Kati Agocs is a composer and soprano based in New York.
Photo: Eve Sussman

Patricia Alessandrini is a composer whose works often feature live electronics. She is increasingly interested in multimedia and collaborative work, especially involving social/political issues.

The American Composers Orchestra is the world's only orchestra dedicated to the infinite variety of music by American composers.

Argentinean composer based in New York City. Her highly textural organic music, and sometimes ritualistic, draws musical elements from avant-garde jazz to contemporary classical.

Beth Anderson (M.F.A./M.A.) is a critically acclaimed composer
of new romantic music, text-sound works, and musical
theater.

Ian Antonio - percussionist, composer, and teacher - Ridgewood, NY.

composer, actor, producer. website: www.ashkenasi.net

A versatile artist of musical depth and sophistication, Clarice Assad is making her mark in the music world as a pianist, vocalist and composer.

I am a guitarist living in New York City.

writer & script consultant; arts presenter

What cannot be said with very little - cannot be said.

Director, Creative Music Studio, Woodstock NY

A resident of New York City, Philippe Bodin is active as a composer, director, dramaturge and vocal coach.

David Bogert is a composer residing in Norwich, NY. His projects are mostly written for string ensembles or solo piano. Interested in collaborative work.

Composer/Performance Artist

Courtney Brown is a composer, performer, and computer programmer currently residing in Brooklyn, NY

"Brown can glide easily between gentle introspection and lively dancing. The two come together in the same piece..." - New Haven Register, Fran Fried

I compose mostly for strings. Classical crossover taking from many genres including jazz, rock, bluegrass, latin, and more...

I am a composer, educator, and clinician. My compositions are written for Full Orchestra, Strings, Wind Ensemble, smaller ensembles, jazz and alternative strings.

Composer/Performer

Peter Capelle is a composer and keyboardist who merges the sonic experience of rock n' roll with standard development techniques and free improvisation.

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With a unique style combining the worlds of classical, jazz, modern, and traditional music, Anthony Catalano's compositions obscure musical boundaries and defy artistic stereotypes......

Writing a chamber opera - childrens' opera next?

Alan Chan has been recognized with honors from ASCAP, Percussive Arts Society, SCI, among others. His percussion music is published solely by HoneyRock Publishing (www.honeyrock.net).

Duo Diorama is a violin-piano ensemble featuring Chinese violinist Minghuan Xu and Canadian pianist Winston Choi.

Ellen Christi is a improvising jazz composer and vocalist. As a jazz vocalist, Christi has perfomed in venues, ranging from multi-media productions to solo concerts.

The man who composes portraits.

Pianist/Composer/Improvisor

Luke Cissell writes, records, produces, and performs music, particularly of the stringed variety.

A Canadian in NYC

Anna Clyne (b. 1980, London) is a New York based composer of acoustic and electronic music. Please visit www.annaclyne.com for further details.

composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music; originally from Albuquerque, NM, now residing in Rochester, NY, attending the Eastman School of Music.

Composer and flutist. Founder of Imani WInds.
Photo: Jeffrey Hornstein

Music can articulate beyond the boundaries of language, and even emotions. Music can be timeless and transcend the limitations of our experience of time.

John Colligan has written music in a variety of genres, especially choral and vocal music, and music for children.

I am a classically trained pianist/accompanist, and I have begun to compose, mainly for musical theater, during the last year.

Creating new music has always played a prominent part at Cornell -- the first music faculty member was a composer, Arthur Farwell. Three Cornellians have won the Pulitzer Prize in Music (so far), and a culture of composing, studying, and performing new works thrives on campus.

I am a composer, arranger, music director and pianist currently living in the New York City area.

I am a professional composer, conductor and teacher based in New York City. I write music for the concert hall, theater and dance.

New York-based guitarist and composer.

I am a New York City based composer/saxophonist/flutist.

Composer/Arranger/Engineer/Classical Guitarist

Composer/singer/guitarist James Durst has performed his songs for audiences of all ages in 49 states and 45 countries since 1965.

Ernest Ebell is a composer/lyricist, arranger/orchestrator, singer, and music copyist. He writes Classical, Jazz, Musical Theatre, and Pop music.

