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Patrick Burke

Mark Dancigers

Judd Greenstein

Patrick Burke

Patrick Burke, hailed as "unquestionably a composer of promise" (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), composes visceral, emotionally charged music for chamber ensembles, orchestra, vocals, electronic media, and film. Patrick has received various awards, commissions, and fellowships to music festivals, and has written music for professional ensembles such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and eighth blackbird.

Mark Dancigers

Mark Dancigers’ music has been called “entrancing”, “beguiling”, and “rich” (The New York Times). He has written music for the New York Youth Symphony, Opus 21, the Minnesota Orchestra, and members of So Percussion. His music has been heard at the Virginia Arts Festival, the Cabrillo Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Conference, Merkin Hall, and BAM Café. As a guitarist he has performed with Tactus, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and has premiered a concerto by Kathryn Alexander. Mark studied composition at Yale and the Yale School of Music, and he currently studies at Princeton University.

Judd Greenstein

Judd Greenstein was born and raised in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, where he began his compositional life by writing hip hop beats as a teenager. His concert works reflect those origins, as well as his traditional piano background, combining an urban, beat-oriented sensibility with a late Romantic classical harmonic language. He has received degrees from Williams College and the Yale School of Music, has been a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music, and is currently a fourth-year doctoral Fellow and Taplin Scholar at Princeton University, where he is writing a dissertation on hip hop music.

Michael Mizrahi

Pianist Michael Mizrahi has been hailed for his “splendid powers of concentration” (The Washington Post) and performances that are “exciting to watch and hear” (The San Diego Union-Tribune). Dazzling audiences and critics alike, Mizrahi has been hailed for his compelling performances of a wide-ranging selection of music and his ability to connect with audiences of all ages. He has appeared as concerto soloist with some of the leading orchestras of the United States in addition to appearances as recitalist, chamber musician, and music educator. He has won several prizes in major competitions and has appeared in several prominent music festivals around the world.

Sara Phillips

Sara Phillips (clarinet/bass clarinet) performs frequently as a recitalist and chamber musician. Studying with David Shifrin, she recently received her Master of Music degree in clarinet performance from Yale University. Premiering many works, including Kyle Gann's Last Chance Sonata and Judd Greenstein's The Sirens, for bass clarinet, Phillips focuses primarily on recent and contemporary music, emphasizing newly-emerging composers. Sara has appeared with such dynamic groups as Bang on a Can, The American Composers Orchestra, Tactus, Arête Ensemble, The Woodstock Chamber Orchestra and The American Symphony Orchestra.

Alex Sopp

New York-based flutist Alex Sopp performs all different genres of music and was recently called “outstanding” and “an admired new music mainstay” by Time Out New York. Alex has commissioned, premiered, and recorded with some of the most exciting composers and songwriters of our time, including Björk, Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens, Philip Glass, Judd Greenstein, The National, and makes professional appearances with The New York Philharmonic. Alex is a member of NOW Ensemble, The Knights, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), AXIOM, and has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble and Continuum. In the not-so-distant future Alex will make her solo recording debut with an album on the newly-minted New Amsterdam label. The New Amsterdam mission “to provide a haven for the young New York composers and performers whose music slips through the cracks between genres...music without walls, from a scene without a name” is something Alex believes in deeply. A regular performer both in the US and abroad, she has performed at the Bang On A Can Marathon, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Look and Listen Festival, MATA Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, Festival WhyNote Dijon, Carlsbad Music Festival, and the Bowdoin Festival. A native of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, Alex completed both her Bachelors and Masters degrees at The Juilliard School, where she was a founding member of the student led contemporary music group AXIOM.

Peter Rosenfeld

A newly appointed member of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Canadian bassist Peter Rosenfeld continues to perform on occasion in New York, where he received his Master's Degree at the Juilliard School. Recent highlights include engagements with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, a gala performance with Wynton Marsalis and Rene Flemming, and tours with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Peter was a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and principal bassist of the New York String Seminar Orchestra. He has also spent summers at the Verbier Festival, Sarasota Festival, Music Academy of the West, and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. A devoted exponent of New Music, Peter was the founding bassist for NOW Ensemble and can be heard on NOW, the group's debut album.