Peter Van Zandt Lane composes acoustic and electroacoustic concert music that draws from an eclectic musical background, chipping away at boundaries between his classical training and experiences in a range of classical and popular musical styles. Described as “beautifully and confidently made” (American Academy of Arts and Letters), and “refreshingly relevant” (New York Times), Lane’s music often reflects critically on the subject of technology in society, incorporating electronics and technology in performance. His works for wind ensemble are widely performed by professional and collegiate bands alike. His electroacoustic ballet, HackPolitik (one of two award-winning collaborations with choreographer Kate Ladenheim) was a New York Times Critic’s Pick, receiving international press attention for exploring cyber-activism through music and dance. A recipient of the Charles Ives Fellowship, and the Music Teacher’s National Association Distinguished Composer of the Year Award, Peter is currently Professor of Music Composition at the University of Georgia.

Ali Balighi, a composer, sound designer, and sound engineer, was born in Tehran, Iran. He graduated from The University of Art in 2011 with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance. A passion for composition led him to pursue a Master’s degree in Composition at Texas Tech University, where he is currently a student for a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Composition. A number of research and teaching interests align with Balighi’s academic pursuits, which include music technology, open-source software, contemporary music analysis, and music theory. His teaching experience includes positions as a sound engineer, music recording assistant, composition and music theory teacher, and positions as a cello instructor in various Iranian music institutions. Among his poetry collections are “My Loneliness Is A Hippo That Loves You” and “The Forest Was on Fire And The Snail Did Not Know Which Way to Flee.” He received a residency and a grant at The Saari Residence in Finland for his electroacoustic ensemble opera, Migration inside. In addition, he won third place in the 5th Reza Korourian Awards 2020 competition for electroacoustic composition. He won second place in the composition competition of Radio Javan (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) 2017 with his composition titled Daramad for Harp and Orchestra. Balighi’s compositions have been showcased internationally at festivals and conferences, including Sonic Matter, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Hot Air Music Festival, Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, and NoiseFloor UK Contemporary Music.

Celeste Betancur is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), where her research explores the intersections of music, technology, and algorithmic composition. As a composer, digital artist, and live coder, her work spans a broad spectrum—from academic concert halls to underground electronic music scenes—emphasizing real-time score generation, live coding performance, and the development of interactive audiovisual systems. Her interdisciplinary practice includes the design and construction of expanded musical instruments, large-scale installations, and sculptures. Betancur’s compositions have been performed by internationally renowned ensembles such as Leimay Ensemble, Distractfold Ensemble, Cinevivo, Andamio, Iran Sanadzadeh, Niloufar Shiri, Adapter Ensemble, RGGTRN, Linea Ensemble and many others. Beyond composition and performance, Betancur is an accomplished software developer specializing in music technology. She has contributed and is actively working for the ChucK programming language development. Her performances have taken place across more than 20 countries. She has presented her research at leading international conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLC, SMC, and NIME, contributing to the ongoing dialogue at the intersection of music, computation, and artistic expression.

ERAN EGOZY, Professor of the Practice in Music Technology at MIT, is an entrepreneur, musician and technologist. He is the co-founder and chief scientist of Harmonix Music Systems which developed the video game franchises Guitar Hero and Rock Band, selling over 35 million units worldwide and generating over $1 billion in annual sales. Eran and his business partner Alex Rigopulos were named in Time Magazine’s Time 100, Fortune Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40, and USA Network’s Character Approved awards.

Eran is also an accomplished clarinetist. Hailed as “sensitive and energetic” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), he has appeared as soloist with the MIT Symphony Orchestra and as guest artist on the radio show From the Top. Eran is the clarinetist for Radius Ensemble (named Boston’s Best Classical Ensemble in 2016 by the Improper Bostonian), and has appeared with Boston area ensembles such as Emmanuel Music and A Far Cry. His teachers include Jonathan Cohler, William Wrzesien, and Tom Martin.

Eran serves on the Boards of several Boston-area non-profit organizations and mentors and invests in a number of startups in the Boston area. Prior to co-founding Harmonix, Eran earned degrees in Electrical Engineering and Music from MIT, where he conducted research in music technology at the MIT Media Lab.

His current research and teaching interests are interactive music systems, music information retrieval, and multimodal musical expression and engagement. His recent projects include *12*, an audience-participation work for chamber music were audience members use their mobile to musically interact with the stage musicians, and Tutti, a massively multiplayer mobile-audience performance piece where the entire audience becomes the orchestra. Eran is currently developing ConcertCue, a program-note streaming mobile app for live classical music concerts. ConcertCue is featured in concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony, and is the recipient of a grant from the Knight Foundation.

