After early music studies while growing up in the Midwest, David studied composition with James Sellars at the University of North Texas and Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. In the early 1980s he moved to Paris, where he now pursues a parallel career as a humorist. His “Elastic Tango” has been recorded by Ursula Oppens and Yvar Mikhashoff and choreographed by Tere O’Connor for Mikhail Baryshnikov. His electronic/spoken word piece “Mary and Ann,” based on a text by Samuel Beckett, is included in the Innova Recordings anthology Sonic Circuits VIII. His satire pieces have been published by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, MacQueen’s Quinterly, thebigjewel.com and parisupdate.com, and in the book Quorum of One (Drake Mabry Publishing). 

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 7 – Robert Black: A Joyful Musical Life from the Bass Line

Jamie is an author, narrator, director, broadcaster, and filmmaker. Her 2018 memoir, Famous Father Girl, is about growing up with composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, and pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre in an atmosphere bursting with music, theatre and literature. Jamie has written and narrated concerts about Mozart, Aaron Copland, and Stravinsky, as well as “The Bernstein Beat,” a family concert about her father modeled after his groundbreaking Young People’s Concerts. She appears worldwide performing her own scripted narrations as well as standard concert narrations, such as Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait” and her father’s Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish.” Jamie has produced and hosted the New York Philharmonic’s live national radio broadcasts, as well as many summer broadcasts from Tanglewood. She recently narrated the podcast “The NY Phil Story: Made in New York.” Jamie is the co-director of Crescendo: the Power of Music, an award-winning documentary film focusing on children in struggling urban communities, who participate in youth orchestra programs for social transformation. Jamie’s articles and poetry have appeared in such publications as Symphony, Town & Country, and Opera News. She also edits “Prelude, Fugue & Riffs,” a newsletter pertaining to her father’s legacy. 

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 3 – Film Screening: Maestro

Sep 4 – House Benefit Concert: Bernstein, An Intimate Portrait

Howard lives in Arizona at Second Mesa on the ancestral homelands of the Hopi Tribe. His birth name is Bahoyouma, which means “water running on Mother Earth.” Howard is a religious leader, a Flute Chief, and a clan leader from the village of Mishognonvi. The Hopi are the original caretakers and first users of the Colorado River. Howard represents an emergent organization called Native Waters Rising, which seeks to protect the aquifers and watersheds of the Little Colorado River. He is also a board member of Black Mesa Trust and an advisor to the Waterkeeper Alliance. 

Howard has made significant contributions to his community and the environment through his work with Black Mesa Trust and Native Waters Rising. During his active involvement, Black Mesa Trust received the prestigious Water and Heritage Shield from the International Scientific Committee and played a crucial role in the closure of the Black Mesa Coal Mine, Navajo Generating Station, and Mojave Generating Station. Through Native Waters Rising, he has successfully restored two springs on Mishongnovi Village lands and plans to restore two more. Howard is passionate about educating the younger generation on the importance of water, land, and Hopi culture. He also actively collaborates with local organizations and government agencies to combat global warming. 

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 30 – The Hopi Tradition

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents

Sep 2 – Rocky Mountain Power Community Concert

Roydon is a composer and educator who seeks to communicate to audiences from all backgrounds, drawing inspiration from the urgent challenges posed by climate change, the complexities of grief, and the ever-evolving cultural tapestry of our dynamic world.  

Roydon’s music—spanning orchestral, chamber, operatic, and electronic mediums—has been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic, Hamilton Philharmonic, Atlanta Opera, Esprit Orchestra, Verona Quartet, and members of the Paris Opera and La Scala Orchestras. His music has been recognized with seven SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers, the Washington International Composition Prize (2015), Lieutenant Governor of Alberta’s Emerging Artist Award (2018), Johanna Metcalf Protégé Prize (2019), and the iSing! International Composition Prize (2020).  

From Hong Kong, Roydon graduated from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto in music composition. He was subsequently one of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2021/22 NextGen composers and the 2023/24 Artist-in-Residence for the Colorado Wind Ensemble. Passionate about reaching the next generation of artists, he serves on the teaching faculties of the Lunenburg Academy of Muisc Performance’s Composition Academy, Community Music Schools of Toronto, and the Canadian Opera Company.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents
featuring the world premiere of Roydon’s MMF commissioned work

Maya is a composer and interdisciplinary artist grappling with alienation and viscerality in the human body, media cyborgization, exorcism of hereditary ghosts, complexities of trauma, and radical vulnerability. 

Notable work has included: commissions for loadbang, SPCO, Sarasota Festival, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Baltic Sea Festival; contributions to albums by Johnny Gandelsman, HOCKET (both with 2023 Grammy nods); awards from Beth Morrison Projects (NextGen 2021), BMI (both Schuman and Surinach Prizes 2020); cover conducting for the Minnesota Orchestra, including a BIS recording of Mahler 8; an installation at the Barnes Foundation with celebrated artists John Dowell and Zane Booker; and Patience, an opera with Christina Herresthal concerning the genius of artists suffering in AFAB bodies. 

Summer studies have included Copland House CULTIVATE, NYO-USA, BUTI, soundSCAPE, Cabrillo, Fresh Inc., Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s Conducting Institute, Bergen International Festival, & Aspen. 

Maya is currently a 5th year undergraduate at the Curtis Institute of Music, where her primary teachers have been Nick DiBerardino, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Amy Beth Kirsten, David Serkin Ludwig, & Steve Mackey. She has also studied privately with Chaya Czernowin at Harvard. 

