Myra Melford
The pianist, composer, bandleader and professor Myra Melford—whom the New Yorker called “a stalwart of the new-jazz movement”—has spent the last three decades making brilliant original music that is equally challenging and engaging.
Edmund Campion is Professor of Music Composition and Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Juliana Gaona is an oboist, chamber and orchestra musician, improviser, and educator. Juliana has participated in contemporary music festivals and ensembles including the Academia Cervantina in Guanajuato, Mexico, Vértice Ensemble in Mexico City, and soundSCAPE Festival in Italy.
Artist/scholar Juan David Rubio has performed for over two decades, mostly on drum kit. His instrumental practice spans jazz, improvisation, punk, contemporary music, and Afro-Latin musics, among others. As a performer and composer, he has produced works for multi- and inter-media settings, electroacoustic pieces, and non-traditionally notated compositions.
Ken Ueno, is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and sound artist. His music celebrates artistic possibilities which are liberated through a Whitmanesque consideration of the embodied practice of unique musical personalities.
Carmine-Emanuele Cella is an internationally acclaimed composer with advanced studies in mathematics. For many years he has worked on the poetical relationships between the structured world of mathematics and the chaotic world of artistic expression, using music as a medium. His music is not based on melodies, chords or rhythms but is more about writing the sound itself.
Edmund Campion
Juliana Gaona
Juan David Rubio
Ken Ueno
Carmine-Emanuele Cella