Compositions performed in cities in the United States and the Far East. Recipient of Joseph Dillon Memorial Award in Pedagogy. Teaching fellow, Brooklyn College, 1966-68. Citation from Music Teachers' National Association, 1975. Grant from National Endowment for the Arts, 1976. Chairman of Theory, Bella Shumiatcher School of Music, Larchmont, New York, 1965-76. Director of Mannes Extension Division, 1976-80. Techniques of Music faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music.

Lowell Liebermann is one of America’s most frequently performed and recorded composers. Orchestras worldwide have played Liebermann's works, as have distinguished artists including Steven Isserlis, Garrick Ohlsson, Susan Graham, Charles Dutoit, James Levine, Msistislav Rostropovich and many others. His compositions have been released on over eighty compact discs by more than forty labels. His first two Piano Concertos were recorded by Stephen Hough and the BBC Scottish Symphony with the composer conducting on a Grammy-nominated Hyperion compact disc. Mr. Liebermann can also be heard conducting his Flute Concertos with Sir James Galway and the London Mozart Players on the BMG label.

Mr. Liebermann has written two operas, both premiered to audience and critical acclaim: The Picture of Dorian Gray, commissioned and premiered by L’Opera de Monte-Carlo, and Miss Lonelyhearts, with a libretto by J. D. McClatchy after Nathanael West’s novel, commissioned by the Juilliard School to celebrate its 100^th Anniversary.

He has served as Composer-in-Residence for many organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Sapporo's Pacific Music Festival, and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. He was the first composer to win the Composers' Invitational Award of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition for hisThree Impromptus, Op.68 .

Mr. Liebermann maintains an active performing schedule as pianist and conductor. He has collaborated with artists including flautists Sir James Galway, Jeffrey Khaner and Tara O’Connor, violinists Ida Kavafian and Chantal Juillet, cellists Andres Diaz and Peter Wiley, and singers Robert White and Carole Farley in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Berlin Philharmonie.

Mr. Liebermann joined the composition faculty of Mannes College The New School for Music in 2012 where he is the conductor of MACE, the Mannes American Composers Ensemble, a large ensemble dedicated to the works of living American composers. 

David T. Little is “one of the most imaginative young composers” on the scene (The New Yorker) with “a knack for overturning musical conventions” (The New York Times).  His operas Soldier Songs (PROTOTYPE Festival) and Dog Days (Peak Performances/Beth Morrison Projects) have been widely acclaimed, “prov(ing) beyond any doubt that opera has both a relevant present and a bright future” (NYTimes).  Recent/upcoming works include Ghostlight--ritual for six players for eighth blackbird/The Kennedy Center, AGENCY (Kronos Quartet), CHARM (Baltimore Symphony/Marin Alsop), Hellhound (Maya Beiser), Haunt of Last Nightfall (Third Coast Percussion), the opera JFK with Royce Vavrek (Fort Worth Opera/ALT), a new opera commissioned by the MET Opera/Lincoln Center Theater new works program, and the music-theatre work Artaud in the Black Lodge with Outrider legend Anne Waldman (Beth Morrison Projects).  His music has been heard at Carnegie Hall, LA Opera, the Park Avenue Armory, the Bang On A CanMarathon, and elsewhere.  Educated at University of Michigan and Princeton, Little is co-founder of the annual New Music Bake Sale, has served as Executive Director of MATA, serves on the Composition Faculty at Mannes-The New School and Shenandoah Conservatory, and is Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia, Gotham Chamber Opera and Music-Theatre Group.  The founding artistic director of the ensemble Newspeak, his music can be heard on New Amsterdam and Innova labels.  He is published by Boosey & Hawkes.

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Recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (New York Times) “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York) and “one of the brightest lights to emerge from the Yale School of Music” (The New Yorker), Missy Mazzoli has had her music performed globally by the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, New York City Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra and many others. She is Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia, Gotham Chamber Opera and Music Theatre-Group, and in 2011-2012 was composer-in-residence with the Albany Symphony. In February 2012 Beth Morrison Projects presented Song from the Uproar, Missy’s first multimedia chamber opera, which had a sold-out run at venerable New York venue The Kitchen. The Wall Street Journal called this work ""both powerful and new"", and the New York Times claimed that ""in the electric surge of Ms. Mazzoli's score you felt the joy, risk and limitless potential of free spirits unbound."" Recent months included the premiere of new works performed by pianist Emanuel Ax, Kronos Quartet, ETHEL, the LA Philharmonic and the Detroit Symphony. In 2013 Missy was commissioned by Carnegie Hall to create Vespers for a New Dark Age, a work for her ensemble Victoire, percussionist Glenn Kotche (of Wilco) and electronic producer Lorna Dune. They premiered this work at Carnegie Hall and released the recording on New Amsterdam Records last March. With librettist Royce Vavrek, Missy is currently working on an operatic adaptation of Breaking the Waves, a 1996 film by Lars von Trier. Breaking the Waves will premiere at Opera Philadelphia in 2016.

