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Gulli Björnsson
Gulli Bjornsson is an Icelandic guitarist, composer, and programmer whose work combines electronics, acoustic instruments, and visual media into immersive experiences inspired by nature. His music has been described as “hypnotic” (News Gazette), “a knockout—wondrously inventive” (Soundboard Magazine), and “virtuosic, modern, occasionally discordant, but still accessible” (Classical Guitar Magazine). Gulli holds a PhD in music composition from Princeton University, and degrees in guitar performance from the Manhattan School of Music and Yale School of Music. He is currently Assistant Teaching Professor of Composition at Bowling Green State University having previously taught electronic composition at the University of Kansas. Gulli is an Augustine Artist, and performs exclusively on Augustine Strings.
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Sophie Cash
Sophie Cash is a violinist and composer from West Virginia. Her current interests include electronics, sound design and soundtracks, noise, improvisation in various genres, and Americana. She has written and produced electroacoustic songs featuring her own vocals and lyrics, and she has made multimedia work with archival footage. Sophie attended Colburn Conservatory of Music for violin performance and University of Michigan and Yale School of Music for composition studies. Past artist residencies have included MacDowell, Yaddo, and Ucross.
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Layale Chaker
Composer and violinist Layale Chaker was raised on the verge of multiple musical streams in her native Lebanon. Her complex sound universe, described by NPR as “beguiling” with “bright and beautiful strands… gorgeous, wine-dark swirls,” lies at the intersection of classical contemporary music, jazz, Arabic music, and improvisation. Her practice is committed to art as both sanctuary and crossroads—a place where ancestral narratives meet contemporary voices in a continuous reimagination of the world we inherit, live in and bequeath. A 2026 USA Artist Fellow, and 2020 – 2022 Jerome Hill Fellow, Chaker is also recipient of the 2022 Opera America Discovery 2022 Award, among many other accolades. Chaker has recently premiered a commissioned evening-length work, Qarar / Jawab at the Venice Biennale, and the world premiere of her double concerto, Dawning, alongside Kinan Azmeh, for clarinet, violin and orchestra, co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival and Lincoln Symphony Orchestra. She also recently premiered Song of Many Shores, a new commission for the Silkroad Ensemble. Ruinous Gods, Chaker’s debut full-length chamber opera in collaboration with librettist Lisa Schlesinger, saw its world premiere at the 2024 Spoleto Festival, followed by its European premiere at Wuppertal Opera in the fall of 2024. Ruinous Gods uses elements from myths and fairy tales to create a 21st-century fantasia exploring how mass displacement triggers profound psychological trauma among its youngest sufferers. 2024 also marked the release of a new double portrait album on In a Circle Records, one disc featuring Chaker’s classical works performed by the ETHEL Quartet, and the other a complementary portrait with Chaker’s chamber jazz quintet, Sarafand. Chaker also recently completed a year-long residency at WQXR and premiered a new work for violin and choir at Morgenland Festival Osnabruck in Germany with the choral ensemble Capella Amsterdam. She has worked with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Ziad Rahbani, Johnny Gandelsman, Holland Baroque, Oxford Orchestra, New World Symphony, London Jazz Festival, Alderburgh Festival, Junger Kunstler Festival Bayreuth, Lucerne Festival, Beethoven Festival Bonn, and Avignon Festival among others, with featured performances at the Berlin Philharmonic, Abbaye de Royaumont, Hancher, The Stone, National Sawdust, Royal Albert Hall, and Wigmore Hall. Chaker’s debut album Inner Rhyme (In a Circle Records, 2019) was named “Top of The World” by Songlines, ranked #1 on NPR’s 10 Best Releases, lived at #1 for several weeks on Amazon Music, and received rave reviews by The New York Times, BBC Music Magazine, Strings Magazine, Jazz World and many others. Composed between Beirut, Paris, and London from 2016 – 2018 and recorded in New York over the summer of 2018, the album unveils musical threads that are mapped through the rhythmical cycles of the twelve classical Arabic poetic meters, the fluidity of oral and free forms, the abstraction of language into the physical contour of verses and the percussive potential of words. Chaker started her musical training at the National Higher Conservatory of Beirut in her native country, before pursuing higher degrees at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Royal Academy of Music in London. She is a Laureate of the 2019 Concours International Nadia et Lili Boulanger; finalist of the 2018 Rolex Mentor & Protege Prize; winner of the 2017 Ruth Anderson Competition; and recipient of the 2019 and 2025 Diaphonique Franco-British Commission Prize, the 2018 Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Grant and the 2018 Royal Academy of Music Guinness Award. She is currently working on her second opera, Enheduanna, inspired by history’s first named author, a Mesopotamian poetess and priestess of the goddess Inanna, with a premiere planned for 2027.
