Durham, NC, USA

Zach Aliotta is a violinist, composer, and teacher from North Carolina. His work centers on keeping classical music relevant in the present and expanding the horizons of what classical music can mean.

www.zachaliotta.com

Brooklyn, NY, USA

A passionate and creative performer, Kate Amrine is a prominent trumpet player balancing a multifaceted career from developing new repertoire and curating concerts to freelancing with many different groups in New York City.

www.kateamrine.com

Rockville, MD / New York, NY, USA

“Ego-less, genre agnostic and without expectations” (JazzTimes) Simone Baron’s work is grounded in playful improvisations and a restless curiosity about the creative process, making music of struggle looking both backwards and forwards often through the lens of ruins.

www.decaycrystallization.com

Lennoxville, QC, Canada

Employing both analog and digital sonic manipulation techniques, Quebec-based composer A.P. Bergeron creates experimental narrative soundscapes based in archival found sound, contemporary minimalist composition, and time-shifted field recordings drawn from his surroundings.

www.yearofglad.bandcamp.com

Brooklyn, NY USA

Che Buford is a violinist and composer from Brooklyn NY. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Music at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

www.soundcloud.com/chesmusic

Long Beach, CA, USA

Marcus Carline is a composer/performer out of Long Beach, CA. He currently performs with C3LA, Choral Arts Initiative, Tonality, Westbeat, and the LA Electroacoustic Ensemble, and frequently works with the voice, electronics, and improvisation in his compositions.

www.marcuscarline.com

Montréal, QC, Canada

Ethan Cohn is a bassist and composer. Based in Montreal for the past six years, he is currently in the process of moving to New York and beginning anew.

www.plasticwaste.bandcamp.com

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Michael Shingo Crawford is a Philadelphia-based composer and violinist who explores narrative and extramusical ideas through sound. His work is inspired by literature, visual art, dance, and his Japanese heritage.

www.michaelshingocrawford.com

Brooklyn, NY, USA

Ford Fourqurean is a clarinetist and composer based in New York City. He performs across the U.S. with his group Unheard-of//Ensemble and his music has been featured at Oh My Ears, Mise-En's Bushwick Open Studios, the Interference Series, Arizona State University, and Concept Lab.

www.fordfourqurean.com

Montréal, QC, Canada

Gabriel Genest is Multi-Reedist, composer, and arranger based in Montreal. His compositional interest lies at the intersection of the jazz tradition and classical music.

www.gabrielgenest.ca

Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Multimedia percussionist Danielle Gonzalez presents activist art productions inspired by social topics through video, lighting, spoken word, and percussion instruments ranging from vibraphone to flower pots and metal pipes. Her in-demand programs have toured internationally through the US and Canada.

www.dgonzalezpercussion.com

Montréal, QC, Canada

An-Laurence is a musician/guitarist and artist from Montreal, Canada dedicated to new music and experimental art.

www.anlaurencehiggins.com

Houston, TX, USA

Malcolm Jackson takes in many roles, but is primarily an active percussionist, working in various musical areas. As a multifaceted percussionist, Jackson has collaborated and recorded with various artists and composers of diverse concentrations.

www.mpinfinite.com

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Abigail Johnson is a sound artist currently residing in Los Angeles. She enjoys combining elements of visual art, folk music, and western art music together to challenge traditional concert roles and ideals.

www.abigailjohnsonmusic.com

Fredericton, NB, Canada

Emily Kennedy is a cellist based in Fredericton, NB, Canada. She mulls over repetition, self-reflection, and time in her work, using effect pedals to expand the possibilities of her instrument.

www.emily-kennedy.com

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Roger Kim’s works cross disciplines, using music, dance, theater, text, and moving graphics to tell stories. His most recent projects incorporate custom-built interactive electronics as a way to blur the lines between performers, audiences, and the artwork itself.

www.rogerkimmusic.com

Montréal, QC, Canada

Sheenah Ko is a solo artist based out of Montreal and also a member of The Besnard Lakes, in addition to a touring member of Thor Harris & Friends (Swans), Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies), Bedouin Soundclash and more. Sheenah's music is intended to swallow audiences into an entrancing journey where one can forget time and space, utilizing a sleu of analog keyboards, ethereal vocals and hypnotic beats.

www.sheenahko.com

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Daniel Lemer is a flutist, guitarist, and composer based in Los Angeles.

www.daniellemer.com

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Cristina Lord is a Los Angeles based composer, pianist, and electronic musician. Her work explores the intersectionality between musical genres and is often based around collaborative approaches to art-making.

