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Juhi Bansal
Her music is regularly performed throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia and available on the Naxos, Albany and Roven Records labels. A conductor as well as composer, she has been awarded fellowships by the Douglas Moore Fund for American Opera, the Atlantic Music Center, Seasons Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival Composer’s Symposium, and the Pacific Music Festival. She frequently premieres the work of other composers and accompanies singers at the piano.
Eugenia Cheng
Andrea Clearfield
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YouTube: @andreaclearfieldmusic9095
Nell Shaw Cohen
Cohen has also received commissions from Boston Choral Ensemble, Juventas New Music Ensemble, American Wild Ensemble, The Brass Project, and Montage Music Society, et al. 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.
Previously Artist-in-Residence with the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Cohen has received the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award and the Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize from the International Alliance for Women in Music. Cohen earned degrees in composition from New York University and New England Conservatory, where her teachers included Herschel Garfein and Michael Gandolfi, respectively. 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.
Emerson Eads
Dr. Eads studied choral conducting with Carmen-Helena Tellez at the University of Notre Dame, working with eminent choral conductors including Joseph Flummerfelt, Stephen Cleobury, Anne Howard Jones, and Peter Phillips. Prior to his graduate work, he studied composition with Alaskan composer John Luther Adams.
Evan Fein
Career highlights include serving as Composer-in-Residence (Artiste Associé) for the Paris-based chamber opera troupe Opéra de Poche, a post he held from 2012-2020, and the premiere of his oratorio “Deborah” by Musica Sacra at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in 2016 under the direction of Kent Tritle. Also an accomplished collaborative pianist, Fein’s debut album Over/Under created with cellist Luke Severn was released on the Move Records label in late 2022.
Evan Fein holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts and a Master of Music from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music. In addition, he pursued auxiliary studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUBiS) and L’École Normale de Musique de Paris (EAMA). His dissertation “The Ghosts of Versailles” by John Corigliano: An Evolutionary Study was completed in 2014. The first comprehensive study of the work commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera for its centennial, it is now available to scholars around the world.
Jodi Goble
Stanley Grill
Felix Jarrar
Joseph Jones
Mr. Jones studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and has been a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and Allentown Symphony. He has also been an assistant or apprentice conductor with the New York Youth Symphony, National Music Festival, and Gulf Coast Symphony. He’s guest conducted the Color of Music Festival orchestra and with the Trilogy Opera Company. In 2015 he founded Orchestra Amadeus, a New York City based project whose mission is to promote social justice through classical music.
As a composer, Mr. Jones’ works have been performed in the United States and Europe. He has written a wide variety of music including art song, solo instrumental, chamber music, choral, concertante, chamber, string, and full orchestra, oratorio, and opera. Most recently he was the first prize-winner in the call for scores held by Music Of the Unsung America in Miami, giving the premiere of his Second Symphony for String Orchestra in April, 2021.
Mr. Jones has studied violin, viola, percussion, and voice and has performed as an orchestral and chamber musician, chorister, and soloist. He studied composition with Nicholas Maw at Peabody and Dr. Samuel Adler at the Bowdoin Festival.
Mr. Jones is a native of Rhode Island, where he was raised on a farm in a small town. He currently lives in New York City.
Lori Laitman
Her operas include The Scarlet Letter with David Mason (the Naxos release was an Opera News Critic’s Choice and one of Fanfare Magazine’s Top 5 CDs of 2018); The Three Feathers, a fairy tale opera with Dana Gioia (Solo Opera presents their production in Sept. 2023); and Uncovered, a one-act chamber opera with librettist Leah Lax, based on her memoir.
Laitman’s music is praised for its uniqueness, craft and beauty: “unmistakable…masterful” (Opera News); “artistry of the highest order” (Textura.org); “gripping and thought-provoking” (American Record Guide). She’s received commissions from the BBC, The Royal Philharmonic Society, Opera America, Opera Colorado, Seattle Opera, Grant Park Music Festival, Music of Remembrance and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Her discography is extensive, and textura.org ranked The Ocean of Eternity #4 of the top 20 Classical Vocal CDs of 2022.
A magna cum laude Yale College graduate, she received her MM from Yale School of Music, which awarded her the Ian Mininberg Alumni Award for Distinguished Service in May 2018.
Bess McCrary
Originally from North Carolina, Ms. McCrary has lived in New York for 20 years and writes music, lyrics, and poetry for multiple genres and artists, and is a voice actor most fond of narrating horror.
Reinaldo Moya
As the Composer-Residence at The Schubert Club 2017-19, he wrote Tienda: a chamber opera praised by The Star Tribune for its “proud individuality.” His opera Memory Boy, with a libretto by Mark Campbell, was commissioned by the Minnesota Opera and premiered in 2016.
His works have been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the New Jersey Symphony. Other performers include the Jasper and Attacca String Quartets, the Oberlin Conservatory Orchestra, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Lysander Piano Trio, among others.
He is a graduate of The Juilliard School with masters and doctorate degrees. Mr. Moya has taught at St. Olaf College, the Interlochen Arts Camp, and Augsburg University, and is currently Associate Professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
Michael Rose
Jessica Rudman
Myron Silberstein
Myron’s studied composition while at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Chicago. He also continues the antique tradition of manuscript copying; just as early composers wrote out manuscripts by hand to learn the techniques of past masters, Myron’s work digitally engraving unpublished manuscripts by Giannini, Flagello, and others has contributed greatly to his own compositional work. He enjoys literature, films, cooking, and translating Sanskrit.
Dennis Tobenski
Scott Wheeler
Scott has appeared as conductor in New York, Berlin, Boston, and on several recordings, often with the Boston-based ensemble Dinosaur Annex, which he co-founded and directed for many years. He has also conducted many productions of opera and musical theatre works and has appeared as a pianist in a wide repertoire of classical, jazz, and cabaret.
Scott Wheeler was born in Washington DC and grew up various cities in the American midwest and east, then studied at Amherst College, New England Conservatory, and Brandeis. His principal teachers were Lewis Spratlan, Arthur Berger and Virgil Thomson, along with studies at Dartington with Peter Maxwell Davies and Tanglewood with Olivier Messiaen. Scott is Senior Distinguished Artist in Residence at Emerson College in Boston, where he teaches musical theatre and songwriting.
Ed Windels
Ed has been the recipient of a fellowship at the Aspen Summer Music Festival and Meet The Composer grants. Recent commissions include a song cycle for Bargemusic’s Here And Now series, a piano solo piece for his alma mater The Mannes College of Music, Peal Off for Chicago’s Gaudete Brass Quintet, a duo for violas for Michael Hall, and a bass oboe sonata for British reed virtuoso Mikey Sluman.
Recently completed projects include a setting for tenor and large orchestra of John Hollander’s Summer Day, and an edition of Richard Strauss’s notoriously large-scale opera Elektra for 32 instruments. A version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, re-arranged and re-orchestrated in a 1920’s jazz idiom, premiered in February 2018 by its commissioner, Edmonton Opera in Alberta, Canada. And in October of 2020, Ed provided arrangements and orchestrations for “Twilight: Gods”, Michigan Opera Theater’s reimagining of Götterdämmerung directed by Yuval Sharon, named by The New York Times as one of the best Classical Music events of 2020.
When not running his own virtual assistance and administration business, Ed is also a co-founder and co-producer of Broadway Belts for PFF!, an annual fundraiser for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation featuring major Broadway talent, and co-founder and Board member of the New York chapter of the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers.