Brian May
Brian May, CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, astrophysicist, and photographer. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. He uses a home-built electric guitar called the Red Special. His compositions for the band include “We Will Rock You”, “Tie Your Mother Down”, “I Want It All”, “Fat Bottomed Girls”, […]
Brian Eno
Brian Eno is a musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist. He is best known for his pioneering work in electronic and ambient music as well as his contributions to rock, worldbeat, chance, and generative music styles. A self-described “non-musician,” Eno has helped to pioneer a variety of novel recording techniques and conceptual […]
Paul Franklin
Paul Franklin has been creating spectacular visual effects for over 25 years. Co-founder of Double Negative Visual Effects – one of the world’s leading digital visual effects studios – Paul is perhaps best known for his long-running collaboration with director Christopher Nolan. Paul’s work has featured in more than thirty films including “Inception” , “Interstellar”, […]
David Zambuka
David Zambuka astonished the audience at Starmus III with his presentation of Dimensional, Inter-phased, Cognitive, Knowledge in his tribute to Professor Stephen Hawking and revealed the Equation of Everything. After many requests he’s back again. Starmus IV sees his return to present his thoughts (and yours) on intelligent life. David Zambuka is a the worlds […]
Rick Wakeman
English keyboardist, songwriter, television and radio presenter, author, and actor. He is best known for being in the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s. Born and raised in West London, Wakeman intended on being a concert pianist but quit his studies […]
Hans Zimmer
Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film score composer and record producer. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films. His works include The Lion King, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, The Last […]
Sarah Brightman
International singing superstar, Sarah Brightman is the world’s biggest selling Soprano. She pioneered the classical crossover music movement and is famed for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves. Sarah is the only artist to have simultaneously topped the Billboard dance and classical music charts. Her voice has rung out from theatres, arenas, cathedrals, […]
Anthony McCarten
Born in New Zealand and now residing in England, Anthony McCarten is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and filmmaker. His first international success came with his play Ladies Night. Translated into 12 languages, it is New Zealand’s most commercially successful play of all time. In 2001, it brought Mr. McCarten France’s premiere theatre award for comedy, […]
Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife
The Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife (OST, “The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra”), depends on Tenerife Island Council, and is considered one of the best symphony orchestras in Spain Founded as the Orquesta de Cámara de Canarias in 1935, it became a symphony orchestra in 1970. Its seat is the Auditorio de Tenerife and since its creation, the […]
MC Hawking
What if Stephen Hawking, in addition to being a brilliant scientist, were also a gangsta rapper? This is the question MC Hawking hopes to answer. MC Hawking (the undisputed king of theoretical gangsta-astrophysics) is the creation of musician Ken Lawrence from Gloucester Massachusetts. Lawrence created the person of MC Hawking in the early 2000s and […]