Violeta Garcia • Mikkel Ploug

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Violeta Garcia vc

Violeta García is a cellist, improviser and composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She currently lives and works between Switzerland, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. She moves between free improvisation, experimental composition and interdisciplinary projects with dance, film and visual arts. In her intense, physical performances, she explores advanced playing techniques, prepared cello and electronic sounds. After classical and popular training in Buenos Aires and a master's degree in composition at the Bern University of the Arts, she has developed an independent musical language beyond fixed genres. She is co-founder of the digital label and collective TVL-REC, part of the noise rock band Blanco Teta and has been touring solo and in various collaborations worldwide for several years. In 2025, her third solo album was released on the Swiss label Bongo Joe.

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Mikkel Ploug gtr

Mikkel Ploug's groundbreaking work in reworking Johann Sebastian Bach's piano works for electric guitar has earned him much praise from the international guitar community. Mikkel's solo album of J.S. Bach pieces will be released in 2027 on the classical label OUR Recordings. Ploug teaches jazz guitar at the University of Zurich, lives in Denmark and has made a name for himself internationally with tours in over 25 countries and with 19 releases on renowned record labels. He was nominated as "Musician of the Year" at the Danish Music Awards in 2025 and his music has been praised by music magazines such as Rolling Stone Magazine and Downbeat worldwide.