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Ryan Chase

Born: April 21, 1987

Current Location: Bloomington, IN

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Ryan Chase (b. 1987) is a composer originally from Albany, NY. His music has been performed in venues ranging from dive bars to Carnegie Hall by such ensembles as Alaria, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, CIRCE, the Chelsea Symphony, Contemporaneous, the IU New Music Ensemble, the Mannes Orchestra, the Mexico City Woodwind Quintet, the SUNY Purchase Percussion Ensemble, and soprano Ariadne Greif. Recent accolades include the William Schuman Prize of the 2011 BMI Student Composer Awards, the 2010 IU Dean’s Prize, 1st Prize in the 2011 National Association of Composers USA Young Composers’ Competition, and the 2008 Bohuslav Martinú Award.

Ryan is currently pursuing a DM at Indiana University. He holds degrees from Indiana University (MM 2010) and the Mannes College of Music (BM 2008). He currently studies with Claude Baker and has also studied with Keith Fitch, Don Freund, Samuel Adler, David Tcimipdis, Chen Yi, and Gabriela Ortíz. At Indiana University, he studies computer music with Jeffrey Hass, John Gibson, and Alicyn Warren. Ryan is a member of ASCAP.

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Music © 2012 Ryan Chase

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Will Rowe

Born: January 24, 1992

Current Location: Bloomington, IN

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Will Rowe is a composer of classical music from the Metro-Detroit area of Michigan. He is currently working on a B.M. in Composition at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, studying composition with Dr. Claude Baker. Will is a proud winner in the 2011 Annual BMI Student Composer Awards, and runner-up in the 2011 League of Composers/ISCM Composers Competion. On a more local scale, he is also the recipient of the Music Faculty Award and the Dean’s Scholarship at Indiana University. In addition to his involvement in composition, Will is also an active cellist, studying with Dr. Emilio Colon at Indiana University. He is very involved in solo, orchestral, and chamber music, on and off campus, and is frequently performing on the new music scene. His classical roots aside, Will has also been the Head Arranger of The Panache Group since 2008, where he arranges pop and rock music for string quartet or other ensembles upon request.

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Music © 2012 Will Rowe

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Francisco Castillo Trigueros

Born: December 7, 1983

Current Location: Chicago, Il

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Francisco Castillo Trigueros (b. 1983) is a composer of contemporary chamber, orchestral and electronic music from Mexico City currently residing in Chicago. He has received numerous distinctions such as the BMI Student Composer Award, an honorable mention in the 2011 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, and several nominations for the Gaudeamus Music Week Prize in The Netherlands.

His mentors and teachers include Augusta Read Thomas, Shulamit Ran, Kotoka Susuki, Howard Sandroff at the University of Chicago; Theo Loevendie, Richard Ayres, Fabio Nieder at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam; Shih-Hui Chen, Kurt Stallman, Pierre Jalbert at Rice University; and Haruko Shimizu and Jose Tavarez in Mexico City.

Francisco is currently pursuing a Ph. D at the University of Chicago and is part of the composition faculty at the New Music School of Chicago.
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Music & Photograph © 2012 Francisco Castillo Trigueros

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Andreia Pinto-Correia

Born: 1971

Current Location: Boston, MA

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Andreia Pinto-Correia’s music is distinguished by influences of Iberian folk traditions, particularly Arab-Andalusian poetic forms. The NY Times described her music as an “aural fabric of (…) crucial, dark, and intense melody” and the prestigious literary journal Jornal de Letras proclaimed “the music of Andreia Pinto-Correia has been a major contribution to the dissemination of Portugal’s culture and language, perhaps a contribution larger than could ever be imagined”.

Highlights of this season include the Carnegie Hall premiere of a work commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, a world premiere by the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra (2012 Composer Institute), a residency with Portuguese chamber orchestra OrchestrUtópica, and a European premiere by the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa. She is now working on a Companhia Ópera do Castelo/Drumming GP co-commission with libretto by acclaimed West African writer Ondjaki, to be premiered by a consortium of theaters in the Iberian Peninsula during the 2013/14 season.

Pinto-Correia has received commissions from numerous ensembles and institutions including two European Union Presidency Commissions, Tanglewood Music Center, Drumming GP, Dinosaur Annex, Teatro S. Luiz, Machina Mundi, and Antena 2/Portuguese National Public Broadcast. She was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, European Network of Opera Academies/ENOA as a Gulbenkian Foundation fellow, and the Composers Conference at Wellesley. She has received the Toru Takemitsu Award from the Japan Society, as well as awards from New England Conservatory and ASCAP.

She is currently a teaching fellow at the New England Conservatory of Music where she leads one of the Composition Seminars. She also collaborates with her father at the Research Center for Folk Studies at the University of Lisbon.

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Music © 2011 Andreia Pint0-Correia

Photograph © 2011 Daniel Blaufuks
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Daniel Iglesia

Current Location: New York

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Daniel Iglesia creates music and media for humans, computers, and broad interactions of the two. His works have taken the form of concert works for instruments and electronics, live audio and video performance, generative and interactive installations, and collaborations theater and dance. He is an accomplished technologist, and brings ideas of computational aesthetics and elegance into the combination of electronic media and human performance.

His work has been presented throughout New York City in such diverse venues as Lincoln Center, Eyebeam Gallery, The Stone, the Kitchen, and many others. It has also been presented at concerts and festivals throughout the US and abroad, including the Experimental Media Series at the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington D.C.), Art.Tech@The Lab (San Francisco), the Hamburger Klangwerktage (Hamburg), the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival (Guangzhou), and the World Expo 2010 (Shanghai). His concert works have been performed by the California EAR Unit, So Percussion, the SEM Ensemble, the Talea Ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Ostravska Banda, and many others.

