John Mackey is a composer currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  He's also lived in New York, Austin, Los Angeles, and Ohio, but he prefers not to talk about Ohio.

As a frequent collaborator, John has worked with a diverse range of artists, from the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps to choreographer David Parsons, from the Alvin Ailey Dance Company to the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team. (The team won a bronze medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to Mackey's work for clarinet and percussion, "Damn.")

John has served as a Meet-The-Composer/American Symphony Orchestra League Composer In Residence with the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony and with the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer In Residence at the Vail Valley Music Festival in Vail, Colorado, and in 2005, at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.  He returns to Cabrillo this summer for  performances of his trombone concerto, "Harvest," conducted by Marin Alsop, with trombonist Joseph Alessi of the New York Philharmonic.

John holds degrees from The Juilliard School and The Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with John Corigliano and Donald Erb, respectively.

To entertain himself while procrastinating on commissions, John enjoys photography and road cycling (but not at the same time). You can hear his music and see his photography (mostly of food, and the backs of conductors’ heads) on his website: www.ostimusic.com

Jacob Thiede is an American composer and saxophonist from Murray, Kentucky, where the smell of tobacco barns and honeysuckle fill the air.

Hello, my name is Bianca!  I'm a 24-year-old singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist hailing from the little old thumb socket of Michigan. I compose for a myriad of instruments and styles aside from my songwriting work, and I am a CMU grad currently building her career :)

Stresswave ♒ Dark Italo ♒ Nightstep
Ryan McCarthy / Ryan Delarme

CONTACT: RogerBriggs.com 
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ROGER BRIGGS

Composer and Professor Emeritus of Composition at Western Washington University,  Conductor Emeritus, Bellingham Symphony Orchestra.
Internationally recognized composer and conductor.  American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Lieberson Award, ASCAP Award, NEA Fellowship, Arts Council Awards from New York, Indiana and Washington State, Dartington Fellowship, 3 MacDowell Fellowships, Chautauqua Fellowship, Petit Jean International Art Song Fellowship, 3 Meet the Composer Grants, Dreyfus/MacDowell and Alienor Awards, Composer of the Year Award in Washington State, Discography of 10 CDs, Recordings by London Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Czech Radio Orchestra, Silesian Philharmonic, Works performed by London Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Prague Symphony, Czech Radio Orchestra, Da Capo Chamber Players, Third Angle, Fear No Music, Zephyr, New Performance Group, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Buffalo New Music Ensemble. Worked with Midor, Sarah Chang Leon Fleisher, Ursula Oppens, Jennifer Koh, Evelyn Glennie, Orion Weiss, Alicia Weilerstein, and Corey Cerovsek. Founded Whatcom Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Music by American Composers commissioning series, WWU Contemporary Chamber players, Michiana New Music Ensemble.  

Roger currently resides in Charlottesville, VA

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