Meet the Composers

Gloria Coates was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, and began composing and experimenting with overtones and clusters in early youth. Both Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977) and Otto Luening (1900-1996) were important mentors.

Gregg August is an American jazz Composer

Israeli pianist, composer, vocalist and educator Guy Mintus is equally at home whether he’s sharing the stage with jazz legends, composes for classical orchestras, collaborates with masters of traditional music, working with kids or guesting as a soloist with Ska-Punk band Streetlight Manifesto with whom he performed at a sold out Beacon Theater.

Hailed by The New York Times as “striking and resourceful…handsomely brooding,” Hannah Lash’s music has been performed at such major venues as Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall, Lincoln Center, the Times Center in Manhattan, the Chicago Art Institute, Tanglewood Music Center, The Aspen Music Festival & School, among others.

Haralabos [ Harry ] Stafylakis (Montreal, b. 1982) is a Canadian-American composer based in New York City. His concert music strives for dramatic emotional and intellectual expression, integrating idioms drawn from classical and popular styles.

Hilary Purrington is a New York City-based composer of chamber, vocal, and other orchestral music.

Saxophonist and composer Hitomi Oba was raised in Berkeley, California.

Igor Santos (b.1985) is a Brazilian-American composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic concert music. His works have been performed by groups such as eighth blackbird, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Spektral Quartet and The Florida Orchestra.

inti figgis-vizueta (b. 1993) writes magically real musics through the lens of personal identities, braiding a childhood of overlapping immigrant communities and Black-founded Freedom schools—in Chocolate City (DC)—with Andean heritage and a deep connection to the land.

Aspiring young conductor and composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez Mercado (b.1990) is zestfully embarking on an exciting career.

Ivor Francis received his bachelor of music degree in composition from California State University, Northridge in 1985, where he studied primarily with Aurelio de la Vega.

Jack Hughes is a Chicago-based composer who is interested in exploring the ways in which the inner life of sound interacts with a listener’s body, mind and soul.

New York-based composer James Diaz (b. 1990) is the winner of the 2015 National Prize of Music in Composition by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia for his Concerto for Percussion Trio and Orchestra, Saturn Lights.

Canadian-American composer Jared Miller is emerging as an important voice in his generation.

Jay Hurst (b. 1989) is an Indiana-based composer of concert, film, and electronic music.

Jeremy Podgursky’s music has been described as soulful, vibrant, emotionally intense, imaginative, passionate, joyful, optimistic, dreamy, playful, and otherworldly.

The music of Rome Prize- and Guggenheim-winning composer, Jesse Jones, has been described as “striking,…elegant and poised” (New York Times), “engaging,…eerie, and well-written” (Los Angeles Times), “fascinating,“ and possessed of “the melodic earthiness of Britten” (New York Classical Review).

Jessica Rudman’s recent music inspires empathy for contemporary social issues through stories of myth, magic, and sci-fi.

Jihyun Kim’s music has appeared in the prestigious venues around the world.

Jihyun Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1988. Studying Composition with Shinuh Lee, she graduated early from Seoul National University with a Bachelor of Music as valedictorian and then earned a master’s degree in Composition.

Jiyoun Chung is a native Korean pianist composer. Her pieces have been commissioned, performed or recorded by outstanding groups and musicians such as Ensemble Dal Niente, Invoke, Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus, April Kim, John Koch, and many others.

Jiyoung Ko is a Michigan based composer of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music. One of her compositions was described as a “brilliant study in timbre, tone, and color… a haunting piece” (AB Newswire)

Joan Tower is widely regarded as one of the most important American composers living today. During a career spanning more than fifty years, she has made lasting contributions to musical life in the United States as composer, performer, conductor, and educator.

Guitarist, composer, arranger, lyricist, vocalist and songwriter Joel Harrison has “created a new blueprint for jazz.” (New Orleans Times Picayune.)

Joel Rust (b. 1989, London) has received commissions from the Melos Sinfonia, the Park Lane Group, the Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, Filthy Lucre, Discantus, and Mr McFall’s Chamber.