​Raphael Roter is an award-nominated percussionist, a playful sound adventurer and a reveler in human connection whose work spans free improvisation, music for contemporary dance and afrobeat. He has composed music for contemporary dance with Eilers Dance Theatre, Sonja Boretsky, Sahara Morimoto, Yvonne Ng, The School of Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, The Music Gallery and with Lila Ensemble and he has collaborated as a sound-maker-mover with Germaine Lui and Meryem Alaoui. He has also composed music for short animated films by Bea Labikova and Louis Roba. Raphael plays drums and percussion with the avant groove band future proof, unbleak trio and the afrobeat band Asiko Afrobeat Ensemble. Since 2019 he has also been the organizer of Toronto’s long standing music-dance improvisation series coexisDance. In all his work, Raphael places curiosity and wonder at the heart.