Missy is the recipient of four ASCAP Young Composer Awards as well as a Fulbright Grant to the Netherlands. She has taught at New York University and Yale University, and from 2007-2010 served as Executive Director of the MATA Festival in New York City. Her music is published by G. Schirmer.
 

Frequently commissioned by notable ensembles and major music institutions, Mr. Moravec’s upcoming premieres include The King’s Man, with Kentucky Opera, and Amorisms, with the Nashville Ballet. Last season included the New York premiere of The Blizzard Voices, with the Oratorio Society of NY at Carnegie Hall, as well as the premieres of Violin Concerto, with Maria Bachmann and Symphony in C, and Shakuhachi Concerto,with James Schlefer and the Orchestra of the Swan (U.K.). Other recent premieres include Danse Russe, an opera for the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts; Brandenburg Gate, with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; Piano Quintet, with Jeremy Denk and the Lark Quartet; and Wind Symphony, with a consortium of American concert bands.

Huang Ruo has been lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the world's leading young composers" and by the New York Times for having “a distinctive style.” His vibrant and inventive musical voice draws equal inspiration from Chinese ancient and folk music, Western avant-garde, experimental, noise, natural and processed sound, rock, and jazz to create a seamless, organic integration using a compositional technique he calls “Dimensionalism.” Huang Ruo’s diverse compositional works span from orchestra, chamber music, opera, theater, and dance, to cross-genre, sound installation, multi-media, experimental improvisation, folk rock, and film.

Huang Ruo’s music has been premiered and performed by the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, National Polish Radio Orchestra, Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Hong Kong, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble, Remix Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Quatuor Diotima, and Ethel Quartet, and conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, Marin Alsop, Michael Tilson Thomas, James Conlon, Dennis Russell Davies, Ed Spanjaard, Peter Rundel, Alexander Liebreich, Xian Zhang, and Ilan Volkov.

Huang Ruo's opera Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, had its American premiere by the Santa Fe Opera in 2014, and will receive its Canadian premiere in 2017 performed by the Vancouver Opera. His opera Paradise Interrupted received its world premiere at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2015. Another performance is coming up at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2016, before going on tour to Asia and Europe. In addition, Huang Ruo was recently named the composer-in-residence for Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam and National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan.

Huang Ruo was born in Hainan Island, China in 1976 - the year the Chinese Cultural Revolution ended. His father, who is also a composer, began teaching him composition and piano when he was six years old. Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, when China was opening its gate to the Western world, he received both traditional and Western education at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.  As a result of the dramatic cultural and economic changes in China following the Cultural Revolution, his education expanded from Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, and Lutoslawski, to include the Beatles, rock and roll, heavy metal, and jazz. Huang Ruo was able to absorb all of these newly allowed Western influences equally. As a member of the new generation of Chinese composers, his goal and task is not just to mix both Western and Eastern elements, but also to create a seamless integration and a convincing organic unity, drawing influences from various genres and cultures.

After winning the Henry Mancini Award at the 1995 International Film and Music Festival in Switzerland, Huang Ruo moved to the United States to further his education. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in composition from the Juilliard School. Huang Ruo is currently a composition faculty at the Mannes College of Music at the New School in NY.  He is the artistic director and conductor of Ensemble FIRE (Future In REverse), and was selected as a Young Leader Fellow by the National Committee on United States–China Relations in 2006.

Huang Ruo’s music is published by Ricordi. For more information about the composer and his music, please visit: www.huangruo.com

Professor of Professional Practice

Ford Foundation Young Composers Grant, 1961. Compositions performed in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Composed musical scores for WABC, CBS Network Television, and New York Theater. Member of board of trustees and contest chairman, New Music for Young Ensembles, New York. Founding member, Music Under Construction, New York. Music published by Carl Fischer, Willis Music, and GIA Publications. Numerous national magazine articles on electronic music and keyboard instruments. Conductor, Sullivan County Community Chorus, 1988-90. Co-director and keyboard artist, Catskill Bach Society, Livingston Manor, New York, 1990-92. Music faculty, Brooklyn College, 1964-71. Instructor in pastoral studies and chapel organist, Holyrood Seminary, 1985-93. Composition faculty, California Summer Music, since 1999. Mannes College The New School for Music: instructor, Techniques of Music Department, 1964-68, 1971-78, 1979 to the present; instructor, Composition Department, 1971-78, 1979 to the present; associate dean of the college, 1972-73; dean of the college, 1973-78; director, Music Technology Laboratory, 1975-78, 1979 to the present; director, Extension Division, 1994 to the present; coordinator, Nonperformance Activities, 2000 to the present.

Grammy winner. Member, Paul Winter Consort and Steve Reich and Musicians. Recordings and performances with Pat Metheny, Richard Stoltzman, Lyle Mays, Suzanne Vega, Howard Levy, Roger Kellaway, Eddie Daniels, Eddie Gomez, Oregon, Airto, and Zakir Hussain. Compositions featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and John Schaefer's New Sounds. Commissions from Rockefeller Foundation and Reader's Digest.Recordings on ECM, CBS, RCA, GRP, Vanguard, Deutsche Grammophon, Geffen, Nonesuch, Capital, Silver Wave, and Sony. Percussion faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music, since 1993.