He has a doctorate in Music Composition at Columbia, where he spent a lot of time at the Columbia Computer Music Center. His writings have appeared in the Cambridge Journal Organised Sound. He has taught at Columbia, Pratt, and Princeton, where he was the 2010-2011 co-leader of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk). He recently gave a talk on  PLOrk at the TEDx conference in Brooklyn, and is now a member of their permanent touring ensemble, Sideband. He is the recipient of the 2011 Van Lier Fellowship from Meet the Composer. He also leads the chiptunes band Datalore.

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James Primosch

Born: 1956

Current Location: Philadelphia, PA

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When honoring him with its Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters noted that “A rare economy of means and a strain of religious mysticism distinguish the music of James Primosch…  Through articulate, transparent textures, he creates a wide range of musical emotion.” Andrew Porter stated in The New Yorker that Primosch “scores with a sure, light hand” and critics for the New York Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Dallas Morning News have characterized his music as “impressive”, “striking”, “grandly romantic”, “stunning” and “very approachable.”

Primosch’s compositional voice encompasses a broad range of expressive types. His music can be intensely lyrical, as in the song cycle Holy the Firm (composed for Dawn Upshaw) or dazzlingly angular as in Secret Geometry for piano and electronic sound. His affection for jazz is reflected in works like the Piano Quintet, while his work as a church musician informs the many pieces in his catalog based on sacred songs or religious texts.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1956, James Primosch studied at Cleveland State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. He counts Mario Davidovsky, George Crumb and Richard Wernick among his principal teachers.

Since 1988 he has served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Presser Electronic Music Studio.

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Dream Journal © Theodore Presser Co.

One Thing I Know, Times Like These © James Primosch.

Audio of Dream Journal and Times Like These © Albany Records

Audio of One Thing I Know © Emmanuel Music

Photograph © 2011 Deborah Boardman
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Nargon Prangcharoen

Current Location: Kansas City, MO

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The music of Thai composer NARONG PRANGCHAROEN has been called “absolutely captivating” (Chicago Sun Times).  Although still in his early thirties, Prangcharoen has established an international reputation and is recognized as one of Thailand’s leading composers.  Prangcharoen has received many international prizes, including the Alexander Zemlinsky International Composition Competition Prize, the 18th ACL Yoshiro IRINO Memorial Composition Award, the Pacific Symphony’s American Composers Competition Prize, the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, and most recently, the Annapolis Charter 300 International Composers Competition Prize.  In 2007, the Thai government named Prangcharoen a Contemporary National Artist and awarded him the Silapathorn Award, one of Thailand’s most prestigious honors.Recently, He has won the American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Commission and the Audience Choice Award.

Prangcharoen’s music has been performed in Asia, America, Australia, and Europe by many renowned ensembles such as the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the Grant Park Orchestra, the Nagoya Philharmonic, the Melbourne Symphony, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, under many well-known conductors, such Carl St. Clair, Carlos Kalmer, Jose-Luis Novo, and Mikhail Pletnev.  His music has also been presented by, among others, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ensemble TIMF, The New York New Music Ensemble, the Imani Winds, and pianist Bennett Lerner.

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Music © 2011 Narong Prangcharoen

“Phenomenon” Performed by Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra; Andeas Baumgartner, conductor

“Mantras” Performed by John Sampen, Saxophonist; Bowling Green State University Wind Symphony; Bruce Moss, conductor
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Laurie San Martin

Born: 1968

Current Location: Woodland, CA

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Laurie San Martin is a composer, teacher and occasional clarinetist and conductor.  She is associate professor of music at UC Davis where she teaches music theory and composition. She has written for chamber ensemble, orchestra, theater, dance and video.  She is recipient of many honors including from the League of Composers-ISCM and the American Academy of Arts and Letters and her music can be found on The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble’s “San Francisco Premieres” CD and on “Tangos for Piano” the Raviello label and performed by Amy Briggs.

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Music © 2011 Laurie San Martin

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Rob Deemer

Born: 1970

Current Location: Fredonia, NY

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Composer/conductor Rob Deemer (b.1970) first came to national attention in 1993 when he was named the College Winner of the Down Beat Magazine Student Music Award for “Best Extended Composition”. Since then, his career has taken him and his works from jazz clubs in Chicago, stage shows on a Caribbean cruise liner and film scoring studios in Los Angeles to concert halls, theatrical stages and film festivals across the country and around the world.

Ensembles that commissioned and/or performed works by Deemer include the Rasçher Saxophone Quartet, U.S. Army Orchestra (Pershing’s Own), Buffalo Chamber Players, Brightmusic Ensemble, Quintet of the Americas, Florestan Art Song Project, Washington Trombone Ensemble, Millar Brass Ensemble, Chicago Trombone Consort and Quartet, Florida State University Graduate Flute Choir, Tosca and MacArthur String Quartets, trombone ensembles and new music ensembles at the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma, the Austin Civic Orchestra, Kishwaukee Symphony, University of Texas Symphony, and SUNY Fredonia Chamber Orchestra and Womens Choir as well as the wind bands from the University of North Texas, Cal State-Northridge, SUNY Fredonia, Roosevelt University, Texas State University and Northern Illinois University. In the fall of 2010 he began his tenure as composer-in-residence with the Buffalo Chamber Players.

Deemer has held teaching positions at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University and The University of Texas. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor and Head of Composition in the School of Music at SUNY-Fredonia. He is a member of the NYSSMA Composition/Improvisation committee and teaches in the summer on the composition faculty of the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp.
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Music © 2011 Rob Deemer

Photograph © 2011 Lori Deemer
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