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.

She is currently working on a Master's degree in classical violin at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Lucie Robert and Curtis Macomber.

Rose Kow Xiu Yi

Thomas Feng is a pianist and composer currently based in New York. He performs principally works of modern and contemporary literature, including new works by living composers; notable recent engagements include close collaborations with composers Eve Beglarian, Reiko Füting, and Nicky Sohn, as well as performances with Monday Evening Concerts, Wild Up, and video artists Patterson + Reckinger.

His own compositions represent an experimental approach toward expressive intimacy and warmth, and have garnered awards from such institutions as ASCAP (Morton Gould Award) and the UCLA School of Music (Hugo Davise Prize), and performances by Verdant Vibes, Wild Up, and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.

Thomas Feng

Alejandra was born in San Francisco, CA and hasn't stayed still ever since.  After a mile-high childhood  in Denver, CO she ventured east to complete her BFA at the Hartt School and to experience seasons other than summer and winter. After a relocation back to her hometown, a brief spell in southeast Asia, and a memorable stint at an office job, she went back to school to complete her MA in the budding Theatre Lab program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. 

During her travels Alejandra has been fortunate enough to collaborate in the creation of two theatre companies. In Denver she was a founding member of  Visionbox- a studio that strives to provide professional actor training in Colorado, and to engage the Denver community in supporting and creating art. In New York she is a proud member of the Rogue and Peasant Players -  a company rooted in the language of plays and in seeking to facilitate relationships between playwrights and actors. 

Whenever possible, Alejandra looks to marry the flavors of text with the language of movement. She loves nothing better than watching the two collide and wrestle together to create a dance of their own. She thrives in an ensemble environment, enjoys devising new work, and has a love / hate relationship with the NYT Sunday Crossword. 

Alejandra Venancio

Johari Mayfield

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

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.

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: 1776, A Fresh Start; 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

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 a doctoral 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.

Paola's music has been premiered or performed by Gail Archer, The Het Trio, the Enso String Quartet, Speculuum Musicae, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Bellas Artes Chamber Orchestra, the Florida State University Orchestra, the Shepherd School of Music Orchestra, the OFUNAM Philharmonic Orchestra, the Woodlands Symphony and Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Ana Paola studied her doctorate with John Rea at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University. Simultaneously, she also experimented with electronic mediums at the McGill Digital Composition Studios (DCS), studying with Philippe Leroux. She was composer in residence for the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble under the direction of conductor Guillaume Bourgogne.

She received her Master of Music degree with honors from Rice University, studying composition with Dr. Arthur Gottschalk. Ana Paola holds the LTCL Licentiate in music composition, with distinction, from TRINITY COLLEGE LONDON, having studied composition and piano with Vincent Carver.

Ana Paola has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships including the FULBRIGHT Scholarship; the Programa de Becas para Estudios en el Extranjero scholarship (FONCA-CONACYT); the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme; resident composer at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others.  Her piece NEMESIS, for orchestra, was selected to represent Mexico at the UNESCO 57th International Rostrum of Composers in Lisbon, Portugal (2010).  In 2016, she was part of the MANIFESTE festival at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), in Paris, France.

Her piece “Fractum” for flute, Bass Clarinet & Piano is published by ALEA PUBLISHING & RECORDING. For more information about her music and and concerts please visit: www.anapaolasa.com

Ana Paola Santillàn Alcocer

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