Composer-conductor based in the lower Hudson Valley region of New York whose music has been played by several major orchestras and chamber groups in America. Scott has also held directorships with numerous orchestras, chorales and concert bands in the greater New York metropolitan area.

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Daniel Godsil's music, which has been described by the San Francisco Classical Voice as having an “intense dramatic narrative,” draws from such eclectic influences as science fiction, thrash metal, and Brutalist architecture. His more recent work draws inspiration from the natural beauty of Northern California, his current home.

Winner of the 2019 League of Composers/ISCM Steven R. Gerber prize (for Cosmographia) and the 2017 Earplay Donald Aird Composition Competition (for his quartet Aeropittura), Godsil's music has been played by Ensemble Dal Niente, Spektral Quartet, Talujon Percussion, Daedalus Quartet, Lydian String Quartet, Empyrean Ensemble, Metropolitan Orchestra of Saint Louis, UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, University Symphony Orchestra at California State University Fullerton, Knox-Galesburg Symphony, and the Nova Singers, among many others. Recent film scores include the PBS documentary Boxcar People, Man Ray’s 1926 silent film Emak-Bakia and the feature film H.G. Wells’ The First Men In The Moon. Godsil was a finalist in the 2018 Lake George Music Festival chamber composition competition, as well as the 2014 and 2019 Red Note New Music Festival Composition Competitions. His choral works are published by Alliance Music Publishing and NoteNova Publishing.

Born and raised in central Illinois, Godsil (b.1982) is currently pursuing his PhD. in Composition and Theory at the University of California, Davis, studying with Mika Pelo, Laurie San Martin, and Sam Nichols. He holds an MFA in Music Composition from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he studied with John Fitz Rogers, John Mallia, and Jonathan Bailey Holland. He also holds a BM in Music Composition from Webster University.

Godsil was selected to participate in the 2017 Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) in Boston, where he had master classes with composers Nicholas Vines and Georg Friedrich Haas.

His life has been the music: composer and investigator of rare fields of the musicotecnology. 

Nominated for the award Sinaloa of Sciences and Arts 1991 and deserving of distinguished awards and reknowledge for his work in the ambience composicional, it has realized studies in composition with prestigious national and foreign compositors, between which desatacan Radko Tichavsky, Sergio Villarreal, Gregory Taylor, Philippe Manoury, Mario Lavista, Francisco Núñez, between others. It has studied numerous courses of specialization in the IRCAM since 1999.

Graduated in Electroacoustics and Digital Arts with a postgraduate degree from IRCAM in Paris, his restless mind has absorbed the European avant-garde and has fused it with the cultural wealth of his homeland. His music, like a river of bits and notes, has flowed through the most important stages of the contemporary scene. Diploma in Orchestral Conducting - His baton has marked the times of Mexican and European orchestras and ensembles.

At present he is a member of Ircam´s Forum, a composers' grouping of the whole world that applies and develop discharge technlogy to the musical creation. 

His music has appeared in important festivals of electroacustics in the world, emphasizing Festival Predicts, Paris, Latin American of Electroacústica and Visual in Paris, Sonoimágenes, Buenos Aires, ICMC07, Copenaghe, Musically, Lisbon, Sonic Visions, Mexico between others.

His music has been interpreted for: Assemble Temp-Espatial, Assemble Mobile Art of Mexico and national and foreign soloists between whom there stand out the oboist Plamen Petkov, the pianist Rodolfo Ponce Montero, the flautists Roberto Morales and Eduardo González, the clarinettist Isidro Muñetón, the sopranos Nadia Lamadrid, Irasema Terrazas, Perla Orrantia,Patricia Valdéz,  the guitarist Tawally Prado, the Extreme Quartet, Psappha Ensamble of Percussions, the Orchestra Nicolaíta and the Symphonic Sinaloa of the Arts.

He is a member of the Mexican Society of New Music and of the Center of Musical Multimedia Investigation and of the Forum of the IRCAM. 

He is a pioneer of the music electroacústica in the northwest of Mexico since 1987. At present it develops interactive systems using technologies motion capture, Algorithmic Languages and DSP with video in real-time for his compositions and concerts.

As a Visual Artist he deserves the AWARD OF ADQUISICIÖN of the Biennial one of Visual Arts of the Northwest with his interactive video Life in a Sigh, being the first visual composer / artist in SInaloa in obtaining such a distrinción

His digital wors has been presented in museums and galleries across in Mexico, the United States, Spain and France.

He is currently composing works in which he uses AI in his performance. His work Invocaciones was premiered in Paris at the IRCAM Forum 30 and premiered in Mexico at the Foro de Musica Nueva.

He is considered to be like the most important composer of his generation as well as of the northwest of the country.

Christy Nava is a singer, songwriter, voice actor and stage performer with a soulfully dramatic, fun and sexy style. She loves to share stories through music. 
Christy’s roots are in musical theatre and stage performance. She started singing harmonies with her dad as a tiny girl and progressed to singing with him in his band, then moved on to roles in musical theatre and eventually leading her own bands.
Her style repertoire includes, but is not limited to, Pop, Jazz, Blues, R&B, Funk, Circus-Cabaret, Rockabilly, Americana, Bluegrass, Classic Country and even Hard-Core Punk.
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