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• En tren va Chango

  Ricardo Lorenz
• Motordom

  Jennifer Jolley
• Undertow

  Elainie Lillios
• Lake Song

  Mickie Wadsworth
• Mickie Wadsworth

  Mickie Wadsworth is a soprano and composer based in Upstate New York. They have written works for solo instrument, voice, electronics, small chamber and large ensembles. In their music they work to discover the impact of music both within and outside of a poetic context. Additionally they advocate for the creation of gender inclusive vocal repertoire and operatic roles. They have collaborated with a variety of living poets and librettists including Angela Rebrec, Jamie Leigh Sampson, Julia Black, and Briah Luther. Wadsworth’s commissions include works for multimedia (podcasts and short films) as well as works for recitals. They have participated in several workshops and festivals including N.E.O. Voice Festival (2021), Art Song Lab (2020), and Electronic Music Midwest (2019). Throughout their undergraduate degree they had the opportunity to participate in several reading sessions with revered soloists and ensembles such as Aurora Borealis, Holly Mulcahy, and Sarah Cahill. Additionally they have participated in a composition masterclass with Jake Heggie. Mickie is currently pursuing their masters in Music Composition at Ohio University with a teaching assistantship where they are studying with Dr. Robert McClure. They graduated from The State University of New York at Fredonia with their B.M. in Music Composition in 2021. At Fredonia they studied privately with Dr. Andrew Martin Smith and Jamie Leigh Sampson. Most recently their work Lake Song was published in NewMusicShelf Anthology of New Music: Trans & Non-binary Voices, Vol. 1. Outside of performing and composing Mickie spends their free time running and hiking, where they find a large amount of inspiration for their artistic endeavors.
• To My Mother's Closet from Cycle Kardashian and Opera Kardashian

  Dana Kaufman
• Dana Kaufman

  The work of Los Angeles-based composer Dana Kaufman focuses on disruptive opera and vocal music, accessible and inclusive stages, and the intersection of pop culture and Western classical music. Hailed as “whirlwind” (Gramophone) and “lively, engaging and moving” (Berkshire Fine Arts), Kaufman’s music has been heard throughout North America and Europe. Her works have been featured at venues and festivals such as New York Opera Fest; Contemporary Music Center of Milan; Jordan Hall; Boston New Music Festival; National Opera Week; Carlow Arts Festival; soundSCAPE Festival; Hartford Opera Theater; Charlotte New Music Festival; Spontaneous Combustion New Music Festival; Opera on Tap Chicago; the national Estonian Music Days festival; Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar; Hot Air Music Festival; Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Hall; College Music Society National Conference; Peoria Civic Center; Connecticut Summerfest; Atlas Performing Arts Center; Music by Women Festival; Baltimore War Memorial; International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest; North American Jewish Choral Festival; Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Fall Festival; FEASt Festival; Frontwave New Music Festival; Ravinia Festival’s One Score, One Chicago Series Youth Division; and FETA Foundation Concert Series. Kaufman’s music also has been performed by ensembles such as So Percussion, Great Noise Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, ensemble PHASE, 5th Wave Collective, Third Eye Theatre Ensemble, a very small consortium, The Spatial Forces Duo, Firebird Ensemble, LNK New Music Collective, Resound Duo, Na Wai Chamber Choir, MiamiClarinet, Passepartout Duo, and performers with OperaRox Productions and the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra. From 2012-2013, Kaufman was a Fulbright Student Research Fellow in Tallinn, Estonia, where she conducted ethnomusicology research and studied composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. She is also the recipient of numerous other awards: ASCAP Plus Awards; Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards; Third Place in the American Prize Instrumental Chamber Music Student Division and Finalist in the Choral Music Student Division, Honorable Mention in the Chamber Music Student Division, and Semi-Finalist in the Opera/Theater/Film Division; Finalist in Hartford Opera Theater’s New in November 10 Call for Scores; University of Miami Dean’s Fellowship; Finalist, OperaRox Productions’ New Works Competition; Amherst College Edward Poole Lay Fellowship; Winner of the Ensemble Ibis Composition Competition; Finalist in the New American Voices Composition Competition; Honorable Mention in the Boston Choral Ensemble’s Commission Competition; First Runner-Up in the Black House New Operas Project Composers’ Competition; Third Place in the Amherst College College Song Composition Competition; Eric Edward Sundquist Prize in Composition; Mikhail Schweitzer Memorial Book Award; First Place in the Music Institute of Chicago’s Generation Next Composition Competition; and is a winner of the Women Composers Festival New England Score Call and flutist Orlando Cela’s “Project Extended” Score Call. Her selected “Project Extended” work, Hang Down Your Head, was released by Ravello Records on “Shadow Etchings: New Music for Flute.” She was also Composer-in-Residence of the Na Wai Chamber Choir and Lutheran Church of the Ascension (IL), and Hashkiveinu (co-composed with Richard Cohn) is published by Transcontinental Music Publications and performed at synagogues throughout North America. A frequent speaker, particularly on composing for trans voice and her recent work Opera Kardashian, Kaufman has given invited talks at venues including the LA Opera, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, Pedagogy into Practice: Teaching Music Theory in the Twenty-First Century Conference, Tallinn University of Technology, Fulbright Enrichment Seminar in Prague on Public Space and the Arts, College Music Society National Conference, Na Wai Conductor's Institute, and the Music by Women Festival; she also was a panelist for “Gender Representation in New Opera” at New Music Gathering. Kaufman graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College (Bachelor of Arts in Music and Russian), completed her Master of Music in Composition at New England Conservatory, and received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition at University of Miami Frost School of Music as the first Frost student to be a Dean’s Fellow. She is Assistant Professor in Music Composition at University of California, Riverside.
• Let the Little Birds Sings

