Kristen Baum

Kristen Baum is an American composer writing works for solo piano, art song, and film. She holds a M.M. in Theory and Composition from Youngstown State University. Her undergraduate degree had a piano performance concentration. Her current project is composing a parallax of Schumann/Chamisso’s Frauenliebe und Leben using erasure poetry techniques. Baum’s art songs frequently center fairy tale retellings. She frequently collaborates with living poets, including Sarah J. Sloat, Sally Rosen Kindred, and Mary McMyne. Her concert works have premiered in Hollywood, Nashville, Michigan, Minneapolis, New York, Baltimore, and Berlin. She splits time between Nashville and Manhattan.

John MacLachlan

John MacLachlan has studied composition for over three years with Edward Top at the Vancouver Academy of Music. His style involves non-triadic harmonies, layered rhythms, and adventurous instrumentation. Recently, John’s music has been performed in the Sonic Boom Festival of New Composition and by the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra. In 2023, John won the Intermediate category of the Vancouver Academy of Music Young Composers’ Competition, and his orchestral work was performed at Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre. John currently studies music composition at the University of British Columbia.

Marie Herrington

Marie Herrington is a Baltimore/D.C. based soprano, composer, and keyboardist who works to culminate all of the hidden beauties of the classical world with the ever-growing world of post-classical/new music. Marie’s most recent performance endeavors include performing works by living composers part of New Orleans’ Alluvium Ensemble’s Voice to Water festival and showcase which featured performers J.T. Hassell, Marie Herrington, Sixto Franco, Timothy Krippner, and Loadbang’s Will Lang. Marie also made her debut at the American Alliance for New Music Theatre in Washington D.C. with singer and pianist Alan Naylor, and Erin Lee performing Songs We Need Now. You can follow Marie’s works on her website, MarieHerringtonMusic.com or follow her on instagram @jsbachdafachup. 

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Kevin Germain

Kevin Germain lives with his family in New England where he owns an occult bookstore and composes chamber music. Past works include a guitar and vocal arrangement of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder published by Edizioni Berben and a collaboration as an oud performer on Peter Blanchette’s Fantasy for Oud and Guitar Orchestra. His compositions have been performed by the Julius Quartet, Soli Chamber Ensemble, Carlos Marin Trigo, Anna Heller, Bowers Fader Duo, and others. Kevin currently studies with Rodney Sharman, is working on a song cycle based on alchemical texts, and leads the ensemble Corps Exquisite in Terry Riley's In C. 

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Claudia Beroukhim

Claudia Beroukhim is a New York City-based composer from Atlanta, GA, earning her Master’s degree in Music Composition and Theory at NYU Steinhardt. Her music aims to grapple with how intangible phenomena can be translated to music in the most genuine and evocative ways possible. Influenced by jazz, indie, classical, contemporary, Persian and Jewish music, among others, Claudia explores emotional truth through meaning, color, and narrative in her music. Her work is also influenced by her experiences as a pianist, singer, and songwriter, finding the most fulfillment in writing for the voice and music tied to extra-musical art.

Clayton Trumbull

Clayton Trumbull (b.2002) is a queer, American composer and instrumentalist from Saratoga Springs, NY. His music is cathartic, incorporating his original poetry, indeterminacy and improvisation, illuminating the interpersonal connection that art fosters. Exploring nature, heartbreak, self-discipline, materialism, queerness, and other intimate and personal themes through music and poetry with genuine expression is ever present in his bittersweet, nostalgic sound. He is pursuing a M.M. in Composition at Pennsylvania State University with Baljinder Sekhon, Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice, and Paul Coleman after receiving his B.M. in Music Composition from the Eastman School of Music in May 2024.

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Clara Moniz

Clara Moniz is a Toronto based performer, composer, and music educator studying voice performance at the Glenn Gould School. Her works have been premiered by the Cincinnati Song Initiative, NATS, Pax Christi Chorale, Concreamus, Continuum Contemporary Music, and students at GGS and the Taylor Academy. She was a participant in the Westben Performer-Composer Residency in 2025 and is a member of the HappLab mentorship program. She is also the founder and director of the GGS Contemporary Music Collective. She is looking forward to upcoming premieres with the Chroma International Music Festival and the N.E.O. Voice Festival. 

