Named “a vital, artistically significant musical organization” by The Wall Street Journal, the New Jersey Symphony embodies that vitality through its statewide presence and critically acclaimed performances, education partnerships and unparalleled access to music and the Orchestra’s superb musicians.

Trey Makler (he/him) is a queer composer based in Sacramento whose music blends memory with cultural theory to produce moving narratives filled with playfulness and longing. His work spans chamber, orchestral, operatic, dance, and electronic media, and he frequently produces substantial interdisciplinary work from the ground up with his trusted collaborators.

Trey’s music has been heard across the United States and Brazil, and has been performed by Alarm Will Sound, Berlin PianoPercussion, ultra-soprano Emily Thorner, Empyrean Ensemble, Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, The Great Noise Ensemble, The Juilliard Orchestra, Magela Herrera Quartet, PinkNoise, Mizzou New Music Initiative, NEO Sound Orchestra, Splinter Reeds, the University of Missouri Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera Workshop, and members of the St. Louis Symphony. Trey has received commissions from Camellia Symphony, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, the New York Choreographic Institute, saxophonist Nick May and the I Exist Project, and Vallejo Symphony. Notable presenting venues have included Alice Tully Hall, Areté Venue and Gallery, the Empress Theatre, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, National Sawdust, Sheldon Concert Hall, and the Jewel Box in Forest Park (St. Louis), among others. 

Trey has been the recipient of several top honors in composition, including the Arthur Friedman Prize in Orchestral Composition (The Juilliard School), the Sinquefield Prize (University of Missouri), and was selected as the winner of the first annual Boston New Music Initiative Young Composers Competition. His scholarly and creative research has been supported by the Bilinski Educational Foundation, the New Music USA Creator Fund Award, and the Sacramento Creative Growth Fellowship.

Trey is a Lecturer in Music at the University of California, Davis and California State University - Sacramento. He holds degrees from The University of California, Davis (PhD ‘24), The Juilliard School (MM ‘19), and the University of Missouri (BM ‘17). His recent site-specific immersive chamber opera, Waiting Rooms, originally staged at the Sacramento Gender Health Center, explores our relationship to memory and absence through the cultural materials and experiences of AIDS.

Marco-Adrián Ramos is a Mexican-American composer whose potent and eclectic music spans a variety of media including works for voice, instrumental and electroacoustic ensembles, and dance.  
   His work has been sought and performed by a variety of institutions and ensembles including the MATA Festival, FLUX Quartet, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, 45th Parallel, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Yale Philharmonia, the New York Youth Symphony, the Houston Symphony, ZOFO Piano Duo, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Emmanuel Music, the Aspen Music Festival, the Next Festival of Emerging Artists, and the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music. 
   Recognitions include three ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, an artist grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, the Arthur Friedman Prize (Juilliard), the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the William Schuman Prize from the BMI Foundation.
   He currently is an instructor at the University of Arkansas, teaching classes on music theory and composition. Since the beginning of 2024, he has also worked as an administrator at the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (GLFCAM).  
   Marco-Adrián holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Yale University’s School of Music; cherished mentors have included artists like Mari Kimura, Melinda Wagner, Christopher Theofanidis, Derek Bermel, Gabriela Lena Frank, and David Lang.

The music of Clint Needham has been described as “wildly entertaining” and “stunning, brilliantly orchestrated” by the New York Times, as well as “well-crafted and arresting... riveting” by the Herald Times. He has served as the Mellon Composer/Educator in Residence and Music Alive: New Partnerships Composer in Residence with the Albany Symphony, and the Knight Foundation Composer in Residence with the Akron Symphony. 

Clint has received commissions and performances by leading orchestras across the country including the Minnesota Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Omaha Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the New York Classical Players, among others. Chamber ensembles including Alarm Will Sound, the American Brass Quintet, Chicago Pro Musica, Da Capo Chamber Players, Factory Seconds Brass Trio, Fifth House Ensemble, Hawthorne String Quartet, Hub New Music, and the President’s Own Marine Band Brass Quintet have given performances of his music across the country as well as in Europe, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Australia. 

Clint’s music has been recognized with numerous awards including the Barlow Prize, Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Aspen Music Festival Jacob Druckman Prize, two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, the William Schuman Prize/BMI Composer Award, and the Heckscher & Walter Beeler Prizes from Ithaca College. He has also been the recipient of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s Project 440 Commission and the Underwood New Music Commission from the American Composers Orchestra. 

As an educator, Clint serves as Composer in Residence and Professor of Composition at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music. He holds degrees from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music (BM) and Indiana University (MM, DM). He has also studied at the Aspen Music Festival as a Susan and Ford Schumann composition fellow and at the Wellesley Composers Conference. 

Clint’s music is published by the Theodore Presser Company, Manhattan Beach Music, and Triplo Press. Recordings of his works can be found on the Summit Records, New Focus Recordings, Beauport Classics, and Mark Masters labels as well as on recordings by the United States Air Force Band of the West, trumpeter Jack Sutte, and the American Composers Orchestra Digital Release Series.

https://www.clintneedhamcomposer.com

Moving Classics TV is a popular platform for new piano music www.movingclassics.tv It is curated by a concert pianist and founder Anna Heller.

Joy Redmond (she/her) is a composer and musician based in New York City. She holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied composition with Matthias Pintscher. Currently, Joy’s musical pursuits include composing for concert, stage, and media works, collaborating with other artists as a producer and arranger, and performing on keyboards in a variety of genres.

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My name is Sylvain Guinet, born in 1978 in France. I compose romantic and relaxing music. I like to express the emotions through the piano, joy or pain, I can talk to the world with a universal language, the music.

Originally from Goffstown, New Hampshire, Will Stackpole (b. 1990) is a young American composer whose works have been played across the country. Stackpole began his musical career as an electric guitarist and recording engineer, primarily performing in rock bands in his home state and later in Hoboken, NJ. While attending Stevens Institute of Technology for his undergraduate studies, Stackpole began writing concert music and quickly developed a unique compositional voice. Will spent the next two years studying composition with Justin Dello Joio while working in New York as a freelance composer and orchestrator for theater, film, and television. Stackpole has since refocused his efforts on creating conceptually innovative concert music. His work is made up of an eclectic blend of styles and influences ranging across a wide spectrum, from opera to rock, from Miles Davis to Igor Stravinsky. Will is currently pursuing his Doctorate in composition at The Juilliard School in the studio of Robert Beaser.

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