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Ellie Cherry
Ellie Cherry is a composer whose work is a surreal amalgam of acoustic and electronic elements that explores the nebulous spaces between reality and perception. Fascinated with the microscopic subtleties of natural phenomena, her artistic practice incorporates found sound and improvisation, embracing the duality of acceptance and control, questioning notions of ownership and exactness in how we create and experience sound. As a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, she is working with field recordings and audio archives, particularly focusing on sounds and soundscapes that no longer exist or are steadily disappearing. By creatively integrating these into her compositions, she examines how concrete audio documents might fuse with abstract musical material to form or evoke emotional connections to real and imagined places.
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Alistair Coleman
Praised for “rhythmically-pulsing and mysteriously, majestically-gliding writing” (Gramophone Magazine), and “a capricious and organic musical energy,” (I Care if You Listen), composer Alistair Coleman is guided by collaborations with today’s leading artists and ensembles. As Composer-in-Residence of Young Concert Artists, his music has premiered at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, and on tours in Europe and Asia. Dedicated to interdisciplinary exploration, his string quartet Moonshot was developed in collaboration with Glenstone Museum and the Smithsonian. The 2025 – 2026 season features commissions for Opera Philadelphia, cellist Zlatomir Fung at the Park Avenue Armory, pianist George Li with the Kansas City Symphony, Juilliard’s Pride Songbook, and the Clarion Choir & Orchestra. His music also appears on the Viano Quartet’s debut album Voyager, released on the Platoon / Apple Music Classical label. Recent highlights include performances by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony, and National Philharmonic; a work for Philharmonische Gesellschaft Bremen’s bicentennial; and performances with Chamber Music Northwest and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has received three ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, as well as prizes from Juilliard, the American Composers Forum, and NPR. Alistair has served on the Curtis Institute Musical Studies Faculty and teaches at Hidden Valley’s Emerging Composers Intensive. A graduate of Curtis and Juilliard, he began PhD studies at Princeton University in fall 2025 and holds the Roger Sessions Fellowship.
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Francisco del Pino
Francisco del Pino is a Buenos Aires-born composer and guitarist with an affinity for music that is meticulous, expressive, and patient. Drawing influence from both classical and vernacular traditions, his work revolves around process and pattern and is usually characterized by an extensive use of counterpoint. Francisco’s debut album Decir, a song cycle on texts by Argentinian poet Victoria Cóccaro, was released on New Amsterdam Records in 2021. His music has been described as of “sheer beauty” (Bandcamp Daily), “lucid, entrancing” (I CARE IF YOU LISTEN), and “ethereal, yet heavy, distinguished, yet humble—and always beautiful” (Classical Post). Francisco is a PhD candidate in the Music Department and a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities.
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Gladstone Deluxe
Gladstone Deluxe is a New York–based artist working with percussion and electronics. As a percussionist, Gladstone is interested in how conceptions and politics of time are embodied, and can bleed into the social topography of a culture through rhythmic performance. As a technologist, he develops systems for the augmentation and amplification of percussive messages. His experimental approach towards composition and interface design is a collision of the spiritual and the cybernetic. Gladstone has recently released music with Fixed Rhythms, Subsonic Ebonics, Black Techno Matters, and is/was. Films that Gladstone scored have been shown at the British Film Institute, a STARZ television premiere, the Hawai’i International Film Festival, and more. Gladstone has recently appeared in galleries like The Warhol Museum, Rubin Foundation, Fridman Gallery, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and clubs all over the country. The past couple years have held collaborations with Moog Synthesizers, Sō Percussion, Attacca Quartet, Marcos Balter, Maria Chávez, Ikue Mori, and more. Gladstone also keeps busy as the timbales player for Las Mariquitas, which was recently featured in Rolling Stone. Gladstone holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Columbia University, and is a PhD candidate at Princeton University.
