Derek Allen is a musician, composer, sound artist, and engineer from outside Chicago. Currently performing with Lower Automation and Formants, he has toured nationally and released music since 2009. He received a BFA in Sound Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015, and is currently earning a Masters in Music […]
Salvatore Siriano is a Chicago-based composer, audiovisual artist, and educator whose work explores the intersection of sound, imagery, and nature through technology. He blends field recordings, synthesis, acoustic instruments, and self-filmed videos to create engaging multimedia experiences. Recent presentations of his audiovisual compositions include the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the Central Washington University New […]
Composer Gustavo Leone is a Professor Emeritus of Music at the Department of Fine and Performing Arts of Loyola University Chicago. His principal composition teachers included Gerardo Gandini, Marta Lambertini, Ralph Shapey, Shulamit Ran, and John Eaton. He also studied electronic music with Howard Sandroff. Leone received a Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy […]
Described as “dazzling” and “scintillating,” (Classical Source) and lauded for her “beautiful singing lines” and performances filled with “drama and energy” (Joan Tower), pianist Emiko Edwards continues to captivate audiences with her sincere musical interpretations and wide variety of tonal color. Edwards’s international performing career has taken her across North America, Europe, and Asia, where […]
Carolyn Sundlof Boudreau is a crossover vocalist and pianist. She has performed with Stare at the Sun, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Music of the Baroque, Grant Park Music Festival, Chicago Opera Theater, Skokie Theater, 4 Chairs Theatre, and Big Noise Theatre. Carolyn also serves as cantor at Saints Faith, Hope & Charity in Winnetka, IL. […]
Originally from Chicago, Marissa Simmons is a contralto, noted for her “deep, evenly produced mezzo and theatrical magnetism” (South Florida Classical Review). She is also distinguished by her “comic precision” (San Francisco Examiner) and praised as “una formidable” (Especial/El Nuevo Herald). Simmons earned a Master of Music under Catherine Cook at the San Francisco Conservatory […]
Jack Langdon (b.1994) is a musician, filmmaker, and writer. He creates work that heightens our attention towards commonplace sounds, images, and narratives—reassembling things taken for granted into strange, elusive constructions. His works are stark and expansive, drawing inspiration from the landscape and folk modernisms of the American Midwest. As a musician, Jack performs on a […]