Ben Lieberman is a composer, guitarist, singer, producer, patent engineer, and proud cat parent whose musical interests and endeavors span the gamut from emotive folk and love songs to psychedelic rock and noise-based improvisation, to microtonal chamber music and Musique concrete.

Ben’s chamber works have been performed by Sirius Quartet, City of Tomorrow, counter)induction and members of Bang on a Can All-Stars and Asphalt Orchestra. His fixed media piece, Aftergrowth, with animation by Bradley Turner, was selected to be included in the 2019 Echofluxx Festival in Prague. Ben was recently recognized with a Merit Award honor in the 2020 Division 1 Tribeca New Music Young Composer’s Competition for his string quartet, Amulet. In his chamber music, Ben strives to bring the ecstatic energy and rhythmic grooves of rock to bear on harmonic worlds that draw from jazz, spectralism and extended just intonation. Ben received an MFA in music composition from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2019. His composition teachers have included Arthur Kampela, John Mallia, John Fitz Rogers, and Michael Early.

As a guitarist and singer-songwriter, Ben has performed throughout New York City as well as internationally. His performance credits include the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Roulette, the Whitney Museum, the Roundhouse in London, and the KigaliUp festival in Kigali, Rwanda. Ben’s performance project, LIEBS, takes shape in any variety of form and sound. His solo shows veer from the entirely improvised — where jazz-inspired runs give way to heavily effected waves of droning guitar feedback — to intimate acoustic serenades. As a band, LIEBS traverses terrain that has been described as “mystic rock.” (In as much as a genre label can impart anything of import, this one feels close enough to the mark.) LIEBS’ debut EP, phantasm, is scheduled to be released Spring 2022.

If you're interested in working with me on a project or commissioning me for a new piece, please reach out at benliebermanmusic@gmail.com.

Diane Moser has been a featured performer and composer throughout the US with jazz ensembles, big bands, orchestras, chamber music, dance and theater companies since 1975. Since 1996 she has been the music director/contributing composer/pianist for her 17 piece Diane Moser's Composers Big Band, other groups include the Diane Moser Quintet, and the Diane Moser Trio. She is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony  and Virginia Center for the Arts and in 2011 was named the Mid-Atlantic Creative Arts Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts. She has received composition awards from Chamber Music America, Meet The Composer and the American Music Center. She has been a featured pianist and composer with Mark Dresser, Marty Ehrlich, Gerry Hemingway, Howard Johnson, Oliver Lake, Tina Marsh, Charles McPherson,  Lisa Sokolov, Yale Strom, poet Bill Zavatsky, the Cedar Rapids Symphony, Tri-City Symphony, the Drifters and many others. 
She recently composed and recorded the music for the award winning documentary "Breaking Boundaries:The Art of Alex Masket" ,and her recording with the extraordinary bassist Mark Dresser "Duetto" for CIMP records was recently released in March 2012. Since 2006 she has been a member of the core faculty for The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where she teaches the composition/ensemble and history courses.
Originally from Iowa, she has lived in San Diego, CA, Brooklyn, NY, and since 1988, Montclair, NJ, where she maintains a private piano studio, while performing and composing throughout the NY/NJ area. 
review of "Duetto"..."Versatility is one of Dresser's strongest attributes, and being a sensitive duo partner is another. There is a simpatico going on here that navigates the sublime. These two musicians seem to live in each others heads, because everything is perfectly balanced--from the tune authorship to the remarkably even distribution of melodies and solos....Moser takes an astonishing solo that places her in the elite of improvising pianists working today" Robert Bush, San Diego Reader, 4/12/12
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session/2012/apr/12/diane-moser-mark-dresser-duetto/

vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.
eclectic and prolific sound maker.

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