Chris is a musician, experimental art music composer, writer, independent producer, and homesteader.

Throughout his compositional work, Chis is committed to a methodical and uncompromising approach to contemporary art music. Momentum-driven and often heavily rhythmic, his aggressive and highly considered works fluidly integrate a diverse continuum of pitch and noise-based materials within a deeply personal approach to musical development. 

A PhD recipient in music composition from Harvard University under advisor Julian Anderson, Chris has studied with Mario Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Lee Hyla, Joshua Fineberg, Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku, Magnus Lindberg, Yehudi Wyner, and William Kraft. His music has been performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain, Counter)Induction, the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, and numerous other groups.

Chris is co-author of “The Listen,” a book geared toward anyone curious about new music regardless of his or her musical education. He has held administrative roles in New York City, San Francisco, and Boston, having served as Executive Director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Executive Director of the Manhattan Sinfonietta, Director of the Harvard Group for New Music, and owner of a small international NYC-based music business. In 2008, he produced the U.S. Premiere of Martin Matalon’s score to Fritz Lang’s "Metropolis" in Manhattam with live projection, quadrophonic sound, and 16 of New York City's top musicians. 

Chris and his wife, performer, musician, and producer Rebecca Honett, also direct Shameless Redhead Productions, which, while still located in LA, produced, filmed, and assisted in the editing of a number of short films, promotional works, reels, and the webseries Starving in Hollywood, which Chris also co-directed. Additionally, they served as co-producers of the Unexpected Hollywood Film Festival.

Maintaining a background in education, Chris has taught at the college, high school, and junior high levels, and has worked in elementary educational care as well as with developmentally disabled adults.

In March 2016, Chris and Rebecca entirely uprooted their lives and relocated from LA to the foothills of Appalacia, in southern Ohio, where they are currently living as homesteaders (http://elsewhereliving.blogspot.com/) with their exceptional dogs, Ozwald and Raddish.

Chris was born in 1977, in Hayward, California.

A recipient of the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno, is a composer/vocalist/sound artist who is currently a Professor at UC Berkeley, where he holds the Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Distinguished Professor Chair in Music. Ensembles and performers who have played Ken’s music include Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky, Mayumi Miyata, Teodoro Anzellotti, Aki Takahashi, Wendy Richman, Greg Oakes, BMOP, Alarm Will Sound, Steve Schick and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Nieuw Ensemble, and Frances-Marie Uitti. His music has been performed at such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MusikTriennale Köln Festival, the Muziekgebouw, Ars Musica, Warsaw Autumn, Other Minds, the Hopkins Center, Spoleto USA, Steim, and at the Norfolk Music Festival. Ken’s piece for the Hilliard Ensemble, Shiroi Ishi, was featured in their repertoire for over ten years, with performances at such venues as Queen Elizabeth Hall in England, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and was aired on Italian national radio, RAI 3. Another work, Pharmakon, was performed dozens of times nationally by Eighth Blackbird during their 2001-2003 seasons. A portrait concert of Ken’s was featured on MaerzMusik in Berlin in 2011. In 2012, he was a featured artist on Other Minds 17. In 2014, Frances-Mairie Uitti and the Boston Modern Orchestra premiered his concerto for two-bow cello and orchestra, and Guerilla Opera premiered a run of his chamber opera, Gallo, to critical acclaim. He has performed as soloist in his vocal concerto with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in New York and Boston, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Lithuanian National Symphony, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and with orchestras in North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and California. Ken holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. A monograph CD of three orchestral concertos was released on the Bmop/sound label. His bio appears in The Grove Dictionary of American Music.

Do have you have a love/hate relationship with Hollywood? Do you revile the bullshit behind the beautiful? Do you enjoy mocking the ridiculous in art, politics, and everyday life?

Shameless Redhead Productions is a Hollywood-based film and new media production company specializing in the adventurous.

What is Starving in Hollywood?...
If you're easily offended and believe that sarcasm and acerbic content have no place in the conversation, than this fast-paced Hollywood-themed variety show may not be up your alley. But if you're seeking something "subversive, outrageous, and appealingly smarty-pants" then Starving in Hollywood is here to deliver!

A frenetic scrapbook centered around the arts, culture, and politics, Starving In Hollywood is a fast-paced open-form variety show featuring sketches, farce commercials, music, dance, animation, and anything else we can think of!

