Non-profit association “A.MUS.E”
As a legal entity and organiser of the project, the non profit association A.MUS.E – Austrian Music Encounter was founded and registered in Graz, Austria, in February 2006 (ZVR register number: 241314821).
The goals of this non profit association, directed by Erich Oskar Huetter, are:

• To use and promote music as a possibility to create open meeting places for a vivid cultural exchange and an intercultural dialogue
• To plan and implement intercultural music projects for young people
• To give access and support the musical education of children living in conflict zones and/or an economically weak environment

The Austrian cellist Erich Oskar Huetter has established a successful worldwide career as a soloist and chamber music performer. He is member of the “Hyperion Ensemble” as well as the “Arcus Ensemble Vienna” and performs as a soloist with major orchestras. Erich Oskar Huetter founded the Styrian Chamber Music Festival in Stift Rein, Austria, which under his management developed to an extent of 45 concerts per year. He gives masterclasses at several international universities. For three years he has led the cello class of the Barenboim-Said-Foundation project in Ramallah directed by the Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim, creating a Palestinian youth orchestra.

Born in Jerusalem, Nadia Arouri is a Graduate of the Friends Schools and the National Conservatory of Music (piano). She studied cello at the Barenboim-Said Foundation (2003-2005), and was in charge of the administration of their Youth Orchestra exchange program (2005-Palestine and 2006-Germany). She worked as a production manager a.o. “Her Position in Transition” festival, and “The Secret World” film production. Nadia currently writes her musicology thesis on Palestinian music and dance at the University of Vienna, as well as majoring in “Modern Dance” at the Vienna Conservatory. She is a dancer, choreographer and tutor at various dancing troupes in Palestine earlier and Austria since 2005; which took her on tour to various international venues.

Alexander Baldele fulfilled his Austrian civil service at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center in Canada in 2002-2003. He took responsibility for promoting the Contemporary Witness to History Project (video & audio interviews) and worked as assistant to the curator for the reopening of the museum. Back in Graz, Austria he worked for various media and graphic arts associations and cofounded his own design agency "NYXAS" in 2004.

Ulrike Bieger grew up in Weimar/Germany where she graduated in cultural and media sciences. Work experiences for several festivals, amongst others for „Kunstfest Weimar“ and „Berliner Festwochen“. From 2003 to 2005 she was in charge of the classical music program, assisted the PR department as well as co-realized the annual „STIMMEN“ festival at the „Burghof“ cultural center in Lörrach (near Basel, Switzerland). Since 2006 she has been working in Berlin as a freelance cultural manager for the music agency „krautheimconcept“ and others. In January 2008 she founded „parakultura“.
Herself being a violonist, she has been part of various classical orchestras up to now.

Petra R. Klose studied Drama and German Literature in Vienna and was also trained in ballet, harp and elocution. She assembled first experiences at the Wiener Burgtheater and the Volksoper Vienna and followed courses in Public Relations and projectorganisation at the Institute for Cultural Concepts and the University Vienna, where she currently writes her thesis on Edward Said’s theories focused on the example of Beethoven’s Fidelio. Petra R. Klose was active as dramaturge, assistant-director and production manager a.o. for the Wiener Festwochen, Bregenz Festival, Landestheater Bregenz, Triangel-Festival, Opéra National de Lyon, Feldkirch Festival and Laurent Delage Artists Management.

Born and based in Austria/Vienna, for the last 20 years Peter Melichar committed his professional career to raising resources for the so-called "third sector". He worked for different social and educational issues, development aid organisations, environmental organisations and different museums in Austria and abroad.