Matilda Hofman has a varied and busy conducting schedule. Reviewers have described her conducting as “taut and finely controlled” and giving “a striking sense of purpose.” She is Music Director of the Diablo Symphony Orchestra, conductor-in-residence for the Empyrean Ensemble at UC Davis and Artistic Director of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Matilda also serves as a cover conductor for the San Francisco Symphony.

Emily Joy Sullivan (b. 1987) is a composer, educator, and choral director based in Northern California.

James R. Larkins (b. 1999) is a composer and cellist from North Carolina, who uses music to explore multiplicity, tradition in dialogue with collective memory, and the human impact of continuum and rupture. James is a graduate student at UC Davis, currently studying composition under Kurt Rohde.