Gina Friedrich

Gina Friedrich is a fourth-year music major at Concordia University of Edmonton, with an emphasis in composition. She began singing in choir during her first degree, a Bachelor of Science in Biology, also at Concordia. Her enjoyment of choir, along with her newly-developed enjoyment of art song, and her passion for poetry, ultimately encouraged Gina to pursue this second degree. She currently studies composition with Matthew Emery, and also works as an administrative assistant for Choir Alberta, a Choral Scholar at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, and sings with the Concordia Concert Choir and Ariose Choir.

David Miltreiger

David Miltreiger is a drummer/percussionist and composer entering his fourth year of study in MacEwan University's Bachelor of Music Program. Inspired by dramatic and motivic scores from video games, film, and theatre, he is interested in the role of music as part of larger works of art; he seeks to incorporate such aspects of theme and storytelling into the longstanding tradition of Art Song.

Aaron Addorisio

Aaron Addorisio (he/him) is a percussionist, vocalist, composer, and conductor based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan / Edmonton. He is a recent graduate with honours from MacEwan University's composition degree and audio recording diploma programs, and Concordia University of Edmonton’s Church Music & Conducting Certificate. Aaron has strong ties to both the classical and contemporary music communities, and can often be found singing with and/or playing percussion for many choirs, theatre productions, orchestras, and jazz ensembles around the city, and acting as Music Director for Trinity Lutheran Church. Aaron was a 2022 SOCAN Young Composers Award winner for his electronics + drum set piece ‘i need you (to get back to me)’ and was commissioned in the same year by MacEwan University to compose a work for choir and big band to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the institution.

Nathan Wright Bueno de Mesquita

Nathan Wright Bueno de Mesquita is a composer born in Culiacán, Sinaloa in 2003. He is now based in Arlington, Virginia, and studies composition at SUNY Fredonia. He studies horn as a primary instrument but is also proficient on piano. His compositional style combines jazz chord voicings, and French-inspired harmony with modal melodies and scales often borrowed from Jewish folk music.

Owen Bloomfield

Owen Bloomfield is a Cambridge, Ontario based composer and community musician. His music has been performed across Canada, the United States and in Europe, being described as dramatic, lyrical, and deeply moving. Owen writes for a variety of ensembles and soloists, with recent performances by the chamber wind group The _____ Experiment of Do Not Wish For Any Other Life (Kitchener,2024), soprano Mele Santos of the mini-opera Invisible (Halifax,2023), the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra the symphony In Tempore Mutationes (Waterloo, 2022), mandolinist Daniel Ahlert for Reflection for solo Mandolin (Westerdelt, Germany, 2022). Owen also collaborates in interdisciplinary works that include dance, acting and music outside of conventional musical theatre forms (River Flow, and Tilt! with the group SlanT), and has worked in reconciliation projects such as Woman of the Drum with the community singing group Inshallah and the indigenous women’s drum circle Mino Ode Kwewak N’gamowak (the Good Hearted Women).

Owen is a member of the Canadian League of Composers and an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. He has a BMus in composition from Wilfrid Laurier University and a MMus from the University of British Columbia.

www.owenbloomfield.com

Patrick McGraw

Patrick McGraw has made Toronto, Canada his home since immigrating from the United States in 2001. An early interest in the sciences led him to a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology, but the pull of his other great love, music, proved irresistible. He returned to school and completed a DMA with Gary Kulesha at the University of Toronto. His chamber, vocal, operatic, electroacoustic and wind ensemble works sometimes draw direct inspiration from his physics background but the influence is often subtle, reflecting a deep appreciation for nature’s beauty and a fascination with the connection between abstract patterns and embodied, sensory experience. He remains active in the sciences as a teacher, finding unexpected overlaps between the two endeavours.

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Margaret King

Margaret King (B. Mus, ARCT) is a piano teacher, collaborative pianist and composer, living in Edmonton, AB. The interplay of words and music led Margaret to write choral music. Her latest commissions include an SSAA work, ‘Reflections’, for Belle Canto (2020), a TTBB score, ‘Heart of Night’, for the ‘New Choral Works for the Edmonton Community’ project commissioned by Pro Coro Canada (2020), ‘Compass Rose Suite’, a set of five pieces (2020) for the Calgary Girls Choir, and ‘Elegy’, an SSAA work, for Sirens Choir (2022). Going forward, she is keen to hone her technique and explore writing art song!

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John Kuntz

The music of composer and pianist John Kuntz (b. 1996) ventures within timbral extremes, pursuing dissonant, emotive and expressive depths, theatrical magnetism, as well as electronic soundscapes. He is currently a freelance composer in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His works have been performed at Western University, Berklee College of Music, the University of Memphis, and Luther College. Recently, Kuntz completed a year-long composer-in-residence program with the Mississippi Valley Orchestra, which culminated with the premiere of Remembering in spring, 2023. Kuntz holds degrees from Luther College and the University of Memphis in composition and piano.

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Aaron Price

With music described as "beautiful" and "radiant" by Fanfare Magazine, Aaron Nathan Price infuses lyricism and whimsical, jazz-influenced sensibilities in both his compositions and performances. He is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Connecticut Summerfest, and tours internationally as a composer, clarinetist, educator, and ludomusicologist. Aaron currently teaches in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba, and previously served as a Visiting Lecturer in Music at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

For more info: www.aaronpricemusic.com

Mari Alice Conrad

Mari Alice Conrad is an emerging, award-winning composer in Edmonton, Alberta with a BMus in composition. She has composed works for Babɛl Choir (Toronto), Standing Wave Chamber Ensemble (Vancouver), Exultate Chamber Singers (Toronto), Allegra Chamber Orchestra (Vancouver), SHHH!! Ensemble (Ottawa), Edmonton Winds (Edmonton), East Chamber Music Emerging Composer Festival (Toronto), and Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton). Recent performances of her works were featured at Ottawa Chamberfest, Vancouver’s FestivELLE, Toronto’s East Chamber Music Emerging Composer Festival, the Banff Centre, and New Music Edmonton. Mari Alice is currently attending the University of Alberta in graduate studies in composition.

