David Acevedo is a Philadelphia-based composer and music educator. His wide-ranging work draws from many traditions—including jazz, Afro-Latin, electronica, metal, and early music—and integrates linear and cyclic concepts to weave hypnotic musical narratives. Acevedo’s music has been performed by loadbang, Daedalus Quartet, ICE, counter)induction, Sae Hashimoto, and more, and has been selected for numerous festivals, including the Yarn/Wire International Institute, Longy’s Divergent Studio, CLICK FEST, and the Young Composers Meeting. Currently a doctoral candidate in music composition at the University of Pennsylvania, Acevedo holds degrees from Stony Brook University and Columbia University.

Max Gibson is a British-Irish composer, performer, writer, and educator based in Northern California. His works have been performed and presented internationally in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Ireland, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and USA. His work draws on medievalism, architecture, industrialism, astronomy and astrology, as well as the natural world, and engages with aspects of expanded time, line, and sound massing. He is pursuing a PhD in Composition and Theory with emphases in Environmental Humanities and Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis where he studies with Kurt Rohde, Mika Pelo, and Pablo Ortiz.

Daniel Gostelow's music features expressive opposites-ferocity, brutality, density, and excess contrasted with sparsity, stasis, and quietness. He writes music with dopaminergic charge, and exploits the upper limits of physical exertion and phraseological force. Daniel’s music has been performed by the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Court Circuit, and Ensemble Linea. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at University at Buffalo, where he received his PhD studying under David Felder. He received his BM from Oberlin Conservatory, studying with Lewis Nielson and Daniel Tacke.

Joshua Muetzel’s compositions center on the commonalities in human experience and nature’s fundamental and mystical qualities. Interested in numbers and order in nature, climate change, interpersonal relationships, and personal introspection, Josh touches on these concepts through a narrative compositional style that reaches beyond categorizations of style or genre. Josh writes for a variety of ensemble sizes, and performs on steel pan. He holds a master’s degree in Composition from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver. His principal instructors include Sean Friar, Peter Lieuwen, and David Wilborn.

Treya Nash is a composer and creative coder currently completing her PhD at Louisiana State University with Mara Gibson, Jesse Allison, and Steven David Beck. She has previously studied with Paul Koonce, Mark Engebretson, and Alejandro Rutty. She teaches courses in composition and coding, and previously worked as Program Director for Charlotte New Music. Treya’s area of focus is audience participation in the concert hall, which often involves creating web apps for cell phone use.

Sean Quinn is a composer, vocalist, and writer based in Melbourne and Berlin. His recent works explore the evolution of musical forms through accumulation. Quinn is inspired by the human body and its complexities. He collaborates with many internationally renowned performers, including clarinetist Richard Haynes, flutist Eric Lamb, institut .abeceda, and has been commissioned with groups Ensemble Offspring soloists of Ensemble Musikfabrik and Studio Musikfabrik amongst others.