Oliver Bergner
Studies: Music (Piano, Trumpet, Harmonic, Counterpoint), Sound engineering
References (examples) Rec./Mix/Mastering-Engineer/Tonmeister/Producer

Jazz: Ack van Rooyen , Adam Nussbaum, Albert Mangelsdorff, Alon Yavnai, Bill Dobbins, Bob Brookmeyer, Charlie Mariano, Colin Towns, Daniel Humair, Daniel Schnyder, Danny Gottlieb, Don Menza, George Gruntz, Jerry van Rooyen, Joe Gallardo, John Abercrombie, Lauren Newton, Mark Murphy, Marvin Stamm, Michael Ph. Mossman, Nils Wogram, Nils Landgren, Norma Winstone, Terell Stafford.

Classical and Scoring: City of Prague Philharmonic, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln , Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Symphonic Orchestra Warschau, Marco Beltrami, Paul Glass, Arditti Streichquartett, Quatuor Sine Nomine, Etta Scollo, Eva Lind, Johannes Kalpers, Martina Dorak.

Pop, Rock: Candice Night, Coldplay , Doro, Evanessence, Guano Apes , Ritchie Blackmore.

Linda Marcel is a full professor at Bergen Community College, 1987-present. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she serves as the coordinator of the music discipline, and manages the applied music program at the college. She is the founder of the Paul Marshall Memorial Scholarship; a foundation scholarship that sponsors one student per year majoring in music at Bergen Community College.She is the co-director of the Distinguished Artist Series, a bi-annual program featuring internationally acclaimed musicians.   Annual performances include:  Ars Nova (2000- present) a series exploring thematic music presentations such as 20^th century American music composition, jazz, and world music, and Ars Electronica (2000-present) a series that explores 21^st century music presentations using multi-media and electronic music.  Performances are held at Bergen Community College and New York University. 

Her publications include a text for music appreciation, Discover the Power of Music Listening.  She has presented at the National Conference of the College Music Society, on the topic: The Bergen Community College Music Program–Positioned to Reflect a Global 21^st Century Perspective. Quebec City, Canada November 2005. She received her Doctorate in Music Education from Columbia University, a

Master of Music degree was completed with Distinction from Crane School of Music, State University of New York, Potsdam and a Bachelor of Music degree from Brigham Young University.  She is married, with one daughter. 

She was awarded the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development-(NISOD) Excellence in Teaching Award 2005, and was chosen for the Princeton University Mid-Career Fellowship Program 2005-2006.  Her name and biography appears in the Marquis Who’s Who Publications Board:Who’s Who of American Women, 2006-2007.

Andrés Martínez is pursuing his Master´s Degree in Music Composition at New York University. He has been involved with different new media projects including sound art,  contemporary music composition and performance, and music composition for film, video documentaries, and T.V. He is an ex-member of the noise/punk band Yuri Gagarin.He has done collaborations with filmmakers such as Mauricio Pardo, Colbert García, Cristina López, Juliana Barrera, Laura Richard, and Andrew Maclean. He founded together with Colombian composer Camilo Sanabria the music collective Monareta; an experimental medley of caribbean music, dub, and negroclash sounds. Their music can be heard through Nacional Records (e-label). He is currently developing his music research through a Fulbright Grant.

Amarjit Kaur works as an Instructional Designer at Bergen Community College. She has worked closely with faculty to support integration of technology into curriculum and distance learning initiatives at the college. She has presented at several regional and national conferences and participated in grant funded instructional technology projects. She will be designing the web site for the Desplazamiento Project. She received her M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction at Pace University and her Ed. D. in Instructional Technology and Media at the Teachers College, Columbia University.   

Jorge Arévalo Mateus is an ethnomusicologist, musician, and archivist. He has published in scholarly and popular journals and publications, including New York Archives Magazine, Ethnomusicology, Journal of Popular Music Studies and Centro,The Journal of Puerto Rican Studies. His most recent essay appears in Rockin’ Las Americas, The Global Politics of Rock in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). As a Minority Scholar Intern at Bergen Community College, Colombian-born Mr. Arévalo Mateus teaches general music courses and is especially proud to participate in the Desplazamiento Project. When not teaching, Prof. Mateus can usually be found playing guitar with his band, The Jorge Mateus Trio.  Currently, Prof. Mateus is developing a documentary film project about Colombian musicians in the New York metropolitan region.

Carolina Noguera Palau was born in Cali – Colombia the 8th of February of 1978. I began my incursion in music when I was nine by studying piano with Alba Estrada, and then I began study at the Antonio Maria Valencia Conservatoire in Cali where I studied piano with Marjorie Tanaka, Svetlana Korjenko and Verónica Ramírez and where I obtained the bachelor degree in music in 1997. In this same year I began a career in composition at Javeriana University with Professor Guillermo Gaviria and also studied piano with Professor Radostina Petkova. I am professor at that university at the moment in the specific areas of composition and musical theory.   In 2001 I won the first prize in the contest with the recording of the cd Por Colombia, with the piano work Mioclonía, in 2004 I was finalist of the VII contest from the Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo in the composition category with the piece Mecanismos, and in 2005 I won a grant from Ministerio de Cultura from Colombia with the project Three suites for Band under the guidance of Juan Antonio Cuéllar.

My works have been played at the National museum in Colombia, Leon de Greiff auditorium at the National University in Colombia, Pablo VI auditorium at Javeriana University, Jorge Tadeo Lozano and Javeriana’s radio stations and the Radio Copenhague from Denmark.

José Ignacio Hernández Sánchez (Cádiz, Spain, 1972). He attended California Institute of the Arts, where he pursued his BFA in music composition under the tutelage of Barry Schraeder, Morton Subotnick and James Tenney among others. He later obtained his MFA in music composition at San Diego State University. During this time he had the opportunity to attend workshops with Pierre Boulez, Tristan Murail, Vinko Globokar, Hilda Paredes and Toshio Hosokawa. His music has been performed in Europe, Latin America and the United States. He has participated in international festivals such as Primavera en La Habana (Cuba) and Primer Encuentro de Compositores Latinoamericanos y de España (Colombia). José’s works are aesthetic and conceptual explorations on new media, often in collaboration with artists from other disciplines, like Spanish visual artist Adrià Julià and Korean video artist Gye Joong Kim. Currently José is director of the composition area, and professor of composition at Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia.