Sierra Wojtczack

Sierra Wojtczack is a composer and cellist from Long Island pursuing her bachelor’s degree in music composition at SUNY Fredonia. She has studied with Jamie Leigh Sampson, Andrew Martin Smith, and Paul Coleman. She is an active member of the new music community, serving as President of Ethos New Music Society and interning at the Institute for Composer Diversity. In 2020, she was the 2nd place winner of I Care if You Listen.com’s annual essay contest for her writing on composer diversity and was also selected as a semi-finalist for the SUNY PACC Prize for a proposed outreach concert.

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Christopher Thomas Emery

Christopher Thomas Emery is a New York based composer, tenor and educator. Writing in a tonal but chromatic idiom, Emery seeks to pose more questions than answers. As a composer of vocal music, Emery is fascinating by the capacity and flexibility of the human voice as a vehicle of expression.

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Dubravko Pajalic

Dubravko Pajalic, born in Zagreb, Croatia, graduated in musicology at Zagreb University. Later he continued his studies in Vienna, Austria. He is a versatile musician having studied flute, guitar, conducting and composition. He conducts community and church choirs and likes to organize and conduct massive choral concerts.
His compositions are in the nutshell a “bricolage" - a creation of a work from a diverse range of things available (a current mood or a mind-set - or simply a subconscious reflex to melodic material).

Kai Leung

Kai Leung is a third-year voice and composition student at the University of Toronto. He currently studies composition with Roger Bergs, and has studied in the past with Dr. Rapoport and Larysa Kuzmenko. He is the conductor of Mississauga Summer Chorale’s concert choir “Frisson”, the baritone section leader with the Toronto Youth Choir, the Bass section lead with the Ontario Male Chorus, and the assistant music director and composer in residence at St. Clements church.

Liam Moore

Liam Moore is easily entertained. He is fascinated by the evolution of our universe and life on Earth. He generally plays string instruments well and specifically plays trombone poorly. Liam lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Ted Hamilton

Ted Hamilton is a Vancouver based musician, multidisciplinary composer and sound artist working in contemporary dance, theater, film/TV and performance art. His music and collaborative creations have been produced and performed in Canada and internationally for over two decades.

Ted is also a songwriter, a musical theatre writer and has composed music for many ensembles including string trio, string orchestra, art song (voice and piano) and 50 voice SATB choir.

Ted is a member of the Canadian Musical Theatre Writers Collective and participated as a composer in their 2017-18 workshop series, led and mentored by Daniel Maté.

Michael Trew

Michael Trew has wide performing and composing experience in a variety of musical genres, including rock, classical, jazz, and the healing arts. He began studying Composition with Cortland Hultberg at UBC, graduating with a BMus in 1972. Subsequently he obtained a Professional Teaching Certificate (1976) before returning to obtain a Master's (1980) and Doctorate (1986) in Music Composition. His teachers included Stephen Chatman, Paul Reale, and Elaine Barkin. Currently Michael teaches piano, theory, history, and composition privately, is a performer, and accompanies vocal artists in Vancouver. Original works have most recently been performed by Adrian Verdejo, Tom Shorthouse, Michael Murray, The Erato Ensemble, Turning Point Ensemble, Jeremy Berkman and Dave Thomas, Nu:BC, and The Ad Mare Wind Quintet. In the summer of 2018 Michael co-wrote an art song with poet Janet Rogers which was performed by vocalist Dorothea Hayley and pianist Rachel Iwaasa.

Jonathan Newmark

Jonathan Newmark received his composition MM from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2015, studying with Joel Hoffman, Douglas Knehans, and Michael Fiday. His work is published by TrevCo Varner and BrassArts. A CD of his chamber works was released in 2009. A 1974 graduate of Harvard College, he earned his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1978. He is professor of neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, staff neurologist at the DC VA Medical Center, retired Colonel, US Army Medical Corps, and a recognized authority on medical response to chemical warfare and terrorism.

Cameron Catalano

The majority of Cameron’s musical output for 2017 - 18 was comprised primarily of seven 90 minute film scores which have been broadcast both domestically and internationally. He did find the time to consistently provide accompaniment on his guitar or double bass for a variety of live Vancouver Theatre Shows including Off Key (an improvised musical), Sin Peaks (a serialized improvised soap opera) and Shakespeare After Dark. In recent years he’s had a number of compositions performed by artists including NuBC, Marina Hasselberg and the Erato Ensemble. He’s a farmer in the summer and composer in the winter.
serafinosoundstudio.com
soundcloud.com/camcatalano

Wilhemina "Mina" Esary

Wilhelmina “Mina” Esary is a versatile composer of chamber, choral, and electronic music whose works have been performed by members of the Seattle Symphony, Women’s Works of Ithaca, and the American Creators Ensemble. Her compositions range in character from contemplative to whimsical, dark to ethereal, and are often inspired by emotional reactions stemming from perceptions of the physical world. She is currently pursuing her BM in Composition at the Eastman School of Music and is studying with Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. Some of her most savored moments are writing double bar lines, feeling a drizzle on gray days, and smelling old books.

