Demi Adetona (b. 2004 is a composer, French horn player, and pianist based in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Adetona was recently chosen as 1 of only 17 composers internationally to participate in the Fusion Film Scoring Workshops in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2024, based on a portfolio of original film scores. There, she was mentored on the art of film scoring by Dr. Mihali Paleologou Artistic Director of the Berlin International Film Scoring Competition and professor of Music and Sound for Film at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), among others, in addition to creating an original score for a short film. Adetona was also selected for and participated in the Screen Music Program in Pavia, Italy, in August 2024, where she attended masterclasses on film scoring led by award-winning composers Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli The Witcher, One Piece), Carlos Rafael Rivera The Queen’s Gambit), and David Buckley Jason Bourne, The Sandman), in addition to having her own work screened at the end of the program. Adetona’s orchestral composition “Journey to Ae Fore” was a finalist in the National Young Composers Challenge in 2023, and her piece “Irin Ajo” for piano and flute received a National Award of Merit in 2017, presented to her by then U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Her works “Fanfare for a New Day” and “A Memory” were premiered by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in 2019 and 2021, respectively. As a performer, Demi played French horn with alumni of the critically acclaimed Kashmere Stage Band from April 2024 to September 2024. She has also served as the principal horn of the Arizona All-State Band 20192021 and the principal pianist of the Alabama All-State Orchestra 2018.

Mingjie Bi (b. 2006) is a Chinese composer integrating traditional aesthetics with contemporary spectral techniques. Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Composition at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), he previously studied at CCOM Middle School under Juan Zhou and TianTian and had masterclass with Mark Andre and Juste Janulyte.

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Shupeng Cao is a composer, improviser, and educator based in Columbia, SC. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as nature, science, the arts, language, socio-political issues, and everyday events, his music showcases a rich and multifaceted voice. His works have been performed and read by ensembles and artists such as the Orange Road Quartet, Wet Ink Ensemble, Parker Quartet, The Westerlies, Dal Niente, and many other ensembles and performers.

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Born on July 15, 2002, in Kaohsiung, CHIANG Hsin-Yen is studying composition and mathematics at National Taiwan Normal University. With a deep interest in interdisciplinary performance and music theory, Hsin-Yen integrates musical expertise with knowledge from various fields, exploring the dynamic interplay between artistic expression and social contexts.
Hsin-Yen has presented works at various festivals and performances, including the C-LAB Wandering Festival in 2022 and 2024, where the electronic music works “Expérience de mort imminent” and “Trois esquisses sur la lumière” were featured. In 2024, Hsin-Yen premiered the wind orchestra pieces “Le cycle de mort et de résurrection” at the Weiwuying Concert Hall in July and “Purification” at the NTNU Auditorium. In November, Hsin-Yen participated in “Rice Dragon 360,” an interdisciplinary production at the NTNU Art Museum as part of Nuit Blanche Taipei 2024.

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John Craven is a composer and pianist residing in Northeast, MD, USA. He studied piano, composition, and communication studies at various colleges, earning a B.A. from the University of Iowa, a B.F.A from SUNY Purchase, and a M.M. from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 2011.

In 2024, he was Lecturer of Music Adjunct at Washington College, teaching courses in music theory and film music. Prior to that, he had worked as an arranger in music theater, a ballet accompanist, and a vocal accompanist.

In 2024 he received semifinalist recognition from the NYC Contemporary Music Symposium as well as for ensemble Kaleidoscope’s Call For Scores based in California, USA. In addition to presenting his music at new music festivals in the USA and Italy, he is a featured composer on albums for Navona Records and Da Vinci Classics.

In 2020, he made his music available on the eScholarship Open Access Publishing Platform that is subsidized by the University of California and managed by the California Digital Library.

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Quanzhong Deng is currently pursuing an M.M. in Composition at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, having earned a B.A. from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music.

He has received multiple accolades, including Chinese National Scholarships and prizes in both international and Chinese composition competitions. His work has been featured at prestigious events such as the 10th St. Petersburg International New Music Festival. Deng’s collaborative experience spans film scoring, concert adaptations, and performances with renowned ensembles, including the MolOt Ensemble, Chongqing Philharmonic Orchestra, China-ASEAN Contemporary Ensemble, and Unexpected Progression Ensemble. His compositions reflect a unique blend of traditional and contemporary musical elements.

