project Map of Polish Composers ( www.mapofcomposers.pl ) – the first comprehensive online tool to present the wealth of 20 th - and 21 st -Century Polish classical music in an accessible format. The map places composers in the context of clearly defined cultural trends, demonstrating their mutual influences, inspirations, and interdependencies. The project is an excellent database of knowledge on contemporary Polish music, especially for Polish and foreign artists, critics, artistic directors of cultural institutions, musical event organisers, and researchers.
Co-founder of the group Sutari ( www.sutari.pl ), which has developed its own style and unique sound inspired by Polish traditional music and the sutartinės female vocal technique from Lithuania. The group are active in a variety of cultural settings, ranging from theatre, music and film to performance, and have performed their contemporary interpretations of folk tunes all around the world.

Lior Zalmanson is a researcher, new media artist, and writer for stage and screen, whose works focus on digital culture and the information society.
Lior is the founder and artistic director of Print Screen Festival, Israel's digital culture festival (http://www.printscreenfestival.com), and a senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University where he researches engagement and commitment of users in digital environments. As a researcher he has won grants and awards from the Fulbright foundation, Dan David Prize, Google, Marketing Science Institute, Caesarea Rothschild Foundation and Social Informatics SIG. Prior to his work in Tel Aviv, Lior was a lecturer at New York University. In 2016, Lior has been appointed a research fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum Media Lab. He has written for publications such as Wired UK and MIT Sloan Review and advised dozens of new media artists and events.