Just some kid with big dreams and a little music.

Ryan Johnston is a composer who writes music that plays with human's perception of time, working with limited material to create music of reflective stasis. Ryan strives to choose melodies, harmonies and rhythms that are sensual, evocative, and at the same time familiar. His principal teachers have included Michel Merlet, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Marti Epstein, and Reinaldo Moya.

Max Friedman is a composer, trumpet player, Yiddishist, translator, and educator based in Memphis, TN. His music and scholarship explore the multitudes of ways Yiddish speakers have and continue to express their identities through music. His composition “Butter-Lider,” for Yiddish poetry recordings and sextet, was commissioned and premiered (Dec. 2022) by Cleveland’s No Exit New Music Ensemble. Other compositions have been performed by Yarn/Wire, Hub New Music, the Lydian String Quartet, Ekmeles, Ensemble Dal Niente, the Brown University Orchestra, and the Boston-based Horizon Ensemble. An advanced Yiddish student and translator, Max was a 2021 Steiner Program Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, and in 2022 attended the YIVO-Bard Uriel Weinreich Yiddish Summer Program. He has also presented at conferences hosted at Indiana University, Brandeis University, and the University of Toronto, and he is a 2023 Fortunoff/In Geveb Fellow. Max holds degrees from Brown University (AB ‘20) and Brandeis University (MFA ‘22).

Critical acclaim for Jimmy Levi:
"He's just a fantastically weird guy!"
"His music looks like it should be stupid, but it isn't."

From listening to 80’s pop music on repeat to singing in children’s choruses, Jimmy Levi has been making music for as long as he can remember. His love of music has led him to St. Olaf College, where he will earn his Composition degree this year. He also performs as a vocalist, violist, and viol-ist.
	Jimmy’s music has been performed by ensembles such as the Mivos Quartet and the Walden School Players. Most recently, his piece, The Alibi, was premiered by Saxophonist Allison Adams. His music explores motion, narrative, and play through the aesthetics of modernist-classical performance practice.

I compose concert music including solo works, chamber music and orchestral pieces.

Steven Sérpa is an award-winning whose works have been performed by the Austin Symphony, Tucson Symphony, the Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra, as well as being part of the American Composers Orchestra EarShot emerging composer program. His one act-opera Thyrsis & Amaranth has had over a dozen production and was praised by critics as a "truly beautiful… magnificent little story jammed full of thought and feeling and meaning" with “gorgeous music and wrenching lyrics.” Recent premieres include a choral oratorio on HIV stigma with Inversion Ensemble in Austin and a micro-opera responding to the Pulse nightclub tragedy with Thompson Street Opera in Chicago and Opéra Queens in Montréal. Steven earned his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. He makes his home in Austin, TX with his partner and their rescue dogs, and he works as co-director of Fast Forward Austin, producing inventive, forward-looking music experiences for local audiences and communities. www.serpamusic.com

I am a composer and pianist who studies at Lawrence University.

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