Eight Strings and a Whistle, an exciting and innovative flute, viola and cello trio, has been captivating audiences throughout the Northeast since 1998.

Composer and pianist; over 90 works in all genres. Particular interest in live instruments with electronics; sound art and text-pieces; collaboration with visual artists welcomed.

Randall Eng's operas include "Florida" (Lyric Opera Cleveland, New York City Opera's VOX Festival) and "Henry's Wife" (Center for Contemporary Opera, American Opera Projects).

Classical composer of concert music and film scores.

Composer of music for orchestra, chorus, mixed chamber groups, string quartet, brass quintet, mixed trios, duos, and solo instruments. Worklist at www.composers.com (American Composers Alliance).

I can't imagine any fresh young artist of whom more nonsense has been written than Daniel Fine--most being written by himself.

-William Park

America's premiere flute quartet since 1981.

Composer, pianist and improvising musician. Specializing in orchestral, vocal and chamber music and in music which crosses blurs the line between improvisation and composition.

I am interested in a wide variety of genres: jazz and free improvisation, minimalism, pop, and the music of Japan, Cuba, and elsewhere.

Composer Ryan Anthony Francis is quickly gaining recognition as a fresh and innovative voice in both the New York and national compositional communities.

Miguel Frasconi uses glass objects, electronics, keyboards, and "de-evolved" instruments to create music that sounds from a uniquely imagined tradition

NYC-based experimental composer and performer known for chamber music, hitting shoes with sticks, and putting headphones on performers. Many grants, awards, etc.

Composer living in New York. My music is about energy, drama, color, varying intensity, fragmented tunes, and human expression.

Douglas Geers' music pulls at the loose ends of classical, jazz, pop, and other musics, creating a crunchy blend all its own.

American composer and pianist currently residing in Brooklyn, New York.

Daniel S. Godfrey is founder and co-director of the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music (on the Maine coast) and is co-author of Music Since 1945, published by Schirmer Books. An all-Godfrey, all-string quartet CD was released in February 2004 on Koch Classics, performed by the Cassatt String Quartet and listed in the New Yorker as on of 2004's ten best classical CDs. In June 2007, Koch released another all-Godfrey CD, this one with seven chamber works featuring members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Other Godfrey works can be heard on Albany, CRI, GM, innova, Klavier and Mark compact disks.

"She most impresses [...] with her ability to convey a line with devotion and phrasing that powerfully straddles jazz, cantorial and avant-garde"

All About Jazz- NY

Chris Gotzen-Berg is a Classical Guitarists, Composer, and Educator living on Long Island, NY.

Hailed by the New York Concert Review, as "on the track to greatness".

Edward Green is a composer, scholar, and advocate for the Aesthetic Realism point-of-view as to music. (See http://www.edgreenmusic.org/1-ESCOM.htm).

I am a composer and electronic musician.

Janet Grice, bassoonist, leads Vento Trio (pictured here), and the Janet Grice Group, a Brazilian jazz ensemble.

Jazz , R&B, and classical have always been in my diet, so my pieces sound like hybrids of styles from European music and jazz.

Tomas Gueglio - Composer

Hi, folks, great to be back!

"VOCE the Muse" is an exploratory project seeking the post-modern musical. Compositions use the voice, tradition, improvisation, technology and artists from varying media and styles.

Music Theory/Composition degree (Theory concentration)-University of Delaware, 1999 cum laude graduate, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Kappa Phi. Early (pre-Baroque) music enthusiast.

writes music influenced by East Asian musical traditions, music of the early Renaissance, Western and Eastern philosophical inquiry and the fields of Psychoacoustics and Cognition.

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Composer - Sound Designer - Educator

Katherine Hoover was born in West Virginia and resides in New York, where she maintains an active career as composer, conductor, and flutist.

Richard Edward Horner is an electric guitar virtuoso and composer of new concert and post-concert music in both acoustic and electronic mediums.

I am a conductor and composer in New York City

I compose mostly hymn tunes for use in churches.

Music for film, theater and stage.

Michael Ippolito is a versatile composer-performer who has collaborated with classical, folk and jazz musicians in performances ranging from experimental improvisation to traditional Klezmer music.

Kevin James is a composer, performer, trombonist, writer and thinker.

