Spitting Image Collective is a group of Minnesota composers that came together in 2013 to build a strong community of composers, performers and listeners in the Twin Cities metro area. Since then, the collective has commissioned numerous new works from local Minnesota composers and presented them in concerts throughout the Twin Cities featuring many of the area’s most talented new music performers. Dedicated to community outreach and education, Spitting Image’s educational programs introduce learners of all ages to new music through listening, performing, and composing, including residencies at the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis Public Schools, and workshops for the public. In addition, Spitting Image hosts community social events to encourage the formation of professional relationships among composers, and opportunities for composers to receive artistic feedback from peers. 

Spitting Image Collective members are: Katherine Bergman, Joshua Clausen, and Daniel Nass.

American composer, conductor, and pianist Andrew Rindfleisch is the recipient of the Rome Prize, the Aaron Copland Award, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the Koussevitzky Foundation Commission from the Library of Congress. He has also been the recipient of over 40 other prizes and awards honoring his music, including those from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. He has composed for a wide variety of musical ensembles and organizations. His output includes music for wind ensemble, orchestra, brass, chamber music, solo works, and a large and diverse catalog of unaccompanied choral works. His entire catalog is available from his exclusive publisher, Manzo Music.

Lauded for providing “a once-in-a-lifetime experience for adventurous concertgoers,” Zeitgeist is a new music chamber ensemble comprised of two percussion, piano and woodwinds. One of the longest established new music groups in the country, Zeitgeist commissions and presents a wide variety of new music for audiences in the Twin Cities and on tour. Always eager to explore new artistic frontiers, Zeitgeist collaborates with poets, choreographers, directors, visual artists and sound artists of all types to create imaginative new work that challenges the boundaries of traditional chamber music. The members of Zeitgeist are: Heather Barringer, percussion; Patti Cudd, percussion; Pat O’Keefe, woodwinds; and Nicola Melville piano. Information about the ensemble and its activities can be found at www.zeitgeistnewmusic.org.

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