Ben Morris is a composer whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries. He is Assistant Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Nathan Friedman is a clarinetist and composer currently based in Victoria, BC. He completed his MA in Composition/Experimental Music at Wesleyan University in 2014, studying with Anthony Braxton, Paula Matthusen, Ronald Kuivila and Neely Bruce.  He finished a Bachelor of Music in composition at the University of Victoria in April 2011 after studying composition with John Celona, Wolf Edwards, Dániel Péter Biró and Christopher Butterfield and clarinet with Patricia Kostek and Ed Nishimura. He has also had private lessons and workshops with Michael Finnissy, Chaya Czernowin and Judith Shatin. His compositions have been performed by The Vancouver Clarinet Trio, loadbang, Michael Robert-Broder & Corey Hamm, and others, and read by Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal+, the JACK Quartet and Quasar Quatuor de Saxophones.


Alex Jang (1988–) studied composition & music theory with Christopher Butterfield, John Celona, Wolf Edwards, Aaron Cassidy, and Bryn Harrison in Victoria and Huddersfield, conducting with Ajtony Csaba, classical guitar and chamber music with Dr. Alexander Dunn.

He has had lessons, master classes, and conversations about music with Linda Catlin Smith, Peter Ablinger, Gianluca Ulivelli, Antoine Beuger, and Martin Arnold.

His works have been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Trento, London, Munich and Buenos Aires.

Recent and upcoming performances (Feb-Aug 2018): Apartment House, Adrian Verdejo, ensemble motoContrario, Victoria Composers Collective

He currently plays guitar and mandolin for the Victoria Guitar Society, Victoria Composers Collective, New Guitars, and the Place to Listen Ensemble.

His first CD, ‘momentary encounters,’ is now available on Another Timbre Canadian Composers Series 

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Originally from Los Angeles, Sean Sonderegger was based for over 10 years in NYC playing contemporary jazz  and creative music with the Jazz Passengers,  Debbie Harry, John Zorn, Adam Rudolph’s Go Organic Orchestra, Butch Morris, and many more. Since returning in 2019 he has recorded or performed with Kamasi Washington, Josef Leimberg, The Graves Brothers, Brandon Coleman, Brainstory, Protoje, and many other artists.

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