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Stephanie Berg

Stephanie Berg is a December 2008 graduate of the University of Missouri, having earned a Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet performance. She continues her studies at the University of Missouri, pursuing a Master’s degree in clarinet performance and composition. She performs in the University Philharmonic, University of Missouri’s New Music Ensemble, is principal of the 9th Street Philharmonic, and an auxiliary member of the Columbia Civic Orchestra, playing Bb, A, Eb, and Bass clarinets whenever required.

In addition to performing, Stephanie is very active in music composition. This is her fourth year serving as the project manager of the Creating Original Music Program, and she is the 2009 recipient of the Sinquefield Composition Competition, resulting in the commissioned work, Motive and Reflection for full orchestra. She has also received commissions from the 9th Street Philharmonic and Columbia Civic Orchestra, has had several works performed by the New Music Ensemble, including premieres at the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum and Missouri Botanical Garden, and was the 2011 winner of state level MTNA in the composition category.

Brian Ciach

Brian Ciach (pronounced “sigh-ack“, born 1977) is an internationally performed composer and new music pianist. A native of Philadelphia, he has premiered his music across the United States, Berlin, Germany, and Pavia, Italy. The orchestral premiere of his doctoral dissertation, Collective Uncommon: Seven Orchestral Studies on Medical Oddities, received the following review by Peter Jacobi of the Bloomington Herald Times: "Just listening brought moments of sheer excitement from how imaginatively the composer used his skills in orchestration to suggest chaos and furor, mystery and alarm, sympathy and wonder". Brian’s Second Piano Sonata has received both national and international recognition, winning the 2008 National Federation of Music Clubs Emil and Ruth Beyer Composition Award and the 2011 American Liszt Society’s Bicentennial Composition Competition. Also a composer of electronic music, his work Waterclocks was selected for a performance at the 2009 SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) National Conference.

Brian is a graduate of the doctoral program in music composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he was also an Associate Instructor in music theory. He studied composition with P.Q. Phan, Claude Baker, Don Freund, John Gibson (electro-acoustic), Jeffrey Hass (electro-acoustic), and Sven-David Sandström at IU, with Samuel Adler at the Freie Universität Berlin, with Maurice Wright, Matthew Greenbaum, and Richard Brodhead at Temple University, and privately with Richard Wernick. He studied piano with Charles Abramovic, Lambert Orkis, and Ignat Solzhenitsyn at Temple University, and at the Darlington Arts Center with Benjamin Whitten and Harue Sato.

For more information on Brian Ciachn and his music, visit www.sigh-ackmusic.com.

David Crowell

New York City-based composer and instrumentalist David Crowell brings a “singular vision that transcends genre” (Exclaim) to diverse forms of composed and improvisational music, and has been praised for compositional work that is "notable for its crystalline sonic beauty" (Boston Globe). The Open Road, performed opening night by the JACK Quartet at the 2010 Tribeca New Music Festival, was hailed as “cinematographic” and “an inspired work” by the New York Times. David’s chamber works have also been performed at the MATA Festival, Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, the Eastman School of Music, University of North Texas and University of
Kentucky by groups such as the NOW Ensemble, Syracuse Symphony Quartet, Duquesne Contemporary Ensemble and the University of Kentucky Percussion Society. In October 2011, a new work for saxophone and electronics was premiered at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with Carlito Carvalhosa’s exhibition, Sum of Days.

His piece, Waiting in the Rain for Snow, reviewed by Michael Quinn of the Classical Review as "a meditation on the crystallization of rain or ice into snow...a hymnal to a hidden process, the sense of transformation etched and sculpted by intricate, repeated figures in guitar and piano overlaid and compounded by shifting, drifting patterns in woodwinds" has been released by the NOW Ensemble on New Amsterdam Records. David’s music has received radio play on national and international stations, including
New York City’s classical station WQXR and public radio station WNYC, with features on WNYC’s New Sounds with John Schaefer.

As a woodwinds performer, David tours internationally as a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble and has also performed with the N.Y. Philharmonic, the L.A. Philharmonic, Signal Ensemble, Asphalt Orchestra and L’Arsenale.

For more information on David Crowell and his music, visit www.davidcrowell.org.

