Trent Ransom is a graduate student at the DePaul University School of Music studying violin performance. Trent currently studies with I-Hao Lee. He previously studied with Cyrus Beroukhim and Teri Einfeldt. Trent has attended Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, I- Hao Lee Program (China), Round Top Festival Orchestra, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Preludio Program for Advanced Violinists at the Ithaca College Suzuki Institute. Honors include winning the Connecticut Youth Symphony concerto competition, and winning the Hartford Musical Club Competition.
Tyrone Allen is a recent graduate of Berklee College of Music’s Global Jazz Masters Program, led by Artistic Director Danilo Perez. While at Berklee, he was fortunate enough to study, and preform with some of the leading jazz artist of our time. Tyrone plays in two of drummer Ralph Peterson’s bands; the Fo-tet and Aggregate Prime, and also plays in saxophonist George Garzone’s quartet occasionally. Tyrone and Tyson Jackson met at Berklee in the fall of 2017, and have been playing together ever since.
Austin Cannon is an award-nominated producer and songwriter based in Nashville, TN. His sound can be defined as modern analog: where classic synthesizers meet relevant production. He specializes in Pop, Electronic, and Christian Contemporary Music and is signed to CURB|Word Music Publishing.
Adriel Shane Vincent-Brown is a Trinidadian musician in living in New York. Brown has managed to establish himself as a worthy contender and is already beginning to make a name for himself and his country. Growing up in Trinidad, his love for music began as a child watching his father Kenneth Vincent-Brown play the drums in church, the instrument that would eventually claim him…
Joshua received a bachelor’s degree at The Juilliard School studying with Alan Baer, Michael Moore, and Joseph Alessi. The 2017 National Young Arts Finalist recently performed the Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, and was a featured artist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Joshua performs for the Soulful Symphony and is an Ear Training Teaching Fellow.
Marisa Tornello is a composer, vocalist, performance artist, poet, mover, and maker. Tornello cultivates an artistic practice that explores the art of living scores and thematic development through dual lens of trauma and healing. Their works have been shown at Roulette, the Tank, Jack, La MaMa ETC, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Vital Joint, Invisible Dog Arts Center, and Judson Church…
Ledah Finck is a violinist, violist, improviser, and composer who resides in NYC. A passionate creator, performer, and curator of contemporary classical music, she is a member of the contemporary-music string quartet Bergamot Quartet, currently the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the New School…
Constellation Chor is a vocal performance collective founded and directed by Marisa Michelson. Its intention at inception, and still to this day, was to create a space for humans to sing virtuosically together while also prioritizing deep embodied experience and movement. Since 2016, Constellation Chor has been in residence at Judson Memorial Church in NYC, meeting weekly.
Chiayu is an active composer of contemporary concert music. Chiayu has been interested in deriving inspirations from different materials, such as poems, myths, and images. Particularly, however, it is the combination of Chinese elements and western techniques that is a hallmark of her music…
Anuj Bhutani is quickly emerging as a unique and versatile composer whose music often features visceral grooves; ethereal, meditative spaces; a combination of acoustic instruments and electronics, and a strong sense of narrative. Since 2020, he won 1st prize in Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble’s Emerging Composer Competition, Verdigris Ensemble’s ION Composer Competition …
Indian pianist/composer UTSAV LAL, often known as the ‘Raga Pianist’ is recognised as the rarest of pianists. Stunning the world with his innovative handling of Indian Classical Music on a Western instrument, The Irish Times describes Utsav Lal as “a fleet-fingered performer whose best moments can be both highly evocative and dazzling.”…
At age 10, Gelin taught himself to play the trumpet simply by emulating his favorite records. After years of self-tutelage, Adrian D’Aguilar, bass player, began to mentor him; thereby, providing him the tools to play jazz. In 2017, the Nassau-born trumpeter would study with Dr. Eddie Henderson at the Oberlin Conservatory. The same year, he received recognition at the Young Arts Foundation and Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program. Thereafter, he continued his studies at the Juilliard School --- graduated June 2021.
Ross has topped the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star category for vibraphone — graduating beyond the Rising Star to well-honed artist in 2021 — as well as the Jazz Journalists Association Critics Poll for Mallet Instrumentalist of the Year in 2020 and 2021. He recently became one of the youngest artists to earn a coveted Residency Commission from The Jazz Gallery and a spot in The Jazz Gallery All Stars band through which he performed live at The Kennedy Center…
Micah Thomas was born in 1997 in Columbus, Ohio. He started playing songs on the piano by ear at the age of 2, and shortly afterwards he started private piano training. From his sophomore year of high school onwards, Micah began gigging regularly with violinist Christian Howes, and was a regular faculty member at his annual Creative Strings Workshop from 2015-2018…
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Shao-Che (Sean) started playing the violin from the young age of five in a local music classroom. Growing up, Sean participated in many national music competitions, and often as prize winners. Sean moved to New York City at the age of thirteen to pursue a career as a violinist, he studied under both Mr. I-Hao Lee and Mr. Hyo Kang in The Juilliard Precollege…
