COMPOSER BIOS

Ondrej Adamek
Ondrej Adamek (born 1979 in Prague) graduated the composition department on Prague conservatory and on Academy of Music in Prague in 2004. Since 2000 he has been studying composition and electro-acoustic music on Conservatoire National Superieur in Paris. His music was awarded the price Synthèse (Bourges 2002), the price of Metamorphose (Bruxelles 2002, 2004) and 1st price of Hungarian radio.

He composes both electro-acoustic, orchestra, chamber and vocal music and he works with contemporary dance choreographers.

In 2002 he made a project in Kenya with Gaara dance foundation, supported by UNESCO. He participated on the forum 2004 with Nouvel Ensemble Moderne in Canada. In 2006, he was given a Brandenburg Biennale price. He composes for Percussionists de Strasbourg and Lucerne Academy Orchestra (conducted by Pierre Boulez).

Christopher Bailey
Born outside of Philadelphia, PA, Christopher Bailey turned to music composition in his late `teens, and to electroacoustic composition during his studies at the Eastman School of Music, and later at Columbia University. Recent performances of his music occurred in Germany, Switzerland, Montreal, New York, Miami, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, and in Seoul, Korea, where he was a 2nd-Prize recipient in the International Composers Competition. Other awards include prizes from BMI and ASCAP, and the Bearns Prize. For more information, mp3's, software, and fun, informative and interactive paraphernalia.

Ryan Brown
Ryan Brown is a San Francisco-based composer and performer of both electric guitar and electric bass. His formative years were spent playing rock and jazz guitar in various bands before beginning formal music studies at the age of 17. These early years continue to heavily influence his approach to composition, "[pushing] the ensemble sound beyond the Western classical realm" (Josef Woodward, Santa Barbara News-Press). Recent commissions include music for violinist Todd Reynolds, the San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Ensemble, and the BluePrint Festival, a new music series in San Francisco.

Alexandra Gardner
The music of composer Alexandra Gardner has been featured at festivals and performance spaces such as the Aspen Music Festival, Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona and The Kennedy Center. Selected honors and awards include recognition from Meet the Composer, American Composers Forum, The American Music Center, ASCAP, the Maryland State Arts Council, Vassar College and The Netherland-America Foundation. Her music has been commissioned by numerous organizations including the SOLI Chamber Ensemble, CrossSound Music Festival, Percussions de Barcelona, and the Smithsonian Institution. She studied music composition at Vassar College, the California Institute of the Arts and The Peabody Conservatory of Music.

Jeff Herriott
Jeff Herriott is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, where he teaches courses in music technology, multimedia, and composition. Jeff's works typically involve electronics in some capacity and have been performed and commissioned by ensembles and players including bass clarinetist Michael Lowenstern, clarinetist Guido Arbonelli, Arraymusic, percussionist
Greg Beyer, the Syracuse Society for New Music, the Electronic Hammer, and Contact Contemporary Music.
 
Vincent Ho
Vincent Ho began his musical training through the Royal Conservatory of Music. After receiving his Associate Diploma in Piano Performance from the RCM in 1993, he enrolled as a composition major at the University of Calgary. After earning his B.Mus degree, he went on to earn his M.Mus degree from the University of Toronto (1998) and his D.M.A. from the University of Southern California (2005). His mentors have included Allan Bell, David Eagle, Christos Hatzis, Walter Buczynski, and Stephen Hartke. In 1997, he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Schola Cantorum Summer Composition Program in Paris, where he received further training in analysis, composition, counterpoint, and harmony, supervised by David Diamond and Philip Lasser from the Juilliard School of Music and Narcis Bonet from the Paris Conservatoire.
 
Kalna Katsoum
Born in Kyoto, Japan, July 26, 1974.
Nationality: Japan.

After having sung in a choir and a chorus group, started her career as Kalna Katsoum in 1999. Her works are characterized by dramatic and visual performances that she directs herself by means of the collage of the harmony of electronic sounds and her voice through collaboration with other forms of art.

