Composer Shelley Washington (1991) has emerged as an important and powerful voice of her generation. She writes music that draws from every sound she’s ever heard, tacking together snippets of jazz, rock, American folk, etc. sewed together with heavy...
Inga Chinilina composes works spanning both acoustic and electroacoustic realms, including intimate solo pieces, orchestral works, as well as music for dance and film. She conceptualizes music as an act of translation—an idea she explores through her...
Ayọ̀ Olúrántí (formerly Ogúnrántí) studied Composition & Organ at the University of Southampton (UK), graduating with a first-class honours degree and holds a PhD in Composition & Theory from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Having studied pre-colonial...
Andrew Norman (b. 1979) is a Los Angeles-based composer and educator. He has written for leading ensembles worldwide and is the recipient of the Grawemeyer Award, the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Musical America’s Composer of the Year distinc...
Matthew Ricketts is a Canadian composer currently based in NYC. Matthew’s music has been called “lyrical, contrapuntal, rhythmically complex and highly nuanced” (The American Academy of Arts and Letters) and is noted for his “effervescent and at times...
Trevor Weston’s music has been called a “gently syncopated marriage of intellect and feeling.” His choral music demonstrates a “knack for piquant harmonies, evocative textures, and effective vocal writing.” Weston’s honors include the George Ladd Prix de...
Annea Lockwood’s compositions range from sound art and environmental sound installations to concert music. In synchronous homage to Christian Barnard’s pioneering heart transplants, in 1968 Lockwood began a series of Piano Transplants in which defunct...
Estonian-American composer, pianist and animator Lembit Beecher writes “hauntingly lovely and deeply personal” music (San Francisco Chronicle) that stems from a fascination with the ways memories, histories, and stories permeate our contemporary lives. A...
Called “some kind of musical Thomas Edison – you can just hear her tinkering around in her workshop, putting together new sounds and textural ideas” (San Francisco Chronicle), Katherine Balch is a composer interested in found sounds, playfulness, intimate...
Charles Peck is a composer whose work has been called “daring” (Philadelphia Inquirer), “wild and shimmering” (Broad Street Review), and “substantial, personal, genuine” (Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music). His music, spanning a range of chamber and large...