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Xinglan Deng composes theatrical, vibrant music for both electronic music and traditional music inspired by stage art.

An active composer, Xinglan has received commissions from LINEA ensemble Royaumont, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE ensemble), Spektral Quartet, Oldbay Peabody contemporary ensemble, the Jacobs School of Music percussion departments, trombone departments and New Music New Art program at Jacobs School of Music.

Her works have been performed by major ensembles including the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and at prestigious venues such as Shanghai Conservatory of Music and CCTV. Currently she is pursing a master degree at Peabody Institute, where she studied with Du Yun.

Daniele Di Virgilio is an Italian Berlin-based composer. Conceiving composition as a multi-disciplinary and social-oriented expression, his music is inspired by a theatrical imagination and by the interest in psychoanalysis.

He studied Orchestral Conducting and Composition at the Conservatory of Turin. In 2022 he completed a traineeship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK) and in 2024 has been selected as a Mentee at Peter Eötvös Foundation.

Daniele has been awarded in several international composition prizes, such as the first edition of the International Competition “Michele Novaro”, promoted by the Italian Deputy Chamber, the 3rd International Eduardas Balsys Composers Competition (Lithuania), the Busan Choral Competition (South Korea) and the XIX George Enescu Competition (Romania).

His music has been commissioned, performed and promoted by renowned ensembles and institutions, such as Mito Settembre Musica, JACK Quartet, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, impuls Academy, and awarded by Krzysztof Penderecki, Pascal Dusapin, Magnus Lindberg and Zygmunt Krauze.

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Tamara Egorova is a composer, musicologist born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. In 2019 she graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod State Glinka Conservatoire (prof. Denis Prisyazhnyuk), from 2019 to 2021 had a postgraduate training program at the Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatoire (prof. Boris Napreev).

She has repeatedly taken part in the International Festival of Contemporary Music “Pictures at an Exhibition”, the project “Reading scores”, was a participant in the XI International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky-city (2021), the project “Synesthesia Lab” etc. Since 2024, a member of the Composers’ Union. In 2024 she received a Ph.D. in History of Arts with a thesis “The Creative Method of Peteris Vasks (Based on Orchestral Works)” (supervisor – prof. Denis Prisyazhnyuk).

Currently, she is actively working with acoustic and electronic music; constantly collaborates with Nizhny Novgorod gusli performers, creating original compositions and arrangements for solo instrument, vocal and instrumental ensemble.

Graduated at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague and Magna Cum Laude in Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music.

His music, with an extensive repertoire for saxophone, has been performed in more than ten countries, highlighting the successful premiere of “Suite of Nothing” at the Amsterdam SaxFest 18 festival, which has received multiple awards, the premiere of “Fantasia”, by saxophonist Joshua Hyde, as well as recordings with renowned orchestras such as the Budapest Art Orchestra or A Studios Orchestra.

Awarded several prizes such as “Manuel Carrascosa Prize”, “Global MusicAwards”, “Asia Pacific Composers Competition”, “Lockdown Lullabies”, among others.

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Composer, pianist, vocalist, arranger, member of the Union of Composers of St. Petersburg, member of the Union of Composers of Russia. Graduate of the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg College of Music (composition class of Y. A. Falik – 2008, E. V. Petrov – 2009-2012). In 2017 graduated with honors from the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory of Music (class of composition – Y. A. Falik – 2008). Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (composition class of Evgeny Petrov).

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Ana Gnjatović, composer, collects and combines found items, works, concepts, and ideas that lend themselves to generalization, translation, interpretation, and sonorization.

Her pieces have been performed throughout Europe, in Israel, Mexico, the USA, and Japan, and have been programmed at festivals such as the International Review of Composers, Wratislavia cantans, MusMA Festival, Festival de Wallonie, Culturescapes, MA/IN MAtera INtermedia, MUSLA B, MISE-EN. She collaborated with ensembles Black Page Orchestra, Sentieri Selvaggi, E-MEX, pre-art, soloists of the OENM, Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, RTS Symphony Orchestra, among others.