Karen Goldfeder

Karen Goldfeder writes music and sings. Career highlights thus far: international touring and recording with Gregg Smith Singers, New York Virtuoso Singers, Bobby McFerrin’s Vocabularies Project; choral premieres by New York Treble Singers, Eastman Chorale, and Artek; scores for the documentaries Letters Home (2010), 256,000 Miles from Home (2024), and Ex Libris (in progress); graduating from Eastman’s Beal Institute in 2023. Her work reflects disparate influences, intellectual curiosity, and a bad case of the human condition. Her focus on art song over the last two years is fueled by the belief that we desperately need to get better at listening to each others' voices.

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Twylen Bernegger

Twylen Bernegger(they/them) is composer, vocalist, and direct support professional from Rochester, NY. They are in the final year before earning a B.S in Psychology and B.M. in Music Composition at SUNY Fredonia. Having experienced many unique trials from brain surgery to other psychological conditions, they bring empathy and understanding to all of their work. Between their career in assisted living and education in music, they use their experience to console and empower people through music. They love writing for voice and plan to compose for friends and their own projects while earning a doctorate in Psychology

Francis Reyes

Francis Reyes (b. 2005) is a Vancouver based Filipino-Canadian pianist and composer studying at the University of British Columbia under Dorothy Chang and Edward Top. Drawing from jazz, expressionist, and popular music, his compositional practice continues to metamorphosize with the intent of evoking different philosophical and psychological themes found in literature, visual arts, video games, and even manga. As a result, his music calls forth in juxtaposition moments of humour, beauty, and the overtly grotesque with an emphasis on timbre and harmony. His music has been performed by distinguished ensembles such as the Victoria Symphony, Standing Wave Ensemble, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, and Black Dog String Quartet.

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Amber Beauchamp

Amber Beauchamp (she/they) is a composer from Ambler, Pennsylvania who currently studies composition at SUNY Fredonia. She studies piano as her primary instrument, but also has experience as a percussionist and vocalist. Her musical language is rooted in jazz, but contains influences as far-ranging as minimalism, the Renaissance, fusion, hip-hop, and whatever other odd and strange music she’s heard that week. Recent accomplishments include Dawn for voice and piano, which won the 2024 Fredonia Composition Competition, as well as the premiere of Orion Dead, for choir, by the Fredonia University Chorus in December 2025.

Gregory Borton

Gregory Borton (b. 2002) is an emerging young composer from Hamilton, Ontario. He started piano lessons at age 4 but, much to the dismay of his teacher, he was more interested in rearranging the exercises than following them. His subsequent compositions were light and simple, yet smart and enjoyable. He soon immersed himself in classical scores and his career as a composer began. Beginning with developing pieces for trios and chamber groups, by the age of 15 Gregory composed his first symphony. He has been building his catalogue since then, adding concertos and other orchestral and chamber works. His work, Sinfonia Fantasia, was performed by the Brott Music Festival in 2019. He composed a Violin Sonata for Isabella D’Eloize Perron, and was performed in 2021. Recent works include Concerto A5 performed by the Gallo Chamber Players in 2025 as part of Early Music Vancouver’s summer festival.

Gina Friedrich

Gina Friedrich is a fourth-year music major at Concordia University of Edmonton, with an emphasis in composition. She began singing in choir during her first degree, a Bachelor of Science in Biology, also at Concordia. Her enjoyment of choir, along with her newly-developed enjoyment of art song, and her passion for poetry, ultimately encouraged Gina to pursue this second degree. She currently studies composition with Matthew Emery, and also works as an administrative assistant for Choir Alberta, a Choral Scholar at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, and sings with the Concordia Concert Choir and Ariose Choir.

David Miltreiger

David Miltreiger is a drummer/percussionist and composer entering his fourth year of study in MacEwan University's Bachelor of Music Program. Inspired by dramatic and motivic scores from video games, film, and theatre, he is interested in the role of music as part of larger works of art; he seeks to incorporate such aspects of theme and storytelling into the longstanding tradition of Art Song.

