Jen Shyu

Jen Shyu

Guggenheim Fellow, USA Fellow, Doris Duke Artist, multilingual vocalist-composer-multi-instrumentalist-dancer Jen Shyu is “one of the most creative vocalists in contemporary improvised music” (The Nation). Born in Peoria, Illinois, to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrants, she’s produced eight albums, performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Theater of Korea, Rubin Museum, was named Downbeat’s 2017 Rising Star Female Vocalist, and is a Fulbright scholar speaking 10 languages…

Chris Tordini

Chris Tordini

Chris Tordini is an in-demand bassist in the jazz and experimental music scene, touring and recording both nationally and internationally. He has toured and recorded with Andy Milne's ‘Dapp Theory’ for over a decade, and he has been a close collaborator with MacArthur fellow Tyshawn Sorey since 2005, most notably as a member of Sorey’s long standing piano trio. Tordini is a founding member of the Becca Stevens Band…

Miles Okazaki

Miles Okazaki

Miles Okazaki is a NYC-based guitarist originally from Port Townsend, a small seaside town in Washington State. His approach to the guitar is described by the New York Times as “utterly contemporary, free from the expectations of what it means to play a guitar in a group setting — not just in jazz, but any kind.”…

Milena Casado

Milena Casado

Milena Casado is a composer, flugelhorn and trumpet player from Spain. She has performed with acclaimed artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Jorge Rossy, Kenny Werner, Bill McHenry or Francisco Mela, among others…

Maya Keren

Maya Keren

Maya Keren is a pianist, vocalist, composer, and songwriter from Philadelphia. They are interested in the process of environing people, voices, instruments, and sounds in ways that invite connection with one’s erotic instinct, embody compassionate and queer relations with the self and the collective, and destabilize learned systems of domination…

Julian Miltenberger

Julian Miltenberger

Julian Miltenberger is a drummer and composer from Philadelphia, currently attending the Harvard/Berklee dual degree program in Boston. With roots in Philadelphia's swing, R&B, and avant-garde music traditions, Julian seeks to explore broader musical lineages throughout the Atlantic world with his work…

Eden Girma

Eden Girma

Eden Girma is a multi-instrumental musician, singer, and composer. Hailing from Madison, WI but of no particular home; grown at the nexus of many artistic traditions, drawing from it all to create and perform music that not only resonates with individual hearts, but brings people closer together in a spirit of intimacy and empathy.

Peter Wikle

Peter Wikle

Peter Wikle is a tenor/bass trombonist and tuba player from Santa Ana, California. In high school, he participated in some of the most prestigious honor jazz ensembles including the Grammy Camp Jazz Session and Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. He has studied with musicians including Dave Taylor, Barry Harris, Lee Konitz, and Jim McNeely…

Matt Chilton

Matt Chilton

Matt Chilton is a New York City native active in a various media as a composer, technician, and multi-instrumentalist. Previous collaborations with Metropolis Ensemble include METABUSKING! for Biophony 2021. Recent credits include post-production mixing for short film plural (love) (WP Theater Pipeline Festival, 2022), sound design, tenor sax, and composition for myname’sound with..

JC Clancy

JC Clancy

jc is an NJ/NYC-based experimental musician, improviser, A/V engineer, and abolitionist activist/organizer. Originally trained in piano, drumset, classical percussion, and Balinese gamelan, they now thrive in the queered outer edges of instrumental, vocal, electroacoustic, and theatrical performance…

Elijah Shiffer

Elijah Shiffer

Elijah Shiffer is a New York-based saxophonist and composer. He is the leader of the Robber Crabs, a quartet combining the influences of early jazz and avant-garde jazz. The Robber Crabs' debut album, "Unhinged", was released in 2018. Elijah has performed in a wide variety of venues around New York City as both a leader and a sideman...

Susan Mandel

Susan Mandel

Susan D. Mandel's diverse interests have led to a career focused in new music and collaboration. As a cellist, Susan has been active in the studio with performance credits on numerous albums and film scores including Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) directed by Shaka King, scored by Mark Isham and Craig Harris, Here Today (2021) directed by Billy Crystal, scored by Charlie Rosen, and Nian (2021) directed by Lulu Wang, scored by Alex Weston…

Mark Dover

Mark Dover

Clarinetist Mark Dover is a man of many horns, always striving to have his feet in as many different genres as he can. As the clarinetist of Imani Winds, he maintains a busy touring schedule throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to his work with Imani Winds, Mark is the clarinetist of Manhattan Chamber Players, and has performed with The Detroit Symphony under Leonard Slatkin, The Cleveland Orchestra under David Zinman at Kent Blossom Music Festival, The Knights, The New World Symphony, and many other ensembles throughout the country…

Lavinia Pavlish

Lavinia Pavlish

Lavinia Pavlish is a New York City-based violinist. She has performed as a soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra in an morning education concert series entitled Time Travel with the Cleveland Orchestra and recently performed alongside cellist Rose Bart with the Lake Tahoe Festival Orchestra at the Lake Tahoe Music Festival…

Laura Sacks

Laura Sacks

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

Sivan Cohen Elias

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

Cole Blouin

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…

Matthew Cohen

Matthew Cohen

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..

Halam Kim

Halam Kim

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…

Jared Blajian

Jared Blajian

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…