Stylianos Dimou

Stylianos Dimou is a Greek composer born in Thessaloniki, in 1988. He started his music studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Thessaloniki, degrees in Music Harmony (May 2005) and Counterpoint (May 2008) and diploma in accordion (June 2010). He initiated his studies in music composition in 2006 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Music Studies. He graduated in 2011 owing a Master of Music degree in Composition, supervised by Professor Christos Samaras. The same year he was accepted at the MA program in composition (Master Music) at the Eastman School of Music – University of Rochester where he is studying with Professor Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez. Finally, he has been nominated as a scholar in the International Exchange Program “Fulbright”, for the academic year 2011 – 2012.

He has collaborated with ensembles such as the dissonArt ensemble (GR), Greek ensemble of contemporary music (GR) , Idee Fixe (GR), Orpheus Soloists (GR), ALEA III (USA) and others. His activity includes seminars, workshops and competitions. Most of his works have been presented and awarded in workshops and competitions in Greece and Abroad.

For more information on Stylianos Dimou and his music, visit www.reverbnation.com/sdimou.

Ted Goldman

Ted Goldman began his undergraduate studies in physics, and his love of patterned abstraction has continued to guide him as a composer. Mr. Goldman graduated summa cum laude with honors in music from Columbia University in 2005. He received his MM in composition from the Juilliard School, and has continued there as a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow. His teachers have included Fred Lerdahl, Samuel Adler, and Christopher Rouse, among others.

Mr. Goldman’s compositions have received national and international recognition. In 2010, Scrudge received an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Cellular Automata won eighth blackbird’s MusicX Festival competition, and his song Paint won 3rd prize in Juilliard’s N. J. Skye Cooper Song Competition. In 2011, his string quartet Tynexia was a winner of the Beijing Modern Music Festival’s Young Composers Project and A Fitful Sleep received the Hanson Young Composers Award, sponsored by Chamber Music Rochester and the Eastman School of Music. He has been commissioned by the Banff Centre in Canada, the Contrasts Quartet, and twice by the New Juilliard Ensemble.

In addition to composing, Mr. Goldman loves to play, teach, and analyze music. For five years he was a radio host at WKCR-FM NY, where he discussed music both new and old. As a pianist, he has performed at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, The Mannes International Keyboard Institute, and the Mannes Beethoven Institute.

When he is not composing, Mr. Goldman can be found running (almost) barefoot in Central Park, or playing the ancient game of Go.

For more information on Ted Goldman and his music, visit www.tedgoldman.com.

Patrick Harlin

Born in Salt Lake City, raised in Seattle, Patrick Harlin has composed and played piano since age seven. He is classically trained and experienced in jazz and modern improvisation, and draws from those idioms as well as electronic music. His compositions are informed by the intersection of the natural world and contemporary life. As such, he has a keen interest in acoustic ecology and is integrating research from that field into his doctoral studies.

Immediately after receiving his Bachelors degree in composition at Western
Washington University he was hired on to teach Aural Skills. He then went on to earn a Master of Music composition from the University of Michigan, where he is currently working towards the Doctor of Musical Arts. He studies with Michael Daugherty, and has studied with Bright Sheng, Roger Briggs, Bruce Hamilton, and Lesley Sommer, as well as Erik Santos in electroacoustic music. He has participated in master classes with Samuel Adler, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, & Frederic Rzewski. Recent awards include fellowships from the University of Michigan,and best original score at the Lightworks film festival. Patrick’s compositions have been performed by outstanding artists and ensembles throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

For more information on Patrick Harlin and his music, visit www.patrickharlin.com.

Charlie Piper

Charlie Piper (b. 1982) is a London based composer. He completed his master's degree with distinction at the Royal College of Music, studying with David Sawer and Michael Zev Gordon. He is currently doing doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music under the supervision of Philip Cashian, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

He has been performed at the Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Gaudeamus, Bang-On-A-Can and Aix-en-Provence Festivals, the Barbican Hall, the South Bank Centre, the Roundhouse, King's Place and Le Grand Théâtre de Provence. Performers have included the London Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, the London Sinfonietta, Sentieri Selvaggi, The Esbjerg Ensemble, the Orkest 'de ereprijs', CHROMA, the English National Ballet and individuals such as Rolf Hind, Brindley Sherratt, Xian Zhang, Laurence Cummings, François-Xavier Roth, Martyn Brabbins, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Pierre-André Valade.