She has done all the works of lyrics, compositions, track making, recording, programming, and mixing by herself. She also offers voice samples and acts as voice actress for other musicians and theatre companies. She had taught computer music in Osaka. In 2005, she changed her artist name to K-Kalna.

Daniel Koontz
A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition for 2001, Daniel Koontz graduated from the Eastman School of Music and from Stony Brook University. Dan’s teachers have included Michael Gandolfi, Daria Semegen, and Daniel Weymouth. Commissions have come from pianist Simon Docking, the Fromm Music Foundation, Swarthmore College, and Ensemble 21. His music has been performed throughout the United States, in Canada, China, and Europe. Dan also composes electronic and computer music. He has taught at Southampton College and Stony Brook, and serves as organist and choir director for Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor, NY.

Hideki Kozakura
Berlin, Germany based Hideki Kozakura, born in Nagoya, Japan, leads a double career as pianist and
composer. He obtained both bachelors and masters degrees from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, and 2nd masters dgrees from Rolyal Music College of Music in Stockholm.

Melissa Mazzoli
Missy Mazzoli's music has been performed all over the world by the Minnesota Orchestra, Present Music, NOW Ensemble, Newspeak, Dinosaur Annex, ALEA III and Ensemble Klang. Missy has studied at the Yale
School of Music and the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, with teachers including David Lang, Louis Andriessen, Aaron Kernis and Martin Bresnick. She is the recipient of a Fulbright grant and a Charles Ives
Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was recently a featured composer in Merkin Hall's Ear Department series.

Shige Moriya
Shige Moriya (New York) has presented his video pieces locally and in Germany, Japan, Finland and Vietnam. Moriya’s artistic work includes video installations, ambient boxes (which involve creating an
atmospheric mixed-media visual/sound installation), and collaborative work with dancers, musicians and visual artists. His installations are often sculptures made of the movements of light. Currently, he is the
co-director of CAVE, co-curator of the New York Butoh Festival and core member of performance companies LEIMAY and CAVEnsemble.

Andrew Norman
Andrew Norman, winner of the 2006 Rome Prize, is a graduate of the University of Southern California. He studied composition with Donald Crockett and Stephen Hartke and piano with Stewart Gordon. Andrew has been commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, the New York Youth Symphony, and SCI among others. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Nissim Prize from ASCAP and the Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival. Andrew is an avid performer of contemporary music and a committed educator of audiences and young musicians.

Filippo Perocco
Filippo Perocco took his degree in Composition and Organ at the Venice Conservatory. Participation at the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt. Commissions and performances by Holland Symphonia, Dresdner Sinfonikern, Janáček Orchestra, Filarmonia Veneta, Vocal Modern, IXION, Aleph, InterEnsemble, Vokalensemble Neue Musik, Kaida, Astra Chamber Choir, broadcastings by NPS Holland, Radio Belgrado, SBS Melbourne, BBC Radio 3, Polski Radio and premierings in festivals as Gaudeamus, Manca, Aspekte, Time of Music, Warsaw Autumn, Theatre Dunois, Cantiere di Montepulciano, Finestre sul ‘900, Zèppelin, Musiques Nouvelles Lunel, New London Wind, Belgrade Review, Brighton, Astra Concerts, Compositori a Confronto. He studied conducting with E. Pomàrico and S. Cambreling. Founder and artistic director of the ensemble L’Arsenale. Publications with ArsPublica.

Bruno Ruviaro
Bruno Ruviaro (composer and pianist born in S√£o Paulo, Brazil). After finishing his undergraduate at the State University of Campinas (Brazil, 2000), he obtained a Master's degree in Electroacoustic music at Dartmouth College (2002-2004). He is currently a doctoral candidate in Composition at Stanford University, where he has been working on both instrumental and electroacoustic music (affiliated to CCRMA - Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). Main composition teachers are Mark Applebaum, Brian Ferneyhough and Chris Chafe. His works have been performed in Brazil, Europe and the United States. Other interests include linguistics, musical theater, improvisation and sound poetry.