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NEKO3 is a Copenhagen-based experimental group consisting of three members: pianist/performer Fei Nie and two percussionists/performers Lorenzo Colombo and Kalle Hakosalo. 

The ensemble is working towards the creation of a new musical language and repertoire, building a narrative and concept for each concert and aiming to provide unique experiences for its audiences. NEKO3 is continuously collaborating with composers and other creators of art, focusing on the interplay between images, electronics, videos, lights, and seeking to integrate music, visual art, installations, body performance and other forms of art into one conceptual whole. 

Since its formation in 2017 NEKO3 has performed at festivals such as Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Bogota (CO), SONICA Glasgow (GB), cresc... Biennale (DE), Time Of Music (FI), Rondò (IT), MINU festival (DK), Dark Music Days (IS), PlayTime Festival (CH), Kammer Klang (UK), Copenhagen Light Festival (DK), Klang Festival (DK), Unerhörte Musik (DE), GAS Festival (SE), Sound of Stockholm (SE) and Spor Festival (DK).  Moreover, they have been featured as soloists  with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Aarhus Sinfonietta. 

They have given workshops and presentations at ie. Standford University (USA), UCSD San Diego (USA), the Royal Danish Academy of Music (DK), Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (DE) and Kungliga Musikhögskolan (SE). The ensemble recorded different EPs and released their first full length album “Angel Death Traps” in collaboration with Alexander Schubert in 2024.

In 2022 NEKO3 was awarded the prestigious Danish Music Critics’ Artist Award. (Musikanmelderringens Kunstnerpriser). Moreover, the ensemble was chosen for the Danish State's Art Foundation's (Statens Kunstfond) Den Unge Kunstneriske Elite -career program for years 2023-24.