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Rugged, raspy, and roaring with charisma, Ben Caplan’s voice is to song as smoke is to bourbon: perfectly coupled. He is a songwriter and performer who is bold in both range and ferocity. The music is fuelled by a quality of melodrama and powerful lyricism that sets Caplan apart from his peers. Either solo or backed by his band, The Casual Smokers, Ben Caplan has captured the attention of music fans and media across Canada, Australia, and throughout Europe.

Ben Caplan is supported by upright bass, drums, Eastern European inspired strings, and occasionally horns. Ben himself moves between guitar and piano, marking his place in the world's music landscape with an outrageous musicality and a growling spirit. 
 
Besides writing and recording, Ben Caplan is almost perpetually on tour, having played more than 1000 shows since the release of his debut album in late 2011. His songs, his voice, his humour, and his charm collude to create a rhapsodically energetic live show – an elegant cacophony drawing fans in ever widening circles.

On the strength of his debut album, In The Time of the Great Remembering, Ben Caplan won numerous Canadian awards, including Nova Scotia’s 2012 Entertainer of the Year and the East Coast Music Award for Rising Star Recording of the Year for 2013. He’s shared stages with acts ranging from Grizzly Bear and Dirty Projectors to The Staves and Blondie. In addition to his 1000+ club shows, He’s played major festivals around the world including the UK’s Glastonbury in 2013.

In 2015, Ben Caplan will continue to break new ground with dates planned across North America and around the world. His highly anticipated second album, Birds with Broken Wings, is prospected to be released internationally in fall of 2015.

London-based Australian pianist, Zubin Kanga has recently performed at the Aldeburgh, Southbank, Many Hands and London 2012 Festivals in the UK, the Borealis Festival in Norway as well as the Darwin and ISCM World New Music Days festivals in Australia. In 2011, he appeared as soloist with the London Sinfonietta, performing Beat Furrer’s Nuun for two pianos and orchestra alongside pianist, Rolf Hind. He performs in Australia with Ensemble Offspring and Halcyon and has played solo recitals across Australia and Europe including recent performances at such prestigious venues as Kings Place and the Purcell Room in London. 

Zubin works with many of the leading composers in Europe including Michael Finnissy, George Benjamin, Beat Furrer and Howard Skempton as well as a multitude of Australian composers including Liza Lim, Damien Ricketson, Elliott Gyger, Nicholas Vines, Daniel Rojas and Alex Pozniak. 

At the 2012 Art Music Awards, Zubin was awarded the NSW State prize for his performance of Nicholas Vines’ Uncanny Valley, part of Zubin’s Piano: Inside/Out Australian tour in 2011. In 2010, he was the recipient of the prestigious Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship as well as the ABC Limelight award for Best Newcomer. 

Zubin studied music, philosophy, computer science and mathematics at the University of Sydney, graduating with 1st Class Honours and the University Medal in music. In 2007, he commenced his postgraduate studies with a full scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, London, studying with Rolf Hind and Kathryn Stott and graduating, with distinction, with a Master of Music in 2009. He is currently on the Academy’s PhD program writing a dissertation on the process of collaboration between composers and performers. 


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Evan (b. 1988) is an opera maker, composer, conductor, based in Philadelphia. His most recent opera – libretto by Aleksandar Hut Kono – Ganymede 5 premiered in the 2019 Philly Fringe Festival. Elevator, a short chamber opera, premiered in March as the first episode of the 2019 Serial Opera Project. His operas Colony and Greenland were performed in London at the Royal Opera House, and Greenland was revived in 2018 in the Philadelphia Fringe in an ENAensemble production. He is the Music Director of ENAensemble and Temple Composers Orchestra and served as President of the Temple graduate employee labor union TUGSA. 

With a background in physics, Evan’s compositions often use science as source material, collaborating with physicists on Heat Death and Turbulence. Since becoming involved in labor organizing, some of his music has taken a more political turn. Cosmos 3 – Or – A Succession of Fascist Clowns and the mock-tone poem Collective Bargaining each are based on his experiences in labor organizing. His recent orchestral works include FS and the flute concerto Blue, written in collaboration with flutist Chelsea Meynig. As co-founder and Music Director of the contemporary music theater group ENAensemble, his recent projects have included the 2019 Serial Opera Project (where ENA premiered six new chamber opera ‘episodes’), a fully-staged production of Pierrot Lunaire, and a serialized musical. As Music Director of the Temple Composers’ Orchestra, a sinfonietta which only premieres new works, he has developed and conducted the premiere of over a dozen new works.

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