Jorge Variego was born in Rosario, Argentina. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and is currently on the Music Theory/Composition faculty at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. In 2018 his book on algorithmic composition was released by the National University of Quilmes, in Argentina, and his book “Composing with Constraints” was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. Jorge is the founder/director of the Domino Ensemble, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, commission, and performance of new music with improvisation. The group released its first album “Purple Ego” in 2019 and the EP “Drunken Raccoon” in 2020. His music can be heard in the Parma, Albany Records, CMMAS, Centaur and Naxos libraries.

Lawren Brianna Ware, a Gadsden, Alabama native, is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in music composition at UW-Madison where she is currently ABD, and is minoring in historical musicology. Outside of school, she operates her own private Madison-based piano studio, B. Ware Works Piano Studio, and she accompanies and performs as often as she can. Ms. Ware has been awarded the David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts, Mullen Prize for Sacred Music (composition, 2017) and was named the 2017 Overture Center Rising Stars Grand Prize Winner. She holds degrees from Samford University and The University of Wisconsin-Madison. xt goes here

A Minnesota native, Steve Makela's compositions are often inspired by the collaborative process and include both acoustic and electroacoustic media. He currently teaches music theory and composition at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN.

Colin Holter was born in Frederick, Maryland in 1983. He holds degrees in composition from public research universities in the United States and United Kingdom and now serves as executive director of the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra.

Applauded by Performance Today for her “pulsatingly beautiful and moving” music, Natalie Dietterich is a composer from Harleysville, PA, primarily known for her orchestral and choral works, rhythmic layering, and creative use of unconventional texts. Dietterich holds degrees in music composition from Yale University and West Chester University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in music composition at Princeton University.

Based in Boston, Aaron Hunt is an American composer who writes orchestral music, opera, and chamber music. He’s received commissions from the Cumberland Quintet, the United Kingdom’s Arc Project, VolOpera, Appalachia: A Southeastern Wind Symphony, and the Georgian Dolce String Quartet, among others. He holds degrees in composition from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Tennessee Tech University.

Tyler Taylor is a composer-performer from Louisville, KY. His most recent pieces are explorations of the different ways identity can be expressed in musical scenarios. Common among these pieces is a sense of contradiction – sometimes whimsical, sometimes alarming – that comes from the interaction of diverse musical layers. Tyler holds degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Louisville.

Brianna Drevlow-Jagim is a composer, pianist, and teacher from Minnesota. Her works have been performed and/or premiered in several countries including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Ukraine, and Thailand through calls for scores, prize selections, and radio performances. She studied at Concordia College (Moorhead, MN) and Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH). In 2018, Brianna pivoted to healthcare and now works at Abbvie Biopharmaceuticals as a National Field Trainer.

Skye van Duuren is a versatile performer, award winning composer, educator, and currently Assistant Professor of Music at Black Hills State University. Dr. van Duuren directs the Dakota Chamber Orchestra and Honeycomb Brass ensembles in Spearfish, South Dakota, and has performed with the Lima Symphony, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Sonora Philharmonic Orchestra, and others. He enjoys an active commission schedule as a composer and his repertoire includes over one hundred works in diverse genres. Dr. van Duuren earned advanced degrees in trumpet performance and composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of Tennessee.