Composer/conductor/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn’s music has taken him from Balinese temples to concert halls around the world.

He has composed for and collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Brooklyn Rider, Maya Beiser, Ethel, Anna Sofie Von Otter, the American Composers Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Iva Bittova, Terry Riley, Don Byron, Wu Man, and Bang on a Can. In 2017, his arrangements were featured on Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War, and on Silkroad’s Grammy-winning album Sing Me Home.

Most recently, his orchestral reimagining of David Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, was recently released on Islandia Music, featuring Ziporyn conducting his own Ambient Orchestra with Maya Beiser, cello soloist. Since its 2017 premiere, Ziporyn has conducted the work in Boston, Barcelona, New York Central Park Summerstage, Australia’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, Strathmore Hall, and numerous other national and international venues. 2019 also saw the world premieres of two new works, the drum concerto Impulse Control for the Bowling Green New Music Festival, and the gamelan/string hybrid Air=Water for Philadelphia’s Network for New Music. Other recent works include the collaborative immersive installation Arachnodrone/Spider’s Canvas with Christine Southworth, which premiered at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo in 2018, and The Demon in the Diagram with visual artist Matthew Ritchie and choreographer Hope Mohr.Ziporyn studied at Eastman School of Music, Yale, and UC Berkeley with Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, and Gerard Grisey. He received a Fulbright in 1987, founded Gamelan Galak Tika in 1993, and composed a series of groundbreaking compositions for gamelan and western instruments, as well as evening-length works such as 2001’s ShadowBang, 2004’s Oedipus Rex (Robert Woodruff, director), and 2009’s A House in Bali, which was featured at BAM Next Wave in October 2010. He released two albums of his orchestral works with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, featuring tabla master Sandeep Das as soloist.

From 1992-2012 he served as music director, producer, and composer/arranger for the Bang on a Can Allstars, winning Musical America’s Ensemble of the Year award in 2005. He has also recorded and toured with Paul Simon (You’re the One) and the Steve Reich Ensemble, sharing in the latter’s 1998 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance. In 2012 he formed the Eviyan Trio with Iva Bittova and Gyan Riley, with whom he recorded two albums. He has also released numerous albums on Cantaloupe Music, New World, CRI, Airplane Ears, and other labels. Other honors include a USA Artist Fellowship, the Goddard Lieberson Prize from the American Academy, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and commissions from Carnegie Hall, Kronos Quartet, Rockefeller Multi-Arts Program, and Meet the Composer. As a conductor recent appearances include LA Opera (Keeril Makan’s Persona), Hamburg Elbsphilharmonie (Julia Wolfe/Bill Morrison’s Fuel), the Barcelona Symphony, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. At MIT he is Distinguished Professor of Music, Director of the Center for Art, Science and Technology, and currently Guest Director of the MIT Symphony Orchestra.

Composer and sonic artist Nina C. Young (b.1984) creates works, ranging from concert pieces to interactive installations, that explore aural architectures, resonance, and the ephemeral. Her work has garnered international acclaim through performances by the American Composers Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Aizuri Quartet, Sixtrum, JACK Quartet, and wild Up. Winner of the 2015-16 Rome Prize, Nina has received recognition from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Fromm Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, and BMI. Recent commissions include Tread softly for the NYPhil’s Project 19, aViolin Concerto: Traces for Jennifer Koh from the Philadelphia Orchestra and LACO, and a multimedia work for the American Brass Quintet and EMPAC’s High-Resolution Wave Field Synthesis Loudspeaker Array.  Young holds degrees from MIT, McGill, and Columbia, and is an Associate Professor of Composition at USC’s Thornton School of Music. She serves as Co-Artistic Director of NY-based new music sinfonietta Ensemble Échappé.  Her music is published by Peermusic Classical.

Osvaldo Golijov’s works include the St Mark Passion; the opera Ainadamar; Azul, a cello concerto; The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, for clarinet and string quartet; the song cycles Ayre and Falling Out of Time; and the soundtracks for Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, Youth Without Youth, and Megalopolis. His most recent works include LAIꓘA, written for Anthony Roth Costanzo and the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, The Given Note, a work for violinist Johnny Gandelsman and The Knights, and Megalopolis Suite for Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1960, and lived in Jerusalem before immigrating to the US in 1986. He is the Composer-in-Residence at The College of the Holy Cross.

