Brad Rau Classical Guitar, Music Teacher. bradraumusic.com
Brad Rau has been performing music for over 20 years all over Boston, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, as a classical guitarist, rock guitarist, and rock drummer. Brad received a scholarship to attend New England Conservatory (NEC) and received a Master’s degree in 2015 with academic honors. At NEC, he studied classical guitar under Eliot Fisk who was the last pupil of Andres Segovia. Brad has performed in countless masterclasses with instructors including; Sharon Isbin, Andrew York and Jason Vieaux, all Grammy award-winning guitarists. Brad was recently a featured performer on Live WRTI Performance Studio. Brad’s personal learning methods have enabled him to surpass his competition memorizing over 8 hours of the most difficult repertoire for the classical guitar. Brad was a semi-finalist in the International Texas Guitar Competition of 2008. In addition to his performing career, Brad has mentored hundreds of students of all ages, styles, and levels. Many of Brad's students have gone on to develop their own music careers and teaching studios. Brad's unique teaching style combines music, physics, philosophy, and humor, making him a well-rounded instructor for a variety of students.
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Aeryn Santillan (formerly Aaron Garcia) is a composer, guitarist, bassist, and label manager whose work is heavily influenced by the DIY punk scene and actively aims to blur the lines between band/ensemble and song/composition. 

 Aeryn performs bass in the New Jersey based, internationally touring screamo quartet, Massa Nera. Along with composer/guitarist Andrew Noseworthy, they co-founded this place is actually the worst, an experimental mathcore duo, and post-genre DIY label, people | places | records. 

 Aeryn holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Columbia College Chicago and a Master of Music in Theory and Composition degree from New York University. Previous mentors include Gabriela Lena Frank, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, Marcos Balter, David Reminick, Drew Baker, and Ilya Levinson. Aeryn has been a fellow at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, Toronto Creative Music Lab, and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. 

 Aeryn enjoys biking, RPGs, and vegan tacos. They live in Jersey City, NJ with their partner and two cats.

Composer / Performer / Saxophonist / Educator / Friend  - Let's make some noise together - NYC.

Michael Lanci is a composer and educator currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. His music is viscerally engaging, stylistically diverse and draws from a wide range of influences. Recent projects include a collection of 5 protest songs dedicated to late nineteenth century singer-songwriter and labor rights activist Joe Hill, that was awarded the American Prize along with a new commission as part of the  Beth Morrison Projects Next Generation Competition that will be premiered at National Sawdust in February of 2019.

Michael’s works have been performed at festivals such as the Cortona Sessions,  Edmont Fringe Festival, Orford Festival, Detroit Bureau of Sound, Midwest Composers Symposium and the Vox Novus Festival. He has received commissions from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Beyond Pluck, Unhread-of//Ensemble, Klangpar2, and the Vive! Ensemble. His works have been performed by the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Contemporaneous, Hypercube, All Of The Above, Buffalo Chamber Players, Duo d’Entre Deux, and the Decho Ensemble. 

Michael holds a B.M. in piano performance from SUNY Albany, where he also studied composition with Max Lifchitz and a M.M. in composition from SUNY Fredonia, where he studied with Rob Deemer and Karl Boelter. Michael completed his D.M.A. in composition at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati where he studied with Michael Fiday.

Spencer Arias is a composer and performer based in East Lansing, Michigan who creates highly evocotive music oftentimes represented by lived experiences and social commentary. Having worked with Dancers, Musicians, Visual Artists, and Poets, he thoroughly enjoys collaboration, improvisation and community engagement. He also enjoys experimenting in the kitchen, photography, nature, and too much Netflix. 

He has been performed by musicians such as the JACK Quartet, the Rogue Trio, The Lotus Trio and the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, as well as a frequent composer at bi-annual North American Saxophone Alliance Conference. He also is the winner of the Abundant Silence Publishing Composition Competition for his String Quartet: A Long Way From Home, and 

He earned a B.M. in Composition at Arizona State where he received a Special Talent Award, and studied primarily with Roshanne Etezady, and Rodney Rodgers, as well as Timothy McAllister on saxophone. In May 2015 he received his M.M. in Composition at NYU where he studied primarily with Justin Dello Joio and Julia Wolfe. He recently served as the only Instructor of Composition at the Seattle Conservatory of Music, and is currently a Doctoral Student at Michigan State University

For more info visit spencerariasmusic.com
He works in a variety of mediums, but his favorite two are working with saxophones and choreographers. Working with dancers he often improvises as a pianist or saxophonist. This form of collaboration has proven to be the most fufilling as it leaves quite a bit of room for true in the moment artisitic expression. 

He also writes chamber, orchestra, and band music. This medium has proven quite useful in the creation of three string quartets, two saxophone quartets, various mixed ensemble works, a various large ensemble works. His chamber opera Christopher was the first of a planned group of 4 short 25 minute chamber operas designed to work as 1 concert length work or 1 half concert length work. 

He has been performed by the JACK Quartet, the World Winds Quintet, the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Ruth Wenger, Tyler Flowers, and has appeared the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, and the Lucca International Festival. He also is the winner of the Abundant Silence Publishing Composition Competition for his String Quartet: A Long Way From Home.

Currently he is working on a a trio for Kathleen Strahm,  Justin D. Rollefson, and Mary Price; for Violin, Saxophone, and Piano, as well as a piece for saxophone ensemble. 

He earned a B.M. in Composition at Arizona State where he received a Special Talent Award, and studied primarily with Roshanne Etezady, and Rodney Rodgers, as well as Timothy McAllister on saxophone. In May 2015 he received his M.M. in Composition at NYU where he studied primarily with Justin Dello Joio and Julia Wolfe. 
He has been performed by the JACK string quartet, the World Winds Quintet, the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Ruth Wenger, Tyler Flowers and has appeared the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference.

Hi! I'm a composer from New Zealand and I live in Brooklyn, New York. I love collaborating with people to make beautiful things and also the colour yellow. You can get in touch through my website contact page.

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