She finished her composition studies at the Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade. She has attended various international masterclasses and workshops for composers. Ms. Gnjatović is currently employed as a full professor at the Faculty of Arts University of Kosovska Mitrovica. She is a lecturer in the interdisciplinary doctoral program Multimedia Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade. In her recent artistic research, she explores the possibilities of extension of instrumental performance through electronics, speech, movement, and video.

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Nolan Hildebrand is a composer and noise artist based in Toronto, Canada. Nolan’s music explores conceptual and physical extremities to create intense and engaging music. His sonic interests are centered around noise, density, rhythm, and physicality. 

Nolan writes acoustic music, electroacoustic music, acousmatic music, and performs in an experimental solo noise project BLACK GALAXIE. Nolan’s music has been performed at major festivals around the world including Darmstädter Ferienkurse, International Computer Music Conference, Forum Wallis, and Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend. 

He has had opportunities to work with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, ECM+ Ensemble, Bozzini Quartet, XelmYa Ensemble, and has had masterclasses with Stefan Prins, Ana Sokolovic, and Malin Bång. He has presented his research at the International Computer Music Conference, SPLICE Festival 2023, the CeReNeM Composers’ Colloquia, and the 2022 Korean Electroacoustic Music Society’s Annual Conference. Nolan is currently pursuing a DMA at the University of Toronto under the guidance of Kotoka Suzuki.

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Jin Yuhao, born in Beijing in 2006, si a current freshman in the Composition Department at the Central Conservatory of Music. 

In 2018, he was admitted to the Comprehensive Music Theory program at the affiliated high school of the Central Conservatory of Music, where he successively studied composition with Professor Xu Zhitong,Associate Professor Tian Tian, and Professor Zou Hang,musicology with Professor Sun Yi, and conducting with Professor Chen Bing, as well as piano with Associate Professor Li Jie and Teacher Wu Chun. 

In 2024, he was admitted to the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music with the top score in his major.

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In 2018, I enrolled in the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Orchestral Faculty. 

Currently, I am an assistant-trainee at the Moscow Conservatory (contemporary music ensemble).

In 2023, I participated in the I All-Russian Summer Orchestral School of Contemporary Academic Music. In 2024, I participated in the Gnesin Week festival (Moscow) and the Symmetry Festival (Pisa). 

Currently, I am an orchestra member at the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre (Perm). 

In 2023, I participated in Vladimir Gorlinsky’s courses at Ground Solyanka. As a composer, I also participated in the 2024 N’Caged workshop “Voice as an Instrument,” Composer Readings – Choir, and the International Festival of New Music “Sound Ways” (St. Petersburg).

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Áhzi Kharmóna is a composer of contemporary chamber, orchestral, and film music. A multi-faceted musician drawing upon a breadth of musical performance experience and a wide array of musical genres, he is comfortable writing for the concert hall, the silver screen, or the rock venue. His works have been performed by critically acclaimed and prominent ensembles such as Brightwork and the Los Angeles Brass Alliance.

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Ekaterina Khmelevskaya was born in Moscow in 1987, graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (Professor Yurii Vorontsov). 

Ekaterina is a member of the Moscow and Russian Composers’ Unions. She is a winner of international competitions, including: VII International. Myaskovsky Composers Competition (Moscow, 2023), International competition for the best composition for a vocal ensemble in New York (2023, ensemble C4), XVI Open Petrov Composition Competition (St. Petersburg 2022), The competition for the best composition for flutes and electronics (The Sound Paths Festival, St. Petersburg, 2023), Сompetition for the best composition for double bass (The „Double Bass Soul“ Festival, Moscow, 2024)

Ekaterina participates in international composer workshops and festivals such as: XIII International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city, (Perm region, Russia, 2023), Media Laboratory for composers and media artists “Moscow. Sounds of the City” (2022), “Synesthesia” (Kazan, 2023), “Open Space” (Krasnogorsk, 2023), XXIV CIM International Conference (Turin, Italy, 2024) “Biomechanics” (Moscow, 2024), Research Retreat (Zutphen, Netherlands, 2025)

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Jee Won Kim is a composer based in the United States and South Korea. One of her biggest curiosities is “How people play, listen to, and perceive music?” She explores how she, as a composer, can interact with the world through music and deliver her ideas to the audience – even to the one who cannot hear them. And finally reaches to a conclusion “What if I write music that can be heard without hearing, seen without seeing?”