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Kennedy Taylor Dixon
Kennedy Taylor Dixon is a composer, violist, vocalist, and improviser whose work explores repetition, intimacy, and the physicality of sound. Her practice moves fluidly between composed and improvised music, often blurring the boundaries between acoustic performance, extended technique, voice, and electronic processing. As both a composer and performer, Dixon is interested in sound as a space for experimentation, vulnerability, and spontaneous discovery. Dixon’s work has been presented in a variety of contexts, from new music festivals and concert halls to collaborations with dancers and improvisers. She made her Kennedy Center debut in 2024 as part of Sounds of Us: An Immersive New Music Festival, hosted by violinist Jennifer Koh. She has been commissioned by organizations such as Young Dancemakers Company, Castle of our Skins, Legacy Arts International, Tetractys New Music, Westminster University, and the Kalamazoo Area Music Teachers Association. She has also worked with contemporary ensembles including Alarm Will Sound, Attacca Quartet, JACK Quartet, ~Nois, SputterBox, and Ekmeles, and has participated in the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival twice, first as a Performance Fellow and later as a Composition Fellow. As a performer, Dixon made her Lincoln Center debut in June 2026, performing with Second Ending Ensemble in Alice Tully Hall on a program featuring a premiere by Princeton cohort-mate Bobby Ge. She is a founding member of and&also, a duo with violinist, composer, and friend Aliayta Foon-Dancoes focused on improvisation and collaboration. The duo has performed at Unruly Sounds in Princeton for three consecutive years. Prior to moving east, Dixon served as Assistant Principal Violist of the Holland Symphony Orchestra in southwest Michigan for four seasons. Dixon is a PhD candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University and a President’s Fellow, where she works closely with Professor Nathalie Joachim. She holds a MFA and MA in Music from Princeton and Western Michigan University, respectively, and a BM in Viola Performance and Music Composition from Western Michigan University, where she studied viola with Igor Fedotov and composition with Dr Lisa R. Coons.
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Aaron Edgcomb
Aaron Edgcomb is a composer, percussionist, and multi-disciplinary artist from Reno, NV, whose work appears in such contexts as improvisational music, jazz, “new music,” noise, and song. Aaron has performed in and composed for many ensembles including: the avant-rock band CLAK; the improvising chamber ensemble Tropos; and REA, their solo percussion and electronics project, where they explore visual art via audio reactive visual manipulation. They are interested in the ways music is explicitly or implicitly political and social: the clarity of a lyric, the context of a reference, the impact of a life lived in community in devotion to art. They have presented work around the world at places and events including MoMA PS1, Roulette, moers festival, Big Ears, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and the Jazz em Agosto festival in Lisbon; not to mention the countless and invaluable living rooms, garages, basements, and DIY venues that are the stewards of creative music.