Cellist Hannah Collins is a dynamic performer who uses diverse forms of musical expression and artistic collaboration to build community. Winner of the Presser Music Award and De Linkprijs for contemporary interpretation, she takes an active role in expanding the repertoire for the cello by commissioning new works and co-creating interdisciplinary projects. Resonance Lines, her solo debut album on the Sono Luminus label, is an “adventurous, impressive collection of contemporary solo cello music,” negotiated “with panache” (The Strad), pairing music by Benjamin Britten and Kaija Saariaho with commissioned works by Caroline Shaw and Thomas Kotcheff. Hannah earned a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Yale and holds degrees in music from the Yale School of Music, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and City University of New York. She is also an alumna of Ensemble Connect, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and Weill Music Institute. She is on the faculty of Greenwood Music Camp and is Associate Professor of Cello at the University of Kansas School of Music.  www.hannahcollinscello.com

Described as a “genuinely American composer” (Gramophone) and “an eclectic whose works draw on popular and electronic music” (Wall Street Journal), Anthony Paul De Ritis has received performances around the world including at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Lincoln Center, Beijing’s Yugong Yishan, Seoul’s KT Art Hall, the Italian Pavilion at the World Expo in Milan, and UNESCO headquarters in Paris.De Ritis’s 2012 release Devolution with the GRAMMY® Award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project and BMOP/sound, was described as a “tour de force” (Gramophone), and features Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky as soloist. His Pop Concerto (BMOP/sound, 2017) featuring Eliot Fisk was lauded by Classical CD Review as “a major issue of American music,” and his Electroacoustic Music – In Memoriam: David Wessel (Albany Records, 2018) as “sometimes whimsical and sometimes stark, and always interesting” (CD HotList). His third album on BMOP/sound (June 2023) features five of De Ritis’s orchestral works for Chinese traditional instruments and symphony orchestra.

ERAN EGOZY, Professor of the Practice in Music Technology at MIT, is an entrepreneur, musician and technologist. He is the co-founder and chief scientist of Harmonix Music Systems which developed the video game franchises Guitar Hero and Rock Band, selling over 35 million units worldwide and generating over $1 billion in annual sales. Eran and his business partner Alex Rigopulos were named in Time Magazine’s Time 100, Fortune Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40, and USA Network’s Character Approved awards. Eran is also an accomplished clarinetist. Hailed as “sensitive and energetic” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), he has appeared as soloist with the MIT Symphony Orchestra and as guest artist on the radio show From the Top. Eran is the clarinetist for Radius Ensemble (named Boston’s Best Classical Ensemble in 2016 by the Improper Bostonian), and has appeared with Boston area ensembles such as Emmanuel Music and A Far Cry. His teachers include Jonathan Cohler, William Wrzesien, and Tom Martin. Eran serves on the Boards of several Boston-area non-profit organizations and mentors and invests in a number of startups in the Boston area. Prior to co-founding Harmonix, Eran earned degrees in Electrical Engineering and Music from MIT, where he conducted research in music technology at the MIT Media Lab.

Rébecca Kleinberger is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University, based in Boston. Kleinberger’s work mixes science, engineering, design, and art to craft experiences for vocal connection and to facilitate enriching animal–human interactions. To do so, she incorporates neurology, human–computer interaction, psychology, linguistics, assistive technologies, and a smattering of other fields. Prior to joining Northeastern, Kleinberger worked as an affiliate researcher at MIT Media Lab and the McGovern Institute of Technology. She has published her work in a number of prestigious international journals and venues, and has been featured in popular press outlets from the New York Times to CNN.

Called “America’s most wired composer” by The Los Angeles Times and a “musical visionary” by The New York Times, Tod Machover is recognized as one of the most innovative composers active today, praised for creating music that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries and for developing technologies that expand music’s potential for everyone, from celebrated virtuosi to musicians of all abilities. Machover studied with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School and was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez’s IRCAM in Paris. He is Academic Head of the MIT Media Lab, where he is also Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media and Director of the Opera of the Future Group. Machover is also Visiting Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Tod Machover’s compositions have been commissioned and performed by many of the world’s most prestigious ensembles and soloists, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble InterContemporain, Lucerne Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Ensemble Modern, BBC Scottish Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Houston Grand Opera, Bunkamura (Tokyo), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Centre Georges Pompidou, Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival, Ars Electronica, Casa da Musica (Porto), American Composers Orchestra, Tokyo String Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Ying Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Matt Haimovitz, Renée Fleming, Joyce Di Donato, and many more. His work has been awarded numerous prizes and honors, by such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, the German Culture Ministry, and the French Culture Ministry, which named him a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was the first recipient of the Arts Advocacy Award from the Kennedy Center’s National Committee of the Performing Arts in 2013, and he was honored as Musical America’s 2016 Composer of the Year.