Carlos Simon is a native of Atlanta, Georgia whose music ranges from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with influences of jazz, gospel, and neo- romanticism.
Simon’s latest album, MY ANCESTOR’S GIFT, was released on the Navona Records label in April 2018. Described as an “overall driving force” (Review Graveyard) and featured on Apple Music’s “Albums to Watch”, MY ANCESTOR’S GIFT incorporates spoken word and historic recordings to craft a multifaceted program of musical works that are inspired as much by the past as they are the present.
As a part of the Sundance Institute, Simon was named as a Sundance Composer Fellow in 2018, which was held at the historic Skywalker Ranch. His string quartet, Elegy, honoring the lives of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner was recently performed at the Kennedy Center for the Mason Bates JFK Jukebox Series. With support from the US Embassy in Tokyo and US/Japan Foundation, Simon traveled with the Asia/America New Music Institute (AANMI) on a two-week tour of Japan in 2018 performing concerts in some of the most sacred temples and concert spaces in Japan including Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Other recent accolades include being a Composer Fellow at the Cabrillo Festival for

 Contemporary Music, winning the Underwood Emerging Composer Commission from the American Composers Orchestra in 2016, the prestigious Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Award in 2015, and the Presser Award from the Theodore Presser Foundation in 2015.
Recent commissions have come from Morehouse College celebrating its 150th founding anniversary, the University of Michigan Symphony band celebrating the university’s 200th anniversary, Albany Symphony’s Dogs of Desire (American Music Festival) as well as serving as the young composer-in-residence with the the Detroit Chamber String and Winds in 2016. Simon’s music has been performed by Tony Arnold, the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, Hub New Music Ensemble, the Asian/ American New Music Institute, the University of Michigan Symphony Band, American Composers Orchestra, Flint Symphony, the Color of Music Festival, Dogs of Desire, University of North Texas Symphony Band, University of Miami Symphony Band, Georgia State University Wind Ensemble and many other professional performance organizations. His piece, Let America Be America Again (text by Langston Hughes) is scheduled to be featured in an upcoming PBS documentary chronicling the inaugural Gabriela Lena Frank Academy of Music. He now serves as a member of the music faculty at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.

 Acting as music director and keyboardist for GRAMMY Award winner Jennifer Holliday, Simon has performed with the Boston Pops Symphony, Jackson Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony. He has toured internationally with soul GRAMMY-nominated artist, Angie Stone, and performed throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Simon earned his doctorate degree at the University of Michigan, where he studied with Michael Daugherty and Evan Chambers. He has also received degrees from Georgia State University and Morehouse College. Additionally, he studied in Baden, Austria at the Hollywood Music Workshop with Conrad Pope and at New York University’s Film Scoring Summer Workshop.
Carlos Simon, Jr. is a member of many music organizations including ASCAP, where he was honored as one of the "Composers to Watch" in 2015. He is also an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Music Sinfonia Fraternity and a member of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Society of Composers International, and Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society. His compositions have been published by the Gregorian Institute of America (GIA) Publications and Hal Leonard Publications.

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Grace Gollmar’s expressive works have been performed by several chamber ensembles as well as sacred and secular choirs. Previously premiered by ensembles such as Quintet Sirocco, Present~Continuous New Music Ensemble, and the Auld Saxophone Quartet, Grace’s chamber pieces reflect her background as a vocalist with their infectious melodic lines and articulate turns of musical phrase. As a vocalist and pianist, Grace also regularly collaborates with other living composers and is passionate about premiering new works for voice.

Grace is currently a master’s student at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies composition with Yevgeniy Sharlat and organizes events with CLUTCH New Music. When Grace is not composing, she enjoys photography, baking, and learning new languages.

Rich textures
Shattered grooves
Enveloping atmospheres
Improvised musics
Experiments in sound, process

Jason Palamara is a performer/sound artist from New Jersey living and teaching in Indiana. He teaches electronic music and composition at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.  He also has teaching experience from Indiana Wesleyan University, Butler University, Indiana State University, Grinnell College, The University of Iowa, and The University of Louisville and ten million other places. He has composed music for many dance, film and theater projects, and specialized in new music technologies, collaboration and improvisation.  He was a founder of LOUi, the Laptop Orchestra at the University of Iowa and is currently building the world's first laptop orchestra made of 100% recycled machines, #trashchestra. He is also one half of the electro-acoustic sax and violin and laptops duo JC//jp with Iowa composer-musician Justin Comer.  You can find links to his music, events and more info at www.jasonpalamara.com.

Steve is a composer, drummer and film-maker based in the UK. In 2008 he graduated from The University of Manchester with a 1st Class honours degree in Music, followed by a Masters in Composition.
He is the founder and Musical Director of the Kaleidoscope Orchestra – an orchestra for the 21st Century; whose mission is to bridge the gap between Classical music and other genres.

Steve has also worked on several projects and commissions for the BBC, including a National Lockdown Orchestra, which Steve arranged the music for, produced the recording and helped with the video editing. It was aired across BBC TV and radio.
In addition to Kaleidoscope, Steve is the drummer and one of the composers in Riot Jazz Brass Band. Since 2009, the band has performed at festivals around the World, including shows in Russia, Andorra, Italy, France, Croatia, as well as UK festivals such as Glastonbury, Love Supreme, Kendal Calling, Womad, Boomtown and El Dorado.
Steve also composes and produces his own music and in 2020 released 3 piano albums which were featured on BBC Radio 3.

Elise Seifert is a film and classical composer.  She attended the Hollywood Music Workshop in Baden, Austria where she studied with Conrad Pope and Joe Kraemer. Elise Seifert was the Head Officer of the Society of Composers, Inc. Student Chapter at UNC-Greensboro and the head organizer of the 2017 SCI Region IV Student Composers Conference. She was Artist in Residence with the Lloyd International Honors College at UNC-Greensboro for 2015-2016 and attended the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Workshop Summer 2015. Elise entered the University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music in 2012, majoring in Music Composition with a minor in French. She has since studied with Hummie Mann, Mark Engebretson, Alejandro Rutty and Pascale Jakubowski. While at UNC-Greensboro she has had many opportunities to have pieces performed by internationally known groups such as the Daedalus Quartet and the Oasis Saxophone Quartet, and has been able to collaborate with student film makers to create original film scores.

Elise Seifert was born in 1994 and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. She started taking piano lessons at age 10 and continued playing flute, bassoon and percussion in middle and high school.  In high school she became very involved in the music department, joining Concert, Marching and Jazz bands, theatre pit ensembles and the Wilmington Youth Symphony Orchestra.  At her second high school, NC School of Science and Math, Elise worked as an assistant to the Director of Bands and became leader of the Pep Band. She was the principal bassoonist in the North Carolina All-State Orchestra and performed in the Eastern Regional Orchestra twice. 

When she is not tethered to her headphones Elise enjoys playing with her cats and hiking sections of the Appalachian trail.  She can be contacted at eliseseifertmusic@gmail.com

Aaron Michael Smith (UN/NO) is a composer, violist and artist currently based in Boston, MA.  Aaron is interested in exploring the way that various practices and mediums overlap, reflect and contradict one another.  He is often engaged in collaborations with filmmakers, visual artists, philosophers and other musicians.

masters: 
composition with Joshua Fineberg & Rodney Lister @ Boston University
undergrad: 
music composition & viola performance @ Indiana University Jacobs School of Music - Bloomington, Indiana
from a small town in northern Indiana called Wabash.  

contact me here or at aaronmichaelcomposer AT gmail.com

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