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Tyler Eschendal
Tyler Eschendal is a composer, percussionist, and videographer based in Princeton, NJ. Speech, stuttering, and (dis)fluency are topics at the core of his work, which is often explored through short film and live theater. As a composer, Tyler's music has been performed at institutions across the US and abroad, showcased at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, American Composers Orchestra, Andriessen Festival, Young Composers Meeting (NL), Blackbird Creative Lab, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. He has worked with such ensembles as Sō Percussion, ymusic, Shattered Glass, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, orkest de ereprijs, and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet. As a multidisciplinary artist, Tyler has held residencies at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Loghaven Artist Residency. His work has been showcased by The Stuttering Foundation, Experimental Film Forum, Eyrie Festival, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, among others. Tyler holds degrees in music composition from the University of Cincinnati (BM) and the University of Southern California (MM).Tyler Eschendal is a composer, percussionist, and videographer based in Princeton, NJ. Speech, stuttering, and (dis)fluency are topics at the core of his work, which is often explored through short film and live theater. As a composer, Tyler's music has been performed at institutions across the US and abroad, showcased at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, American Composers Orchestra, Andriessen Festival, Young Composers Meeting (NL), Blackbird Creative Lab, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. He has worked with such ensembles as Sō Percussion, ymusic, Shattered Glass, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, orkest de ereprijs, and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet. As a multidisciplinary artist, Tyler has held residencies at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Loghaven Artist Residency. His work has been showcased by The Stuttering Foundation, Experimental Film Forum, Eyrie Festival, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, among others. Tyler holds degrees in music composition from the University of Cincinnati (BM) and the University of Southern California (MM).
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Aliayta Foon-Dancoes
Aliayta Foon-Dancoes is a New York–based, Vancouver-born composer and violinist who grew up in a red house on the east side. She has made work for concert halls, festivals, galleries, homes, close friends, and the internet. Aliayta is best described as a court jester,* residing at the intersection between disciplines where confrontations, roundabouts, and accidents occur. Her work obsessively fixates on the collision of daily joy and the simultaneous erosion of faith in tomorrow, explored through satire, despair, willful ignorance, desire, and hysteria. Recently Aliayta has been making cubes—paper cubes, 3D model cubes, and 125 cubes that together made a singular omnicube. Sometimes she sees cubes when they aren’t there.
* The court jester historically was more than a comedian and entertainer, using humour as a form of critique: lampooning authority, and mocking the king.
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Bobby Ge
Bobby Ge is a Chinese-American composer and avid collaborator who seeks to create vivid emotional journeys that navigate boundaries between genre and medium. He has created multimedia projects with the Space Telescope Science Institute, painters collective Art10Baltimore, the Scattered Players Theater Company, and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Winner of the 2022 Barlow Prize, Ge has received commissions and performances by groups including the Minnesota Orchestra, the New York Youth Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the U.S. Navy Band, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Harbin Symphony Orchestra, Interlochen Arts Academy, Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Youth Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Youth Orchestra, Music from Copland House, the Pacific Chamber Orchestra, the Bergamot Quartet, and Mind on Fire. He is currently pursuing his PhD at Princeton University as a Naumberg Fellow, and holds degrees from UCBerkeley and the Peabody Conservatory.
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Devin Greenwood
Devin Greenwood is a New York-based composer and audio-visual artist whose work explores the intersection of wave phenomena and collective behavior. His music is grounded in antenati—a practice developed with Gideon Crevoshay that treats music as a living system, where spontaneous structures emerge from an evolving language of tension-resolution patterns. In his writing, such as Antenati: A New Phenomenology of Meaning in Music, Greenwood highlights the oscillatory nature of thought and subjective experience, linking the arrival of musical structure to the rhythmic surfacing of meaning in the human mind. His visual practice mirrors these interests, utilizing “obsolete” technologies—including oscilloscopes, vintage video synthesizers, and 1980s game consoles—to give form to hidden frequencies. Greenwood’s music has been performed by leading ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound, Sō Percussion, and Ekmeles, while his visual work has been featured at Finland’s Turku Animated Film Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and National Sawdust. He is the co-founder of the Brooklyn recording studio The Honey Jar and is currently a doctoral fellow at Princeton University pursuing a PhD in Music Composition.