www.cristinalord.com

Fayetteville, AR, USA

Matt is a crossover composer, cellist, and improviser. In addition to my work as a composer and sideman, Matt makes his own music by blending his background as an improviser with an interest in production.

www.mattmagerkurth.com

Brooklyn, NY, USA

Kirin McElwain is a cellist and improviser who works in a variety of disciplines, including music, dance, and visual art.

www.kirinmcelwain.com

Canada

Ethan Mitchell is a cellist, sound artist and interdisciplinary collaborator. Until recently, his alter ego Bamford Banbird was running an instagram campaign for president on an exclusively anti-bird platform.

www.instagram.com/bamfordbanbird/

Boulder, CO, USA

Ben Morris is a composer and pianist active in both jazz and contemporary classical music. After studying in Norway as a Fulbright scholar, he is now based in Boulder, Colorado.

www.benjaminmorrismusic.com

New York City, NY, USA

Matt Norman is a recording artists and percussionist from Petaluma, California. He received a bachelor's degree in music from Bard College in 2014 and is currently based in the New York City Metropolitan area.

www.mattnorman.bandcamp.com/music

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Ivonne Paredes is a Lima-born, Los Angeles-based composer and percussionist, whose rhythmic scores combine aspects of traditional Peruvian music with wide-ranging contemporary influences.

www.ivonneparedes.com

Panama, Panama

Interdisciplinary artist. Live performer on instruments like guitar, sitar, melodica keyboards, and voice. On her experience works like a songwriter, theatre of oppressed acting, and short film art director.

www.soundcloud.com/myrammusic

Ventura, CA, USA

Sean Riddle is a bassist, composer, improviser, and educator based active in the Southern California creative music scene. Rooted in the Black American musical tradition, his work draws from a variety of musical cultures, aiming to eviscerate the boundaries between improvisation and composition and to address the current political climate.

www.sean-riddle.com

Brooklyn, NY, USA

Michael Sarian is a trumpeter and composer whose work has been described as "a steady study in dichotomy. With a wordless elegance, the New York City-based musician is flexibly firm, loosely tight, and brightly dark. The innovations within his compositions are deceptively dramatic with varying degrees of a melodic sensibility." (Frank De Blase, Rochester City Newspaper)

www.michaelsarian.com

Toronto, ON, Canada

Composer, pianist and conductor based Toronto, Saman is an avid advocate of new music and a sought-after freelancer. His range of professional activities includes classical, Iranian traditional, rock, electronic and jazz music.

www.samanshahimusic.com

Fountain Valley, CA, USA

Trumpeter James Sherry worked as a community organizer in the Bronx, NY and as a performing artist and educator in Baltimore, Washington, DC, and Chicago. He lives in Southern California.

www.jamessherrymusic.com

Tunis, Tunisia

I have always been passionate about Music and Sound. Playing several instruments and performing, Composing for Film and Sound Mixing, is what keeps me ready to fight for what I desire and believe in.

www.soundcloud.com/soumaya-snoussi

Montréal, QC, Canada

California native, Alexandra Tibbitts is a harpist and experimental improviser based in Montréal, Canada. Her sonic palette meets at the crossroads where classical, contemporary, and electro-acoustic elements harmonize.

www.soundcloud.com/alex-tibbitts

Vancouver, BC, Canada

C. Olivia Valenza is a composer, clarinetist/performer, and collaborator originally from Milwaukee, WI, now based in Vancouver, BC. She is currently expanding her research/practice as part of the MFA cohort in Interdisciplinary Studies at Simon Fraser University.

www.colivia-valenza.com/work

Miami, FL, USA

Gregory J. Watson is a composer, performer, and educator dedicated to the creation, production, and performance of new music. Watson is currently pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.

www.gregoryjwatson.com

Guelph, ON, Canada

Carey West is a vocalist and educator currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program for Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on voice and agency.

www.compassandcadence.wordpress.com

Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Glen Whitehead, D.M.A is a trumpet artist, composer & professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His research explores improvisational phenomena, interactive communication and environmental collaboration between living cultures, technologies and the natural world.

www.glenwhitehead.com

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Gordon H. Williams is a composer and musician creating work to attempt to better understand human conditions through studying perception, cognition & communication and to find hope in building community. His research works in parallel through developing a theory of non-hierarchical music creation.

www.gordonhwilliams.com

Buffalo, NY, USA

Luke is the designer of the new Westben Digital Venue. Luke is an endlessly curious musician and creative coder. His work is playful and play-full, spanning games, sound tools, data visualization, and browser art.

www.lukewilliamsmusic.com

Guelph, ON, Canada

Composer, improviser, Tar & Setar player from Iran. Currently grad Student at the IICSI program @U of Guelph.