The Composers
About Ricordilab
ADVISORY BOARD
Tim Anderson
Conductor
Christian Fausch
Managing Director, Ensemble Modern
Andri Hardmeier
Artistic Co-Director, Collegium Novum Zürich
Vimbayi Kaziboni
Conductor
Angélica Negrón
Composer
Elena Schwarz
Conductor
Lisa Streich
Composer
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Ricordilab is all about identifying and amplifying exciting new voices that shape the future of music. Launched in 2016, the programme supports up-and-coming composers through a three-year collaboration with Ricordi Berlin. We publish selected works, promote them on an international scale, and provide one-on-one support for navigating through the music industry. After three successful editions, we have relaunched Ricordilab for the period from 2025 to 2028, once again featuring composers who redefine genres and disciplines.
Together with our international partner network and our esteemed advisory board, we are delighted to introduce the next Ricordilab generation with three uniquely forward-thinking composers: Zara Ali, Jasper Dommett and Anda Kryeziu
Their music is urgent, innovative, and deeply personal. We invite you to discover these young artists who are unafraid to reimagine what music can be in the 21st century. Thank you for joining us on this extraordinary voyage.
Let’s meet the composers!
Zara Ali
“The sounds she elicits from their analogue instruments remain abstract, creating a disturbing urban soundscape in combination with the electronics.” Tagesspiegel
ZSELECTED WORKS
Baby Bot Builds A Music Box for orchestra (2024) 10 min
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Isolation Forest for large ensemble and electronics (2023) 18 min
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What Joy
chamber opera, libretto: Hannah Dübgen (2025) 29 min
Bar.T.2S - 1.1.1.1 - 1.1.1.0 - 2perc - key.hp - str
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ara Ali (b. 1995, USA) is a composer and electronic sound artist based in Germany. Her art is positioned in the spheres of technology, philosophy, and speculative visions of the future. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University with studies in music composition, anthropology, and philosophy and Master’s degrees in Music Composition from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and Hochschule für Musik Detmold. She is the Gaudeamus Award winner 2023 and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize winner in 2021, as well as the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft Music Prize winner in 2025. She was the composer-in-residence for the International Ensemble Modern Academy 2022/23, a fellow at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen in 2024, and is an artist-in-residence at Theater Bielefeld for the 2024/25 season. Her work has been performed at Konzerthaus Berlin, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, impuls Festival, Tanglewood, and the Seoul International Computer Music Festival and has been commissioned by venues such as Deutsche Oper Berlin. Upcoming commissions include works for Festival d’Automne and Ensemble intercontemporain, Ensemble Mosaik, Bielefelder Philharmoniker and others.
Her music exhibits a fine attention to electroacoustic tone color, hyper-imaginative dramaturgical programs, an expansive approach to harmonic writing, and a commitment to constant discovery of new sound using technology.
Jasper Dommett
“Dommett’s voice feels like that of Leonard Bernstein or James MacMillan; undeniably, intoxicating percussive rhythm.”
Broadway World
SELECTED WORKS
2007: King Torques Hollow Acetate for orchestra (2024) 7 min
3.3.3.3 - 4.2.3.1 - perc - pf.hp - str
Disco! Disco! Good! Good? for ensemble (2023) 9 min
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Disorderly House chamber opera, libretto: Jessica Walker (2025) 20 min
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Jasper Dommett (b. 1997, UK) is a composer and performer whose music lives at the intersection of raw emotion, sonic experimentation, and queer identity. They studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and the Royal Academy of Music with Helen Grime and are currently completing a PhD at the Royal College of Music with Mark Bowden where they were awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship. Further lessons with Hans Abrahamsen complete their studies.
Their work has been performed by major ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Riot Ensemble, and has been featured at prominent venues and festivals including the Southbank Centre, Buxton International Festival, and on BBC Radio 3.
Jasper’s practice is bold, curious, and politically aware – using symphonic or ensemble settings, and opera to explore themes of (sexual) identity, resistance, and queer history. Their music invites audiences into immersive, emotionally charged spaces that question what it means to be heard.
Anda Kryeziu
“She has written a musical soundscape that skilfully plays on the keyboard of human emotions.“
Basler Zeitung
SELECTED WORKS
INFUSE: PLAYTIME for amplified ensemble (2020/21) 10 min
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Tesselations for orchestra (2019) 7 min
3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - 3perc.timp - pf.cel.hp - str
TILDE [~] for ensemble, electronics, light, video and objects (2023) 50 min
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Anda Kryeziu (b. 1993, Kosovo) is a Berlin-based composer, pianist, and multimedia artist whose work blurs the lines between sound, performance, and political commentary. She studied in Switzerland and Germany with mentors including Dieter Ammann, Caspar Johannes Walter, Daniel Ott, and Wolfgang Heiniger.
Her pieces have been presented at, among others, ECLAT, Münchener Biennale, Darmstädter Ferienkurse and November Music. She has won the 69th Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart and has received support from the Deutsche Bank Foundation, Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin, and others. A portrait album featuring her music is set to be released on Edition Zeitgenössische Musik (WERGO). Upcoming commissions include works for the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Neue Vocalsolisten, ECLAT and Klangspuren Schwaz.
Anda’s work spans concert music, electroacoustics, sound installation, and experimental music theatre. Rooted in themes like memory, power, and resistance, her music builds complex, layered listening experiences – often incorporating archival material, found sound, and theatrical elements. Anda’s art resists easy definition, offering a deeply contemporary response to a complex world.
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Photos
Zara Ali: Camilo Pachón, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Jasper Dommett: Derri Joseph Lewis Anda Kryeziu: Kantatach Kijtikhun
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Edited by
Daniela Brendel, Annette Gentz, David Niemann, Jascha Zube
Contact
Daniela Brendel
Senior Promotion & Artistic Manager +49 173 271 85 31 daniela.brendel@umusic.com
David Niemann
Promotion Manager +49 175 812 46 88 david.niemann@umusic.com