David Leon is a Cuban-American saxophonist, woodwinds player, and composer/improviser living in Brooklyn, New York. His diverse musical output is guided by an exploration of nuance. More »

Yuma Uesaka is a saxophonist, clarinetist, and improviser-composer mostly known for his work in jazz and creative music, with a reputation for his improvisational sensibilities and his powerful sound. More »

Adam O'Farrill is a trumpet player and composer from Brooklyn. As a composer and bandleader. “Marshaling a sharp band of his peers, Mr. O’Farrill establishes both a firm identity and a willful urge to stretch and adapt.” (New York Times) More »

Baldwin Giang (b. 1992) is a Chicago-based composer, pianist, multimedia artist, and educator whose music aims to empower communities of audiences and performers by creating concert experiences that are opportunities for collective wonder and judgment. More »

Darlene Castro Ortiz (b.1993) is a Mexican-American composer and classical guitarist based in Chicago. Her interest in music began at a young age with the violin, first in a youth mariachi band, then in a classical orchestra setting. More »

Hunter Brown is a multimedia artist, music technologist, audio engineer, and percussionist based in Hanover, New Hampshire. Hunter's creative work encompasses various compositional mediums including interactive electro-acoustic improvisation, multimedia installation, laptop performance, music for dance, and acousmatic music. He is the current assistant audio engineer at the Marlboro Music Festival, and was previously an audio engineer at Oberlin Audio Services. As a percussionist, Hunter focuses on collaborating with composers in creating works for percussion and electronics. Hunter’s work has been presented at the following conferences: The Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference, the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) Manifeste, and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF). In 2017, he was awarded the annual Allen Strange Award at the SEAMUS National Convention. Hunter holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Percussion Performance with a Minor in Technology in Music and the Related Arts from the Oberlin Conservatory where he studied percussion with Michael Rosen and electronic music with Aurie Hsu, Joo Won Park, Peter Swendsen, and Tom Lopez. He is currently studying towards a Masters degree in Digital Musics at Dartmouth College.

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. More »

Osaka-born and New York-based pianist Erika Dohi is a multi-faceted artist with an eclectic musical background. From highly polished traditional classical to bold improvisation, she is a dynamic performer whose timeless style and unidiomatic technique sets her apart in contemporary NYC avant-garde circles. Dohi’s vast repertory is impressive, but what makes her truly such a barrier-defying artist is what lies ahead. More »

Violinist and improviser Lauren Cauley has quickly risen in New York’s avant-garde as an artist known for genre-breaking performances that expand the sonic possibilities of her instrument. Now a “mainstay of the local new-music scene” (New York Times), she’s built a reputation as an interpreter of “fierce precision” and “excellence uncompromised” (Cleveland Classical). More »

Matt Evans is a Brooklyn based artist, composer, and percussionist producing recordings, cross-disciplinary productions, and sculptural sound installations through an eco-fictional lens. Since moving to Brooklyn in 2012, Evans has maintained numerous musical projects: producing solo performances, writing commissioned compositions, working with choreographers, playing in bands, and performing with new music ensembles. More »

Lauren Siess, viola (Portland, OR) began her musical life studying both violin and jazz/classical guitar. She recently presented an interdisciplinary concert at Arete Venue and Gallery, presenting world premiere performances of works for solo viola, electronics, and dance. Lauren has been a member of the Perlman Music Program, with residencies in Shelter Island, NY, Sarasota, FL, and Tel Aviv, Israel. In addition, she has attended programs at the Banff Centre and Keshet Eilon Summer Mastercourse in Israel. Lauren is in her fourth year of undergraduate studies at the Juilliard School as a student of Carol Rodland. She is a recipient of a Kovner Fellowship and member of the Gluck Community Service Fellowship. An alumna of the Colburn Music Academy, Lauren performed as soloist with the Colburn Academy Virtuosi Orchestra and Colburn Chamber Orchestra and served as principal viola of both orchestras. Her former teachers include Paul Neubauer, Helen Callus, and Brian Quincey. Previous Yellow Barn musician (2018)

Amelia Brey’s music has been described as possessing “haunting beauty” and “a deep, disquieting power” (National Sawdust Log). Her orchestral work, Two, was premiered by the Juilliard Orchestra under the direction of Jeffrey Milarsky as a winner of the Juilliard Composers’ Orchestra Competition, and received an Honorable Mention from the Nashville Symphony’s Composer Lab; her wind quintet, AR(i/e)AS, was the recipient of a BMI Student Composer Award. More »

Kalia Vandever is a trombonist, composer, and educator living in Brooklyn, NY. She released her debut album, "In Bloom" in May, 2019 which features all of her original compositions written for quartet and duo with guitar. Kalia received her Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies at the Juilliard School in 2017. She has toured and performed internationally with her quartet, as well as a side-woman, performing with artists including Joel Ross, Maria Grand, Kat Lee, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and others. More »

Nick Dunston is a Berlin-based acoustic and electroacoustic composer, improviser, and bassist. An “indispensable player on the New York avant-garde" (New York Times), his performances have also spanned a variety of venues and festivals across North America and Europe. He's performed, toured, and recorded professionally with bands led by artists such as Marc Ribot, Ches Smith, Imani Uzuri, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Webber, Amirtha Kidambi, and Vijay Iyer. More »

Isabel Crespo Pardo is an NYC-based latinx vocalist, composer, and improviser embracing creative music, experimental and chamber traditions to create poetic work. Drawing from the idea of music as the organization of people and ideas, they are interested in reimagining the construction of artistic spaces, and are committed to fostering collaborations devoid of oppressive dynamics. Crespo is inspired by Chabuca Granda, Ornette Coleman, Pauline Oliveros, and Kurtág, and her work is constantly evolving to reflect the intra/interpersonal spaces she inhabits.

