Ellen Reid is a composer and sound artist whose work “brims with canny invention” (L.A. Weekly). Reid’s work is largely collaborative and takes the form of opera, chamber music, immersive interactive media, and scores for film and theater. Reid’s work has been hailed as “ineffably moving” by Mark Swed of theL.A. Times, “radiant” by Alex Ross of The New Yorker, and it’s been said that her vocal writing would “make you believe that the mythical sirens really existed” (KCRW). Her recent and upcoming projects include dreams of the new world for LA Master Chorale premiered at Walt Disney Concert Hall in May 2018, Prism with Beth Morrison Projects to be premiered by LA Opera in November 2018, a new commission for the LA Philharmonic’s 2018/19 centenary season, the premiere of Petrichor with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, HOPSCOTCH with The Industry (dir. Yuval Sharon), music for Death of a Salesman at BAM, a solo cello piece for Johannes Moser, Push/Pull for International Contemporary Ensemble, and music for Buster’s Mal Heart (starring Rami Malek) with filmmaker Sarah Adina Smith that premiered at Toronto Film Festival. In 2016 she and fellow composer Missy Mazzoli co-founded Luna Composition Lab, a mentorship program directed at young self-identified female and gender non-conforming composers, in partnership with the Kaufman Music Center’s Face the Music program. Ellen received her BFA from Columbia University and her MA from California Institute of the Arts. She splits her time between her two favorite cities—Los Angeles and New York.

mostly modern/contemporary piano and chamber music, also some of my compositional projects

richard valitutto is a Grammy-nominated piano soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. Described as “a keyboard superstar” (The New Yorker) and as a “vigorously virtuosic,” “all around go-to new music specialist” (LA Times), their soloistic charisma, flexible collaborative artistry, and inquisitive scholarship distinguish them as a performer with a dynamic spirit and openness to experimentation, interdisciplinarity, and creative reflection. They have collaborated and performed with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Tiny Desk Concerts, PBS Great Performances, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and the American Academy in Rome, among many others.

Their debut solo album of contemporary work premieres, nocturnes & lullabies (New Focus Recordings) was released in March 2020 to critical acclaim. richard is a founding member of the Los Angeles ensemble Wild Up, most notably as “pianist, and resident [Julius] Eastman scholar” (Vogue), contributing their piano artistry, incisive writing, and tenacious research efforts to the ensemble’s ongoing Julius Eastman Anthology, dedicated to the late composer’s music.

Creator of Patter, a freeform generative sequencer for Ableton Live http://playpatter.com

percussionist / dance collaborator / member of Cuñao

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), proclaimed “America’s finest chamber orchestra” by Public Radio International, “one of the world’s great chamber orchestras” by KUSC Classical FM and “resplendent” by the Los Angeles Times, has established itself among the world’s top musical ensembles.

Du Yun, born and raised in Shanghai, China, based in New York, is a composer, multi-instrumentalists and performance artist, working at the intersection of orchestral, opera, chamber music, theatre, cabaret, pop music, oral tradition, visual arts, electronics and noise.

I write music for film, television, video games, the concert hall, and the stage.  Gory details at www.mikemusic.com .



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