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Mary Box
Mary Box, a conductor and opera coach based in Houston, Texas, founded the Montrose Project – an organization driven to discover, celebrate, and perform works by women composers.
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Sean Connors
Sean Connors is an Ensemble Member and Technical Director of Third Coast Percussion. He has performed with Amphion Percussion, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, eighth blackbird, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Signal, and Metropolis Ensemble, and he was the percussionist for 2 summers with the prestigious Aspen Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble. As an educator, Sean served…
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Peter Ferry
Acclaimed as “the ingenious percussionist Peter Ferry,” (Chicago Sun-Times), Peter Ferry is a young American percussion soloist re-imagining classical performances around the world through contemporary repertoire projects and innovative artistic collaborations. An active concerto soloist, Ferry has championed the percussion concerti of Joe Duddell, Emmanuel Sejourne, Michael Torke, Ney Rosauro, and Jacob ter Veldhuis and…
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Darren Lin
1st Lieutenant Darren Y. Lin joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in July 2019 as a percussionist. He was appointed Assistant Director in July 2021 and commissioned to his current rank in January 2022. 1st Lt. Lin is a 2009 graduate of Hershey High School in Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor’s degree in…
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Alison Lowell
Alison Lowell is a passionate arts advocate. She currently serves as a Supervisory Copyright Specialist with the United States Copyright Office, Performing Arts Division, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Alison is a founding member and Artistic Director of District5, a wind quintet dedicated to new works and transcriptions. She is the Director…
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Audrey Snyder
Audrey Q. Snyder is a Chicago-based cellist. She has collaborated with members of Ensemble Signal, Ensemble Dal Niente, and others. Snyder is a core member of the Chicago-based Zafa Collective. With the collective she has performed at Constellation and Poetry Foundation. Snyder produced, performed in and coordinated the live performance of New Music//New Film Collaborative,…
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Blaire Koerner
Dr. Blaire K.S. Koerner is an accomplished bassoonist, educator, and career advisor. As a bassoonist, Dr. Koerner is a founding member of Hats + Heels Duo, a quirky ensemble of bassoon and harp that aim to engage audiences through the universal intrigue of an entertaining story. Their innovative performances are infused with a variety of art forms…
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Eunmi Ko
Hailed as “exceedingly interesting” (New York Concert Review) and “kaleidoscopic”(San Francisco Classical Voice), pianist Eunmi Ko concertizes throughout Asia, Europe, and Americas. She works with contemporary composers, ensembles, and performers from around the world. Ko teaches at the University of South Florida as Associate Professor of Piano. Her past positions include co-advisor of USF New…
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Lien Boon Hua
A prizewinner of numerous competitions, Lien Boon Hua is the Artistic Director of Wayfarer Sinfonietta, and leads OpusNovus, the contemporary music ensemble at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore. He was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice from 2016 to 2018. He also served as Assistant…
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Philip Pierick
Classically trained and experimentally minded, Chicago-based saxophonist, improviser, singer, and educator Phil Pierick has been called “the Swiss Army knife of saxophonists.” Though equally at home performing music spanning the past five centuries, he is an emphatic advocate for new music and has commissioned more than 25 new works and presented over 50 premieres. I…