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Will Healy
Will Healy is a composer, pianist, and improviser whose work engages with many of the musical worlds in New York City, from classical concert halls to jazz clubs and hip-hop shows. A recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Prize from the ASCAP Foundation, he has performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and National Sawdust, with compositions performed by Alarm Will Sound, members of the New York Philharmonic, The Minnesota Orchestra, Contemporaneous, and Friction Quartet. As an arranger, songwriter, and collaborator, he has worked across genres with artists including Amyra León, Dizzy Senze, Becca Stevens, and Ayanna Witter-Johnson. Healy is the artistic director and founder of ShoutHouse, a collective of hip-hop, jazz, and classical musicians. Described by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins as “sweetly and smartly off the rails,” ShoutHouse has premiered over 50 new works, and their debut album, Cityscapes, came out on New Amsterdam Records. Recent compositions include Permafrost Ghosts, a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra premiered in 2025 with Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra and Healy as soloist, and Passages, a 30-minute work for wind ensemble and multi-genre soloists premiered at the CBDNA conference in 2023. In 2024, Passages received the Beeler Prize, selected from 270 compositions, with judges calling it “a fresh new outlook on what band music can be.” As a pianist, Healy has given solo recitals in the United States and abroad and performed the works of J.S. Bach extensively, including the complete Goldberg Variations and Well-Tempered Clavier. He plays piano and synthesizers in Pathos Trio and is a founding member of Upstream, a duo with violinist and composer George Meyer. Healy’s awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Charles Ives Scholarship, two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, and a J-Fund commission. He received his MM from The Juilliard School and is a PhD fellow in Composition at Princeton University and a Yamaha Artist.
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Hannah Ishizaki
Hannah Ishizaki is a composer and sound artist based in Princeton, New Jersey. Her music seeks to foster connections between musicians and the audience through the explorations of the physicality of music performance. Ishizaki finds inspiration in the process of composition, leading her to experiment with a wide range of instruments and sound generating methods. Immersed in the world of collaboration, Ishizaki has worked with dancers, actors, filmmakers, and visual artists, to connect the seemingly unconnected and create innovative and multidisciplinary projects. Ishizaki has been commissioned and performed by renowned musicians and ensembles such as Midori Goto, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Ensemble Intercontemporain. Recently, Ishizaki was named one of five 2023 Hildegard commission winners, which is presented by National Sawdust and generously supported by The Onassis Foundation and the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. She studied with Andrew Norman for composition and Areta Zhulla and Ronald Copes for violin at the Juilliard School, where she was the first composer to receive a Kovner Fellowship, Juilliard’s only full merit scholarship. Ishizaki is currently a PhD student and Mark Nelson Fellow in Music Composition at Princeton University.
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Travis Laplante
Travis Laplante is a composer, improviser, and saxophonist. Laplante leads the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance, as well as Subtle Degrees, his duo with drummer Gerald Cleaver. Recently, Laplante has composed long-form works for new music ensembles such as the JACK Quartet, Yarn/Wire, and the ~Nois Saxophone Quartet. Laplante is also known for his raw solo saxophone concerts and being a member of the avant-garde quartet Little Women. He has performed and / or recorded with Tyshawn Sorey, Caroline Shaw, Ches Smith, Peter Evans, Sō Percussion, Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Halvorson, International Contemporary Ensemble, Michael Formanek, Buke and Gase, Darius Jones, Mat Maneri, Julia Bullock, and Matt Mitchell, among others. Laplante has released 12 critically acclaimed albums as a leader or co-leader on New Amsterdam Records, Aum Fidelity, Skirl, Tripticks Tapes, Out of Your Head Records, and NNA Tapes. Laplante has toured his music extensively and has appeared at many major international festivals such as The Moers Festival (Germany), Jazz Jantar (Poland), Saalfelden (Austria), Jazz em Agosto (Portugal), Earshot (Seattle), Hopscotch (North Carolina), and the NYC Winter JazzFest. As a composer, Laplante has been commissioned by the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), the JACK Quartet, Roulette Intermedium, Yarn/Wire, the Yellow Barn Music Festival, the MATA festival, and The Jerome Foundation.