Immanuel Wilkins is a saxophonist, composer, educator, and bandleader from the greater Philadelphia area. While growing up, Wilkins honed his skills in the church and studied in programs dedicated to teaching jazz music like the Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts. After moving to New York in 2015, he proceeded to earn his bachelor’s degree in Music at Juilliard (studying with the saxophonists Bruce Williams and the late, great Joe Temperley) while simultaneously establishing himself as an indemand sideperson, touring in Japan, Europe, South America, The United Arab Emirates, and the United States and working and/or recording with artists like Jason Moran, the Count Basie Orchestra, Delfeayo Marsalis, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Gerald Clayton, Gretchen Parlato, Lalah Hathaway, Solange Knowles, Bob Dylan, and Wynton Marsalis to name just a few. It was also during this same period that he formed his quartet featuring his long-time bandmates: Micah Thomas(piano),Daryl Johns(bass)and Kweku Sumbry(drums). More »

American composer Mike Ladouceur is among the most exciting and significant talents emerging today‚ with many high-profile film and TV projects to his name. Renowned on both sides of the Atlantic, his musical style blends orchestral and ambient electronic textures, and has been described by distinguished conductor and orchestrator Jeff Atmajian as “like listening to a beautiful impressionist painting”. More »

Lesley Mok is a drummer, composer, and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. From a young age, Lesley has been immersed in a variety of creative environments, often painting, singing, and dancing as a way to express herself and learn about the world around her. At age four, Lesley began formal instruction on classical piano, before discovering a love for the drums in middle school. She quickly felt a kinship with the expressive qualities of the instrument, and was immediately drawn to jazz and improvisation after hearing the the music of Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson. More »

Composer and performer Cristina Spinei (pronounced spin-AY) has written for numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles, but she is most known for her work with ballet, having been commissioned by Nashville Ballet, the New York Choreographic Institute, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and many more. Growing up with dreams of becoming a ballerina, Spinei has channeled her love for dance into a devotion to musical movement, resulting in a style infused with “lyricism and rhythmic vitality.” (Nashville Scene) More »

Rajna Swaminathan is an acclaimed mrudangam (a barrel-shaped South Indian drum) artist, composer, and scholar. Rajna has been described as “a vital new voice” (Pop Matters), creating “music of gravity and rigor… yet its overall effect is accessible and uplifting” (Wall Street Journal). In her music and research, she explores the undercurrents of rhythmic experience and emergent textures in collective improvisation. More »

Internationally recognized composer Kirsten Volness creates sublimely intimate and emotive soundscapes that inspire immersive listening. Through the refined use of electronics and modern composition techniques overlaid with jazz and pop influences, Volness’s music is both groovy and graceful, “irresistible” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “nothing short of gorgeous.” (New York Arts). Each of her compositions reveals “an exquisite sound world” (New Classic LA) with disparate, suggestive musical elements and idioms woven together to create sonic atmospheres that hold listeners in beauty and fascination. Inspired by nature, myth, spirituality, and environmental and sociopolitical issues, Volness’s music is smart, relevant, timeless, and transcendent. More »

My creative work focuses on unique performance settings and mixtures of composition for live performers, media arts, and site-specific installations. I feel that exploring relationships between sounds, images, live performers, space, and movement is an effective way to both investigate and convey greater connections that surround us. More »

Adam Cuthbert (b. 1988) is a Detroit-based composer, mix engineer, and sound designer whose sometimes spare, sometimes brutal music has been described as an “eerie dreamscape” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) and “the lead-footed revving of double decker buses” (Acid Ted). More »

Aeryn Santillan (she/her) is a composer, guitarist, and bassist whose work is heavily influenced by the DIY punk scene and actively aims to blur the lines between band/ensemble and song/composition. More »

The work of composer-guitarist-arranger Andrew Noseworthy (he/him/his) reflects upon the acceptance/rejection of “locality,” drawing from experiences while living in Labrador West, St John's (Newfoundland) and New York City. His music aims to address the contextual space and dissemination for underrepresented musical voices. More »

Phong Tran is a Brooklyn-based composer, electronic musician, and visual artist. His works are heavily inspired by the sound of early synthesizers and the noises and grinds of experimental electronics. Much of his work is developed through late night wikipedia dives while obsessing over things like simulation theory, abstract story structure, Dungeons & Dragons, and vaporwave eccojams. More »

Isabela Tanashian (b. 1998) is a composer, sound artist, and vocalist based in New York City. She is currently completing her Bachelor’s degree in Composition at The Juilliard School where she studies with Dr. Melinda Wagner. Composing with technology is of particular interest to her, and she has frequently performed her own works in small venues around the city using various electronic software and synthesizers. In the past, her compositions have been read and performed by the Decoda Ensemble, Trio Mythos, and members of the New York Youth Symphony.

Joseph Jordan (b. 1999) is a composer, pianist, and oboist from New York. In May of 2021, he earned a B. A. from Columbia University where he participated in the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange and studied oboe with Elaine Douvas. At Columbia, he studied composition with Georg Friedrich Haas and attended seminars taught by Haas, George Lewis, Eric Wubbels, and Zosha di Castri through which his music was performed by loadbang, counter)induction, members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, and members of the Wet Ink Large Ensemble.

Originally from Cracow, Poland, Norbert Palej has been recognized for his “first-rate and genuinely original work” (American Composers Orchestra), and a musical language that generates “visceral excitement” (The Boston Globe). “Palej eclipses Lutoslawski”, writes Montreal’s La Presse, while The Gazette calls his work “riveting” and Musical Toronto: “fascinating”. His recent CD was nominated for a JUNO Award, and his work premiered at New York’s Carnegie Hall. More »

Tamil Nadu-raised and New York-born critically acclaimed vocalist Ganavya lives, learns, and loves fluidly from the nexus of many frameworks and understandings. Hers is a deeply profound and rooted voice. A multidisciplinary creator, she is a soundsmith and wordsmith. Trained as an improviser, scholar, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist, she maintains an inner library of “spi/ritual” blueprints offered to her by an intergenerational constellation of collaborators, continuously anchoring her practice in pasts, presents and, futures. More »

