Composer, currently living on meditation retreat.

Ben Morris is a composer whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries. He is Assistant Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Scott Allen Miller is a composer, educator, and bassist in New York, NY. His visceral music is concerned with memory, thought, and the passage of time, expressed through unconventional performance techniques, evocative microtonal harmonies, and a constantly-evolving approach to timbre and melody. Whether writing instrumental or vocal music for forces large or small, a primary concern is to establish a sound world unique to each composition. Miller has recently been commissioned by the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society, Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra, Occasional Symphony, Nebula Ensemble, and Omnibus Ensemble. 

Miller currently studies with Jason Eckardt as a Ph.D. student at The CUNY Graduate Center. He graduated from the Peabody Conservatory in 2015 where he studied with Kevin Puts, earning Master of Music degrees in composition and music theory pedagogy. Previously, Miller studied composition and double bass at SUNY Fredonia where he received a Bachelor of Music degree through his work with bassist Harry Jacobson and composers Robert Deemer, Karl Boelter, and Sean Doyle. As a Composition Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School in 2016, Miller had the privilege of studying with Christopher Theofanidis and Stephen Hartke, as well as participating in masterclasses and brief lessons with Kaija Saariaho, Ted Hearne, Sean Shepherd, Donald Crocket, and Timo Andres. Other summer programs include the Atlantic Music Festival (2018) and the Charlotte New Music Festival (2013). Additional teachers with whom Miller has taken lessons and participated in masterclasses include Nils Vigeland, Amy Beth Kirsten, David Ludwig, Christopher Dobrian, Pierre Jalbert, Richard Danielpour, Zhou Long, George Tsontakis, Christopher Rouse, Michael Hersch, Daron Hagon, Paul Colman, Marc Mellits, and Lansing McLoskey. Recent awards include the 2015 Macht Orchestral Composition Competition for Pillars, erased and the 2013 Ethos Laureate Prize for his chamber opera Randall’s Leaf. Miller was a Finalist in the 2016 BMI Student Composers Awards and received an Honorable Mention from the 2016 Minnesota Composer’s Institute. 

Miller has taught music theory, form and analysis, ear training, and composition at the Peabody Preparatory, Carroll Community College, and as a private tutor. He is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at CUNY College of Staten Island where he teaches musicianship, harmony, and counterpoint.

Danny is a Singapore-based Filipino composer whose music blends contemporary techniques with inspiration from Filipino traditional materials. His works have been featured at festivals including the Cheltenham Music Festival (UK), Impuls Academy (Austria), Donaueschinger Musiktage (Germany), and the Synthetis International Summer Music Course (Poland). He was recognized among the top winners by the Goethe-Institut at the Young Composers in Southeast Asia Competition and Festival.

Trained in composition at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, Danny is currently pursuing MA/PhD research at the University of Birmingham. In Singapore, he performs with the Sari-Sari Philippine Kulintang Ensemble and conducts the award-winning Psalmideo Chorale, bringing Filipino traditional and choral music into contemporary contexts.

I am a Venezuelan composer who tell stories through music, especially choral music. Currently at UofH for a Master in Composition

kill the composer in your head 
electronics, improv, guitar, noise.
(this page is for works in progress and live recordings ONLY, go to bandcamp or instagram for everything else)

"Little more than kitschiness, pretense, and vulgarity"
—Oberon's Grove

Jonathan Wyatt (b. 1997) is a composer, conductor, and sound artist.  His work often explores relationships, connectivity, and control. He is particularly interested in making art that engages an audience from multiple perspectives, and that blurs the boundaries of form and medium.  Jonathan is influenced by a number of conceptual and visual artists, including Damien Hirst, Yves Klein, Maggi Hambling, David Shrigley, Jeff Koons, and Mike Kelley. He also draws inspiration from trap, hiphop, folk, metal, and indie rock artists.  Some of his favorite composers are Benjamin Britten, Leoš Janáček, Alfred Schnittke, and Moondog.
 
Jonathan has been a fellow at the Atlantic Music Festival, the Red Note New Music Festival, and was a finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award.
 
He holds a BM from Shenandoah Conservatory, where he studied with Jonathan Newman and Dr. Natalie Draper.  Raised in a small southern Virginia town, he now lives in Brooklyn NY, and is pursuing an MM at the Mannes School of Music with Dr. David T. Little.

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