Artists

Ensembles

• Alarm Will Sound
  “If contemporary music produced more concerts like this, it would have a lot less problem connecting with audiences.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• FLUX Quartet
  “Intense, fiery sections alternate with moments of haunting solitude, all vividly illuminated by the Flux Quartet…” – Vivien Schweitzer, New York Times
• Newspeak
  “a potent, composer-led band” - Alex Ross
• Quartet New Generation: Modern Recorder Collective
  “four recorder virtuosos” “mind-blowing”
• Toby Twining Music
  “…otherworldly and downright mind-blowing.”

Composers

• Payton MacDonald, composer, percussionist, arranger
  “Payton MacDonald’s rich-textured Cowboy Tabla/Cowboy Raga . . . is nearly a percussion concerto, with Mr. MacDonald as energetic soloist.” – New York Times
• Michael Harrison
  Michael Harrison’s “Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation” is probably the most brilliant and original extended composition for solo piano since the early works of Frederic Rzewski…” – Tim Page
• Mathew Rosenblum, composer
  “an ear-buzzing flood of sound”
• David Crowell
  “…crystalline sonic beauty…” – Boston Globe
• Jason Eckardt
  “He also has a knack for defying expectations.” – Allan Kozinn, The New York Times
• Toby Twining
  “…otherworldly and downright mind-blowing.”
• Andy Akiho
  “ Mold breaking,” “Vital” – The New York Times
• Michael Gordon, composer, Timber with Mantra Percussion
  “…the fury of punk rock, the nervous brilliance of free jazz and the intransigence of classical modernism.” – Alex Ross, New Yorker Magazine
• Toby Twining Music
  “…otherworldly and downright mind-blowing.”
• Derek Bermel, Composer, Clarinetist and Conductor
  “Composer Derek Bermel may not be a household name yet, but if there is any justice in the music world, he soon will be.” – Chicago Tribune

Solo Artists

• Eliot Fisk, guitar
  “…one of the most electrifying classical guitarists of his generation.” – The New York Times
• Mak Grgic, guitar
  Critics have called his playing “brilliantly beautiful,” and “extraordinary.” In Croatia a journalist proclaimed him “…a young master of guitar.”
• Miranda Cuckson, violinist/violist
  “a brilliant young performer who plays daunting contemporary music with insight, honesty, and temperament” - Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
• Joel Fan (PR), piano
  “Fan gives fantastic close to National Gallery’s American Music Festival“ – Washington Post