Her music has been performedby active ensembles and solo artists throughout theUS, Europe, and South Korea including Yarn/Wire, Unheard-of//Ensemble, Studio Dan, John Popham, Matti Pulkki, Ben Roidl-Ward, Clara Cho, Alberto Menjón, Jixue Yang. Her electronic music works were featured in ICMC 2024 and SEAMUS 2021 She is a resident composer for Callis Ensemble based in NYC, and recently co-founded a Korean Women Composers’ group, 이내 ENAE, with six fellow composers at Indiana University. 

She holds a BM in Composition from Chung-Ang University in South Korea, and an MM in Composition from Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Reiko Füting. She is currently a Doctor of Music candidate in Composition at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with David Dzubay and Aaron Travers.

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Charles Lee is an emerging Hong Kong composer and organist, currently in his final year as a music major student at the University of Hong Kong, mentored by Prof. Chan Hing-yan.

Lee has a diverse portfolio of compositions scored for chamber, orchestral and film settings; in the 2024-25 season, he will be creating a new work for the HK Philharmonic String Quartet at the MUSE String Quartet Festival, as well as a new ensemble work for the Hong Kong Arts Festival’s Young Composers Workshop. He is also the prize laureate of the inaugural edition of the HKU Doming Lam Composition Prize.

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Lei Xiaowen, a master’s degree holder in composition from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, has studied under professors Xu Jianqiang and Wen Deqing.

He has won awards such as the “Baichuan Award” held by Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China, the “Franz Schubert and Modern Music” Composition Award in Austria, first place in the “Grazia Delta” Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition in Italy, third place in the “New music generation” Composition Competition in Kazakhstan, and the “Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition for Young Composers” Honorary Award in Poland.

The orchestras he has collaborated with include the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, the French Ensemble L’Itin é raire, and the Italian Chamber Orchestra “Association one Progetto Enarmonia”. His works have been performed in China, Austria, Italy, and other places.

Kyujung is a New York-based composer who explores the multidimensional nature of time and timbre in her music. She is drawn to the expansiveness and sense of clarity that are present around us but often hidden in the reality we live in. Belonging and forming meaningful connections have been the recurring themes in Kyujung’s art. 

Kyujung has worked with the well-known professional ensembles such as Yarn/Wire, Arx Duo, Mivos Quartet, and Trio Immersio to have her compositions performed in various venues of the United States and Europe. Kyujung holds a Master’s and Artist’s Diploma in Composition from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music, in addition to Bachelor’s (KAIST) and Master’s degrees (Cornell University) in Electrical and Computer engineering. When she’s not composing, Kyujung works as a software engineer at Google.

Boya Liu (b. 1999, Tangshan, China) earned a Bachelor’s degree in Clarinet Performance from Tianjin Conservatory of Music (2021) under Chuan Xie. He later pursued composition and theory, studying with mentors such as Fayong Liang and Yufeng Ma. In 2022, he began a master’s degree in Music Theory and Composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, specializing in counterpoint under Professor Fayong Liang.

Selected Awards and Achievements

• 2021: Award of Excellence, Wan Ye Cup Chinese Piano Composition Competition.

• 2022: Third Prize, Xinghai Cup Chinese Piano Composition Competition.

• 2023: First Prize, Yunnan International Piano Festival (Dian Cang); Special Prize, Ise-Shima International Composition Competition (Japan); Second Prize, International Artists Competition (Austria); Award of Excellence, ConTempo Composition Competition; Invited speaker, Collision and Confluence Symposium on Contemporary Chinese Music Research.

• 2024: Second Prize, Toyama International Contemporary Music Festival Composition Competition (Japan); Second Prize, 20th Sunriver Cup New Music Competition (China); Third Prize, Yanhuang Cup Pipa Composition Competition; Speaker at Gnesina 150th Anniversary Conference on Russian-Chinese Musical Exchange.

