Christopher Botta

Christopher Botta is a NY based producer and engineer. He runs Fer Sound, a mixing, mastering, and production studio in Bushwick Brooklyn. Chris works closely with non-profit organizations such as Found Sound Nation (OneBeat, Mosaic, Dosti Music Project, Broken Orchestra), JACK Studios, the Metropolis Ensemble, The MET, and Hear Her Song. He’s worked closely with artists such as Yaeji, Emily Wells, the JACK Quartet, Valee, and Shahzad Ismaily. His interests are positioned uncomfortably between contemporary chamber, electronic, and popular music forms.

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Stephan Crump

Memphis-bred, Grammy-nominated, Echo Award-winning bassist/composer Stephan Crump is an active bandleader with twelve critically-acclaimed album releases in addition to numerous film scoring contributions.

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Paul Wiancko

Paul Wiancko has led an exceptionally multifaceted musical life as a composer and cellist. As a performer, he has collaborated with Midori, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, Nico Muhly, and members of the Guarneri, Takács, JACK, Parker, Orion, and Juilliard quartets. Chosen as one of Kronos Quartet’s “50 for the Future”, Paul’s own music has been described as “dazzling”, “compelling” (Star Tribune) and “vital pieces that avoid the predictable” (Allan Kozinn). His 25-minute quartet LIFT is featured on the Aizuri Quartet’s Grammy-nominated album Blueprinting, one of NPR’s top 10 classical albums of 2018.

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Ayane Kozasa

Hailed for her "magnetic, wide-ranging tone" and her "rock solid technique" (Philadelphia Inquirer), violist Ayane Kozasa is a founding member of the Aizuri Quartet, whose GRAMMY-nominated debut album “Blueprinting” was released on New Amsterdam Records in 2019. Her duo with composer and cellist Paul Wiancko—known as "Ayane & Paul"—actively performs and commissions new works for viola and cello and recently collaborated with Norah Jones on her album “Pick Me Up Off the Floor.”

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Emi Ferguson

Emi Ferguson can be heard live in concerts and festivals with groups including the Metropolis Ensemble, Handel and Haydn Society, AMOC*, the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Manhattan Chamber Players.

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Juniper CreativeArts

Juniper Creative Arts is a Vermont-based Black and Dominican family collective with a mission-driven practice of creating art that involves and celebrates historically excluded communities.

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Leo Leite

Leo Leite

Leo Leite (1977) is a Music Producer and Sound Engineer. Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, Leo grew up with the electronic music scene and since young he is been involved with music production , live shows , studio recordings and stage production. He studied at the Institute of Audio and Video in São Paulo and was assistant engineer at Beat Music Studios. Leo moved to New York in 1999 to study at the School of Audio Engineer (SAE) in New York City.

He was the co-founder of Influx, a live electronic band which performed at Skol Beats Festival and released several compilation albums for Amp MTV. As a producer, between 2005 and 2009, Leo collaborated with DJ Sasha with many projects and recording, principally the critically acclaimed album "Invol2ver".

With a unique talent and style with acoustics acquired the last few years , he has built and designed architectural acoustic music studios. From acoustic treatment, studio equipment, to construction management. Leo has collaborated with many renowned electronic artists such as Gui Boratto, Sasha, Junio Lima, Gabe, & Dado Prisco.

Leo collaborated with Metropolis Ensemble to sound engineer and co-produce The Rite : Remixed performed in Prospect Park as part Celebrate Brooklyn!, which was broadcasted live on NPR.

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Caleb Smith

Performer and composer Caleb A. Smith is a multi-faceted artist who hopes to use his art to present relevant, relatable, and thought-provoking narratives to his audience. Caleb received his Bachelor’s in Jazz Performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he was able to attend on a full-tuition scholarship. Currently, Caleb is pursuing his Master’s Degree from Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music. He has been fortunate enough to study with musicians such as trombonist Robin Eubanks, as well as with performer composers like Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer, Gary Bartz, and Billy Hart.  

As a performer, Caleb has played with a vast selection of artists including five-time Grammy Award winning American visionary Lauryn Hill at the 2018 Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony presented by HBO, a performance with trumpeter Terrance Blanchard as part of Cleveland’s Annual Tri-C Jazz Festival, and at the New England Conservatory of Music with bassist Dave Holland. He has played with an array of different ensembles ranging from small jazz-based combos, concert/marching bands, a symphony orchestra, jazz big bands, Gospel groups and as part of a horn section in pop groups. Caleb has also given numerous performances in and around Cleveland at venues such as The Bop Stop at the Music Settlement, Severance Hall, and Akron’s acclaimed BLU Jazz+ Club.
Composition is an integral part of Caleb’s artistry and artistic process. He hopes that, through his original work and collaborations with others, he will make himself vulnerable to his audience and not only present themes and narratives associated closely with his heart and personal life, but also those that are associated with being Black in America. He has had the privilege to study composition at prestigious programs such as the Kennedy Center’s Betty Carter Jazz Ahead (where he had his original work performed on the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage) and at the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music.  

