An award-winning musician, Jinhee Han, started composing in her late teens. Han’s promising musical gift earned her full-time scholarships for both her bachelors and masters degrees and she graduated cum laude from HanYang University in Seoul, Korea. She earned 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, Han has had several original concert works premiered including orchestra pieces in her hometown of Seoul, Korea as well as in Israel, Ukraine, London, Canada, Texas, Connecticut, Los Angeles, New Jersey and New York.

Recently, Han’s works were selected for several festivals and workshop such as Music festivals 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. She is the Founder/Director for AWCANYC (awcanyc.com) where she collaborates with a variety of talented musicians.

Jinhee Han

Ryan Mantell is a New Jersey based saxophonist and teacher. He has taught instrumental music in New Jersey at all levels K-12, and maintains a private studio of saxophone students as well. He is an active performer in New Jersey and New York, playing saxophone regularly for the Ridgewood Concert Band and the Hudson Valley Saxophone Orchestra. Ryan is the founder and director of the North Jersey Youth Saxophone Ensemble, an initiative to bring a unique chamber music experience to high school age saxophone students in Northern New Jersey. Ryan received the Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree with Performance Honors from Syracuse University, and is presently pursuing a Master’s degree in saxophone performance at Rutgers University.

Saxophonist Raymond Kelly, originally from the northeast, is a current Doctor in Musical Arts candidate at Rutgers University. He holds a Master’s in Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor’s in Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory, all in saxophone performance. He is currently studying with saxophonist Paul Cohen and has studied with Timothy Ruedeman, James Umble, and Gary Bartz. The past year he won the Rutgers’ 2016 Graduate Concerto Competition and performed Ballade for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra by Frank Martin with the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. He has performed throughout the United States and abroad with ensembles such as the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, The Metro Symphony Orchestra, Locrian Chamber Players, and the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet. He can be heard on the album The Gift of Life by composer and French horn player of the Imani Winds, Jeff Scott. In addition to being an avid performer, Raymond is a busy educator, serving faculty at Long Island University and the Mason Gross Extension Division as well as his own expanding private studio.

Ryan Mantell

Raymond Kelly

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, 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 of course, then wind them into a spectacular melange. Merde!

For more information, visit www.AnnWarren.net.

Ann Warren

Josh Lang

Josh is a saxophonist who lives in Brooklyn. He studied under Dr. Jonathan Bergeron at Northern Arizona University and has performed across the country and in Germany and Poland. He's played in various ensembles with the students of Dr. Paul Cohen since moving to New York, and those initial collaborations have transformed into several regular appointments including the Cobalt Quartet. Outside of those ensembles, he occasionally records new works with composers from the Manhattan School of Music and New York University.

Josh has also done quite of bit of engraving and arranging. Some notable highlights would include his editions of Zdeněk Lukáš' works for saxophone quartet and his editorial work on a 15-song children's musical, The Grouch and the Love Bug, for which he did more than just arrange and engrave: he also harmonized, orchestrated, and produced backing tracks.

Anthony Izzo received his masters in classical saxophone performance at the Aaron Copland School of Music. He has given world premieres of works by notable composers such as Leo Kraft, Saman Samadi and John Szto. He has performed all over the NYC area and in many venues in Long Island. In addition to performing, Anthony has written many solo and small ensemble works. He has written concert music, animation music and video game music. At ACSM, he was the president of the Composers Workshop, a notable group of student composers that hire professional ensembles and soloists to perform their music. Anthony studied saxophone with Dr. Paul Cohen and composition with Mikael Karlsson and John Wykoff. He is currently an elementary school music teacher in Corona, Queens and teaches grades Pre-K - 2.

Anthony Izzo

Seongmi Kim is a South Korean composer. Her work of composition is constructed from abstract, visual and sound images inspired by everyday life and which are then transcribed musically.

She received commissions from Radio France for a program of France Musique, Création Mondiale - Alla Breve, collaboration with Ensemble Aleph and from Women Composer Association in New York (AWCANYC), collaboration with the Cobalt Quartet. She has received commissions from Duo Solea and the Association Femmes Et Musique (AFEM).

Her works have been performed notably by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM) of Montreal, the Orchestra of Laureates of the Paris Conservatoire (OLC), the Duo Jatekok and Daejeon Philharmonic Choir (DJPC) in South Korea.