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Hope Littwin
American composer and music producer Hope Littwin grew up in dance and theater before she took to music, first as a singer-songwriter then as a classical singer and now as a composer and music producer. She loves to collaborate with artists of all kinds on embodied, expressive works. Hope’s compositions fuse chamber music, vocal music, electronics and choreography. She has been commissioned by choirs, chamber ensembles, theater and dance companies to lead the creation of original works that pull from the idiosyncratic desires and abilities of the ensembles that she is engaged with. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Music Composition at Princeton University. The Daily Princetonian says Hope Littwin's music explores the “euphoric realm, where the physicality of musical expression is fully embraced—where music is not only something we do, but something we are.” Hope’s original works are available for streaming on band camp and YouTube, her albums can be found on Spotify / iTunes. Find Hope on instagram @hopelittwin
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Tianci Lu
Dorothy Tianci Lu, composer and pianist, is a multifaceted creator across all mediums of music. Her works have been performed multiple times across the United States, China, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Tianci is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in music composition at Princeton University. Her works have been commissioned / performed at Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, Tutti Festival, Curtis Theater, Roy O. Disney Hall, Hamilton International Contemporary Music Festival, University of Colorado, Denison University and across multiple countries.
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Soo Yeon Lyuh
Soo Yeon Lyuh is a composer, improviser, and master of the haegeum, a two-stringed Korean bowed instrument. Hailing from Daegu, South Korea by way of Princeton, New Jersey, Lyuh draws inspiration from traditional Korean music to perform a meld of improvisatory and experimental sounds. She is currently pursuing her second PhD in composition at Princeton University, after receiving the first doctorate in Korean music at Seoul National University. As a performer, Lyuh possesses flawless technique and a full command of the haegeum’s traditional repertoire. For twelve years, she was a member of South Korea’s National Gugak Center, which traces its roots to the 7th Century Shilla Dynasty and is Korea’s foremost institution for the preservation of traditional music. To weave authentic styles into new musical domains, Lyuh relocated in 2015 to the San Francisco Bay Area and drew inspiration from its dynamic improvised music scene. In 2017, she was invited to collaborate in a series of concerts with the Kronos Quartet, and this work set her on the path of becoming a composer. As a composer, Lyuh asks classically trained performers to think outside the box, drawing out fresh sounds that, once understood, sound organic. Although these sounds are uneasy to visualize with notation, Lyuh can communicate a lot of them and often demonstrates the parts by joining and performing with the ensemble. Ultimately, Lyuh is all about making a bridge between cultures across borders, and breaking down any walls.
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Lucy McKnight
Lucy McKnight is an artist who works with colors, textures, and sounds to create environments where she and others can explore intense emotions and ways of surviving them. She is interested in using touch, connection, movement, and sound to build mutually cathartic experiences. Recent mediums include wood, strings, pots, paint, ceramics, tinfoil, magnets, fabric, her cello, her own body and voice, and her friends’ bodies and voices. Her work has been performed across the US and in Europe by artists including Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Yarn/Wire, ~Nois, Parker Ramsay, Dither Quartet, Longleash Trio, and Transient Canvas. In her spare time, she loves to swim in natural bodies of water, with particular affinity for the Pacific Ocean off the coast of her hometown, Los Angeles. Currently, she and her three deeply affectionate cats live in her wildly colorful home in Trenton, New Jersey while she works on her PhD in Music Composition at Princeton University.
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Christian Quiñones
Christian Quiñones is a Puerto Rican composer who explores personal and vulnerable stories through the lens of cultural identity. From sampling to auto-tune, and to interactive multimedia, Christian is interested in interacting with existing music to create intertextual narratives. Recently Christian was selected as a composer in residence at the Copland House, and as a fellow for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Workshop, Cabrillo Festival, and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival. In 2020 he was selected for the Earshot Underwood Orchestra Readings where he worked with the American Composers Orchestra. He has received commissions from the New York Youth Symphony, Albany Symphony’s Dogs of Desire, Transient Canvas, the icarus Quartet, the Bergamot String Quartet, Chromic Duo, and the Victory Players where Christian was the 2018 – 2019 composer in residence. His music has been performed by Alarm Will Sound, Dal Niente, Hub New Music, Yarn/Wire, Loadbang, Unheard-of Ensemble, Victory Players, the American Composers Orchestra, and René Izquierdo. Christian graduated from the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico (BM) and the University of Illinois (MM), where he was the recipient of the Graduate College Master’s Fellowship. Currently, Christian is a PhD President’s fellow at Princeton University.
