In 1999, I founded Concrete Timbre as a studio performance group to create and record new music compositions, soundscapes, sound installations, and several theatrical sound designs. In 2005 we moved out of the studio and have since produced contemporary music in theatrical settings as well as theater performances that feature live music and sound including: 4 Wars, Folie Pure, Coq tôt, Satie's Birthday Party, Un Lieu de Vie, Anna Strong's Laundry, Age of Pain(e), Voices of justice and consangunity..., Dziewczyna, A/K/A Benjamin (Franklin's Women) and several salon series. Each of these interdisciplinary productions featured the talents of more than 20 artists.

As a composer and sound designer, my compositions have been performed at many (many!) innovative performance spaces in New York, Paris, Baltimore, Buffalo, California, Tennessee, and Florida. I’ve been lucky to work with some really inspiring interdisciplinary artists with a flair for the contemporary (!)

So for now, I try to keep the music great, the story interesting, the visuals stimulating, and the movement fresh - and then of course, wind them into a spectacular melange. Merde!

For more information, visit www.AnnWarren.net.

Ann Warren

Hailing from Houston, Texas, trombonist Jasper Davis is a freelance performer in New York City with a wide array of genres and styles at his disposal. From late-night salsa with La Pacha Mambo in Brooklyn dives, to symphony orchestras such as the New York International Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Jasper is constantly seeking new and exciting opportunities to expand his musical palette. One such opportunity is his position with the Asian Cultural Symphony, a New York orchestra celebrating the performance of traditional Chinese music. As a member of the bass trombone/violin duo and production team Contrafunktus, Jasper has premiered new works by New York's own local composers, and has also worked in conjunction with Dave Taylor to win The Lillian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition. Positions of note include a spot on the San Antonio Symphony and Symphony in C sub lists, the Tanglewood BUTI Symphony Orchestra, the City of Houston's MUSIQA Brass Septet, and the Texas Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Jasper received his undergraduate degree in Instrumental Performance from the University of Houston, and is currently a second year Master's student in Orchestral Performance at the Manhattan School of Music. His primary teachers are Steve Norrell, Ilan Morgenstern, and Phillip Freeman.

Jasper Davis

With "a tone to die for" (The Straits Times), Rose is equally at home as soloist and chamber musician. Her playing has taken her to festivals all across Europe and the US, such as the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival, Berlin Young Euro-Classics, and Florence International Music Festival. She holds Associate and Licentiate diplomas in violin performance from Trinity College London, and is currently finishing up the last semester of her Bachelor's degree in classical violin at the Manhattan School of Music, under the tutelage of Lucie Robert and Curtis Macomber.

Rose Kow Xiu Yi

The daughter of Las Vegas bassist Kenny Greig, Stephanie grew up listening to live music, from the musicians' union rehearsal bands playing Count Basie and Duke Ellington charts to the eclectic mix of music in the hotels on the Las Vegas Strip. At age fourteen, she was playing guitar in her father's pop quartet and in blues, funk and rock groups with her peers. With a lifelong love for the great Broadway composers, she devoted herself to learning the Great American Songbook. She studied composition at Smith College, focusing on the intersection of music and theater, particularly the Brecht-Weill collaborations. After a few years acting in small theaters, she acquired an upright bass and began playing in jazz groups in New York. She has played with bands in a variety of settings all over the New York area as well as Spain, Japan and Curacao. She is currently double bass principal in the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra.

Stephanie Greig

Award-winning musician, Jinhee Han started playing the piano at age 4 and composing in her late teens. Her promising musical gift earned her full-time scholarships for both her Bachelors and Masters degrees in music composition including minoring piano performance and graduated with cum laude, at HanYang University in Seoul, Korea.

Afterwards, she earned a Professional Study Diploma in Music Composition with Robert Cuckson as a scholarship recipient from The New School, Mannes College in May 2015.

Throughout her career, she has had several original concert works premiered by world orchestras including in her hometown of Seoul, Korea, and also in Israel, Ukraine, London, Canada, Texas, Connecticut, Los Angeles, New Jersey and New York.

Recently, was selected as a winning composer at Nief-Norf Summer Festival 2018. Her works have been performed at several festivals and workshops such as: SCNMF, Vox Faminae 3rd Edition, Musica per Archi, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, and Groundswell. In her most recent notable project, Yaygara for trumpet solo has been published for new music by women composers on CD by trumpeter, Kate Amrine.

Jinhee serves as Founder/Director for AWCANYC (awcanyc.com), where she collaborates with a variety of talented musicians. She has been working as a pianist in several places and is working as a member of New York Composers’ Circle.

Jinhee Han

Whitney George

Whitney George is a composer and conductor who specializes in the use of mixed media to blur the distinctions between concert performance, installation art, and theater. Utilizing a wide variety of material including literary texts, silent film, stock footage, and visual arts, George's compositions are characterized by an immersive theatricality that thrives on collaboration in all phases of the creative process. Her affinity for the macabre, the fantastic, and the bizarre frequently gives rise to musical programs that evoke the traditions of phantasmagoria and melodrama, challenging musicians to experiment liberally with their stage personae, and audiences to widen the scope of their attention. 

She is the artistic director and conductor of The Curiosity Cabinet, a chamber orchestra formed in 2009 whose members were culled from a network of close collaborators within New York's diverse new music scene. The Cabinet's live performances often engage playfully with the prototype of the classical concert, imbuing even non-theatrical compositions with elements of drama. The ensemble has participated in the inaugural CUNY New Music Festival and was invited as the ensemble-in-residence at the Hartford Women Composers Festival in 2012.