She studied composition under Young-Geun Park (1947-2016) at Hanyang University in Seoul, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in 2008. She continued her studies at the CRR Nice before being admitted in 2010 to the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) in the class of Frédéric Durieux. She also studied with Michaël Levinas, Luis Naón, Yan Maresz, and Denis Cohen.

In 2013-2014, she followed the IRCAM Composition and Computer Music Curriculum under the direction of Hèctor Parra. She wrote, as part of the Cursus, 미로 [mi:ro] for bass flute and electronics.

She obtained her CNSMDP composition prize in 2015 with the mention of Très Bien. On this occasion, Aven for mezzo-soprano, an ensemble of 13 musicians and electronics, was created, based on the poem Sensation by Arthur Rimbaud.

She is currently a professor at the University of Las Artes (Universidad de Las Artes en Guayaquil) in Ecuador.

Seongmi Kim

Sunhee Cho is an educator, and a prominent member of groups of Korean composers. Her works have been programmed by major chamber groups in Korea, and at various festivals and countries in Japan, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Brazil, France, and the United States.

Sunhee Cho

tom blatt

tom blatt is a sculptor, bassist, composer, open water swimmer and lives in Brooklyn NY.

(I like the lower case version of my name like e. e. cummings.)

The daughter of Las Vegas bassist Kenny Greig, Stephanie grew up listening to the musicians' union rehearsal bands playing Count Basie and Duke Ellington charts, and came to love the Great American Songbook as played by the veterans of the Las Vegas Strip. At fourteen, she was playing guitar in her father's pop quartet. She went on to study composition and theatrical applications of music at Smith College.

A New Yorker since 1991, she began playing upright bass in local jazz groups around 1998. Since then, she has played in a variety of settings in the US, Spain, Japan and Curacao, and has performed with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra for 11 seasons.

Her original music has been a regular feature of Concrete Timbre productions since 2015.

Stephanie Greig

California-native Sunny Knable is a multifaceted composer who resides in New York City.  He has won numerous awards including three “Best Composition” Awards from the Festival of New American Music, and the Iron Composers Award, for which he wrote a four-minute piece in five hours.  He holds degrees from Stony Brook University, where he holds his PhD in Music Composition—Queens College (CUNY), where he completed a Master of Arts in Composition—and  from CSU Sacramento—where he received his Bachelor of Music in Composition, Piano Performance and Jazz Studies.  In 2017, his chamber opera Beethoven in Love was performed at the National Opera Center.  In 2016, Knable's Symphony No. 2 "The Great Expanse" was commissioned and premiered by the California Youth Symphony, Leo Eylar conducting.  Since its premiere in 2012, The Brothers Knable’s opera for young audience, The Magic Fish, has been performed multiple times around the country.  Other professional credits include his debut album "American Variations" on Centaur Records and his forth-coming composition album with bassoonist Scott Pool and pianist Natsuki Fukasawa, "Song of the Redwood Tree."  His bassoon works  are published by TrevCo-Varner Music.  Dr. Knable serves as Music Director of The Church-in-the-Gardens; composer for the The Garden Players, a theatrical group for children; and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queens College and LaGuardia Community College, while fulfilling commissions from around the country.

Sunny Knable

Composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J./producer Gene Pritsker has written over 700 compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. All of his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures. He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble and co-director of Composers' Concordance. Gene's music has been performed all over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers. He has worked closely with Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies. The New York Times described him as "...audacious...multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur, described Pritsker as "dissolving the artificial boundaries between high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics and elevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre". Classical Music Sentinel writes: "His expressive reach is so wide as to encompass everything from ethno/techno, rock/jazz fusion, classical opera and more, and it all seems to be effortlessly integrated within his anima and comes out through different facets of his persona. You could almost see him as a modern day renaissance man.”

He is the co-director of Composers Concordance (CC Records), co-founder/guitarist of Absolute Ensemble and artist-in residence at the Austrian Outreach Festival.

http://www.genepritsker.com/

Gene Pritsker

Jackie Yang is a Korean composer and pianist. Her music often includes dramatic elements such as acting and speaking to convey the visual images that are related to the concept of the composition. She also believes in the power of the emptiness/silence in the music, which was influenced from Korean traditional arts.

Ms. Yang's interest in communication with the audience extends into collaborative works. In past three years, she composed music for actors, actress, dancers, and mime artist. She also participated as composer and music director in the musical Longing for tomorrow(오래된 내일).

Jackie Yang earned Bachelors degree at SUNY Purchase and a Masters degree at Mannes College, the New School.

Jackie Yang