  Ashley Seward
• Ashley Seward

  Ashley Seward is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic media currently based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is currently finishing her Bachelor of Music (Composition) degree at the University of Calgary, where she studies with composers Laurie Radford, David Eagle, and Allan Gordon Bell. Her music explores the spiritual, the esoteric, and absurd notions at the edge of human understanding, as well as ideas of environment, home, and embodiment. She is also thrilled to be the latest in a line of out queer composers, and is constantly working to produce works which reflect her transgender experience. Ashley has been the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards at the University of Calgary, in addition to taking part in a number of summer workshops over the course of her career. She is beyond thrilled to begin a Master of Music (MMUS) in composition at the University of British Columbia starting September 2020. When not working on her next piece or fooling around with Max patches, she likes to run around and pet her cat.
• Fallen Star

  Nell Shaw Cohen
• Nell Shaw Cohen

  Nell Shaw Cohen (b. 1988) is a composer, librettist, and multimedia artist. She evokes landscapes, visual art, and the lives of mavericks in her lyrical works for the stage, concert hall, and digital media. Her commissions have included Houston Grand Opera, Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Boston Choral Ensemble, Juventas New Music Ensemble, American Wild Ensemble, The Brass Project, Laura Strickling, and Montage Music Society. Her operas have had workshops with Fort Worth Opera, The American Opera Project, New Dramatists, New York University, and University of New Mexico, and she was first runner-up for the 2020 Zepick Modern Opera Competition. Cohen earned degrees in composition from NYU and New England Conservatory, where her teachers included Herschel Garfein and Michael Gandolfi. A past Artist-in-Residence with Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Cohen has received an OPERA America Commissioning Grant for Female Composers, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize from the International Alliance for Women in Music. As Founder & Director of Landscape Music, an international network of composers and performers, she advocates for music inspired by landscape, nature, and place. She lives in the Shawangunk Mountains of New York's Hudson Valley.
• Loser Dumplings from Interstate

  Melissa Li
• At a Dinner Party from Three Amy Levy Songs

  Hope Salmonson
• Hope Salmonson

  Hope Salmonson, from Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), is a queer, trans composer and tubist, trying to navigate the very big world around her. In 2017, she was accepted to Mount Allison University under a Mary Emerancy Pickard Music Scholarship, and studies composition under Dr. Kevin Morse. She has studied tuba and euphonium with Drs. Linda Pearse, Dale Sorensen and Olivier Huebscher. Hope will be graduating from Mount Allison in Spring 2022, and hopes to pursue a master’s degree. Hope’s compositional practice is inspired by community and connection to others. Her works have been performed by Ensemble Allure, the andPlay Duo and the Mount Allison Elliott Chorale, among others, and in April 2021 she hosted a recital of her compositions, featuring seventeen performers and five premiere performances. Hope has composed for the 2020 Art Song Lab and the 2021 Wildflower Composers Festival. Hope's work can be found in a few places. In 2019, her essay “Not Quite Romeo: Berlioz, Smithson and the Unspoken Truth” was published in Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology. Her art song "At a Dinner Party" is published in the NewMusicShelf Anthology of New Music: Trans & Nonbinary Voices, vol. 1 curated by Aiden K. Feltkamp. In her free time, Hope enjoys gaming, cooking for her loved ones, and singing.
• Strange Dreams from Proving Up

