Ryan Johnston is a composer who writes music that plays with human's perception of time, working with limited material to create music of reflective stasis. Ryan strives to choose melodies, harmonies and rhythms that are sensual, evocative, and at the same time familiar. His principal teachers have included Michel Merlet, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Marti Epstein, and Reinaldo Moya.

Max Friedman is a composer, trumpet player, Yiddishist, translator, and educator based in Memphis, TN. His music and scholarship explore the multitudes of ways Yiddish speakers have and continue to express their identities through music. His composition “Butter-Lider,” for Yiddish poetry recordings and sextet, was commissioned and premiered (Dec. 2022) by Cleveland’s No Exit New Music Ensemble. Other compositions have been performed by Yarn/Wire, Hub New Music, the Lydian String Quartet, Ekmeles, Ensemble Dal Niente, the Brown University Orchestra, and the Boston-based Horizon Ensemble. An advanced Yiddish student and translator, Max was a 2021 Steiner Program Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, and in 2022 attended the YIVO-Bard Uriel Weinreich Yiddish Summer Program. He has also presented at conferences hosted at Indiana University, Brandeis University, and the University of Toronto, and he is a 2023 Fortunoff/In Geveb Fellow. Max holds degrees from Brown University (AB ‘20) and Brandeis University (MFA ‘22).

conductor, composer, horn player, pianist.

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Jacob Beranek is a Wisconsin-born, New York-based composer of classical music rooted in melody. His compositions are infused with his love of historical traditions — musical, religious, or even his Czech heritage. Beranek served as the inaugural Composer-in-Residence of the Midsummer’s Music Festival (Door County, USA) from 2017–20. His works have been championed by the GRAMMY®-nominated ALIAS Chamber Ensemble (Nashville), Band of the Castle Guards & Czech Police (Prague), Dolce Suono Ensemble (Philadelphia), Euterpe Quintet (Seoul), and The Gesualdo Six (London). He is a student of John Corigliano at The Juilliard School.

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I am a composer and pianist who studies at Lawrence University.

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