Lara Downes

Lara Downes--Photo by Max Barrett

Lara Downes

Pianist Lara Downes makes music that is innovative and inclusive, inspired by the legacies of history, family and collective memory.
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Kendra Leonard

Musicologist Kendra Preston Leonard writes about music of the twentieth century.
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Kevin Baldwin

Kevin Baldwin, D.M.A., (he/him) is a composer, saxophonist, and visual artist, focusing on graphic and alternate notations. Kevin, based in greater Boston, is the founder of eyeMusic Projects, an ongo...
Lana Norris

Lana Norris

Lana Norris (she/her) is a pianist and music journalist convinced that both science and art are aesthetic. She brings an interest in diplomacy to her coverage of new music, and enjoys sacred choral an...
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A. Kori Hill

A. Kori Hill (she/her) holds a PhD in musicology from UNC-Chapel Hill. She writes on American music, Florence Price, Black composers, and music historiography.
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Kirk Pearson

Kirk Pearson is a composer, mandolinist, and professional maker of things. He is currently traveling the world on a year-long project to compose works for recently invented instruments.
Joanna Ward

Joanna Ward

Joanna Ward (she/her) is an experimental score- and sound-maker, and researcher. She is interested in what a radical, abolitionist creative practice might be. ...
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Jillian DeGroot

Jillian DeGroot (she/her) is a Chicago-based musician, writer, and audio journalist. She is currently producing an audio documentary podcast called Near Total Silence.
Jessica Rudman

Jessica Rudman

Jessica Rudman (she/they) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. Her music inspires empathy through stories of myth, magic, and the modern world.
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Jessica Bailey

Jessica Bailey (she/her) is a London-born creative whose output in print and onstage posits intersectional feminist investigations of where we are.
Justus Schlichting

Justus Schlichting

When Mr. Schlichting awakens, he tries to entice composers young and old to create masterworks. Sometimes, he succeeds.
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Joanne Lam

Joanne Lam is currently the writer and producer of a cross-media arts project, INVERSES, in collaboration with artists of various disciplines from around the world. Joanne is also a classically traine...
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Julia Kuhlman

Julia Kuhlman (she/her) is a saxophonist and musicologist who makes unnatural noises and writes outlandish things about them. She is currently based in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
John Hong

John Hong

John Hong (he/him) is a ghostwriter and branding consultant. A Juilliard-trained clarinetist, his writing explores large scale issues and conflicts within classical music.
Juhi Bansal

Juhi Bansal

Juhi Bansal (she/her) is a composer from India/HK whose music weaves together themes celebrating cultural diversity, wilderness and the environment, and strong female role models.
Justin Wright

Justin D. Wright

Justin D. Wright is a composer and producer of original music for broadcast, concert, and film in Brooklyn, NY.
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Justin Rito

Justin Rito is a composer, pianist, theorist, and new music enthusiast from suburban Detroit.
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Jessica Griggs

Jess Griggs is a recording engineer and producer who is on a mission to show that diversity is the future of new classical music.
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Jeremy Howard Beck

Jeremy Howard Beck is a New York-based composer, as well as an active trombonist.
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Jeremiah Cawley

Conductor and tenor Jeremiah Cawley is on the faculty of Western Kentucky University. He lives in Bowling Green, KY with his wife Crystal.
Jennifer Kessler

Jennifer Kessler

Arts leader/former French hornist Jennifer Kessler (she/her) has built 400+ arts programs globally; she plays electropop, parents with her jazz husband, and teaches headstands and nonprofit strategy (...
Jennifer Grim

Jennifer Grim

Flutist and advocate Jennifer Grim is Associate Professor at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, Artistic Administrator of the Frost School at Festival Napa Valley, and President of...
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Jennifer Stock

Jennifer Stock is a writer, audiovisual artist, and educator living in Brooklyn, NY.
Jeffrey Young

Jeffrey Young

Jeffrey Young is a violinist and composer. He plays experimental, rock, and classical music and often creates work collaboratively.
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