Parker Callister is a composer and guitarist
from Ithaca, New York. His music draws influence from electronic
and noise music while also operating in a contemporary music
idiom. Compositional interests include close-mic amplification,
spectral harmony, as well as timbral exploration.
Celebrated for her eclectic, vibrant and sometimes whimsical
sound, composer Mary Denney explores the
relationship between sound, music, and memory. More specifically,
she is particularly drawn to the ways in which music can be used
to shape one’s sense of identity. Mary finds inspiration from a
diverse array of influences, including pop, indie rock, modern
wind ensemble repertoire, minimalism, and free improvisation. Her
music seeks to convey all aspects of the human condition, from
its mundanities to its idiosyncrasies.
Eli Greenhoe is a composer, producer,
conductor, and guitarist from Brooklyn, New York. His works have
been commissioned and performed by loadbang, Ensemble Dal Niente,
Bergamot Quartet, and Contemporaneous, among many others. He has
received fellowships, residencies, and recognition from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, I-Park, ASCAP, Bang on a
Can, and Yale University. His music has been programmed at
the Bang on a Can, Tribeca New Music, Chatter, Ostrava Days (CZ),
and Tokyo to New York (JP) festivals. In 2018 he was awarded a
Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, and in 2021 he was selected as a finalist in the Beth
Morrison Projects “Next Generation” program.
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.
Yingting Liu, a composer from Hunan, China,
studied at the China Conservatory of Music as an undergraduate
who achieved top honors upon admission to the Central
Conservatory of Music for her master’s degree. Liu’s creative
journey is centered around exploring the harmonious blend of
Chinese Taoism and Jesa culture with contemporary music, and her
works are deeply rooted in religious music culture. She is
currently pursing a PhD from the University of Missouri.
Bryndan Moondy is a composer and guitarist
rooted in Northern California. Bryndan’s creative practice
seeks to engage the substance and materiality of sound and is
driven by a fascination with the meanings we construct for
ourselves through listening and engagement with[in] sound spaces.
His work frequently draws influence from the natural world and
other mediums within the visual and literary arts. Bryndan
has received degrees from San Francisco State University and UC
Santa Cruz. He is currently pursuing a PhD in composition
and theory at UC Davis.
Emre Şener is a composer, conductor and
performer from Istanbul, Turkey. As the recipient of the
Promising Turks Fund and the Igor Stravinsky Foundation
Scholarship, he is pursuing his master’s degree at the Juilliard
School in New York. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music,
London, with the highest grade ever awarded in his field.
Composer, writer, flutist, and pianist Jenny
Xiong seeks beauty in the ephemeral. Captivated by the
relationship between sound and silence, bloom and decay, color
and space, death and memory, Jenny creates art to explore the
evanescence of life and the four seasons. She is currently on a
Berkeley Fellowship pursuing a PhD in music with a
concentration in composition at UC Berkeley, where she studies
with Ken Ueno, Carmine-Emanuele Cella, Myra Melford and
Edmund Campion. Additionally, Jenny takes lessons with
flutist Stacey Pelinka and plays flute in the UC Berkeley
Symphony Orchestra.