Aaron Addorisio

Aaron Addorisio (he/him) is a percussionist, vocalist, composer, and conductor based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan / Edmonton. He is a recent graduate with honours from MacEwan University's composition degree and audio recording diploma programs, and Concordia University of Edmonton’s Church Music & Conducting Certificate. Aaron has strong ties to both the classical and contemporary music communities, and can often be found singing with and/or playing percussion for many choirs, theatre productions, orchestras, and jazz ensembles around the city, and acting as Music Director for Trinity Lutheran Church. Aaron was a 2022 SOCAN Young Composers Award winner for his electronics + drum set piece ‘i need you (to get back to me)’ and was commissioned in the same year by MacEwan University to compose a work for choir and big band to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the institution.

Nathan Wright Bueno de Mesquita

Nathan Wright Bueno de Mesquita is a composer born in Culiacán, Sinaloa in 2003. He is now based in Arlington, Virginia, and studies composition at SUNY Fredonia. He studies horn as a primary instrument but is also proficient on piano. His compositional style combines jazz chord voicings, and French-inspired harmony with modal melodies and scales often borrowed from Jewish folk music.

Owen Bloomfield

Owen Bloomfield is a Cambridge, Ontario based composer and community musician. His music has been performed across Canada, the United States and in Europe, being described as dramatic, lyrical, and deeply moving. Owen writes for a variety of ensembles and soloists, with recent performances by the chamber wind group The _____ Experiment of Do Not Wish For Any Other Life (Kitchener,2024), soprano Mele Santos of the mini-opera Invisible (Halifax,2023), the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra the symphony In Tempore Mutationes (Waterloo, 2022), mandolinist Daniel Ahlert for Reflection for solo Mandolin (Westerdelt, Germany, 2022). Owen also collaborates in interdisciplinary works that include dance, acting and music outside of conventional musical theatre forms (River Flow, and Tilt! with the group SlanT), and has worked in reconciliation projects such as Woman of the Drum with the community singing group Inshallah and the indigenous women’s drum circle Mino Ode Kwewak N’gamowak (the Good Hearted Women).

Owen is a member of the Canadian League of Composers and an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. He has a BMus in composition from Wilfrid Laurier University and a MMus from the University of British Columbia.

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Patrick McGraw

Patrick McGraw has made Toronto, Canada his home since immigrating from the United States in 2001. An early interest in the sciences led him to a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology, but the pull of his other great love, music, proved irresistible. He returned to school and completed a DMA with Gary Kulesha at the University of Toronto. His chamber, vocal, operatic, electroacoustic and wind ensemble works sometimes draw direct inspiration from his physics background but the influence is often subtle, reflecting a deep appreciation for nature’s beauty and a fascination with the connection between abstract patterns and embodied, sensory experience. He remains active in the sciences as a teacher, finding unexpected overlaps between the two endeavours.

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Margaret King

Margaret King (B. Mus, ARCT) is a piano teacher, collaborative pianist and composer, living in Edmonton, AB. The interplay of words and music led Margaret to write choral music. Her latest commissions include an SSAA work, ‘Reflections’, for Belle Canto (2020), a TTBB score, ‘Heart of Night’, for the ‘New Choral Works for the Edmonton Community’ project commissioned by Pro Coro Canada (2020), ‘Compass Rose Suite’, a set of five pieces (2020) for the Calgary Girls Choir, and ‘Elegy’, an SSAA work, for Sirens Choir (2022). Going forward, she is keen to hone her technique and explore writing art song!

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John Kuntz

The music of composer and pianist John Kuntz (b. 1996) ventures within timbral extremes, pursuing dissonant, emotive and expressive depths, theatrical magnetism, as well as electronic soundscapes. He is currently a freelance composer in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His works have been performed at Western University, Berklee College of Music, the University of Memphis, and Luther College. Recently, Kuntz completed a year-long composer-in-residence program with the Mississippi Valley Orchestra, which culminated with the premiere of Remembering in spring, 2023. Kuntz holds degrees from Luther College and the University of Memphis in composition and piano.

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