William Brittelle is a North Carolina-born, Brooklyn-based composer of genre-fluid electroacoustic music. His work has been praised on All Things Considered and in many other major outlets, including The New York Times (Sunday Arts & Leisure), The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, MUSO, the Oxford Culture Review, and Minnesota Public Radio. The New Yorker for its part has labeled Brittelle “…a mercurial artist whose oeuvre embraces post-punk flamboyance, chamber music elegance, and much more.” Perhaps most powerfully, Classical TV stated: “William Brittelle is creating a body of work that has no precedent, and marks him as a one of the most promising heirs of the vital American maverick tradition.” Amid the Minotaurs, a piece commissioned and premiered by Roomful of Teeth, was featured on the group's Grammy-winning debut album. More »

Rohan Chander (b. 1998, he/him) is a composer, pianist, tabla player, and producer based in New York City. His work often explores the interstitial space created through a convergence of the hyper personal and post digital, calling into question an understanding of social systems, identity politics, and intrapersonal relations. Highly dialectical, Rohan’s work addresses narrative through imposed circumstance and ideologically defined counterpoint, frequently resulting in audio-visual super structures i.e. video, choreography, lighting, etc. Through these mechanisms his work hopes to address the diaspora of listening experience and musical function. More »

Theo Baer (a.k.a iT Boy) is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer. His work is the result of a diverse musical upbringing and journey towards emotional healing as a Black and trans artist. These compositions illustrate an intimate and vulnerable narrative channeled through the manipulation of tape loops, synthesizers, keyboards, and other analog electronic voices. More »

Anya Yermakova is a composer, sound artist, and a historian/philosopher of logic. The aim of her sonic and textual creations is to enliven the non-binary constructs beneath//above the forceful binarism in the world today. Back in the day she was a classical pianist; recently she graduated from the departments of History of Science and of Critical Media Practice at Harvard. Presently she is the artist/scholar-in-residence with the Ocean Memory Project. More »

A Dine composer of chamber music, experimental sound, Native American flute, and metal music. Not only is Michael Begay an accomplished guitarist and bassist, but he also plays piano, and various instruments both Native American and orchestral. Michael is both a performer and educator; he has been a composition instructor in residency for the Grand Canyon Music Festival’s Native American Composers Apprentice Project (NACAP) for over eight years, and just finished his second residency with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra’s Composition Academy. Both programs help educate Native American high school students, in the art of music composition, followed by a world premiere of created works. Michael Begay’s musical style ranges between both aggressive, and sounds pleasing to the ear, he is both a seeker of tone and technique, and is always exploring musical limits. More »

Originally hailing from San Diego, California, Evan Caplinger is a New York City-based composer, performer, and piano technician. An avid pianist from an early age, he began composing organically while studying the piano, before moving on to more rigorous compositional training in high school, where he studied under Dr. Ben Sabey. He continued his studies as an undergrad at Columbia University, where he studied with Profs. George Lewis, Georg Haas and Zosha di Castri. His works have been performed by TAK Ensemble, Wet Ink, counter)induction, and the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, among others. He is also a regular participant in the Columbia Gagaku Ensemble. He currently works as a piano technician apprentice with Arolla Piano Co.

Eden Attar is a Master's student in musicology at Washington University in St. Louis, where she studies the musical educational project of Sesame Street and its intersections with anarchist education, distance learning, and virtual worlds. Attar leads the trio Meadowlarke with Ben Oye and Ari Freedman. More »

Ben simone is a Music Artist.

He is responsible for many folk songs you probably know, but uncredited. Born and raised Nowhere. those early memories of landscape, are an integral part of his work. oh and the yearning...

With his Flexible voice, and dysfunctional toys, he will deliver the gospel of plastic.

And just like Barbie, he had over a hundred careers. (Those can sometimes interlock. for example: when he is a pop star, he is also a spy.)

He is not afraid to switch roles when needed and very good in fixing things that break.

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Kalli Siamidou, originally from Thessaloniki, Greece, was born and raised in a musical environment. Music and dance were both very present in her life and that inspired her to pursue a career as a dance teacher and choreographer early in life. After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and Sports Science, she moved to New York, where she studied various dance forms, acting and singing at Peridance Capezio Dance Center. More »

Heath has been juggling many things their entire life. It took Heath awhile to figure out that they were mostly orbiting the “artist” moniker, because they fancied their self a mathematician, but even those two spaces aren’t so far apart. First, Heath wanted to be a roller coaster designer. Then, a composer of video game music. Then, a pit musician. Then, a musical theater writer. While all of their siblings generally chose a single instrument to study, Heath played cello, piano, oboe, saxophone, and guitar. More »

Rachael Smith (b. 1996) is an American composer from Brockport, NY. She has written a number of pieces ranging from works for solo instruments and chamber ensembles to musicals and operas. In addition to being a composer, Rachael is also a playwright and lyricist, having written the book and libretto for four musicals and two operas since 2013. She has worked with groups such as A/tonal, SHUFFLE, the SUNY Fredonia Department of Theatre and Dance, the University of Louisville Symphony Orchestra, and the Performing Arts Company at SUNY Fredonia, and her libretti have been performed at SUNY Fredonia, Bowling Green State University, and the NOW Festival at the Conservatory of Music at Baldwin Wallace.

Rachael received her BM in Music Composition at the State University of New York at Fredonia where she studied with Andrew Martin Smith and Rob Deemer, and received her MM in Music Composition at the University of Louisville where she studied with Steve Rouse and Krzysztof Wolek.  Currently Rachael is pursuing her DMA at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University with Du Yun. More »

Allison Simpkins is a freelance composer, pianist, and teacher dedicated to her mission of sharing her music with the world. In her twelve years of experience, she has traveled the US and Europe premiering her chamber music, solo works, and art songs. Her work can be described as earnest, bold, and, at times, political. She incorporates her identity into her music and hopes to use her platform to spread positive change in the world of classical music. Noteworthy works include her song cycle “Believe Me, Folks: Ten Songs for a Mad President” and her piece “Three Short Pieces for String Quartet,” which won her the International Music Festival of the Adriatic’s Duino Prize for composition. She has accepted commissions for solo performances, for film, and for dance. Her meticulous hand- engraved scores have been published in the literary magazine Kairos. She has collaborated with and has had readings done by the Spektral Quartet, the Julius Quartet, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and musicians from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as part of their online “Lunch Bachs” series.

