Monika Cosson is a professional classical singer and voice teacher. She studied voice performance at Loyola University College of Music and Fine Arts in New Orleans, La. She has performed opera roles with New Orleans Opera, Gulf Coast Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Mobile Opera, Opera Southwest, and has toured and recorded with the Gregg Smith Singers in New York, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and Polyphony:  Voices of New Mexico.  In her career, she has been a featured soloist with The New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra, The Santa Fe Marimba Festival, Canticum Novum Chamber Chorus and Orchestra, The Santa Fe Community Orchestra, and The Santa Fe Men's Camerata.  She has also appeared at special events for The Santa Fe Federated Republican Women, The New Mexico State Senate, The New Mexico State Capitol, The City of Santa Fe, and the Santa Fe Film Festival.  In addition to performing, Monika became a RYT 200 in 2018 specializing in Hatha and Vinyasa yoga.  She is currently enrolled at Loyola Institute of Ministry pursuing a BA in Ministry & Theology.

A California native, Emma Tucker (b. 2001) is a composer and oboist. “Like an impressive machine”, her music combines spectral harmony with a synesthetic relationship between color and sound. Her musical influences range from Renaissance music and French impressionism to 21st century microtonal landscapes and just intonation. Her music is also aesthetically inspired by visual art and natural science, and is formally constructed primarily by creating shifts in harmony and timbre. Emma has worked with esteemed groups such as Ensemble Modern, Bergamot Quartet, Ensemble Linea, International Contemporary Ensemble, Brightwork NewMusic, and LIGAMENT.

Emma is currently pursuing a DMA in music composition at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in the studio of Felipe Lara, from which she has also earned her MM in the studios of Oscar Bettison and Eric Wubbels.  Emma also holds Bachelor’s degrees in music composition and oboe performance from Chapman University where she studied with Jeffrey Holmes, Sean Heim, Vera Ivanova, and Ted Sugata. Her music is registered with ASCAP, and her works are self-published.
Learn more at emmatuckermusic.com

The Crossing is a Grammy Award-winning professional chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally and dedicated to new music. It is committed to working with creative teams to make and record new, substantial works for choir – most often addressing social issues – with the possibility of changing the way we think about writing for choir, singing in choir, and listening to music for choir. Many of its over seventy commissioned premieres address social, environmental, and political issues.

Highly sought-after for collaborative projects, The Crossing’s first such partnership was as the resident choir of the Spoleto Festival in Italy, in 2007. Since then, collaborators include the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), American Composers Orchestra, Network for New Music, Lyric Fest, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Beth Morrison Projects, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Park Avenue Armory, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Mostly Mozart Festival, National Gallery of Art, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum, Institute for Advanced Study, Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, and Northwestern University. The Crossing holds an annual residency at the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Big Sky, Montana. 

With a commitment to recording its commissions, The Crossing has issued 15 releases, receiving two Grammy Awards and three nominations in as many years. The Crossing, with Donald Nally, is the American Composers Forum’s 2017 Champion of New Music. They are the recipients of the 2015 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, three ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, and the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award from Chorus America.

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The Crossing is represented by Alliance Artist Management. 

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