Awards include the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and the 2007 prize at the 13th International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn. Charlie was a 2008-2010 New Music Associate at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.

Recent work has included premieres in New York and Milan; a short residency in Gotland, Sweden; performances of The Twittering Machine by L’orchestre des jeunes de la Méditerranée in collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Marseille and Monaco; and the premieres of Insomniac, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, and Borderland commissioned by Britten Sinfonia taken on tour around England.

For more information on Charlie Piper and his music, visit www.charliepiper.co.uk.

Asha Srinivasan

As an Indian-American composer, Asha Srinivasan draws from her Western musical training and her Indian heritage to create her compositional language. Her music has been presented at various national and international festivals including SEAMUS, ICMC, June in Buffalo, Spark, SCI, and the National Flute Convention. Recently, she won the Ruam Samai award at the 2011 Thailand International Composition Festival. She has also won national commissioning competitions, including the BMI Foundation's Women's Music Commission and the Flute/Cello Commissioning Circle. She has been commissioned by several other ensembles and performers, including Sequoia Chamber Players, Ant’s Elbow Duo, and clarinetist E. Michael Richards. Other honors include: the ASCAPlus Award, the Walsum prize for Kalpitha (string quartet), and the Prix d'Eté 2nd prize for Alone, Dancing (flute and electronics),which was recently released on the album Ambiance: Collaboration IV under the Beauport Classical label. Her studies include: D.M.A. in Composition at University of Maryland, College Park; M.Mus. in Computer Music Composition and Music Theory Pedagogy at the Peabody Conservatory, and B.A. at Goucher College. Ms. Srinivasan is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

For more information on Asha Srinivasav and her music, visit www.twocomposers.org.

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through the generous support of the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.