Born in 1999 in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, China.
In 2017, Liu Yexuan was admitted to the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, studying under Professors Xu Zhitong, Zhou Juan, Shi Fuhong, Liang Fayong, Associate Professor Hu Yinyue, and Associate Professor Tian Tian. During her studies, her chamber music compositions were publicly performed multiple times. Her orchestral work Whale was selected as an outstanding graduation piece and recorded.

In 2024, she was admitted to the master’s program in composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying under Bekah Simms. Her works have been highly praised by the faculty and students. In August 2024, her piano composition won first prize in the composition category at the 3rd Dali Piano Art Festival and was included in the festival’s designated repertoire. In June 2024, her chamber music composition was awarded second place at the OPUS ARTIS PARIS International Composition Award. In December 2024, her solo piano piece Endless Layer won second place in the 2024 Sound Ways International Composition Competition.

Liu’s notable works include the flute solo Light in the Woods, the chamber music pieces Shadow Play and Dancing Lines, and the orchestral work Whale.

Daiwei Lu began composing at the age of 17. He graduated summa cum laude with a BM in Music from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in May 2019.

Daiwei’s works have been performed in 16 countries across four continents, including China, the United States, Greece, Brazil, Israel, and Japan, by ensembles such as Trio Arbós, Zone Experimentale, the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Court-Circuit, and others. His compositional interests focus on the recontextualization of traditional musical elements, the multicultural practice of non-Western instruments, and expressing “the Other” in contemporary subcultures.

His major accolades include the 40st Award for Composers from the Japan Society for Contemporary Music, the Sound Way International Composition Prize, and the Committee Grand Prize, among others. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Music Composition at the Tokyo College of Music, under the mentorship of Toshio Hosokawa, Ichiro Nodaira, Keiko Harada, and Sumihisa Arima.

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Harry Lucas is a composer based in London, currently enrolled in undergraduate
studies at the Royal Academy of Music.

Luo Mengyong is studying for her doctoral degree in Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SHCM) with Professor Lu Pei. 

Her works have won several prizes include 3rd and 11st Rivers Awards International Composition Competition in Shanghai; 2021 Composer Competition of Franz Schubert Conservatory in Vienna; 2022 International Youth Music Competition in Atlanta and 2nd Ise-Shima International Composition Competition in Japan. 

She also participated in different music festivals including SHCM New Music Week, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, Foot in the Door Art Festival of Hartford University and XI St. Petersburg International New Music Festival. An interview and analysis about her work is published on Journal of Music in China. 

She has been selected to several projects like New Music Digital Mentoring Program, which was co-organized with Goethe Institute and Musik Fabrik Ensemble in 2021, Pierluigi Billone Masterclass and reading session of Icarus vs Muzak Ensemble in 2024

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Biagio Mauro – Composer, Guitarist & Educator. 

Biagio Mauro, also known as Mariano Mauro, was born and raised in Nola, Southern Italy. His first musical influence was an old Django Reinhardt recording, which shaped his early approach to jazz.

He is an Italian guitarist, composer, bandleader, arranger, and educator. His works are characterized by intricate harmonic structures and a refined balance between jazz language and European musical influences.

He holds a degree in Arrangement and Composition from the Domenico Cimarosa Conservatory in Avellino, Italy, where he studied under Gianluigi Giannatempo, as well as a degree in Jazz Guitar from the Naples Conservatory, where he trained with Pietro Condorelli and Marco Sannini.

Mariano furthered his studies across Europe and the United States through various scholarships, studying with Peter Hertmans, Frank Vaganèe, and Dré Pallemaerts at Campus Lemmens LUCA in Leuven (Belgium), with Davis Jurka, Indrikesn Tuomo Usilato, and Andrea at the Latvian Academy, and at the University of Missouri, where his compositions were arranged and performed by the MU Concert Jazz Band. 

An active artist, he has performed at jazz festivals and venues across Europe.

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Stephen Morris is a composer based in North Carolina, whose music strives to create musical experiences which separate the listener’s connection to the world through the expression of atmospheric and trance-inducing works. His music has been published in the SCI Journal of Music

Scores and has been performed in places such as Arizona State University, Carnegie Hall, Chateau De Fontainebleau, Trojhalí Karolina, New York University, the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He has collaborated with ensembles and artists such as the Prague Philharmonia, Imani Winds,Gemini Duo, Hanzhi Wang, the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra and the Lincoln Centre Theatre Directors Lab.