Allison received her Bachelor’s degree in Composition at Southern Methodist University, where she studied under Dr. Xi Wang. During her undergraduate studies, Allison was also accepted to an exchange program at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam as well as the International Music Festival of the Adriatic, where she spent a total of 6 months and wrote and premiered 5 new works. She is continuing her education at the Peabody Institute of Music with two Master’s degrees in Music Theory Pedagogy and Composition in the studio of Dr. Oscar Bettison. More »

Douglas Hertz (b. 1993) is a composer, producer, percussionist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Hertz uses sound as a medium to investigate experiences ranging from the personal to universal and from the physical to the spiritual. Through his work, he seeks to connect with audiences in a way that helps them better understand themselves, one another, and the world they inhabit.

His work has appeared on programs presented by the GAIDA Festival (Lithuania), Midwest Composers Symposium, Nief Norf Summer Festival, the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, Periapsis Music and Dance, and the Deer Valley Music Festival and has been performed by ensembles such as Dal Niente, Wet Ink Ensemble , Da Capo Chamber Players , American Symphony Orchestra , University of Michigan Philharmonia Orchestra, Vanguard Reed Quintet , Up/Down Percussion Quartet , BrassTaps Duo , Portland Percussion Group , and Front Porch Ensemble , among others.

Hertz is an avid collaborator and constantly seeks ways of broadening the context of his work beyond the concert hall. Recent collaborations include 2-1, a piece for dance and solo piano created with choreographer Janice Rosario , Saeculum, a cantata/dance piece created in collaboration with choreographer Al Evangelista , and Household, an art/sound installation by Hertz and performance group, Call Your Mom. Hertz completed his undergraduate degree at Bard College and earned a masters degree in music composition from the University of Michigan. His past teachers have included Kristin Kuster, Evan Chambers, Bright Sheng, George Tsontakis, Joan Tower, Kyle Gann, and Janet Weir.

As a committed educator, Hertz teaches music theory and composition at the Thurnauer School of Music in Tenafly, NJ, is a Teaching Artist Associate in the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers Program, and is a faculty member at the Walden School Young Musicians Program in Dublin, NH.

Aliya Ultan (b. 1996) is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, composer, improviser, and filmmaker. Emerging from homelessness, Aliya’s creative means for survival have taken many forms. Classically trained as a cellist, composer, and improviser, Aliya has worked with the New York Philharmonic, Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey, and Douglas Ewart among others. Alongside Aliya’s endeavors as a composer-performer, she has worked as Program Director for Make Music Cleveland providing hundreds of instruments to displaced families across Ohio as well as free concerts in venues that are otherwise financially inaccessible. As a dancer, Aliya has taught in public schools across the states and abroad with an emphasis on interdisciplinary outcomes. Aliya is currently based in nyc regularly organizing site specific shows featuring improvisers, songwriters, bands, movers, and visual artists.

Florian Herzog, (1989) bassist and composer, is a pioneer of the German and international jazz and avant-garde scenes.

After living and working in the Netherlands, Cologne and finally New York, he now writes for projects that are avant-garde jazz, pop or electronic, but also always all of the above. His bass playing has been described by the press as "emancipated, spirited and sensitive."

His collective bands such as Just Another Foundry, Turn, and Trillmann have won multiple awards and released eight albums together. As a leader, Herzog's projects such as Moon Tree and his soon-to-be-released solo album are peppered with international collaborations. He has worked with established greats like Theo Bleckmann, Jim Black and Nils Wogram but also with newcomers like Anna Webber, Elias Stemeseder and Nick Dunston.

He is also active as a sideman in Germany and the U.S. and has curated the "Monday Meetings" series at Loft Cologne for over four years.

Elissar Hanna is a Canadian composer, singer, and dancer. Her works are inspired by a love of the natural world and by her studies in Sufism. Influenced by her background in opera, she blends dramatic narrative with rich harmonic shifts and textures. Current projects include: Dreams in Hand in collaboration with Canadian guitarist and luthier Emily Shaw; Mary, which tells the story of Saint Mary as narrated in Sufi writings; and Biophony.

Peter S. Shin 신세종 (b. 1991) is a composer whose music navigates issues of national belonging, the co-opting and intermingling of disparate musical vernaculars, and the liminality between the two halves of his second-generation Korean-U.S. American identity. The New York Times described him as “a composer to watch” and his music “entirely fresh and personal” following his premiere at Carnegie Hall.

The work of Amadeus Julian Regucera (b.1984) engages with the embodied and acoustical energy of sound and the erotics of its production through concert music, installation, performance art, and video. He has had the opportunity to present works around the world: notably, at the ManiFeste (Paris, FR), the Festival Musica (Strasbourg, FR), Voix Nouvelles (Asnières-sur-Oise, FR), the Resonant Bodies Festival and the SONiC Festival (New York City), the Havana Festival of Contemporary Music as part of the American Composers Forum artist delegation to Cuba, the Mizzou International Composers Festival, and the Hong Kong Modern Academy, among others. His music has been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble Linea, Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble Intercontemporain, EXAUDI vocal ensemble, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Splinter Reeds, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Eco Ensemble, Duo Cortona, Third Sound, and the University of California, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. In addition to concert music, his practice intersects with visual and performance art, most notably in RIGOR, a collaboration between visual artist Nicolás Rupcich and commissioned by violinist Jessica Ling (June 2021); Absence in relief (April 2021) an audio-visual installation commissioned by InterMusicSF and Indexical for the Radius Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, California; IMY/ILY (2018-19) – a monodrama for solo percussionist, commissioned by Andy Meyerson (The Living Earth Show); The trauma you keep safe is the pain your pass along (2018) for flutist, performer, and video; and the installation/performance Communication (2013), at the Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten in Graz, Austria. Amadeus holds degrees in Music from the University of California, San Diego (B.A. 2006) and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 2016) where he lectures in the Department of Music.