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2012 Resident Composers Past Resident Composers 2010 Resident Composers 2011 Resident Composers Stephanie Berg Stephanie Berg Stephanie Berg is a December 2008 graduate of the University of Missouri, having earned a Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet performance. She continues her studies at the University of Missouri, pursuing a Master’s degree in clarinet performance and composition. She performs in the University Philharmonic, University of Missouri’s New Music Ensemble, is principal of the 9th Street Philharmonic, and an auxiliary member of the Columbia Civic Orchestra, playing Bb, A, Eb, and Bass clarinets whenever required. In addition to performing, Stephanie is very active in music composition. This is her fourth year serving as the project manager of the Creating Original Music Program, and she is the 2009 recipient of the Sinquefield Composition Competition, resulting in the commissioned work, Motive and Reflection for full orchestra. She has also received commissions from the 9th Street Philharmonic and Columbia Civic Orchestra, has had several works performed by the New Music Ensemble, including premieres at the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum and Missouri Botanical Garden, and was the 2011 winner of state level MTNA in the composition category. Brian Ciach Brian Ciach Brian Ciach (pronounced “sigh-ack“, born 1977) is an internationally performed composer and new music pianist. A native of Philadelphia, he has premiered his music across the United States, Berlin, Germany, and Pavia, Italy. The orchestral premiere of his doctoral dissertation, Collective Uncommon: Seven Orchestral Studies on Medical Oddities, received the following review by Peter Jacobi of the Bloomington Herald Times: "Just listening brought moments of sheer excitement from how imaginatively the composer used his skills in orchestration to suggest chaos and furor, mystery and alarm, sympathy and wonder". Brian’s Second Piano Sonata has received both national and international recognition, winning the 2008 National Federation of Music Clubs Emil and Ruth Beyer Composition Award and the 2011 American Liszt Society’s Bicentennial Composition Competition. Also a composer of electronic music, his work Waterclocks was selected for a performance at the 2009 SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) National Conference. Brian is a graduate of the doctoral program in music composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he was also an Associate Instructor in music theory. He studied composition with P.Q. Phan, Claude Baker, Don Freund, John Gibson (electro-acoustic), Jeffrey Hass (electro-acoustic), and Sven-David Sandström at IU, with Samuel Adler at the Freie Universität Berlin, with Maurice Wright, Matthew Greenbaum, and Richard Brodhead at Temple University, and privately with Richard Wernick. He studied piano with Charles Abramovic, Lambert Orkis, and Ignat Solzhenitsyn at Temple University, and at the Darlington Arts Center with Benjamin Whitten and Harue Sato. For more information on Brian Ciachn and his music, visit www.sigh-ackmusic.com. David Crowell David Crowell New York City-based composer and instrumentalist David Crowell brings a “singular vision that transcends genre” (Exclaim) to diverse forms of composed and improvisational music, and has been praised for compositional work that is "notable for its crystalline sonic beauty" (Boston Globe). The Open Road, performed opening night by the JACK Quartet at the 2010 Tribeca New Music Festival, was hailed as “cinematographic” and “an inspired work” by the New York Times. David’s chamber works have also been performed at the MATA Festival, Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, the Eastman School of Music, University of North Texas and University of Kentucky by groups such as the NOW Ensemble, Syracuse Symphony Quartet, Duquesne Contemporary Ensemble and the University of Kentucky Percussion Society. In October 2011, a new work for saxophone and electronics was premiered at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with Carlito Carvalhosa’s exhibition, Sum of Days. His piece, Waiting in the Rain for Snow, reviewed by Michael Quinn of the Classical Review as "a meditation on the crystallization of rain or ice into snow...a hymnal to a hidden process, the sense of transformation etched and sculpted by intricate, repeated figures in guitar and piano overlaid and compounded by shifting, drifting patterns in woodwinds" has been released by the NOW Ensemble on New Amsterdam Records. David’s music has received radio play on national and international stations, including New York City’s classical station WQXR and public radio station WNYC, with features on WNYC’s New Sounds with John Schaefer. As a woodwinds performer, David tours internationally as a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble and has also performed with the N.Y. Philharmonic, the L.A. Philharmonic, Signal Ensemble, Asphalt Orchestra and L’Arsenale. For more information on David Crowell and his music, visit www.davidcrowell.org. Stylianos Dimou Stylianos Dimou Stylianos Dimou is a Greek composer born in Thessaloniki, in 1988. He started his music studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Thessaloniki, degrees in Music Harmony (May 2005) and Counterpoint (May 2008) and diploma in accordion (June 2010). He initiated his studies in music composition in 2006 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Music Studies. He graduated in 2011 owing a Master of Music degree in Composition, supervised by Professor Christos Samaras. The same year he was accepted at the MA program in composition (Master Music) at the Eastman School of Music – University of Rochester where he is studying with Professor Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez. Finally, he has been nominated as a scholar in the International Exchange Program “Fulbright”, for the academic year 2011 – 2012. He has collaborated with ensembles such as the dissonArt ensemble (GR), Greek ensemble of contemporary music (GR) , Idee Fixe (GR), Orpheus Soloists (GR), ALEA III (USA) and others. His activity includes seminars, workshops and competitions. Most of his works have been presented and awarded in workshops and competitions in Greece and Abroad. For more information on Stylianos Dimou