Yo, I'm Alex! I make digital music. I hope you enjoy it! :)

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Composer David Biedenbender’s music has been described as “simply beautiful” [twincities.com] and is noted for its “rhythmic intensity” [NewMusicBox] and “stirring harmonies” [Boston Classical Review]. “Modern, venturesome, and inexorable…The excitement, intensity, and freshness that characterizes Biedenbender’s music hung in the [air] long after the last note was played” [Examiner.com]. David has written music for the concert stage as well as for dance and multimedia collaborations, and his work is often influenced by his diverse musical experiences in rock and jazz bands as an electric bassist, in wind, jazz, and New Orleans-style brass bands as a euphonium, bass trombone, and tuba player, and by his study of Indian Carnatic Music. His present creative interests include working with everyone from classically trained musicians to improvisers, acoustic chamber music to large ensembles, and interactive electronic interfaces to live brain data. He has had the privilege of collaborating with and being commissioned by many talented performers and ensembles, including Alarm Will Sound, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Stenhammar String Quartet, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, U.S. Navy Band, Philharmonie Baden-Baden (Germany), VocalEssence, and Eastman Wind Ensemble, among many others. 

He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Michigan State University. He holds degrees in composition from the University of Michigan and Central Michigan University, and has also studied at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the Aspen Music Festival, and in Mysore, India where he studied carnatic music. For more information, visit: www.davidbiedenbender.com.

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Composer, researcher, saxophonist and professor from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I have a degree in Music (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero) and studies in Musical Composition (Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Música Contemporánea). I’m a professor of the Bachelor of Music at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) and I teach at the Universidad de Palermo (U.P.) in the Area of Artistic and Musical Creation.

My work as a composer encompasses chamber music, mixed media, works for solo instruments, instrumental theatre, film music, sound art, instrumental post-rock, and popular music arrangements. I have received commissions from various instrumentalists, ensembles and institutions. My works have been performed by renowned musicians; presented at various festivals, cycles and concerts in Argentina, Uruguay and the United States.

Within the problems that I address in my compositions, some are technical and are related to compositional procedures and purely musical reflections (an art that speaks of itself) and others are of a philosophical nature and are related to the identity and constitution of the subject in so much dialogue with the Other (culture, society, history, the musical corpus). These problems are interrelated and are reflected, above all, through intertextual relationships and hybrid compositional processes.

In my works I apply various hybridization processes that bring together dissimilar techniques and sound universes. At the same time, I establish intertextual relations both intersemiotic (novels, poetry, paintings, assemblages) and intrasemiotic (elements of jazz, blues, rock or contemporary music).

My aesthetic is defined by a constant search and is usually more full of questions and ambiguities than certainties and absolutes.

Dr. Mark Babbitt is Professor of Trombone at Illinois State University and Principal Trombone of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra. He earned degrees in trombone performance from the Eastman School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Washington. He has performed extensively throughout the country, winning major competitions, appearing as soloist with numerous orchestras and bands, and given master classes at dozens of universities. He can be heard on several recordings with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, as well as over a dozen movie soundtracks (The Incredible Hulk, Valkyrie, Punisher: War Zone, Stargate: Continuum, etc.).

Justin Weiss is a composer and conductor whose music explores relationships between the visual arts and music through the intersection of lyricism, liminality, fragility, and textural play. Justin’s music has been recognized with a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Prix Langage Musical from Les Écoles d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau, the Walter E. Aschaffenburg, and awards and recognitions from institutions such as ASCAP, Society of Composers, Inc., and The American Prize, Tribeca New Music, and YoungArts. 

Justin’s music has been performed internationally by ensembles including Quatuor Diotima, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Grossman Ensemble, TAK Ensemble, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, Sandbox Percussion Quartet, and ~Nois Saxophone Quartet. Justin is the conductor of the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble, a co-founder and conductor of the new ensemble, Mycelium New Music, and has premiered dozens of pieces internationally. Justin studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and is a PhD Fellow at the University of Chicago where he studies with Augusta Read Thomas.

Ty Bloomfield (b. 2000) is a composer who is driven by the enjoyment of experimenting with new sounds and the excitement of collaborating with a wide range of performers and interdisciplinary artists alike. His current creative interests include the subtle integration of popular genres of music with Western classical music tradition, micro-variations, and intimate and patient soundscapes. He consistently finds himself writing about interesting pieces of visual art and literature, the odd behaviors of people, and his hometown of Chicago. Bloomfield is based in Ann Arbor, MI and is pursing a master's degree in composition from the University of Michigan as a Dorothy Greenwald Fellow where he is studying with Bright Sheng.

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