‍Caleb firmly believes that teaching is an integral part of any society and is very passionate about spreading the knowledge he has obtained to other people on their journey.

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Kalun Leung

Kalun Leung (he/him) is a collaborative trombonist, augmented instrumentalist, and sound artist with an extended practice in instrument building, electronics, and movement. His projects are motivated by the exploration of new and unexpected contexts in which the trombone can thrive, an interdisciplinary and research-based approach that has led to the invention of new electronic trombone augmentations, the study of Balkan brass band music in Guča, the premiere of never-before-seen Keith Haring computer art, the mounting of a Fluxus-inspired trombone sound sculpture, and site-specific improvisations with landfills and robots. 

As a performer, he is a major proponent for the presentation of new work through commissioning, collective creation, and improvisation, and performs in new music, improvised, jazz, inter-arts and folk music ensembles in New York City and Tiohtià:ke/Montréal where he is based. He has premiered works by George Lewis, Bekah Simms, and Lesley Mok, and has contributed to a GRAMMY-winning album with the Experiential Orchestra. He has collaborated with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Nation Beat, Slavic Soul Party, Zlatne Uste, David Taylor and Felix del Tredici (So Wrong it’s Right), Billy Martin (Medeski Martin & Wood), John Aaron Cockburn (Bruce Cockburn, Little Suns), and many others.

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Eleonore Oppenheim

Eleonore Oppenheim

“Quietly virtuosic” (Alan Kozinn, the New York Times) upright and electric bassist Eleonore Oppenheim is equal parts valued ensemble player and engaging soloist. Her “…subtle expressivity” and “…particular eloquence” (Joshua Kosman, the San Francisco Chronicle), coupled with her New Music advocacy, have made her a go-to muse for some of the best composers of her generation, and she has built a rich repertoire of solo pieces, some of which will be featured on her debut album, “Home,” which will be released on Innova Recordings in Spring of 2016.

A musical omnivore and polyglot, Eleonore is at home in a wide range of musical idioms, and has worked with a variety of different artists and groups, among them the Philip Glass Ensemble, Tyondai Braxton (Battles), the Wordless Music Orchestra, Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), Ensemble Signal, Bryce Dessner (the National), Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead).
Eleonore also performs and records regularly with the “All-star, all-female quintet” (Time Out NY) Victoire, whose debut album Cathedral City reached top-10 and best-of lists in the New York Times, Time Out NY, and NPR in 2010, and whose new album Vespers for a New Dark Age, a collaboration with Wilco drummer and percussionist Glenn Kotche, was released on New Amsterdam in 2015.

She has appeared at a number of national and international festivals and venues, most notably the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Ravinia, Spoleto USA, the MADE Festival in Sweden, Festival de Otoño Madrid, and Carnegie Hall, BAM, Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim and Whitney Museums, the Barbican Centre, the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Disney Hall, and the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Recital Centre in Australia.

Eleonore was a Bang on a Can Fellow in 2006, where she met many of the fantastic musicians and composers she now collaborates with. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate at SUNY Stony Brook, and is also an alumna of the Yale School of Music and the Juilliard School.

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Dominick Chang

Dominick Chang

Dominick Chang is a graduate of NYU’s undergraduate Music Technology program. Working with Max/Msp/Jitter, he is able to create generative and reactive visuals, allowing him to work with bands, film sets, and installations, creating custom light shows and visual projections.  He is currently working as a freelance audiovisual engineer of mixing, live sound/lights, production and post-production sound for film & television.

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Topu Lyo

Topu Lyo

Topu Lyo is a Korean-American multi faceted composer, producer, and cellist. He uses cello and electronics as his primary tool to compose and perform. He has been a co-leader of two piece band Live Footage for over 12 years touring throughout Europe, Asia, and the US. The band has scored documentaries for HBO, BET, VICE, UNICEF as well as done commercial work for many other brands including BMW, VOLVO and Arpel. He has held a 10 year residency at NYC's Apotheke every Sunday night.

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Samer Ghadry

Samer Ghadry

Samer Ghadry is a Brooklyn-based musician and healing sound practitioner. He uses a variety of droning and overtoning instruments such as gong, voice, bowls, and forks to craft relaxing, rejuvenating, and holistically transporting sound journeys in various settings. Samer has a background in percussion and improvisation and has toured and recorded with musicians Matthew Dear, Angel Deradoorian, and Dave Harrington, and has appeared in recent works such as Alanis Morsette's The Storm Before the Calm and the film Everything Everywhere All At Once.