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Jaebong Rho
Jaebong Rho creates listening experiences that begin after the final sound. His music builds open narratives where structural clarity and interpretive space coexist. It invites listeners to connect what they hear to their own lived experience, translating pressing social and psychological questions into rigorous forms. Rho served as the Composer-in-Residence for the Korean National Symphony Orchestra (2024 – 2025), premiering multiple commissioned works. He received two artist grants from the Busan Cultural Foundation, which supported his portrait recitals in 2021 and 2023, and won the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra Commissioning Competition. At the Lucerne Festival Academy Composer Seminar, he worked with Dieter Ammann and Unsuk Chin, collaborating with the IEMA-Ensemble. His First Prize in the Ensemble Écoute Composition Competition earned him a commission, with the premiere forthcoming. A grant from ARTZenter supported the completion of a new work, which was subsequently performed by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. He has been recognized with the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award. At the Remus Georgescu International Music Festival Competition, he worked with Beat Furrer. His music was featured at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, performed by the IEMA-Ensemble. He has been selected as a composer for the Talea Recording Workshop. He was commissioned by the Yale School of Music through the Planetary Engagement Competition, with support from Gene Pinover. Most recently, he has been named a 2026 Composition Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Rho holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Pusan National University and received his Master of Music from the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Theofanidis, Katherine Balch, and David Lang. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Composition at Princeton University.
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Isaac Santos
As a composer I am deeply inspired by nature, narrative, the visual arts, and everyday existence: themes which permeate my music in different ways. At the core of what I create is a desire to communicate how I experience the world, in hopes that the music I have written is able to communicate something relatable and sometimes profound. My teachers have included Stephen Hartke, Elizabeth Ogonek, Jesse Jones, Michael Frazier, Jihyun Kim, Juri Seo, Dmitri Tymoczko, Nathalie Joachim, and more, all of whom I love dearly, as they have continued to support me and advocate for my music. I completed my Bachelor’s Degree in Music Composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, in the spring of 2023. I currently reside in Princeton, New Jersey, where I am pursuing my PhD in Music Composition. — Isaac Santos
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Nathan Schram
Nathan Schram is a two-time GRAMMY Award-winning composer and violist of the Attacca Quartet. Nathan has collaborated, in the studio and on stage, with many of the great artists of today including Björk, James Blake, Sting, David Crosby, Becca Stevens, David Byrne, Just Blaze, Itzhak Perlman, and others. For his work with the NY in Chuncheon festival Nathan is a proud Honorary Ambassador to the city of Chuncheon, South Korea. Nathan has released two solo records of his own compositions, Nearsided and Oak and the Ghost, on Better Company Records and New Amsterdam Records, respectively. His compositions make frequent use of acoustic / electronic elements as well as AI generated video. As a member of Attacca, Schram has released records on Sony Classical, GroundUP Music, Nonesuch, and New Amsterdam Records. Attacca’s records, Orange and Evergreen, won GRAMMY Awards for Best Chamber Music Performance in 2020 and 2023. His arrangement of Radiohead’s 2 + 2 = 5 written for Becca Stevens and Attacca Quartet was also nominated at the 2023 GRAMMY Awards.