  Missy Mazzoli
• Missy Mazzoli

  Recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (NY Times), “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out NY), and praised for her “apocalyptic imagination” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker), Missy Mazzoli has had her music performed by the Kronos Quartet, LA Opera, eighth blackbird, the BBC Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, Scottish Opera and many others. In 2018 she became, along with Jeanine Tesori, one of the first woman to receive a main stage commission from the Metropolitan Opera, and was nominated for a Grammy award in the category of “Best Classical Composition”. She is currently the Mead Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and from 2012-2015 was Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia. Her 2018 opera Proving Up, created with longtime collaborator librettist Royce Vavrek and based on a short story by Karen Russell, is a surreal commentary on the American dream. It was commissioned and premiered by Washington National Opera, Opera Omaha and Miller Theatre, and was deemed “harrowing… a true opera for its time” by the Washington Post. Her 2016 opera Breaking the Waves, commissioned by Opera Philadelphia and Beth Morrison Projects, was called “one of the best 21st-century American operas yet” by Opera News. Breaking the Waves received its European premiere at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival; future performances are planned at LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and the Adelaide Festival. Her next opera, The Listeners, will premiere in 2021 at the Norwegian National Opera and Opera Philadelphia. In 2016, Missy and composer Ellen Reid founded Luna Lab, a mentorship program for young female composers created in partnership with the Kaufman Music Center. Her works are published by G. Schirmer.
• Mo Suo's Burial Ceremony

  Xinyan Li
• Memory: for Viola

  Chen Yi
• Shuo Chang

  Chen Yi
• Raspberry Island Dreaming

  Libby Larsen
• Fathers

  Lori Laitman
• Unquiet Waters

  Kevin Day
• Kevin Day

  An American composer whose music has been “characterized by propulsive, syncopated rhythms, colorful orchestration, and instrumental virtuosity,” (Robert Kirzinger, Boston Symphony Orchestra) Kevin Day (b. 1996) has quickly emerged as one of the leading young voices in the world of music composition today. Day was born in Charleston, West Virginia and is a native of Arlington, Texas. His father was a prominent hip-hop producer in the late-1980s in Southern California, and his mother was a sought-after gospel singer from West Virginia, singing alongside the likes of Mel Torme and Kirk Franklin. Kevin Day is a composer, conductor, producer, and multi-instrumentalist on tuba, euphonium, jazz piano and more, whose music often intersects between the worlds of jazz, minimalism, Latin music, fusion, and contemporary classical idioms. A winner of the BMI Student Composer Award and other honors, Day has composed over 200 works, and has had numerous performances throughout the United States, Russia, Austria, Australia, Taiwan, South Africa, and Japan. His works have been programmed by major orchestras and wind bands including the Boston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, and the UT Wind Ensemble, and several top military bands. He was also selected as the 3rd Prize winner of the 2020 New Classics International Young Composer Contest of the Moscow Conservatory. His works have also been performed at Carnegie Hall, Rachmaninov Hall (Russia), The Midwest Clinic, TMEA, and other major venues. Day has collaborated with the likes of Jens Lindemann, Demondrae Thurman, Steven Cohen, and Jeremy Lewis on concertos for their respective instruments, as well as chamber ensembles like One Found Sound, Axiom Brass, Ensemble Dal Niente, The Puerto Rican Trombone Ensemble, The Zenith Saxophone Quartet, The Tesla Quartet, and many more. He has been mentored by composers Gabriela Lena Frank, Frank Ticheli, John Mackey, William Owens, Julie Giroux, Marcos Balter, Anthony Cheung, Matthew Evan Taylor, and Valerie Coleman. Day is currently pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Composition at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he is studying composition with Lansing McLoskey, Charles Norman Mason, and Dorothy Hindman, as well as jazz piano with Shelly Berg. Day holds a Master of Music in Composition Degree from the University of Georgia, where he studied with composers Peter Van Zandt Lane, Emily Koh, and conductor Cynthia Johnston Turner. He received his Bachelor of Music Degree in Tuba/Euphonium Performance from Texas Christian University (TCU), where he studied tuba and euphonium with Richard Murrow and composition primarily with Neil Anderson-Himmelspach. His works are published with Murphy Music Press, Dev Music Publishing, Cimarron Music, and Kevin Day Music. Day currently serves as the Vice President for the Millennium Composers Initiative and is an alumnus of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America.
• Shades

  Marcus Wilcher