Stephen has previously studied with Huang Ruo and Reiko Füting. He has taken lessons and master classes with Tristan Murail, Malin Bång, George Lewis, Christian Wolff, Bernhard Lang, Allain Gaussin, Bright Sheng, Dmitri Kourliandski, Kotoka Suzuki, Gary Kulesha, Ana Sokolovic and Zosha Di Castri. Stephen earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Toronto and a Master of Music degree from Mannes School of Music.

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Edwin H. Ng is a Canadian composer and data scientist based in Montreal, and his musical research focuses on transposing the aesthetic of soundscape compositions into the medium of instrumental music. Soundscape compositions allow expressing and sharing his personal experience as he discovers the world that surrounds him, and in the process, broadening the listening experience. Edwin has received a SOCAN first prize for young composers in 2022 He has also received fundings from SOCAN and from the CALQ.

Edwin H. Ng is currently pursuing his Doctor of Music in Composition at the Université de Montréal under the co-supervision of Jimmie LeBlanc and of Ana Sokolović. His music has been performed in Austria, Canada, Finland and Russia.

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Alexander Perov, Russia (1993) – composer, guitarist. In 2016 he graduated from the Novosibirsk College of Music in classical guitar. From 2016 to 2020, he studied at the Novosibirsk Conservatory (composition class of Yuri Yukechev).

Since 2020, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, from which he graduated in 2023. He is currently an post-graduated course at the Mosco w Conservatory (composition class of Yuri Kasparov). Composer competitions: «New music generation», II prize (Kazakhstan, 2023), «Avanti», I prize (Russia, 2024).

Workshops and festivals:
– Student (2024) and intern (2021) of the International Academy of Young
Composers in Tchaikovsky city;
– festival «Five Evenings» of the Union of Composers of Russia (2024);
– «Synesthesia lab» in Kazan (2024);
– composer’s laboratory «Voice as an Instrument» (2024);
– festival «Inspired by Space» (2024);
– composer’s laboratory «Open Space» (2022)
– III seminars of contemporary music for composers and performers (2022);
– 4th and 5th festival «Gnesin Contemporary Music Week» (2021, 2022).

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Giovanni Porfirio is a Brazilian composer from São Paulo, holding a bachelor’s degree in composition from UNESP and currently pursuing a master’s at the University of Missouri. 

His works, blending harmonic and inharmonic sounds, have been performed at renowned festivals like Gaudeamus, BIMESP, and Musique au Château de Fontainebleau, as well as by ensembles such as the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Spaceship Ensemble. Awarded the Ravel Prize (France) and first prize in the Brazilian Percussion Composition Contest (2022), he premiered the operetta “Entre-Veias” with Orquestra do Theatro São Pedro in 2023 In 2024, he won the Sinquefield Composition Prize, composing for the University Philharmonic—Mizzou. His innovative “Véspera Profana” project highlights his dedication to contemporary music.

Yifan Shao (Chinese: 邵易凡; born 2003) is a Chinese composer, vocalist, theatremaker, photographer, and curator known for illusionary atmospheres via extremely controlled distortion. With active interdisciplinary practices, he also focuses on how knowledge in one field applies to others and how different dimensions of precision affect artistic creations.

His works have received recognition in more than 10 countries, including but not limited to venues like Carnegie Hall, Center for New Music San Francisco, Blank Wall Gallery; festivals like Sofia Symphonic Summit, CEME Festival, St. Petersburg International New Music Festival, Monteluce Music Festival, Nordingrå Konstrunda, Getxophoto International Image Festival; and exposures like PhotoVogue, CultureNow Greece, and KPOO San Francisco. Among his collaborators: Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Festino Chamber Choir, Mouthscape Choir, Corale di Monteluce, Rocky Mountains Chamber Choir, Moscow Soloists Contemporary Ensemble, conductor Jacques Desjardins, flautist Ania Karpowicz, violist Amelia Krinke, pianist Hao Wu, artist Alexandra Pink, composer Lauren Marshall, producer Pontus Kraft, and so on.