Chris Jentsch is a Brooklyn-based composer, band leader, and guitarist.

Jenny's music employs intense amplification, hyperactive minimalist textures, and edgy experimentations with the female voice to create anxious, agressive, and sometimes disturbingly honest concert experiences.

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Phillip Johnston is a composer and instrumentalist working at the crossroads of jazz and classical music.

Diane is passionate about her music, and loves working with musicians of all ages and skill levels.

As the largest and most diverse constituent part of Juilliard, the Music Division trains students at several levels of study and encompasses various curricular requirements and types of courses. Juilliard has the advantage of a student body well grounded in the fundamentals. Unquestionably, Juilliard students have demonstrated a very strong potential to master their instruments, their voice, their composition or conducting talents. The role of the School is to build on the technical prowess students bring to the music in order to continue the transformation from competence to artistry.

Composer and Theorist

I am a composer living in NYC. I perform with my group called "The Brian Kastan Trio", playing original fusion compositions.
www.myspace.com/Briankastan

Christopher Kaufman is a prolific composer and is the Founder/Artistic director if CHIRON Performing Arts.

Photo: Kaufman performs his music at the United Nations

I am a composer exploring the realm of digital sound. I want to create music with computers and keyboards, but music with a human essence.

Director of Orchestras at Cornell University
Artistic Director of Brave New Works
conductor of Kalistos Chamber Orchestra
guest conductor of Firebird Ensemble

Solbong Kim is the Artistic Director of Dumbo Space. His music is recorded on Stomp/EMI Records.

Composer (classical and musical theater), Conductor, Pianist, Organist.

Sunny lives in New York and loves all kinds of music. He is a composer of classical music, a singer/songwriter, drummer and jazz pianist.

Good day fellow composers and musicians, it is pleasure to be a member of this society, I wish you all the best in your endeavors.

I am musical director for Composers' Ensemble of Northern New York, which is an opportunity posted at ACF

The Lark Quartet is a dynamic ensemble with a performance history that includes concert tours of the world's great musical centers, and a discography comprising more than one dozen CD recordings.

Hannah Lash is a NYC-based composer who writes music for acoustic instruments.

Clara Latham is a New York based composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic chamber music. She is a PhD student at NYU.

Michael Lee is currently a 22 year old composer residing in New York, Manhattan and studying composition under a professor at Juilliard.

A composer, performer, educator, and scholar who works across a broad spectrum of experimental musical idioms.
Photo: Ken Micallef

Composer of major works in all media and venues

I am a composer who supports new musical ideas through collaborations with other composers/chamber ensembles. I welcome opportunities for new music projects and concert series.

Acitve composer, conductor, educator -- choral, orchestral, instrumental compositions

Eastman grad student currently studying with David Liptak.

Light and dark elements are often tightly interlaced in Raymond Lustig's vibrantly eclectic and expressive music.

Hello! I've been a composer and songwriter. I'm currently working freelance, focusing mainly on my band, and composing a suite of solo piano music.

Composer for film, multimedia, and concert music.

Bunita Marcus has written for Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Kronos Quartet, Aki Takahashi, NYSCA & the Gageego Ensemble, Morton Feldman and Soloists, Tokyo's "Sound-Space ARK," and others. She is active as a composer and conductor, vocalist and pianist in concerts and festivals around the world.

Composition and "hyperpiano"

A contemporary renaissance composer who uses elements from the conservatory, popular, African Diaspora, sacred and secular idioms, comfortably in vocal & instrumental configurations.

Prolific composer of concert music, music for cell phones, and music for video games

Place of Birth: Argentina
Compositional influences: Astor Piazzolla, Igor Stravinsky, Maria Schneider

Missy Mazzoli's music has been performed all over the world by ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, Present Music, ALEA II, NOW Ensemble, Newspeak, and Ensemble Klang.

Composer/ Violinist/ Leader of indie-classical band Build/ Director and Founder of the Carlsbad Music Festival

I am a composer of multi-ethnic music specializing in community/school-based projects. I also offer professional development for composers and educators.

Composes 4 elec/digital-audio, acoustic instrmnts, found objects for her own performance works; dance/video; acoustic ensembles (perc, orch, chorus, chamber), as well as her amazing voice.