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Sara Serpa

Sara Serpa

A native from Lisboa, Portuguese Sara Serpa is a singer, composer, improviser, who through her practice and performance, explores the use of the voice as an instrument. Serpa has been working in the field of jazz, improvised and experimental music, since moving to New York in 2008. Literature, film, visual arts, nature and history inspire Serpa in the creative process and development of her music. Described by the New York Times as “a singer of silvery poise and cosmopolitan outlook,” and by the JazzTimes magazine as “a master of wordless landscapes,”  Serpa started her recording and performing career with jazz luminaries such as Grammy-nominated pianist, Danilo Perez, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow pianist, Ran Blake, and Greg Osby.

Her ethereal music draws from a broad variety of inspirations including literature, film, visual arts as well as history and nature. As a leader, she has produced and released ten albums, the latest being Intimate Strangers (2021) and Recognition (2020).

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Pieta Brown

Pieta Brown is hailed as a "self-styled poetess, folk goddess and country waif" by the BBC, and over the course of the past decade-and-a-half, she’s released eight critically lauded records, prompting NPR to applaud her "moody, ethereal" songwriting, and the NY Times to praise her “sweet, smoky voice.” Her work garners praise and support from a wide array of peers and mentors, including legendary producer Don Was, filmmaker Wim Wenders, and Bon Iver mastermind Justin Vernon, who called Brown’s 2014 album Paradise Outlaw his “favorite recording made at our studio.” More »

Greg Chudzik

Greg Chudzik is an active performer across numerous genres on the double bass and electric bass.  Currently, he can be seen performing regularly with several new music groups, including Signal Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, and Talea Ensemble.  Greg is also a member of several bands, including Empyrean Atlas, Bing and Ruth, and The Briars of North America. He has worked with numerous influential figures in contemporary music, including Steve Coleman, Steve Reich, Brian Ferneyhough, Pierre Boulez, George Benjamin, Helmut Lachenmann, Charles Wuorinen, Alex Mincek and Tristan Perich.  Greg’s recording credits include playing on the Grammy-nominated “Barcelonaza” by Jorge Leiderman, “Pulse / Quartet” by Steve Reich on Nonesuch records, “Morphogenesis” and "Synovial Joints" by Steve Coleman on Pi Recordings, “No Home of the Mind” and "Tomorrow Was the Golden Age" by Bing and Ruth on RVNG records, the album “Americans” by Scott Johnson (Tzadik records), multiple recordings with Signal Ensemble on New Amsterdam and Mode Records, the album “Grown Unknown” by Lia Ices (Secretly Canadian records), the album "Inner Circle" by Empyrean Atlas, and the album “High Violet” by The National on 4AD records.  Greg's debut album "Solo Works, Vol. 1" was released in July of 2015 and features original pieces of music written for bass guitar and electronics. His follow-up album “Solo Works Vol. 2” features original compositions for double bass quartet and will be released in 2019.

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Andrew Wan

Andrew Wan was named concertmaster of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) in 2008. As soloist, he has performed worldwide under conductors such as Rafael Payare, Kent Nagano, Maxim Vengerov, Vasily Petrenko, Bernard Labadie, Carlo Rizzi, Peter Oundjian, Xian Zhang, Michael Stern and James DePreist. He has played chamber music with artists such as the Juilliard Quartet, Vadim Repin, Marc-André Hamelin, Daniil Trifonov, Menahem Pressler, Jörg Widmann, Emanuel Ax, Johannes Moser, Arabella Steinbacher, James Ehnes, and Gil Shaham as a frequent artist at the Seattle Chamber Music, La Jolla Summerfest, Ottawa Chamberfest, Toronto Summer Music, Orford Musique, St. Prex, Colorado College and Olympic festivals. Wan performs regularly as guest concertmaster for the Pittsburgh, Houston, Indianapolis, National Arts Centre, Toronto and Vancouver Symphony orchestras.

Wan’s discography includes Grammy-nominated and Juno, Felix and Opus award-winning releases on the Analekta, Onyx, Bridge, and Naxos labels with the Seattle Chamber Music Society, New York’s Metropolis Ensemble, Charles Richard-Hamelin and the New Orford String Quartet. In the fall of 2015, he released a live recording of all three Saint-Saëns violin concerti with the OSM and Kent Nagano under the Analekta label to wide critical acclaim. His recent live album of works for violin and orchestra by Bernstein, Moussa and Ginastera with Nagano and the OSM won the 2021 Juno award for Best Classical Recording for Large Ensemble.

Wan enjoys a deep collaborative relationship with Canadian pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin, silver medalist of the 17th Chopin International Piano Competition, with whom he has recorded all ten Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin.  Their second album of Beethoven's 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Sonatas garnered the 2022 Juno award for Best Classical Recording for Small Ensemble.  Their next recording will feature the sonatas for violin and piano by Robert Schumann, to be released in the fall of 2022.