Jessica Rudman

Jessica Rudman (http://www.jessicarudman.com) is an American composer whose recent works engage with contemporary social themes through realistic or fantastical frames. Her style blends melodic development and narrative structures with sensual harmony and vibrant color to create an intense emotional expression. Rudman’s music has been presented across the USA and abroad by performers including the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and Hartford Opera Theater. Jessica is a  2019 Connecticut Artist Fellow, with support from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, which also receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Julia Soojin Cavallaro

Julia Soojin Cavallaro, composer and mezzo-soprano, enjoys a richly varied career in art song, choral music, oratorio, and opera. She has premiered several of her own works at Tufts University in collaboration with composer and pianist John McDonald. Born and raised in the Boston area, Ms. Cavallaro grew up in an Italian/Korean American household filled with music and art. A graduate of Harvard College and Boston University, she has performed with many leading ensembles in the U.S., including the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Boston Opera Collaborative, and most recently, New Camerata Opera in New York City.

Kelly Krebs

Kelly Krebs is a Minneapolis-based composer who loves writing for singers. After a 20-year creative hiatus, Krebs returned to composing in 2015. He was selected as a composer for the MNSong Program at the 2017 Source Song Festival and in 2018, he was part of the Composer-Librettist Studio with Nautilus Music-Theater. He is currently working on the musical “Norman!” – a wildly imaginative, tragicomic prequel to the events in the classic Hitchcock film PSYCHO.

Christopher Reiche Boucher

Christopher Reiche Boucher is a performer and composer in Victoria BC known for his enthusiasm for performing and composing for unusual instruments and performance situations. His compositions have been performed by the Emily Carr String Quartet, Negative Zed Ensemble, Pembroke Symphony Orchestra, ContaQt, and Quatuor Bozzini. In June 2017, he completed a solo 24 hour performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations in Prince George at the Casse-Tête Festival of Experimental Music. Reiche Boucher performs in Victoria at A Place to Listen and with the Victoria Composers Collective. When not composing he is the librarian for the Victoria Symphony.

Michael Trew

Michael Trew has wide performing and composing experience in a variety of musical genres, including classical, jazz, rock and the healing arts. He began studying Composition with Cortland Hultberg at UBC, graduating with a BMus in (1972). Subsequently he obtained a Professional Teaching Certificate (1976) before returning to obtain a Master's (1980) and Doctorate (1986) in Music Composition. His teachers included Stephen Chatman, Paul Reale, and Elaine Barkin. Currently Michael teaches piano, theory, history, and composition privately, is a performer, and accompanies vocal artists in Vancouver. Original works have most recently been performed by Adrian Verdejo, Tom Shorthouse, Michael Murray, Erato Ensemble, Turning Point Ensemble, Jeremy Berkman and Dave Thomas, as well as Nu:BC.

Robert Strobel

Robert Strobel (b. 1988) has composed works both electronic and acoustic. His work Prairie Dog Rhapsody received a special mention at the Alfred Schnittke Composer's Forum and Competition and as a result was published by Aldebaran Editions. His music has been broadcast twice on WPRB Princeton in Marvin Rosen’s 25-hour new music marathon, and once on Hawaii Public Radio, in the program “Singing and Other Sins.” Among the commissions he has received include an LDS Barlow Commission. Recently, his work, Refugees was selected for the SCI CD Series.

Martha Helen Schmidt

Martha Helen Schmidt is a composer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, and her Master’s degree from Ithaca College. Both degrees were in music theory and composition. Ms. Schmidt has studied with Nadia Boulanger, Louise Talma, Karel Husa, Steven Stucky, and James Ming.

She is published by Theodore Presser and through Martha Helen Schmidt Music. Ms. Schmidt has taught piano, flute, voice, and theory/composition at the elementary, secondary, and college levels. She loves writing Art Songs and has had premieres in the United States as well as in Paris and Fontainebleau, France. She currently teaches secondary vocal music in the Twin Cities area.

Glenn Sutherland

Composer Glenn Sutherland has studied with Michael Trew, Lane Price, and Jocelyn Morlock. His instrumental, choral and works for voice have been performed by soloists, ensembles and orchestras both in Canada and in Europe. Winnipeg’s award-winning Esprit de Choeur, performed a commissioned piece as part of the 2015 Tapestry International Festival for Women’s Voices. He was the CMC’s Emerging Composer (Prairie Region) competition winner for 2016, and has been published by Mayfair Music and Avondale Press.

Carolyn Quick

Carolyn A. Quick (b. 1994) is a native northwest composer and vocalist. Her music has been described as “sensitive” and “evocative” of “streams of light” (Canadian Music Centre BC), often mixing elements of tonality and lyricism to create rich textural landscapes; and her compositions feature a wide variety of both instrumental and vocal ensembles including works for choir, wind ensemble, symphony orchestra, and various other chamber groups.

Her works have been read and premièred throughout North America and Europe by various ensembles including the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Erato Ensemble, the Illini Strings, and the Vancouver Opera’s Young Artist Program.

Jonathan Daniel

Jonathan Daniel is a young Kansas City-based composer with a penchant for the weird, the whimsical, and the philosophical. A Choral Scholar and Oxbridge student at William Jewell College, he currently studies musicology and philosophy. He completed a year at Regent’s Park College (University of Oxford, U.K.) studying with David Stuart. He currently studies with Ian Coleman and Anthony Maglione. Known in the Kansas City area for his choral singing and choral compositional voice, Jonathan’s choral music has been performed and recorded by groups like the William Jewell College Choral Scholars (Liberty, MO) and The Choral Project (San Jose, CA).