Nicolas Lell Benavides

Nicolas Benavides

Nicolas Lell Benavides

Nicolas Lell Benavides is a composer, conductor, and educator living L.A. He focuses on stories about the American Southwest, frequently drawing on his Nuevomejicano roots.
Nina Shekhar

Nina Shekhar

Nina Shekhar (she/her) is a composer, community facilitator, and educator who explores the intersection of identity, vulnerability, love, and laughter to create bold and intensely personal works.
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Norman Cahn

Norman Cahn received his B.A. in Music from UC Berkeley, and is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Texas School of Law. He enjoys performing on the violin, and studying the historical signi...
Phong Tran

Phong Tran

Phong Tran (he/him) is a composer, performer, and visual artist working in electronic mediums to explore emotional experience in nonphysical space.
Nilina Mason-Campbell

Nilina Mason-Campbell

Nilina (she/her) splits her time between Los Angeles and Portland. Outside of writing, she can be found drawing, learning banjo and renovating a 1968 Airstream.
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Rebecca Lentjes

Rebecca Lentjes is an assistant editor at RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, independent writer/scholar, and amateur pianist.
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Paul Kilbey

Paul Kilbey writes on music and culture for publications including Culture Wars, Huffington Post and Bachtrack.
Padideh Aghanoury

Padideh Aghanoury

Padideh (she/they) grew up playing the cello from a young age and has a deep love for the experimental and avant-garde. She loves to write about music.
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Paul Moon

H. Paul Moon is a filmmaker, composer, and video artist.

Maurice Du Berger

Maurice Du Berger discovers folk music of the Balkans in 2004. Since this revelation, he is actively composing and participating in numerous musicals projects.
Matthew-Mendez

Matt Mendez

Matt Mendez is an independent musicologist and critic.
Nebal Maysaud

Nebal Maysaud

Nebal Maysaud (they/them) is a Lebanese composer and writer whose work aims to build compassion among people of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
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Megan Ihnen

Megan Ihnen is a mezzo-soprano on a mission to change the world through the commissioning, performance, and proliferation of new music.
Megumi Saruhashi

Megumi Saruhashi

Megumi Saruhashi (she/her) is a violinist, composer, and educator based in Brooklyn who creates music inspired by three places she calls home: New York, Japan, and Egypt.
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Myles Oakey

Myles Oakey is music writer and arts administrator. He holds a First Class Honours and University Medal for Music from UNSW, Australia. He lives in Glasgow.
Michele Cheng

Michele Cheng

Michele Cheng (she/her), a 1.5 generation Taiwanese American, is an interdisciplinary composer, improviser-performer, and activist artist.
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Neil Prufer

Neil Prufer is a composer and pianist living in New York City.
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Neal Markowski

Neal Markowski is a composer who likes to create large amounts of sound with small groups of people.
Michelle Hromin

Michelle Hromin

Michelle Hromin (she/her) is a Croatian-American multidisciplinary artist who specializes in contemporary clarinet performance, improvisation, writing, and curation.
Natalie Calma

Natalie Calma

Natalie Calma is a Venezuelan violinist, co-creator of Box Not Found and improvisation enthusiast. She is currently based in Boston.
Meg Huskin

Meg Huskin

Meg Huskin is a freelance writer, singer and composer currently based in Chicago...
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Matt Weber

Matt Weber is a New York based composer, educator, and political slacktivist.
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Lauren Ishida

Lauren Ishida (she/her) is a soprano specializing in contemporary music. She is the Director of Promotion for Schott Music New York.
Marina Kifferstein

Marina Kifferstein

NYC-based violinist Marina Kifferstein, an active performer and teacher, holds an MM in Contemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, a BA in English from Oberlin College, and a BM in v...
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