Bret Battey (b. 1967) creates electronic, acoustic, and multimedia concert works and installations. He has been a Fulbright Fellow to India and a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and he has received recognitions and prizes from Austria’s Prix Ars Electronica, France’s Bourges Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique, Spain’s Punto y Raya Festival, Abstracta Cinema of Rome, and [...]

Max Giteck Duykers is a composer whose work is dedicated to unusual beauty. His music has been performed throughout the United States, in Italy, England, and Romania. He was recently commissioned by the Jerome Foundation and Western Michigan University to create a chamber opera for his father, tenor John Duykers, electro-acoustic percussionist Joel Davel, and [...]

PETER FLINT (composer, pianist, accordionist, and director of  The Avian Orchestra) comes from a musical family. His grandmother was an organist and piano teacher, and his mother, harpsichordist Karen Flint, leads Delaware’s Brandywine Baroque Ensemble. He received degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music and New England Conservatory. In 2002, he founded The Avian [...]

Michael Gandolfi’s earliest musical invulvement was in rock and jazz improvisation beginning at age eight as a self-taught guitarist. As his improvisational skills developed he became increasingly interested in music composition and began formal study in his early teens.
He received the B.M. and M.M. degrees in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music, as [...]

 
Jonathan Newman (b. 1972) composes music rich with rhythmic drive and intricate sophistication. A recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Newman creates broadly colored musical works, often incorporating styles of pop, blues, jazz, folk, and funk into otherwise classical models. Upcoming projects include These Inflected Tentacles, a chamber work [...]