She is published in BabelScores and has formed the performance art duo ~ [pronounced two] with Sarrah Bushara since 2020.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents
featuring the world premiere of Maya’s MMF commissioned work

Mary Rice is a “striking” (Operawire) mezzo-soprano known for her “elegant interpretation” (BroadwayWorld) and “polished vocalism” (Voce di Meche) rapidly establishing herself as a vibrant interpreter of song and opera.  

Her 2023/24 season includes debuts with Marshall Opera in New York City as Victoria Woodhull in Victoria Bond’s Mrs. President, alto soloist in The Messiah with Canterbury Choral Society and Ars Musica in collaboration with the Adelphi Orchestra, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, and Mozart Requiem with Orchestra Amadeus.  

She has performed with the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, Marshall Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Fayetteville, City Lyric Opera, Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society, Teatro Nuovo, Music at Co-Cath, Orchestra Amadeus, Adelphi Orchestra, Canterbury Choral Society, Ars Musica, Lune di Fiori, New York Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and the Rome Chamber Music Festival. She was winner of the 2023 Stagetime Arts Career Advancement Award, runner-up in the Lyra New York Mozart Competition, and a finalist in the Art Song Preservation Society Vocal Competition. She can be found offering adventures, insight, and Q&A’s about classical music to her audience of 85,000 followers on TikTok @coloratura_runs​ www.mary-rice.com  

Upcoming Performances

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents

Sep 2 – Rocky Mountain Power Community Concert

Sep 4 – House Benefit Concert: Bernstein, An Intimate Portrait

Sep 5 – Red Earth: Mid-Century Modern America

Rick is a New York City drummer, percussionist, and composer enjoying a diverse career fusing together and performing countless different genres and styles. Having studied classical Percussion in his youth at Baltimore’s prestigious Peabody Conservatory, he has performed as principal timpanist with the Peabody Youth Sinfonietta, percussion and timpanist at Tanglewood Music Festival and has also performed in the Berklee World Percussion Festival among others. He has performed genres ranging from classical to jazz and heavy metal throughout the United States, Asia, Europe, and The Caribbean.  

Rick holds a degree in jazz performance from New York University and has had the privilege of studying with jazz greats as well as pillars in classical percussion including Tony Moreno, Wayne Krantz, Mike Richmond, Dave, Pietro, Tim Genis, Jonathan Haas, John Hadfield, Martin Wind and Dafnis Prieto.  

Rick is endorsed by Anchor Drums. 

Ju-Young is a New York City based cellist who has captivated audiences throughout Asia, Europe, and North and South America with his passionate performances and intelligent music making. With a yearly schedule of some 200 concerts and having given masterclasses and concerts in hundreds of colleges and universities in all 50 states, his musicality is no stranger to any corner of the globe.  

As soloist, Ju-Young has performed with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra, Drew University Orchestra, and Curb Symphony among others. Festival appearances include Kneisel Hall, Rocky Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Brevard, Manhattan Chamber Music Festival, and Great Mountain Music Festival.  

He is founder and cellist of Warp Trio, principal cellist of Core Ensemble, and guest principal with the Cape Cod Symphony. Previous engagements include serving as Artistic Director at Gaffe Bene Music Series in Time Square NYC, as well principal cellist roles with the Hubbard Hall Opera, New York Harmonic Band, Brevard Symphony Orchestra, and National Music Festival Orchestra.  

A graduate of the Juilliard School, he trained under the tutelage of David Sayer and Joel Krosnick and studied chamber music with members of the Emerson, Guarneri and Juilliard Quartets, Joseph Kalichstein, Seymour Lipkin, Laurie Smukler, and Franz Helmersom at the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler.  

Not only versed in the field of classical music, Ju-Young is in demand as a recording artist and performer of popular music. He has collaborated on Jazz, Rock, and Country music albums and performs internationally with the Emmy-Award winning Damien Escobar and his quartet, including performances at the 2013 Hip-Hop Inaugural Ball honoring Barack Obama. 

Josh is enjoying a multi-faceted career as a cross-genre violinist, violist, and composer. As a classical soloist, he has performed with many ensembles, including the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, China Performing Arts Broadcasting Troupe, and Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra. His compositions include a full length Ballet for Caliince Dance company, “Marie: Embroidering Survival”, premiered at Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, a concerto-grosso for the Cavani Quartet, “A Bop for Bridge”, and his piece, “Veni: A Dystopian Cowgirl Fantasy for violin and fixed electronics” was a winner of the 2022 Tribeca New Music National Competition. Josh has recently released “One More Night”, his debut album featuring an evening length composition for nonet, under the Innova Record Label as a winner of their national call for projects.  

Josh studied at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with Prof. Kurt Sassmannshaus, and at New York University with Prof. Naoko Tanaka. He has served on the faculty at the University of Iowa (Grant Woods Visiting Professor), and currently is on the artist faculty at NYU, and The Longy School of Music in Cambridge. 

Mikael has performed as a soloist throughout the Americas, Europe, Russia and the Caribbean. Recent festival appearances have included: The Weill Institute at Carnegie, Trinity Wall Street, Prototype, Bang on a Can Marathon, Close Encounters With Music, Berkshire High Peaks Festival, Cape Cod Symphony Nth Degree, Pianofest in the Hamptons, the Mozarteum, Mainly Mozart, and L’Academie d Musique de Sion, to name a few.  

As a member of the Warp Trio, he performs throughout the world in genres ranging from Jazz to hip-hop, rock, fusion and electronic music. He DJs and teaches masterclasses and workshops to students of all levels kindergarten through university.  

Since his debut as a conductor with the Carolina Chamber Symphony in 2008, he has performed throughout the US, conducting various piano concerti from the keyboard and symphonic works. Also a composer, Mikael’s works have been performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. He is currently pursuing his DMA at SUNY Stony Brook under the guidance of Gilbert Kalish.