and his music, visit www.reverbnation.com/sdimou. Ted Goldman Ted Goldman Ted Goldman began his undergraduate studies in physics, and his love of patterned abstraction has continued to guide him as a composer. Mr. Goldman graduated summa cum laude with honors in music from Columbia University in 2005. He received his MM in composition from the Juilliard School, and has continued there as a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow. His teachers have included Fred Lerdahl, Samuel Adler, and Christopher Rouse, among others. Mr. Goldman’s compositions have received national and international recognition. In 2010, Scrudge received an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Cellular Automata won eighth blackbird’s MusicX Festival competition, and his song Paint won 3rd prize in Juilliard’s N. J. Skye Cooper Song Competition. In 2011, his string quartet Tynexia was a winner of the Beijing Modern Music Festival’s Young Composers Project and A Fitful Sleep received the Hanson Young Composers Award, sponsored by Chamber Music Rochester and the Eastman School of Music. He has been commissioned by the Banff Centre in Canada, the Contrasts Quartet, and twice by the New Juilliard Ensemble. In addition to composing, Mr. Goldman loves to play, teach, and analyze music. For five years he was a radio host at WKCR-FM NY, where he discussed music both new and old. As a pianist, he has performed at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, The Mannes International Keyboard Institute, and the Mannes Beethoven Institute. When he is not composing, Mr. Goldman can be found running (almost) barefoot in Central Park, or playing the ancient game of Go. For more information on Ted Goldman and his music, visit www.tedgoldman.com. Patrick Harlin Patrick Harlin Born in Salt Lake City, raised in Seattle, Patrick Harlin has composed and played piano since age seven. He is classically trained and experienced in jazz and modern improvisation, and draws from those idioms as well as electronic music. His compositions are informed by the intersection of the natural world and contemporary life. As such, he has a keen interest in acoustic ecology and is integrating research from that field into his doctoral studies. Immediately after receiving his Bachelors degree in composition at Western Washington University he was hired on to teach Aural Skills. He then went on to earn a Master of Music composition from the University of Michigan, where he is currently working towards the Doctor of Musical Arts. He studies with Michael Daugherty, and has studied with Bright Sheng, Roger Briggs, Bruce Hamilton, and Lesley Sommer, as well as Erik Santos in electroacoustic music. He has participated in master classes with Samuel Adler, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, & Frederic Rzewski. Recent awards include fellowships from the University of Michigan,and best original score at the Lightworks film festival. Patrick’s compositions have been performed by outstanding artists and ensembles throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. For more information on Patrick Harlin and his music, visit www.patrickharlin.com. Charlie Piper Charlie Piper Charlie Piper (b. 1982) is a London based composer. He completed his master's degree with distinction at the Royal College of Music, studying with David Sawer and Michael Zev Gordon. He is currently doing doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music under the supervision of Philip Cashian, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has been performed at the Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Gaudeamus, Bang-On-A-Can and Aix-en-Provence Festivals, the Barbican Hall, the South Bank Centre, the Roundhouse, King's Place and Le Grand Théâtre de Provence. Performers have included the London Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, the London Sinfonietta, Sentieri Selvaggi, The Esbjerg Ensemble, the Orkest 'de ereprijs', CHROMA, the English National Ballet and individuals such as Rolf Hind, Brindley Sherratt, Xian Zhang, Laurence Cummings, François-Xavier Roth, Martyn Brabbins, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Pierre-André Valade. Awards include the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and the 2007 prize at the 13th International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn. Charlie was a 2008-2010 New Music Associate at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. Recent work has included premieres in New York and Milan; a short residency in Gotland, Sweden; performances of The Twittering Machine by L’orchestre des jeunes de la Méditerranée in collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Marseille and Monaco; and the premieres of Insomniac, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, and Borderland commissioned by Britten Sinfonia taken on tour around England. For more information on Charlie Piper and his music, visit www.charliepiper.co.uk. Asha Srinivasan Asha Srinivasan As an Indian-American composer, Asha Srinivasan draws from her Western musical training and her Indian heritage to create her compositional language. Her music has been presented at various national and international festivals including SEAMUS, ICMC, June in Buffalo, Spark, SCI, and the National Flute Convention. Recently, she won the Ruam Samai award at the 2011 Thailand International Composition Festival. She has also won national commissioning competitions, including the BMI Foundation's Women's Music Commission and the Flute/Cello Commissioning Circle. She has been commissioned by several other ensembles and performers, including Sequoia Chamber Players, Ant’s Elbow Duo, and clarinetist E. Michael Richards. Other honors include: the ASCAPlus Award, the Walsum prize for Kalpitha (string quartet), and the Prix d'Eté 2nd prize for Alone, Dancing (flute and electronics),which was recently released on the album Ambiance: Collaboration IV under the Beauport Classical label. Her studies include: D.M.A. in Composition at University of Maryland, College Park; M.Mus. in Computer Music Composition and Music Theory Pedagogy at the Peabody Conservatory, and B.A. at Goucher College. Ms. Srinivasan is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. For more information on Asha Srinivasav and her music, visit www.twocomposers.org.
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