Simone Maccaglia (1987) Si è diplomato con lode in composizione all’ISSM Giulio Briccialdi di Terni. Ha intrapreso lo studio della direzione d’orchestra sotto la guida di Ennio Nicotra presso l’Ilya Musin Society e lo studio della filosofia all'Università degli Studi di Perugia. Negli anni ha perfezionato i propri studi seguendo masterclass con Azio Corghi, Giacomo Manzoni, Lior Shambadal e Alessandro Solbiati presso importanti realtà del panorama musicale italiano come: l’Accademia musicale Chigiana, Festival di Bellagio e del lago di Como, Gamo Ensemble. Nel 2016 ha conseguito con il massimo dei voti il diploma di alto perfezionamento all’Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia sotto la guida di Ivan Fedele. Ha approfondito la propria esperienza artistica con importanti compositori, José Manuel López López, Michael Jarrel, Toshio Hosokawa, Beat Furrer, Ivan Fedele conseguendo un Master di II livello in composizione al conservatorio G. Verdi di Milano. 
La sua musica è stata commissionata ed eseguita in diversi festival ed istituzioni musicali, tra i quali: Compositori a Confronto, ArteFattiMusicali, Filarmonica Umbra, Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia, Festival 5 giornate di Milano, Teatro la Fenice di Venezia, Stagione “Rondò”- Divertimento Ensemble Milano. 
Ha conseguito importanti riconoscimenti in concorsi internazionali di composizione tra cui il concorso internazionale “37° Premio Valentino Bucchi - Parco della Musica”, gli “Incontri Internazionali Franco Donatoni”, V edizione del Concorso Internazionale di Composizione “Jorge Peixinho” 2021, Concorso Internazionale di Composizione “Piero Farulli”. Tra i suoi interpreti figurano Samuele Telari, Michele Marco Rossi, Simone Beneventi, Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble, Ensemble Novecento, New Made Ensemble, Ex Novo Ensemble, Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice di Venezia, Divertimento Ensemble. I suoi lavori sono stati registrati e trasmessi per Rai Radio 3 ed Euroclassical. 
Insieme all’attività compositiva è particolarmente attivo nella ricerca didattica per l’educazione musicale e la divulgazione della musica d’oggi. 

Simone Maccaglia (1987) He graduated with honors in composition at the ISSM Giulio Briccialdi in Terni. He studied orchestral conducting with Ennio Nicotra at the Ilya Musin Society and he studied philosophy at the University of Perugia. Over the years has prefaced his studies following masterclass with Azio Corghi, Giacomo Manzoni, Lior Shambadal and Alessandro Solbiati, at major reality in the Italian music scene as: the Chigiana Music Academy, Bellagio Festival-Lake Como, Gamo ensemble. In 2016 he obtained a “diploma di alto perfezionamento” (master course) at the National Academy of St. Cecilia, under the guidance of Ivan Fedele. He enriched his artistic experience working with important composers, José Manuel Lopez Lopez, Michael Jarrel, Toshio Hosokawa, Beat Furrer at the II level master in composition at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. 
His music has been commissioned and premiered in various festivals and musical institutions, among which: Compositori a confronto (Reggio Emilia), ArteFattiMusicali (Perugia), Filarmonica Umbra, Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia, Festival 5 giornate di Milano, Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Rondò- Divertimento ensemble Milano
He was Awarded in important international composition competitions (international competition “37° Premio Valentino Bucchi - Parco della Musica”, Franco Donatoni International Meeting for Young Composers of Milan), V edition international  composition competition “Jorge Peixinho” 2021, International Composer Competition “Piero Farulli”.
His Performers Include Samuele Telari, Michele Marco Rossi, Simone Beneventi, Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble, Ensemble Novecento, New Made Ensemble, Ex Novo Ensemble, Orchestra of “La Fenice di Venezia”, Divertimento Ensemble. His Works have been recorded and transmitted for Rai Radio 3 and Euroclassical.

Born in 1978 in Cusco (Peru). he has studied sociology at Lausanne and Geneva Universities, and composition at University of the Arts Berne with Xavier Dayer.  Then moved to Strasbourg to studied with Mark Andre at Conservatoire de Strasbourg, awarded by a Master of composition in 2011.

Avant-garde guitarist, free improvisation guitarist, experimental rock guitarist: ZARTIPO (Andrei Ivanou - guitar, music sequencer). Guitar free improvisation, experimental, industrial, instrumental rapcore, noise rock, psychedelic rock. Zartipo – overpsycho.

Nasim Khorassani is an Iranian composer, sound artist, educator, and founder of MOAASER, a free online music academy to support Persian students. Nasim's music takes various approaches to visuality, emotional connection, and language. Her works have been performed by No Exit New Music Ensemble, Del Sol String Quartet, Patchwork Duo, Zeitgeist, OCAZEnigma, Loadbang, International Contemporary Ensemble, in^set trio, Silkroad Ensemble, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Cepromusic ensemble, and La Jolla Symphony Orchestra across the United States, Europe, Canada, and Mexico. Composers Now has also featured Nasim in the IMPACT Series in January 2023. Nasim received her PhD in Music Composition from UC San Diego.

Sergio Pena holds a  classical guitar and composition degree, besides one in Film Scoring, Orchestration and Mixing awarded by Berklee College of Music. 

As a composer, he is an eclectic author whose main interest is film scoring. From jazz, pop and electronic to classical music, his output shows a knowledge of different styles that let him overcome all sort of challenging film projects. He has worked in feature films, shorts, documentaries and advertising for ten years. Skilled in a wide range of genres, his style is nevertheless well defined and distinct


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