Laura Sacks is a New York-based violist who enjoys a multifaceted career. She has performed on stages from Carnegie Hall to Madison Square Garden, and is highly in demand as a studio session player. This season Laura performs with NOVUS, the Chamber Orchestra of New York, the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, the Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra, and the North/South Consonance Ensemble, as well as numerous performances with the High Line String Quartet…
Sivan Cohen Elias is an electroacoustic experimental composer and intermedia artist, originally from Israel, who aims to expand the field of sound art into new mixed-media experiences and to sharpen the connection between our senses. She received numerous international awards, residencies, and commissions including Impuls competition, Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship, Ernst von Siemens commissions, Music Theatre Composition Competition Staatstheater, Darmstadt, and most recently she has received the Fromm Commission Award…
Cole Blouin is a Queens-based sound-maker whose practice incorporates improvisation; score-based composition; and song. They are interested in the isolation and juxtaposition of temporal streams; the interactions of memory, imagination, desire, and presence; the historicities carried within material, and how those historicities may be fragmented or recontextualized; and the fragile threshold between the narrative and the poetic…
American violist Matthew Cohen is a dynamic and versatile artist whose captivating performances have made him one of the most sought-after violists of his generation. A recipient of numerous accolades and prizes, he has been awarded the 2018 Center for Musical Excellence International Performing Arts Grant..
Korean American violist Halam Kim is a passionate performer and educator who enjoys a versatile career in solo and chamber music as well as in education. Her major solo accomplishments include performances of Walton’s Viola Concerto with the Eastman Philharmonia and Philharmonie Baden-Baden…
Cellist Jared Blajian has performed as soloist as well as a chamber and orchestral musician on some of the most prominent stages in the world including Carnegie Hall and Severance Hall in Cleveland. He is committed to engaging audiences, communicating passion and joy, and changing lives through music…
Ms. Wang has established herself as an internationally active soloist and chamber musician. Following her solo debut at age eleven in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Ms. Wang has performed in renowned venues across the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, and East Asia…
Clarinetist Kristina Teuschler has been a member of the West Point Band since 2018. She is a versatile musician that performs with a variety of ensembles; from symphony orchestras, to indie bands, to contemporary ensembles in the New York area…
Oboist Hsuan-Fong Chen (pronounced “SHUan-fong”) has garnered a reputation as one of New York City’s most versatile musicians, with a career in orchestra, Broadway, new music, and occasional administrative roles. Having performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia, she is sought after for a wide range of performances, ranging from a guest principal appearance with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, sharing the stage with Rihanna at the 2015 Met Gala, and performing in the hit Broadway production of Rocktopia as its lead oboist, with an additional appearance in Wicked…
Noah is a cellist and chamber musician born and raised in Queens, New York City. He has just completed a Master’s Degree at the Juilliard School studying under Natasha Brofsky, and is continuing his education at the Manhattan School of Music with Julia Lichten, earning a Professional Studies certificate…
Korean-Australian violinist Harriet Langley is an accomplished soloist and chamber musician who has performed with the London Chamber Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Reno Philharmonic, the Gyeonggi Philharmonic of Korea, and the Orchestre National de Belgique, to name a few…
Cellist Drake Driscoll has established herself as a versatile performer and advocate for social change through music. Drake is the Executive Director and Co-founder of The VISION Collective, an ensemble dedicated to building meaningful relationships with and among refugees and new Americans by sharing music between diverse communities…
Mara Mayer is a clarinetist and bass clarinetist who is always trying to learn something new. Her performance experience ranges from traditional Balinese Gamelan to performance art. Recent projects include Jeff Tobias' Recurring Dream Band, Banda de los Muertos, GABI, the Nouveau Classical Project, Curiosity Cabinet, CACEnsemble, and Corvus…
Christopher Foss is a bassoonist and teaching artist in Brooklyn, NY who frequents many special niches of musicking. He has performed with WildUp, SEM Ensemble, LCollective, Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, Dog Star Orchestra, and was formerly contrabassoonist with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra and American Youth Symphony…
Will Yager is a bassist/improviser committed to experimental music, improvisation, and collaborating with living composers. He is a founding member of the chamber duo LIGAMENT and improvising trio Wombat. Performance highlights include the High Zero Foundation’s Red Room in Your Room, ESS Quarantine Concerts, 2021 International Society of Bassists’ Convention, Oh My Ears Festival, Big Ears Festival, Feed Me Weird Things, New Music on the Point, Cortona Sessions for New Music, and the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival.
Tamika Gorski is a percussionist currently based in New York City. An avid performer and supporter of contemporary music, she has commissioned and premiered numerous solo and chamber works by composers such as Molly Joyce, Elliot Cole, and Phong Tran…
Raf Vertessen is a Belgian drummer, percussion player and composer based in Brooklyn. He is involved in New York’s avant-garde and improvised music scene. Vertessen has performed and/or recorded with artists such as Ingrid Laubrock, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, Ches Smith, Anna Webber, Nick Dunston, Will Greene, Elias Stemeseder, Dan Pencer, Jesse Heasly…
Bassist Composer and Educator Walter Stinson has been performing and living in Brooklyn since 2012 after graduating from Purchase College. He began his music studies at the age of 10 by playing along with the classic country radio station and his mother who was a jazz pianist…
Multi-instrumentalist and composer, Oscar lives in Brooklyn since 1992.
He has worked with Lee Konitz, Anthony Braxton, Gerry Hemingway, Dewey Redman and Paul Motion.
He is currently performing with Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, Endangered Blood (Chris Speed, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn) and colead with Jacob Garchik, the Mexico-inspired Banda De Los Muertos. He plays alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet and drums.
Nathaniel Morgan is an alto saxophonist and composer living in Brooklyn. Nathaniel collaborates in and/or leads many projects including Buckminster/DARKMINSTER, Shy Bully, Ancient Enemies, Skellettes, Motel, Vessel, Folklords, Chopper, and The Hero of Warchester. Many of these recordings appear on PromNightRecords.
