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Ashkan Behzadi, a recipient of 2025 Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize and a 2021–2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, is an Iranian-Canadian composer based in New York. He earned his DMA in composition at Columbia University, where he studied with Fred Lerdahl, George Lewis, and Georg Friedrich Haas. Prior to this, he graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s degree in composition and music theory, studying composition with Chris Paul Harman and Brian Cherney. Ashkan also holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Tehran University, where, at the same time, he took composition and music theory lessons with Alireza Mashayekhi.
Ashkan’s music has been commissioned and performed by various international performers and ensembles, including Ensemble Recherche, TAK Ensemble, Oerknal Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Yarn/Wire, JACK Quartet, Grossman Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Ensemble Alternance, Ensemble UnitedBerlin, Exaudi, Ekmeles, Wet Ink, Talea Ensemble, and le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM). 
His work has also been recognized with awards, artist residencies, and participation in festivals such as the Koussevitzky Foundation, Fromm Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, the Graham Sommer Second Prize, the Prix de Composition at Fontainebleau, the MacDowell Fellowship, the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, the Divertimento Ensemble Composers Meeting, the Dialoge Festival at Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, the Manifeste Festival at IRCAM, and the CIRMMT New Music Series.
For the 2019–2020 academic year, Ashkan Behzadi joined the Department of Music at the University of Chicago as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Contemporary Composition. Since september 2023, he teaches at the Manhattan School of Music as a faculty member in Music Composition.
The issue of genre identity or genre-blurring, along with the dialectical relationship between modernist lyric poetry and contemporary music, has formed the core of Ashkan’s aesthetic concerns in recent years. Structurally, his music demonstrates a great attention to detail, conveying a miniaturist and gentle lyrical landscape. By employing techniques of allusion and pastiche as the foundation of his craft, his music ultimately seeks to invoke the collective memory of folklore music.

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Foo Jeng is a Malaysian composer and pianist whose music incorporates elements of contemporary composition, improvisation, and electro-acoustics. He is the winner of the El Paso Original Music/New Ideas Competition and a finalist of the American Prize in Composition.

His music has been presented by the New Thread Quartet, Rasp.LA, New Chamber Ballet, Clark Art Institute, Concours International De Piano D’Orléans, Ilham Gallery, ArtsBasel, Yarn/Wire Institute, ArtsBasel, and St Petersburg International New Music Festival. As a performer, he’s been featured as a pianist at National Sawdust, OPERA America, DiMenna Center, Scholes Street Studio, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center, Time Is Art Festival, and the Borneo Jazz Festival.

He graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with a Masters of Music in Composition, where he is the recipient of the Giampaolo Bracali Award and Special Project Residency. He earned his Bachelors of Music in Piano Performance from Berklee College of Music.

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