Nnux is a composer, producer and keyboard player from Mexico City. Her music is based on the digital processing of found sounds, voices, instruments, electronic beats and synthesizers. Influenced by pop, experimental and electronic music, Nnux creates music that aims to be emotional and vulnerable while being experimental and imaginative.

Mexican musician and voice performer. Intermedia artist and voice teacher trained

in the Roy Hart tradition. Master of Sound Arts (Queen’s University Belfast) and current PhD candidate in the Arts program at the INBA.

Sarmen uses the voice and its relationship with new technologies to create compositions and decomposition of the personality on stage. She’s constantly chasing a quest of the infinite vocal possibilities that the human body utters as instrument as well as the reflection of these sounds in physical and imaginary spaces. Almond makes use of resources of free improvisation, extended vocal techniques, programming and body work.-

She has performed as composer and vocalist in Mexico, Aberdeen, London, Belfast, France, Seville, Edinburgh, Prague, Manchester, Falmouth, Sheffield, The Hague, Utrecht, York, Barcelona, Singapore, Canada, among others.

Mexican composer, sound designer and double bassist Arturo Capur writes music for double bass and electronics as well as chamber music. his music has been played at the Biblioteca Vasconcelos, New Music Forum (Mexico City), DePaul University (Chicago) and has participated in workshops with ensembles and performers such as Mexico City Woodwind Quintet, Wapiti Ensemble, and Irvine Arditti. he has scored several short films and the feature film "La Danza de las Fieras" and is currently arranger, co-producer and sound designer at music and post-production studio "Grizzly Independiente" in Mexico City. since 2019, experimental electronics and expanding the possibilities of the double bass have become his main interests. his first album, the soundtrack from documentary 'raíces' will be released on late 2021 and he is currently working on various pieces which include a piano trio, a double bass octet and an album for double bass and electronics. he holds a composition degree from the University of West London and is currently pursuing a masters degree. among his professors are José Julio Díaz Infante, María Antonieta Lozano, Esteban and Enrico Chapela.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Raquel Acevedo Klein is an active vocalist, conductor, instrumentalist and visual artist. Raquel has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Town Hall, BAM, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Celebrate Brooklyn!, National Sawdust and elsewhere.

She has recorded and performed with the likes of Glen Hansard, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, The National, Grizzly Bear, Caroline Shaw, Angélica Negrón, Cory Smythe, NY Philharmonic, International Contemporary Ensemble and Mariinsky Orchestra among others.

She has premiered works by Paola Prestini, Philip Glass, John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, Missy Mazzoli, and Shara Nova, to name a few. She conducts for the Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

Elijah J. Thomas (he/him/his, M.M. Music Education, B.M. Jazz Arranging/Composition) is a Black Philadelphia-born and Harlem-based multi-instrumentalist, educator and composer/experimentalist. Elijah has studied woodwind performance/improvisation with musicians Dick Oatts, Tim Warfield, Jr., Walter Bell, and Dr. Cynthia Folio, as well as composition/orchestration with Kevin Rodgers, Dr. Cynthia Folio, Dr. Maurice Wright and Dr. Norman David. As an educator Elijah has held numerous teaching positions across Philadelphia and New York City with Temple University Music Prep; Settlement Music School; Tune Up Philly (of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra); Education Through Music, Inc; and BASIS Independent Schools. He is an avid composer and experimentalist and creates and outputs what he calls “enuff music”: music intent on Black healing, spiritual awareness, and community. As a recording artist, Elijah has two solo releases enuff music, vol. i (published with Off Latch Press) and Our Search available for free listening on Bandcamp, a solo EP entitled Three Contemplations for Jason Moran (Bandcamp), as well as two full-length projects Diversity and The Unity of Sound released with his former group The NeW Quintet (available at all online retailers).

Bandcamp: https://elijahjthomas.bandcamp.com/

beijing-birthed, toronto-dwelling vocalist-composer mingjia (MING-jee-ya) writes music that’s equal parts fantastical & relatable, & performs it with courage & honesty. aside from making mischief with her chamber ensemble tortoise orchestra, she has performed with & composed for GRAMMY-award-winning artists roomful of teeth and andrew yee, as well as matt mitchell, james fernando, uoou, the science of what ?, david occhipinti, juliet palmer, christine duncan, GREX, pleasure craft, pomes, emily steinwall, anna, & more. she has performed at various venues and festivals across canada, china & the US, & has produced 5 releases as a band leader. her EP feel seen, is described by the wholenote as “beautiful, mature and exceptionally coherent”. i care if you listen describes mingjia as “(having) strong command of timbral combinations” and “one to watch”. she enjoys drawing, dancing & watching the nickelodeon smash hit series avatar: the last airbender. since the pandemic began mingjia has been taking lots of socially distanced walks & learning to play the guitar.

Photo Credit: meg moon

Born in Vancouver, Nebyu began playing guitar and drums in church, eventually moving to the trombone in the seventh grade and pursuing through to post-secondary, where he moved to Toronto to study music at Humber College. From being exposed to Motown, rock, and traditional Ethiopian music as a young boy, to discovering jazz, R&B, and classical as a student and music-lover, Nebyu has digested a diverse artistic palette from which to draw when creating. In June of 2016, Nebyu released his first professional work entitled "Nebyu Yohannes EP," a work dedicated to three original contemporary jazz compositions. Following the release, new pieces began to emerge, showcasing Nebyu's diverse artistry, such as the release of the original classical piece "Heaven on Earth" in 2017, and two songs under his solo artist moniker "neb." titled "Danger" (2019) and "All These Years" (2021). In April 2021, Nebyu released his self-produced, debut EP "Silhouette Of Yesteryear", a project that rings of nostalgia baring his most vulnerable moments over the course of 2020.