He is the voice soloist of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra in 2025, where he premiered new music by composers from different countries with other members. He is the founder of Vocalverse, a community for new vocal music, currently hosting an open call for the most creative experimental vocal compositions, which these works will be performed by himself around the world; and the co-founder and co-owner of Kooperativet Vännerstaskolan. His music scores are published by Universal Edition since 2023 

He is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Music degree in composition at San Francisco Conservatory of Music under Elinor Armer. He also went to Odin Home Festival at Odin Teatret, Denmark in 2024 to study theatre and vocal performance, and received instructions from masters such as Eugenio Barba, Julia Varley, and Jan Ferslev.

Artur Szczepkowski, the Master’s student of Poznan Academy of Music, is an interesting voice of the young generation of polish composers. He started his musical journey from studying piano and organ since early age of seven. His interest in composition started the age of seventeen. 

His musical style often corresponds with topics of emotion and consciousness. His compositions (Insomnia for string orchestra, Organ Concerto “ADHD” and Abstrakt for ensemble) explore mental conditions, resembling the feelings of the people affected. By his music he contemplates living with sickness in the modern world, and coping with reality of it as well as struggling with challenges of modern western societies. He attended many masterclasses with composers such as Juste Janulyte, Mark Andre, Stefan Prins, Raphael Cendo and Frank Zabel, and collaborated with ensembles such as the Kwartludium ensemble.

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Justyna Tobera is a composer and performer from Poznań, blending sound, movement, and technology. Her works have been presented across Europe, focusing on speculative sound synthesis and interdisciplinary art.

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Rodrigo Pascale (b. 1996) is a Brazilian composer based in the USA. Pascale graduated in composition from UFRJ in 2018 Since 2019, he has lived in the United States, where he is currently pursuing his DMA in composition at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. 

His works have been performed by prestigious ensembles, including the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), JACK Quartet, and Hypercube, highlighting his growing prominence within the contemporary music scene. Pascale’s compositions have been selected for renowned festivals and conferences such as ICMC, NYCEMF, SEAMUS, Panorama da Música Brasileira Atual, MUSLAB’s Electroacoustic Music International Exhibitions, and the V International Congress of Music and Mathematics. 

He was also a winner of the International Composition Contest organized by Sound Silence Thought and the Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas 2020

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Jane Wong is a musician from Hong Kong. Growing up, her musical exposure came from hymns, Cantopop and animation.

Ms. Wong attended the Boston Conservatory Master’s of Music program with a concentration in Music Education and Piano. Her composing career started when she played for dancers at the Boston Ballet and the Jose Mateo Dance Theatre.

Her chamber opera, Polyharmony, was performed in the Puccini International Opera Festival. Her chamber music has been performed and recorded in the US and abroad. Outside of music, Ms. Wong speaks several languages and has a strong interest in working with historical and political materials.

William Wright is a contemporary composer from the Southeastern USA.

His work spans concert music, film and television scores, the advertising space and the dramatic theatre.

In 2025, Wright premiered his first major work, The Mockingbird, at the Big Ears Festival. Though versatile, Wright’s award-winning works gravitate around structured freedom and the communal experience of individual exploration.

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Kristina Yanova – composer, pianist and organist. She was born in Moscow in 2000 Kristina is a student of Moscow State Conservatory. She takes part of residences, festivals, master-classes of a modern music. For example: Joint residence of the Union of Composers of Russia and the Peredelkino House of Creativity; Second N’CAGED Workshop “Voice as an instrument” and others.

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(Alan) Xunze Zhou’s music compositions have been influenced by Western music theory and classical and romantic styles, while sometimes he also composes music that reflects on the cultural diversity of Asian musical styles that relate to Chinese and other concepts of Eastern aesthetic. Thus, he also wrote music that was influenced by pop, folk music, or (serious) artistic music styles of non-Western beauty standards. His excavations for serialism, post-tonal, avant-garde, extended instrumental technique, new music, and electronic music started later. However, his mind is open to new musical ideas. He is also trying to make extended instrumental techniques for his composition. He will use extended techniques when he is conscious of the sound effects. According to his perspective, any effect could be good if it fits with the right contexts.