We are over the moon to work with Ingrid Laubrock next season on her wonderful string quartet, "Ashes"! More info on the concert will come later this year, but in the meantime get to know Ingrid and her work!
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Ingrid Laubrock is an experimental saxophonist and composer, interested in exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multi-layered, dense and often evocative sound worlds. A prolific composer, Laubrock was named a “true visionary” by pianist and The Kennedy Center's artistic director Jason Moran, and a “fully committed saxophonist and visionary" by the New Yorker. Her composition Vogelfrei was nominated 'one of the best 25 Classical tracks of 2018' by The New York Times.
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We feel incredibly lucky to have gotten so many amazing applications this year. We were introduced to many new-to-us composers and hope to hear and play their music in the years to come! We would like to mention all of our finalists and encourage you to get to know them and their work!
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Rejecting grandiose narratives, the music of Chicago-based composer Paul Novak is driven by a love of
small things: miniature forms, delicate soundscapes, and condensed ideas. His compositions, which draw influence from literature, art, and poetry, have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. Each of Novak’s pieces immerses listeners in a shimmering and subtly crafted musical world, guided by a sense of empathy for the performers playing his music. Originally from Reno, NV, he is currently a PhD student at the University of Chicago.
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Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Ya-Lan Chan is currently based in New York. She is interested in the creative
process of music-making with collaborators, especially to explore the relationship between technology and humans and how these two shape each other over time. She also collaborates with various artistic mediums and has done so with animation, poetry, dancing, and lighting design. Ya-Lan holds degrees from Manhattan school of Music and Taipei National University of the arts. She is currently pursuing her doctoral study at Manhattan School of music, where she studies with Dr. Reiko Füting.
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Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and video director. He has created over 80 works for various instrumentation and media. Central to his practice is the inventive use of sound, image and time, and the desire to create experiences that expand our understanding of the world. Since 2001 he has explored the global transformation of culture and music's relationship with video, science and architecture.
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Dan Langa is a composer, producer, and arranger creating music that explores bold and vivid textures. He holds a particular fascination with electroacoustic music and incorporating elements of the natural world into his work. He is the co-founder of cmntx records, a New York City-based and artist-run record label committed to supporting artists with distinct, multifaceted practices. Dan earned his BA in Music from Amherst College and a Master’s Degree in Music Theory and Composition from NYU.
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Lydia Winsor Brindamour’s work explores cross-sensory perception, embodiment and acoustic properties of sound. She is interested in immersive contexts for live performance, challenging conventions of proscenium performance spaces and providing alternative modes of engagement for the audience. Her practice includes composition, photography and video and she enjoys working in interdisciplinary collaborative contexts.
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Christopher Goddard is a U.S.-based Canadian composer and pianist. Recent commissions have come from the Lucerne Festival, the Royal Conservatory/Koerner Hall and the City of Reutlingen. As a pianist, he has appeared as a soloist and ensemble member in the premieres of dozens of new works, and has toured North America as one half of Aether Eos, a duo with New York-based violinist Leah Asher. He currently teaches theory and aural skills at the University of Florida.
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Danniel Ribeiro is a composer whose recent work focuses on exploring the use of instruments by way of project-specific contextualized techniques, preparations, practical sculptural objects, and transduced electronics. Currently, Danniel is a PhD candidate in music composition at UC Berkeley.
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Mauro Hertig is a composer with an output of ensemble, chamber and site-specific works. He creates stage environments as game-like settings, using sounds of intimate speech, touch and instructions. Hertig was selected “Promising Young Composer 2016” by the Ulysses Network, as well as laureate of the Voix Nouvelles Composition Academy Royaumont in 2019. More recently, he was composer-in-residence at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) Zürich, the 180° Festival for Innovative Art in Sofia and the Camargo Foundation, France. Mauro Hertig is based in New York.
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