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Nina Shekhar
Nina Shekhar is a composer, producer, and multimedia artist who explores the intersection of identity, vulnerability, love, and laughter to create bold and intensely personal works. Shekhar is one of the most widely performed composers of her generation. Described as “tart and compelling” (The New York Times), “vivid” (Washington Post), an “orchestral supernova” (LA Times), and a “rare composer who opens our ears a little wider each time” (Chicago Tribune), her music has been commissioned by major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony, as well as leading ensembles including The Crossing, Eighth Blackbird, International Contemporary Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Her work has been featured at the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. Recent events include China and Germany tours with the New York Philharmonic and her Hollywood Bowl debut with the LA Philharmonic. During the 2025 – 2026 season, she premiered a new film and orchestral work for LA Philharmonic in collaboration with Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu, a work for the New York Philharmonic, a new accordion concerto for a consortium of orchestras led by St. Louis Symphony, and a concerto for MIDI keyboard and choir for The Crossing. Shekhar is also a versatile performing artist. As a vocalist, she is currently working on a large-scale new work for Kronos Quartet and herself as soloist, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for 2027. She recently toured a staged solo work for voice, electronics, video, and interactive lighting, and she is currently recording her debut pop vocal album. As an instrumentalist, she is active as a flutist, pianist, and saxophonist. She has been featured by the National Flute Association and Detroit International Jazz Festival. Shekhar is a PhD candidate at Princeton University and is on the Composition faculty of Mannes School of Music at The New School. She previously served as Composer-in-Residence of The Crossing and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s 2023 – 2024 Sound Investment Composer. She is a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Music Fellow and previously completed her tenure as Composer-in-Residence for Young Concert Artists. She is a first-generation Indian American and a native of Detroit, Michigan.
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Max Vinetz
Max Vinetz’s music draws inspiration and meaning from intersections between improvisatory, popular, and traditional forms / aesthetics, and how these various intersections can be mapped onto identity transformation over time. His work centers the perception of rhythmic and timbral events and is concerned with the relationships between narrative, storytelling, musical objects, and sonic artifacts as they relate to music and other forms of media. Max is a recipient of a Fromm Foundation Commission, ASCAP’s Morton Gould Award (2018 / 2020), the Paul and Christiane Cooper Prize, and the Gardner Prize from the American Viola Society. He has received additional recognition and awards from Voices of Ascension, the Doug Davis Composition and Performance Endowment, Musiqa, Copland House, Mizzou International Composers Festival, loadbang, the Hausmann Quartet, Young Concert Artists, New York Youth Symphony, BMI, Danbury Music Center, Symphony No. 1, Donald Sinta Quartet, Tesla Quartet, and Yale University, and the Shepherd School of Music. As a Yale undergraduate, Max won the Beekman Cannon Friends Prize, awarded for a “musical composition exhibiting unusual originality and promise,” the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize awarded to the “most promising and gifted composer” in the junior class, and was also awarded the Lewis P. Curtis Fellowship, the Tristan Perlroth Prize, and the R.J.R. Cohen Fellowship for Musical Performance (2017, 2018). Max’s works and have been performed and recorded by Alarm Will Sound, TAK ensemble, Bergamot Quartet, arx Duo, Stare at the Sun, Bearthoven, Vicky Chow, Contemporaneous, DITHER, Hub New Music, Variant 6, Sō Percussion, Bakken Ensemble, The Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra, Arditti Quartet, Bakken Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, Miranda Cuckson, NUNC, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Hear&Now, Music from Copland House, DeCoda, Mivos Quartet, unassisted fold, Yale Symphony Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony, Icarus Duo, members of Yale Voxtet, and Yale Schola Cantorum, among others. Upcoming projects include an evening length staged electroacoustic song cycle, The New Manila Envelope, for panSonus, new orchestral works for New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Texas Medical Center Orchestra, and San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, a collection of chamber works for soprano / double bass for Confluss, and an electric guitar concerto for Joseph Ehrenpreis. A graduate of both Yale and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, Max is a PhD candidate in Composition at Princeton University, holding a Naumburg Doctoral Fellowship.
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Justin Wright
Justin Wright is a composer, cellist, and multidisciplinary artist from Montreal. Wright’s music is characterized by a seamless blending of avant-garde approaches and timbral experimentation with the evocative and meditative spirit of folk and sacred music traditions. Classical concert halls, underground loft venues, art museums, pop music venues, planetariums, and the glaciers of the High Arctic have all comfortably been home to his performances, a reflection of his defiance of traditional categorization and wide-ranging artistic interests. Wright’s primary composition tools, for both electronic and acoustic music, are his cello, Ableton Live, a modular synthesizer, and a 4-track tape machine. He has a background in molecular biology research, and was self-taught as a composer before beginning his PhD in music composition at Princeton University.