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mara nesrallah is a vocalist, pianist, composer, producer and educator, living in Tkaronto (aka Toronto). her pursuits towards a “music career” feel at times dichotomous, but ultimately writing and performing is her greatest tool to ground herself (and hopefully others) in the sensory world, making the intangible, tangible. most of the time, mara can be found working alongside decoration day and anna, but shares musical space with numerous creative projects, including mara & the marigold, The Queer Songbook Orchestra, GREX, We Are All, The Band Named Crow, The Harmony Collaboration, ms. lomax, and Christine Duncan's The Element Choir, to name a few. mara spends the majority of her time with her "could-be-the-animal-sidekick-in-a-Miyazaki-movie" cats Nina and Dizzy, who play essential roles in her and her partner’s family band anna, like meowing constantly while they try to record vocals in their apartment, or more graciously, sitting by her on the couch while she cries trying to write about vulnerable things. she’s an accomplished home cook, an 8th floor balcony garden keeper, and hopes that this is the year she’ll finish the album she’s been working on for the past three.

Jeffrey Paul, principal oboist with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, grew up primarily in Southern California. He was an aspiring concert pianist by the age of ten and was awarded opportunities to perform piano concerti with the Conejo Youth Symphony and the Pepperdine University orchestra during his middle and high school years, under the tutelage of Edward Francis. His involvement as an actor/singer in community theater productions through his youth expanded his interests and since then he has become well- versed in composition, jazz/rock, improvisation, and ethnic folk musics. Jeff attended the Eastman School of Music (BM with performer’s certificate, 1999) and the University of Southern California (MM, 2003) for oboe performance. His primary teachers included Richard Killmer, David Weiss, and Allan Vogel. He has performed as an oboe soloist with the New West Symphony, Heidelberg Castle Festival Orchestra, Conejo Concerto Orchestra and the South Dakota Symphony.

Theodore Wiprud composes music for orchestras, ensembles, and voice. He was Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the South Dakota Symphony in 2018-19, following 13 years as Vice President for Education at the New York Philharmonic.

Among recent orchestral works, his Wind of Many Voices (2018) responds to the landscapes, people, and history of South Dakota. His Sinfonietta (2016), inspired by the Persian poet Hafez, was commissioned and premiered by the South Dakota and West Virginia Symphonies. His Violin Concerto (Katrina) (2014), reflecting on the hurricane’s impact on the musical cultures of the Mississippi Delta, was recorded by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and dedicatee Ittai Shapira on Champs Hill Records.

A Brooklyn-born, Black and Caribbean womxn who has found her heart in Harlem, having also lived in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires. Pacific is an empathic cultural sector leader who is deeply committed to driving positive change by supporting the people and places working to make our communities more inclusive, equitable, and enjoyable. She currently serves as a Program Officer, Cultural Investments for Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (UMEZ), a member of the second cohort of Sphinx LEAD, and an adjunct professor in Drexel University’s Master of Arts Administration and Museum Leadership program, her alma mater.

Being an artist-creator is the foundation of her origin story - Pacific is a trained soprano (B.M. Music History & Classical Voice, Temple University)  with varied international performance experience as a soloist and member of several prolific ensembles including the Grammy-award winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus and the Philly Pops Festival Chorus. She’s performed on stages including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Town Hall, BAM, and has recorded and performed with artists including Barbra Streisand, Harry Connick Jr.,  Elton John, Grizzly Bear, The New York Philharmonic, John Legend, among others. She has premiered works by composers including Nico Muhly and Philip Glass and has performed under the baton of conductors including Lorin Maazel and Marin Alsop. All this while collaborating with her lesser-known though no less brilliant friends and colleagues on a myriad of artistic projects. Her greatest pursuit is for opportunities to create, commune with others, and live a more creative life.

Mary Prescott is a Thai-American interdisciplinary artist, composer and pianist who explores the foundations and facets of identity and social conditions through experiential performance. She aims to foster understanding and create pathways for change by voicing emotional and human truths through artistic investigation and dissemination.

Prescott’s output includes several large-scale interdisciplinary works, opera, improvised music, sound journaling, film music, solo and chamber concert works.

Prescott is an awardee of the National Performance Network Creation and Development Fund supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts; a National Performance Network Documentation and Storytelling Grant; a New Music USA Project Grant; an American Composers Forum Create Commission supported by the Jerome Foundation; The American Opera Project Composers and the Voice Fellowship; an Opera America New Works Forum Grant; and several state and regional awards. She has been commissioned by Roulette Intermedium, Living Arts of Tulsa, White Snake Projects, Public Functionary, Piano Teachers Congress of NY, Shepherdess Duo, and Duo Harmonia. She has held artist residencies with Roulette Intermedium, Lanesboro Arts, Hudson Hall, Areté Venue and Gallery, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, The League of Independent Theater, and Arts Letters and Numbers.

The creative output of Anthony R. Green (composer, performer, social justice; he/him/his, b. 1984) includes musical and visual creations, interpretations of original, contemporary, and repertoire works, collaborations, educational outreach, and more. Behind all his artistic endeavors are the ideals of equality and freedom. His compositions and projects have been presented in 25+ countries by various internationally acclaimed soloists and ensembles. He has performed as a pianist, experimental vocalist, movement artist, improvisor, and performance artist in over 10 countries across 4 continents. Green’s most important social justice work has been with Castle of our Skins: celebrating Black Artistry through Music. Green was born on Nacotchtank land (Arlington, VA) and raised on Narragansett and Pauquunaukit land (Providence, RI). He is currently a citizen of the world who will never stop seeking knowledge.

Stylistic polyglot deVon Russell Gray’s compositions evoke soulful meditations, the envelopment of anxiety in a nurturing sonic cocoon. The new music performer and mood scholar channels celestial fascination manifested in aural familiarity. dVRG intuits through clairaudience a direct connection to our collective musical legacy, as guided by Bach, Ravel, Mingus, Threadgill, and Mumford.

An inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2019-2021)

Recently he was composer-in-residence with Schubert Club of Minnesota (2019-2021)

Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy for Musicians Fellow (2018)

McKnight Composer Fellow (2017)

Millie Fleming (b. 2004) is a 17-year-old pianist and aspiring composer from coastal Maine. She’s still new to writing music, but she thinks creating soundscapes is one of the most amazing things a musician can do. This project is her first time writing for open instrumentation.

Graham Lazorchak (b. 2002) is a composer and improviser based in Arlington, VA. His primary mentors have included Elizabeth Ogonek and Daniel Felsenfeld. Graham is currently pursuing a BM in composition from Oberlin Conservatory.

Yuri Lee (b. 2004) is a composer and violinist from New York. She currently studies composition with Dr. Manuel Sosa at the Juilliard Pre-College program and aspires to be a film composer to bring joy to others.

Sabrina Lu (b. 2005) is a composer and pianist from the New Jersey/New York area. She is a Next Generation Artist of the New York City Omega Ensemble and regularly attends the Walden School’s Young Musicians Program.

Aadit Shrivastava (b. 2008) is from Short Hills, NJ. He is a pianist, violist, and composer.

Noah Dokko Stein (b. 2003) is an avid composer and violinist who lives in Guilford, CT. He likes listening to video game music, classical music, and Jacob Collier. This fall he will begin studying at Yale University as an undergraduate, where he plans to study composition.

Lau Noah (1994) is a Catalan self- taught composer, multi- instrumentalist and artist based in New York City.

Noah has been praised by distinguished musicians for the astounding counterpoint work in her music.

Noah performed a Tiny Desk Concert in February 2019 making her the first Catalan to ever perform in the prestigious series.

Noah has worked in TV projects as a musician for Warner Bros (Little Voice, Apple TV) and has scored numerous award-winning films.

Her unique approach to music composition has made her a sought after act for workshops and master-classes for several music conservatories and universities all over the world.

Noah was chosen to represent RETROFRET GUITARS and D ́ANGELICO GUITARS in NYC to introduce their new instrument lines.

Noah has worked with renowned producer Blake Mills (Fiona Apple, John Legend, Alabama Shakes) and performed with Jacob Collier in NYC at the legendary BLUE NOTE JAZZ CLUB in June 2021.

Lau Noah was named “ musical discovery of the year” in 2019 by Eurovision ́s winner Salvador Sobral.

Noah has toured in many venues and festivals internationally (Clonakilty International Guitar Festival Ireland – KLAENG Jazz Festival Germany – Mediterranean Jazz Festival NY – Djazzy Jazz Club MOROCCO. – Brooklyn Bowl, BROOKLYN, NY – Blue Note, NYC) and is to self release her first work in July 2021.

Billboard Magazine:

“Lau Noah is enchanting music lovers one song at a time”

Andrew Harlan (b. 1995) is a composer, bassist, improviser, and sound designer, based in Berkeley, California. His music exists at the intersections of long-form ambient music, experimental club music, dystopian sound design, chamber music, and electroacoustic improvisation.

Current and previous collaborations include – Berrow Duo, Hallie Smith, Laura Bibbs, Sound Icon, loadbang, Metropolis Ensemble, [Switch~ Ensemble], Radical 2, Eco Ensemble, line upon line percussion, and The Wet Ink Ensemble. He has been awarded first prize in the loadbang Commissioning Competition, the Boston Conservatory Sinfonietta Composition Competition, and was selected as a finalist for the BMI student composer awards.

He has previously studied composition with Marti Epstein, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, and Franck Bedrossian. Currently, he is pursuing an M.A./Ph.D. at UC Berkeley where he studies with Edmund Campion, Carmine Cella, Cindy Cox, Myra Melford, and Ken Ueno. He has also studied performance and improvisation with Stephan Crump, Myra Melford, and Linda May Han Oh.

Composer/Singer MARISA MICHELSON is a multi-award winning writer of interdisciplinary music-theatre, choral work, and musicals, and is the founder of Constellation Chor | An Immersion in Voice, Movement and Spirit - a vocal performance ensemble whose “sonic expressions, from ethereal sounds to primal screams, animalistic wails and simply breath” have been likened to “vocal innovators like Kate Bush, Bjork, Florence Welch and even Yoko Ono.” (StageBiz). In residence at the historic Judson Memorial Church and Spectrum (BK), the Chor engages at the intersection of voice, movement, healing, and music-theatre. Researching the interaction of mind/body/spirit practices with virtuosic singing, the Chor also explores performer as truth-seeker/shaman, and the performance as an invitation to enter into an intimate relationship with the moment and each other. Marisa Michelson and Constellation Chor performed as the “moving voices” in a commission by Ashley Fure for the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center in 2019. In March, they performed at The Kitchen, premiering a new Sarah Hennies commission for Claire Chase, and they were recently called “visceral” and “committed” by the New Yorker, and “astringently captivating” by the New York Times.

Alessandro is a composer, musical sound designer and music editor based in London, working in Film, Tv and Advertising.

He worked on a number of projects ranging from short films to advertisements, animations and documentaries that have been broadcasted by the BBC, ITV, Netflix, Sky, the Italian national television, and shown in countless festivals around the world.

He graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2015 with a master’s degree in Composition for Screen.

Harvey Burgett’s music has been heard widely in Boston and New York, and occasionally throughout the United States and in Europe. He specializes in organ and liturgical music, but has a significant body of secular instrumental and vocal music. Biophony marks his Metropolis Ensemble debut.

