Chris Neiner (b. 1994) is a Cleveland-based composer of contemporary classical music with colorful harmony, diverse influences, and engaging energy. Neiner’s style derives from his passion to foster collaborative works with instrumentalists. His recent collaborations include Playtime, a new work for horn, violin, and piano, commissioned by a consortium of collegiate horn professors across the United States; and Serenade for the Ghosts, a phantasmic fantasy for clarinet and string quartet, commissioned by Musical Upcoming Stars in the Classics. His work has been praised by Cleveland Classical for "incorporating the zazzy colors of the current new music dialect," and "pleasant shocks and melting cadences." Currently, Neiner serves as a composition faculty and composer-in-residence at the Aurora School of Music in Aurora, Ohio.
       
The music of Chris Neiner has appeared on programs by the Grammy award-winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Sinfonia, American Modern Ensemble, Boston New Music Initiative, Cochran Chamber Commissioning Project, Copper Street Brass Quintet, Red Hedgehog Trio, loadbang, Minnesota Symphonic Winds, Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, Rocky Ridge Music Center, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, faculty of the MacPhail Center for Music, and more.
       
Beyond his collaborative work as a composer, Neiner is a producer and coordinator for several music events. In 2019, he served as the associate director, composer-in-residence, and conductor for Music in the Circle, a summer concert series facilitating collaboration between international artists and students, faculty, and alumni of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Other projects include Leora’s Reverie, a concert to benefit the One Voice Foundation by American-Israeli songwriter Katia Bolotin, and New Music for Horn, a multidisciplinary project that facilitated music making between hornists, composers, conductors, and recording artists studying at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
       
Neiner has also gained a reputation as a highly sought-out arranger and copyist, working with organizations such as Reimagining Opera for Kids, the Vietnamese American Society for Creative Arts and Music (VASCAM), the Cleveland Institute of Music, and internationally recognized composer and trumpeter Anthony Plog.
       
Neiner completed a master's degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Keith Fitch. Previously, he studied composition and horn performance at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with composers Claude Baker, Aaron Travers, P. Q. Phan, Don Freund, and hornist Richard Seraphinoff. He is an alumnus of the Mostly Modern Festival, New Music on the Point Festival, RED NOTE New Music Festival, and the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium.

Composer/Horn player/etc. for Alarm Will Sound. Recent projects include pieces for LA Phil, Brooklyn Phil, Great Noise Ensemble, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, HERE Arts Center, The Bushwick Starr, and more.

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.

Trio Jinx has been hailed as “turning the classical concert into a jam session” by KTEP radio broadcaster Dennis Woo. Together they bring together the low hums of double bass, spinning lines of flute and amber swirls of violin/viola. They are a classical core trio, offering concerts of classical music spiced with dashes of folk, jazz and improvisation. In April of 2017, Trio Jinx did a residency in El Paso, Texas with El Paso Pro Musica. This summer they continue their adventures, participating in the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival in New York City, then on to a residency at the Iowa Great Lakes Festival this July. All three members (Louna Dekker-Vargas, Ledah Finck and Yoshiaki Horiguchi) are graduates of Peabody Institute and are proud to call Baltimore their musical and artistic home.

Jamie Leidwinger is a musician fascinated by transition, transformation, and social ritual. She holds a MM in Composition from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins and a BA in Music with a minor in Political Science from Dickinson College.

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Chanell Crichlow is a Composer, Songwriter & Multi-instrumentalist residing in Los Angeles, California.

Calvin Hitchcock is a composer, performer, and music director based in Jersey City, NJ. Described as “impressive,” and having “a fine ear for sonority” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), his work explores musical memory, themes of religious control, subversion and faith, and experiments with narrative form and interdisciplinary integration. His opera “819: based on the Stanford Prison Experiment” placed second in the 2019-20 American Prize, and he has received honors from the Kennedy Center for his incidental music. Recently, Calvin was a 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre, developing his new opera-theatre work PROPHET$.

In addition to working as a music director, pianist and entertainer, Calvin is a Teaching Artist for TADA! Youth Theater in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Music Factory. He holds a BM in Composition from Cedarville University, a Southern Baptist university in Ohio, and and an MM from The New School, where he studied with David T. Little. www.calvinhitchcock.com

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