Composing

  • Simon Rivet

    Simon Rivet

    Simon is a Canadian composer creating music for concert, film, and dance. Rooted in contemporary spirituality, his music unfolds as an invitation to listen deeply. By weaving tradition and experimentation, nature and inner perception, his work creates spaces of stillness and presence where sound becomes a pathway toward intimacy, connection, and one’s own silent sanctuary. 

  • Cerulean S. Payne-Passmore

    Cerulean S. Payne-Passmore

    Cerulean is a composer and performer whose work lives at the intersection of identity, technology, and the outer edges of music. Drawing on processes of collaborative improvisation and the integration of electronics with acoustic sound, their music often navigates themes of grief, the climate crisis, and genderqueer expression, making what seems strange sound beautiful.  Cerulean…

  • Elizabeth Kate

    Elizabeth Kate

    Elizabeth Kate is a Brooklyn-based cellist and vocalist working in contemporary classical music. Her practice centers on expanding the repertoire for vocalizing cellist, merging voice and instrument into asingle expressive body. As One, her most recent solo project, is a compositional and performative exploration of the bodies relationship to sound. By merging the voice with…

  • Seare Farhat

    Seare Farhat

    Seare draws inspiration from myriad sources: poetry, mathematics, his  Afghan heritage, and Medieval music. He is particularly interested in the way language, as a musical tool, encodes and defines history. Seare has received commissions from the JACK and FLUX Quartets, Longleash Ensemble, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Moscow New Music Ensemble, and Byrne-Kozar Duo among others. Seare has…

  • Iddo Aharony

    Iddo Aharony

    Continuously  exploring  the  myriad intersections of sound, environment, culture, and technology, Iddo’s diverse body of work spans a wide variety of instrumentations, media, and interdisciplinary collaborations, from a fully-staged opera to various experimental projects utilizing live electronics and video. Iddo is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Colorado College, where he teaches courses…

  • Adam Mirza

    Adam Mirza

    “I am a composer and sound artist who works with acoustic and electronic instruments as well as video and other media. My work involves the abstraction and reconfiguration of bodily gestures and politically charged or otherwise culturally resonant sonic media. I use the tools of production (microphones and loudspeakers, audio and video processors, musical instruments, objects,…

  • Loren Loiacono

    Loren Loiacono

    The music of Loren has been described as “plush…elusive” (New York Times), “vivid and colorful” (Albany Times Union), “dreamy, lilting” (Pioneer Press), and “quirky and fun” (Bad Entertainment- Twin Cities). An emerging orchestral voice, Loiacono has received commissions and performances from such nationally esteemed ensembles as the Detroit Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Sacramento…

  • Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez

    Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez

    Growing up in a family of musicians, music was Raina’s first language. Whether playing improvisation games on a long car ride or singing made up stories while her dad played the piano, these formative familial experiences of music making continue to be the basis of her process. Raina began to write songs at an early…

  • William Jae

    William Jae

    As a pianist, composer, and entrepreneur, his broad interest in the arts and sciences combined with his keen sense of melody and harmony has pushed him to explore and discover unique connections through his music. William first began his musical studies, teaching himself piano at around the age of 10. From 2018 to 2020, he…