Rebekka Salomea was raised in a German-American household full of music. As a child, she invented languages and melodies on the back seat of the car and in 2013 wrote her first songs with Yannis Anft. She founded the group SALOMEA in 2014. Since then, she has been expressing personal and creative challenges and changes with her band. Next to recording, touring she is also a teacher at the Conservatory for music and dance in Cologne, Germany.

Pianist Aaron Parks is a forward-thinking jazz musician who came to the public’s attention during his time with trumpeter Terence Blanchard. Besides playing with Blanchard, Parks has performed with a variety of artists including trumpeter Christian Scott, drummer Kendrick Scott, vocalist Gretchen Parlato, and others. Parks has released several albums under his own name, including his 2008 Blue Note debut, Invisible Cinema. Parks, who has also recorded with Christian Scott, Kendrick Scott, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Kurt Rosenwinkel, was an integral part of the James Farm Quartet with Joshua Redman, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland. The pianist subsequently signed to ECM and released the solo piano offering Arborescence in the fall of 2013. He toured and recorded with his piano trios featuring  Thomas Morgan and RJ Miller and Ben Street and Billy Hart. He is also the protagonist of the critically acclaimed ensemble Little Big.

A versatile drummer playing in various genres and ensembles – a piano trio Mind Tree, the group Wckd Nation, the pianist Rok Zalokar and has collaborated with many musicians (Igor Matković, Denis Beganović, Marko Črnčec, Jure Pukl, Vazz, Nazzareno Zacconi…) and is the core of the ensemble Smrdel Brothers Collective. He is also the recepient of many international and national awards – The Hub for the Exchange of Music Innovation (HEMI), gold plaques at the TEMSIG competition and the ZLATA PIŠČAL award for outstanding achievements in the field of Slovenian popular music.

One of the most sought after bass players in Slovenia. He plays in various ensembles – with the rapper Vazz, the metal gropu Hei’An, the trombonist Denis Beganović, the piano trio Mind Tree, the group Wckd Nation and is the core of the ensemble Smrdel Brothers Collective. He is also a teacher for bass and ensemble playing at the Conservatory for music and ballet Ljubljana.

Štěpánka Balcarová is a Czech trumpet player, composer and conductor. In 2012 she mastered at jazz trumpet at the prestigious Polish music academy The Karol Szymanovski Academy of Music in Katowice. Later she focused on the studies of composition and arrangement in Graz, Austria, under the tutoring of the renowned composer and bandleader Ed Partyka. Štěpánka currently lives in Prague and teaches at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and at the jazz department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She is a leader of several bands: the jazz big band Concept Art Orchestra, her septet featuring the Polish singer Malgorzata Hutek, and the Czech-Polish quintet Inner Spaces. She also plays in a music band called Trialog led by Petr Kořínek. Štěpánka also cooperates with other top-notch players of the Czech and the foreign jazz scene.