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ANTONY GORMLEY, Visual creation and Design - was born in London in 1950. Upon completing a degree in archaeology, anthropology and the history of art at Trinity College, Cambridge, he traveled to India, returning to London three years later to study at the Central School of Art, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art. Over the last 25 years Antony Gormley has revitalized the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material. Gormley's work has been exhibited extensively, with solo shows throughout the UK in venues such as the Whitechapel, Tate Gallery, the British Museum and White Cube, and internationally. He has participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta 8. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and was made an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Trinity College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, and has been a Royal Academician since 2003. One of his key installations. Another Place, is to remain permanently on display at Crosby Beach, Merseyside. A major show of his work. Blind Light opened to critical success at the Hayward Gallery in Spring 2007. A European retrospective of his work will open on July 12th at the Konsthail Rotterdam and travel to St Etienne, France and Vittoria, Spain. SZYMON BRZÔSKA, Composer & Pianist - Recently awarded a postgraduate diploma in composition from the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, Szymon Brzôska trained under the baton of Luc Van Hove. This young Polish composer, who also holds a Master in Arts diploma from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music Academy in Poznan has already attracted considerable attention among professionals of classical and contemporary music: his works have been performed in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Poland. In 2006, his 6 miniatures for cello and piano was chosen for the workshop with the prestigious Belgian Prometheus Ensemble and he was also among the selected few at the Composition Competition of the music@venture 2007 festival in Antwerp, which commissioned him to create a piece for the Belgian ensemble I solisti del vento, which they performed in October during the 2007 edition of the festival.

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