Composer and violinist Tommy Dougherty (b. 1990) is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a composer of orchestral, chamber, and solo works.

In July of 2023, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s premiered a new work by Tommy, Impro-Vice, through his participation in the DeGaetano Composition Institute where he worked closely with mentor composer Anna Clyne.  Tommy is also currently in residence with Alexandra Cade at the Winterthur Museum as a Maker-Creator Fellowship Scholar.  His collaboration with Alexandra, The Winterthur Suite, is featured in the Transformations: Contemporary Artists at Winterthur Exhibit from June 2024 through January 2025.  

Over the past several years, Tommy’s music has been performed by the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, the Modern Violin Ensemble (MoVE), Alarm Will Sound, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, Kinetic Ensemble, Thornton School Symphony Orchestra, Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra, and Eastman Philharmonia.

In 2019, Tommy was the recipient of the ASCAP Leo Kaplan Award, and in 2016 and 2017, two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards.   In 2018, the Modern Violin Ensemble (MoVE) premiered Extraordinary Instruments, a violin quartet that aims to bring awareness to issues of gun culture in the United States. 

As a violinist, Tommy has served as Acting Section Violin with the San Diego Symphony and has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bozeman Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Thornton Edge, and Wild Up in Los Angeles, CA and Kinetic Ensemble in Houston, TX.

In 2019 he completed his DMA in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music where he studied privately with Andrew Norman and Sean Friar.  Tommy received his Master of Music degree in composition from Rice University’s Shepherd School of music and his Bachelor’s degrees in both composition and violin performance from the Eastman School of Music.  

Throughout his compositional studies, Tommy has worked privately with Karim Al-Zand, Arthur Gottschalk, David Liptak, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Bob Morris, Leonardo Balada, and Efrain Amaya.  His primary violin teachers include Lina Bahn, Ayano Ninomiya, Lynn Blakeslee, and Hong-Guang Jia.  

You can visit Tommy's website here: 

https://tsdoughertycomposer.com/

Cassandra Kaczor is a pianist-composer currently working in Chicago, Illinois. She has been formally trained in piano (18 years) and composition (5 years). She has had the pleasure of performing in well-known venues such as Severence Hall’s Reinberger Chamber Hall, in her native city of Cleveland, Ohio, the Academie International de Musique de Colombes in Colombes, France and Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

When she is not doing music-things, Kaczor enjoys practicing the martial art of Muay Thai, songwriting, long runs on Lake Michigan, ogling strangers' dogs while out walking, good drinks, good company, and chronically overthinking as much as possible.

Composer, songwriter, flute player. Play with Funkadesi, Soulbillys and Chamber Folk

Heart and mind, body and soul, music that reaches wide through shades of light and dark. Inspired by acoustic and digital means, experiment and collaboration. Music that ranges from the immediate sounds and calls of our environment to meditations on hope and love to cries at the troubles of our times...

AudioBakery is a band that blends genres; it is a band that strives for art in everything they do. AudioBakery is something unique, a musical experience that leaves the listener feeling perplexed yet satisfied. Heavy-hitting breakdowns flow into jazzy grooves, and ambient sounds morph to chaos as every single note seems to melt into its respective place. While this may attempt to describe what actually is, AudioBakery must be experienced. Listen and enlighten yourself.

AudioBakery began in the summer of 2009, at the start of the members' senior year in high school. Members of the band all have come from different bands locally, and achieved a bit of success in the local scene. The band began jamming and writing songs right away. By winter, the band had written a few songs and wanted to record. "Slaptap" was the song to be recorded. Though the song is a far cry from what the band has proven capable of, it demonstrates talent that is clearly the precursor to great things.
As 2010 came, AudioBakery continued to write songs. Although the band played a couple shows, the writing process became the primary focus. Throughout the school year, the band jammed almost every single day, taking breaks only for Chipotle or El Famous Burrito. As the band continued on, the members grew closer to each other and the project became a very organic, wholesome experiment.
During the summer of 2010, a year after AudioBakery first came to be, the band was finishing writing the songs that would be on their first EP and was ready to once again head to the studio to record. A week of recording, and the "Sounds Yummy" EP was born, it is a beautiful baby boy.
In the Winter of 2010, AudioBakery continues to write songs, each better than the last. A new musical dimension is added when a new member joins AudioBakery. Dane Jarvie will now be collaborating on this artistic venture.

Dave Brandwein is a working drummer in Chicago, IL.  He is available for live performances, recording sessions, lessons, clinics, production and more!  
www.davebrandweinmusic.com

Tonia Ko has collaborated with leading soloists and ensembles across a variety of media—from acoustic concert pieces to improvisations and site-specific installations. Recipient of numerous accolades including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ko’s music has been lauded by The New York Times for its “captivating” details and “vivid orchestral palette,” and performed at venues such as Walt Disney Hall, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and the Tanglewood Music Center and Royaumont Festival. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Hawai'i, Ko holds a DMA from Cornell University and is currently Senior Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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