Composer of concert music; author, professor at Vanderbilt University

Jacob Beranek is a Wisconsin-born, New York-based composer of classical music rooted in melody. His compositions are infused with his love of historical traditions — musical, religious, or even his Czech heritage. Beranek served as the inaugural Composer-in-Residence of the Midsummer’s Music Festival (Door County, USA) from 2017–20. His works have been championed by the GRAMMY®-nominated ALIAS Chamber Ensemble (Nashville), Band of the Castle Guards & Czech Police (Prague), Dolce Suono Ensemble (Philadelphia), Euterpe Quintet (Seoul), and The Gesualdo Six (London). He is a student of John Corigliano at The Juilliard School.

Anastasia Vinogradova was born on 2nd April 1994 in Lausanne (Switzerland).

She studied piano with Enrico Camponovo and followed the lectures of analysis and elements of composition presented by William Blank at the HEMU in Lausanne.

She continued her musical studies in the composition class (Bachelor) of Xavier Dayer at the Hochschule die Kunst Bern (HKB).  

Her current catalog includes five symphonies, four piano sonatas, three string quartets and several chamber and orchestral works.

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An accomplished and versatile musician from Kent, Ohio, Sam began his musical life on the piano at age 6.  As he grew up he explored several string and brass instruments, and voice. He dabbled in many forms and genres of music: playing bass with the Kent State Symphony, performing musical theater, writing and performing in numerous popular music bands, singing with the Cleveland Opera Chorus and Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, founding and directing a youth contemporary music choir at a local church in Kent, and performing on stages and in orchestra pits throughout Ohio and the Northeast US.

Sam moved to New York in 2008, where he performed at venues, including The Juilliard School, St Bartholomew’s Church, Avery Fisher Hall, The Stonewall Inn and Carnegie Hall. He has played bass for the internationally renowned cabaret artist, Micheline Van Houtem; composed and performed with the new music chorus, Chromatic Voice Exchange; played bass with The Chelsea Symphony and the Queer Urban Orchestra; and sang regularly with St. Bartholomew's Choir. In 2014, Sam made his television debut as a member of the fictitious "New York Symphony" in Amazon Studios' original series, "Mozart in the Jungle". Sam studied music composition with Lowell Liebermann at Mannes (The New School) from 2015-2017.

Sam moved to San Francisco in 2017 and currently studies composition with David Garner at SFCM. He also teaches privately, free-lances as a bassist and vocalist, and continues to write, arrange and record. He lives in the Castro, San Francisco.

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