Wan graduated from The Juilliard School with Bachelor of Music, Master of Music and Artist Diploma degrees and is currently a member of the New Orford String Quartet, Associate Professor of Violin at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, Artistic Director of the Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival and for the 2017-18 season was Artistic Partner of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, he won the Part-Time Teaching Award at the Schulich School of Music. (www.andrewviolin.com)

Andrew Wan performs on a 1744 Michel'Angelo Bergonzi violin, and gratefully acknowledges its loan from the David Sela Collection. He also enjoys the use of an 1860 Dominique Peccatte bow from Canimex. 

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Annie Rabbat

An avid chamber musician, violinist Annie Rabbat has participated in the Ravinia Festival's Steans Institute, IMS Prussia Cove's Open Chamber Music, and Caramoor's Rising Stars Series, as well as the Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals. She toured with Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Institute in 2005, giving performances in Washington, D.C.'s Library of Congress and Boston's Gardner Museum. Her chamber music collaborations have included performances with Roger Tapping, Gary Hoffman, Menahem Pressler, Timothy Eddy, Ani Kavafian, Anthony Marwood, and Stephen Stirling.

Ms. Rabbat's recent engagements have included a solo recital at the Caramoor Center for the Performing Arts and chamber music performances at the Virginia Arts Festival, Concord Chamber Music Society, and throughout the Boston area. She is a member of the Laurel Quartet, Concertmaster of the Gardner Museum Chamber Orchestra, and also plays with Walden Chamber Players and A Far Cry.

Ms. Rabbat completed her Bachelor of Music degree at Indiana University and holds a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School. She now resides in Boston where she studies at the New England Conservatory with Miriam Fried and Donald Weilerstein. Her mentors have also included Robert Mann, Nicholas Mann, Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian and Phil Setzer.

Gal Nyska

Active as a soloist and chamber musician, cellist Gal Nyska has been praised as an "agile" (New York Times) "prodigious," "spellbinding," and "technically assured" performer (Classical Voice of North Carolina) possessing "a deep and moving purity of sentiment" (the Ellsworth American). One of the leading Israeli cellist of his generation, he most recently triumphed at the Aviv Competitions, Israel's most prestigious contest for emerging musicians, winning both the Rachel and Dov Gottesman cello prize as well as the Meira Gera Audience Prize. Mr. Nyska also recently made his New York solo debut with the Juilliard Orchestra at Avery Fischer Hall under Dennis Russell Davies. Additional performances include solo, chamber music, and recital appearances at the Grand Salle des Invalides (Paris), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Jerusalem Music Center, Henry Crown Theatre, and concerto engagements with the Las Vegas, North Carolina, Bangor, Raleigh, and Durham symphony orchestras, among others.

Committed to the commissioning and performance of new works, Mr. Nyska has performed world and New York premieres of works by some of his generation's most promising composers including Michael Brown, Gilad Cohen, Huang Ruo, Noam Sivan, and Avner Dorman. This year he also collaborates with Michael Brown on a new work for cello and piano, with composer Ronnie Reshef on a work for cello and narrator, and with composer Hadas Pe'ery on a work for cello and electronics, all to be premiered in 2009.

Festival and workshops attended include the Olympic Music Festival, International Musicians' Seminar in Prussia cove, Accademia Chigiana, Kronberg Academy, Aspen Music Festival, Innsbrook Institute and Festival, the Quartet Program, Music in the Valley Institute and Festival, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, and Itzhak Perlman's Chamber Music Workshop. A recent graduate of the Master's degree program at the Juilliard School, Mr. Nyska serves as a teaching assistant to Juilliard String Quartet cellist Joel Krosnick.

Wayne Lin

Wayne Lin, a native of Green Bay, WI, received his Bachelor's degree from the Juilliard School, studying violin with Glenn Dicterow, and most recently completed his Master's degree and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music, under the tutelage of Peter Oundjian. His music has led him to performances on four continents, and he has appeared as soloist with the symphonies of Green Bay, Fox Valley, Milwaukee, the Martinu and Hradec Kralove Philharmonics in the Czech Republic, the Sudecka Philharmonic in Poland, the Chengdu Symphony in China, and chamber music performances in Bangkok, Thailand and throughout Argentina. Mr. Lin has served as concertmaster with the Juilliard Symphony, the Yale Philharmonia, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and is also a member of the New Haven Symphony and will be serving as concertmaster this up-coming season. An avid chamber musician, he is also a member of the Sebastian Chamber Players and the Hindemith Ensemble, and has participated in the Taos and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music festivals, Music Academy of the West, and the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals. Mr. Lin plays on a 1779 G.B . Guadagnini violin.