For more information:

www.marialiceconrad.com

HANS BRIDGER HERUTH

HANS BRIDGER HERUTH (b. 1997) is an award-winning composer whose music has been praised as “lovely and delicate” and “impressively stylish” (The American Prize), and for having an “invigorating richness” (KC Metropolis). In addition, he is a conductor, pianist, singer, and violinist of distinction. Recent engagements include the premiere of his piece Wytchkraft by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephanie Childress, and the premiere of his choral work “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” by the vocal consort Vox Nova. Heruth will premiere his song cycle “Piano Lessons” with baritone Patrick Graham in the Fall of 2022.

For more information:

www.hansbridgerheruth.com

Jordan Alexander Key

Jordan Alexander Key is a blind, queer composer and founder of the Aegis Institute of Florida, a non-profit school serving underprivileged youth. Jordan’s music is eclectic and programmatically multifarious; their research in early music, videogame music, contemporary concert music, Scottish music, and the history of rhythmic notation infuse their compositions with tunefulness couched within intricate counterpoint, kaleidoscopic harmony, and inventive rhythmic impulse. Outside of their musical career, Jordan speaks around the Southeastern United States at schools about handicapped and queer advocacy in education and art. Their music is described as “fearlessly vulnerable in its approach to social issues” (Calliope’s Call).

For more information:

www.jordanalexanderkey.com

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Edward Enman

Edward Enman is a pianist and composer whose music warmly embraces storytelling, multi-media, collaboration, and innovative performance experiences. He performs regularly across Canada, and his compositions have been premiered and performed around the world. He has recently held residencies with the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, Labo Montréal, Westben PCR, 1:2:1 Intensive, and a commission project with the SHHH!! Ensemble. His first full-length album of original music, funded by FACTOR Canada, will be recorded and released in 2022. Dr. Enman holds a doctorate in solo piano performance from the University of Montréal and is currently based in Montréal, Canada. (edwardenman.com)

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Clayton Trumbull

Clayton Trumbull (b. 2002) is an American composer and violist from Saratoga Springs, New York. He is completing his B.M. in Music Composition and B.M. in Viola Performance at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, currently studying with Matthew Barber and George Taylor. He is also involved in local activism, much of his work exploring these themes in his own experience filtered through uniquely surreal and unsettling soundscapes.

Edward Spear

Edward Spear is a composer and vocalist from Wurtsboro, New York. He currently is a student at SUNY Fredonia where he studies music composition with a concentration in voice. During his time at Fredonia, he has studied composition with Dr. Andrew Martin Smith, Professor Jamie Leigh Sampson, and Dr. Paul Coleman, and has studied voice with Professor Joe Dan Harper. Known for his unique harmonic structures and tone, Edward draws many musical influences from the human experience and the world around us. Edward enjoys writing for a wide range of genres, including art song, choir music, instrumental and vocal chamber music, electronics, and more.

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Alyssa Wixson

Alyssa Wixson creates music that explores questions of temporality, sound spectra, communication, and in-the-moment choices. Her interests yield expressive and evocative music that ranges from relatively traditional to highly experimental. Her work has been performed at ICMC/NYCEMF, by Illumine Choirs, the Mivos Quartet, the Avimimus Vocal Duo, and the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra as part of their chamber series. Additionally, Wixson often collaborates with independent filmmakers. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree with a composition emphasis from Texas Tech University, and is currently pursing a Master of Arts in composition at Stony Brook University.

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Matthew-John Knights

Matthew-John is a Vancouver based composer, studying for his doctorate with Dorothy Chang and Jocelyn Morlock. Despite still being at the early stage of his career, he has already won several awards and important premiers, including his “Chromatic Aberrations,” played by Standing Wave Ensemble at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival, and a place in the Winnipeg New Music Festival. For Matthew-John, music must be more than pitches and rhythms in order to bring something new and fresh to our ears, and he is constantly thinking about colour and space in the creation of all his compositions.

For more information:

https://www.matthewjohnthecomposer.com/
Instagram: @matthewjohnthecomposer

Chia Yin Wu

Chia Yin Wu is a Taiwanese-Canadian composer whose musical journey began in the Reformed tradition of Presbyterian hymnody. She studied piano and voice at National Taiwan Academy of Arts, composition at McGill University, and theology at Knox College, University of Toronto. Her music is performed in Canada, Taiwan and Malaysia.

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Frederick Lau

After having graduated with First Class Honours in the Bachelor of Arts in Music program from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Frederick Lau is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Composition at McGill University under the supervision of Prof. Melissa Hui. In 2021/22, Lau served as the composer-in-residence of the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble. His recent digital composition, Interbeing (2020), was selected for performance at the annual conference of the Canadian University Music Society. Lau’s compositions have been premiered by various professional ensembles.

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OBEDIYA JONES DARRELL

OBEDIYA JONES DARRELL is a Canadian multi-talented music composer & playwright. After studying music composition at Simon Fraser University, and Audio Engineering at Douglas College, he has moved into writing and producing film and theatre. His musical “Salvation” won best script in the Christian Film Festival (Richmond, VA.) Two of his Radio Drama musicals are Canadian award winning productions from the NCRA. In 2020 he was selected as the Music Composer Fellow for Cleveland Public Theater. In addition to Cleveland, Ohio, his work has been performed in Vancouver, New Orleans, & Indonesia.

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