Pianist and composer Robert Fleitz performs, commissions, and writes music to curate evocative, surprising, and often multi-disciplinary experiences for audiences. Active in performing contemporary and classical repertoire, he has been praised for “mesmerizing” and “commanding” playing (The New York Times), and for musicality with “a delightful ease and lightness” (I Care If You Listen) and “groovy tendencies”, and is the winner of the 2021 Pro Musicis International Award. As composer, Robert’s oeurve has been recently performed or commissioned by a varied array of artists, including the Metropolis Ensemble (NYC), Jumblies Theatre Company (Toronto), Orkest de Ereprijs (Netherlands), the Druskomanija Festival (Lithuania), Festival Osmose (Belgium), and Hilary Easton Dance Company (NYC). His work often deals with the spiritual ambiguity of technology, performed vulnerability, and the remnants and ruins of sound. He is the founder of the Swan City Piano Festival in Lakeland, Florida, his hometown. He completed BM and MM degrees at The Juilliard School and is based in Rīga, Latvia and in New York City, where he lives with his husband, the composer Krists Auznieks.

Argentinean-born and Harlem-based composer Laura Andel has been described as someone who “seeks to expand our sense of time, form and perception through sound” by Evening Music (WNYC Radio). Andel’s paths have taken her to compose music from small to large orchestras, and for instruments such as Javanese Gongs, Argentinean Bandoneon, Brazilian Berimbau, Russian Theremin, Ecuadorian Dulzainas, and Mochican Seashell-shaped Ceramic Trumpet. Most recently, she enjoys working with both acoustic and electroacoustic sound, and making drawings of music compositions and sonic representations.

Laura Andel has received awards for her music from the Rockefeller Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, American Music Center, New York State Music Fund, Edward T. Cone Foundation, BMI Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Urban Artist Initiative/NYC, the Senate for Culture of the City of Berlin, and the Argentina Music Council. She has also released several albums including Somnambulist, In::Tension:., Doble Mano, and Khartes.

Laura Andel holds a Master in Musical Creation, New Technologies, and Traditional Arts from Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina), a Bachelor of Music in Film Scoring & Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music (USA), and a Bachelor of Music in Tango & Jazz Performance from Escuela de Musica Popular de Avellaneda (Argentina). She is currently a professor at CUNY, and a New York Philharmonic Teaching Artist for their Very Young Composers program.

“A vibraphonist to watch out for…” mentioned the New York City Jazz Record. Mexican born vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer Patricia Brennan “has recently started to make her presence known on the New York avant-garde, working with such prominent bandleaders as Matt Mitchell and Michael Formanek.” observed The New York Times. Patricia is a member of Grammy nominated John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble and Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus. She is also a member of Phalanx Ambassadors - a project led by pianist Matt Mitchell, the Webber/Morris Big Band, and Tomas Fujiwara’s 7 Poets Trio along with cellist and composer Tomeka Reid. She has also collaborated with pianist Vijay Iyer as a member of Blind Spot with writer Teju Cole, along with bassist Linda Oh. Other projects led by Iyer that Brennan has performed include his large ensemble project Open City and several small ensemble performances along with renowned musicians like bassist Reggie Workman and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Among Patricia’s own projects include the newly recorded solo project MAQUISHTI and MOCH - a collaborative duo with percussionist, drummer and turntablist Noel Brennan (DJ Arktureye) plus special guests. Patricia has appeared on several recordings, including an ECM recording with Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus called “The Distance” and Matt Mitchell's "A Pouting Grimace” and “Phalanx Ambassadors” under Pi Recordings. Also, Patricia recorded a new record with the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble called "All Can Work" under New Amsterdam Records which was nominated for a Grammy in 2019. Patricia released her debut single “Sonnet” under Valley of Search, and released her solo debut album “Maquishti” in January 2021 also under the label Valley of Search. Patricia Brennan is a Valley of Search artist, BlueHaus Mallets artist and currently teaches at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and at the Jazz Studies program at NYU Steinhardt.

Henry Mermer (b. 1999) is a drummer, improviser, and composer of instrumental and electronic music currently based in Ridgewood, Queens.

As a collaborator and improviser, he has performed at venues including The Jazz Gallery, The Blue Note, happylucky no. 1 (The Stone Series), Spectrum NYC, Public Records, and The Bar Next Door.

Henry holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.F.A. in Jazz and Contemporary Music from The New School, where he studied with Andrew Cyrille, Jane Ira Bloom, Reggie Workman, Matt Wilson, Mary Halvorson, and Eric Wubbels.

Jakub Ciupinski ('yacoob chioopinsky') is Polish composer living in New York City. Although his music is often associated with electronics and interactive performances, he has written numerous pieces for traditional acoustic forces, varying in scope from solo miniatures to an hour long Oratorio for symphony orchestra and double choir. At the age of 18, he signed a contract with Sony Music Poland and since then has been recording electronica-infused world music under the stage name Jakub Żak. His concert music has been commissioned and performed by various institutions and ensembles including Birmingham Royal Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Silicon Valley Ballet, Metropolis Ensemble, The New York City Ballet's Choreographic Institute, Spokane Symphony, Stamford Symphony, Sinfonietta Cracovia, The New Juilliard Ensemble, Sybarite5, as well as the world-famous violinists Anne Akiko-Meyers, Philippe Quint and Kristin Lee. His works have been performed around the world, including prestigious venues such as Tonhalle in Zurich and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York. Ciupinski is a co-founder of Blind Ear Music, New York based group of composers and instrumentalists performing improvised, real-time compositions, using wirelessly connected laptops as musical score displays. He has also designed his own instrument for performing electronic music using hand gestures. He has collaborated with a variety of artists, musicians, choreographers and film directors, including Oscar winning director Andrzej Wajda, and scored the music for United Nations documentary “Opening Doors”. He is also a fellow of the Sundance Institute Episodic Story Lab 2016. Ciupinski studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse at The Juilliard School, Zbigniew Bujarski and Krzysztof Penderecki at the Cracow Academy of Music, and with Edwin Roxbrough and Joe Cutler at the Birmingham Conservatoire. Since 2013 he has been teaching at Purchase College, State University of New York where he served as head of Studio Composition program as well as artistic director of Purchase Orchestra Electric, an innovative multimedia project combining live orchestra with electronics, lights and and video projection mapping.

Alec Goldfarb is a Brooklyn based composer, guitarist, and Hindustani classical musician. He performs in diverse settings across the East Coast, and as a teacher coaches fundamentals that translate to novel musical situations.