George holds an undergraduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts, a masters degree from Brooklyn College Conservatory, and is currently continuing her studies as a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she studied with David Del Tredici, David Olan, Bruce Saylor, and Tania Leon. In addition to her composing and conducting, George teaches at the Brooklyn College Conservatory, works at the Hitchcock Institute of American Studies and is the Managing Director for New York’s American Modern Ensemble (AME). For more information, visit www.whitneygeorge.com.

Leland Cheuk

Leland Cheuk is the author of the novel The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong (CCLaP Publishing, 2015). He has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies including one from the MacDowell Colony, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Salon, The Rumpus, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, [PANK] Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Bartleby Snopes, The Margins, and elsewhere. He is also an assistant fiction editor at Newfound Journal. He lives in Brooklyn.

Nancy Greening

Will Hand (Peter) is a theater maker and presenter from the Bay Area. In San Francisco, Will premiered acclaimed contemporary international playwrights to emerging audiences. His productions frequently landed in year-end ‘best of’ lists.

Since moving to New York, he has founded The How, an international performance ensemble and has shifted his focus to generative works.

His most recent production featured Polina Ionina, Akmal Rakhimov, and accordionist/composer Lucie Vitkova in Jon Fosse’s I Am the Wind at Unruly Arts Collective in Brooklyn.

Will Hand

Rand Faris

Johari Mayfield

David Glover

David Glover (Jerry) is a Philadelphia born and bred, Poet, Actor and Director.

He is deeply interested in storytelling through movement and has performed solo and collaborative Movement Rituals at The How performace series.

He is most passionate about stories written by women and people of color.

Recent NYcredits include: Julius Caesar (The Gallery Players), Ruined (The Heights Players), Vandals (The How), Machinal (Columbia MFA Thesis), The Escape or a Leap for Freedom (Columbia MFA Thesis), In the Penal Colony (The Tank). Short Films: Print Shop (2016), Miracle Fruit (2018)

Bob is a is a videographer and photographer.  A California native, he recently moved to New York after teaching elementary school for 33 years. A true Canon fan, Bob is usually seen carrying a camera  and shoots photos at lightning speed.

Bob coordinates the technical aspects of live performance projections, and works to provide contextual settings for all Concrete Timbre performances.  His photographs have been published in several books, publications, and internet sites.  Bob graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and has an M.A. from University of San Francisco.

Bob plays blues guitar and is a fan of Jimmy Thackery and Richard Thompson.

For more information, see www.RobertMorton.net.

Robert Morton

Kryssy Wright

Kryssy Wright is a lighting designer in Brooklyn.

Since relocating to Brooklyn she has designed and built sets, designed and hung light plots, stage managed, set up audio and video systems, production managed, tech directed, and swept a lot of floors.

While in NYC, Kryssy has worked with the Esemble Studio Theater, Columbia University, INTAR, Noemie LaFrance, PS122, Danspace, Wild Project and many others. Outside of NYC she went on tour with The Civilians.

Currently Kryssy is the Technical Director/Resident Designer of the Theater at the 14StreetY. She is an Associate Artist with Third Rail Projects, whom with she was awarded a Bessie, Avant Media, and LABA.

Her degree is from Bennington College.

Nancy Greening is a playwright. Her plays have been performed on 2 sides of the Atlantic & include Light Reading in Pick-Up 6 at FringeNYC, Air Born at St. Joan Theatre Co. at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and The Book of Names at Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Octoberfest.

Nancy also directs and produced In the Words of Ed Kennebeck, a tribute to the late playwright Ed Kennebeck. She is a long-time student of the playwright Stuart Spencer, whose workshops inspire many of her plays. Her most recent work includes a 10-minute adaptation of Oedipus the King by Sophocles entitled Edit This the King at John Chatterton's Short Play Lab.  In 2012,  she directed Trifles and 1905 Wife which featured her adaptation of turn of the century essays along with Susan Glaspell’s classic play.

Nancy is the proud aunt of Paige and Nora.

Rand Faris (Mentor & Charry) is a Middle Eastern Actress who has completed her studies in England, graduating with BA hons degree in Drama and Psychology. Her diverse upbringing from living in America as a child and then moving to and growing up in Jordan most her life has allowed her to have a diverse perspective on different cultures. She has been in New York for over two years now, and studied at Stella Adler upon arrival.

She has participated in theatre work at the Producers Club and Dixon Place, and went on to work with The How based in Brooklyn.

She is on her way to breaking into the film and tv industry as that is her desire. She has been in short films and commercials since.

She is fluent in Arabic and English and hopes to participate in projects shining light on both the Western culture and her own Middle Eastern one. In her spare time she enjoys writing poetry and short stories, and filming short films.

New York City-based pianist Sindy Yang is an actively performing classical soloist. Recent performances have included solo recitals at the Manhattan School of Music as well as performances at summer music festivals including Manhattan in the Mountains. She is also an enthusiastic collaborator of chamber music. She has been a participant of several chamber music festivals with scholarship awards including Manhattan in the Mountains, Summit Music Festival, EuroArts Music Festival, and the International Academy of Music.

In addition, Sindy is an ardent advocate of contemporary music. Her most recent projects include premiering solo pieces as well as premiering collaborative works written by composers Jacob Wilkinson and Lydia Wei-en Chang at the Manhattan School of Music.

Sindy began her musical studies at the age of six. As a young student, she was the recipient of numerous music awards and was a prizewinner of several competitions including the Renée B. Fisher Piano Competition. She continued her musical studies at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division, studying piano under the tutelage of Miyoko Nakaya Lotto.

Sindy recently earned a BM in classical piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Joanne Polk. This fall, she will be attending a graduate program at Bard Conservatory as a full scholarship recipient to study with Peter Serkin.

Sindy Yang