FOUNDING COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE DIRECTOR, composer-pianist, (b. Detroit, 1950) has written works for a wide variety of media and they have been performed at numerous venues including Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Symphony Space in New York and throughout the U.S., Eastern Europe and Russia. Since 1983, Pehrson has been a founding director of the Composers Concordance in New York. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan (Doctor of Musical Arts 1981). Pehrson visited St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, in March 2008 for a series of concerts. In St. Petersburg, he participated in a Festival "From the Avant Garde to the Present Day," with a performance at the "House of Composers" in St. Petersburg. Linda Past-Pehrson also danced to three electronic pieces in alternate tunings as part of this festival. In Moscow, he had five chamber pieces presented at the "Jurgenson Salon" and Linda Past-Pehrson danced to six electronic pieces in alternate tunings at the "Fireplace Hall" of the "Central Building for Workers of Art, (TsDRI)." In 2009 Italian trumpeter Ivano Ascari toured the U.S. with a piece Pehrson wrote for him. In 2008 and 2009 several chamber works were presented by the Composers Concordance, the New York Composers' Circle and Dan Barrett's "International Street Cannibals." Pehrson has works recorded on Capstone and New Ariel CDs and several pieces are published by Seesaw Music, Corp., now a division of Subito Music.

COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE DIRECTOR: Dan Cooper was born and raised in Manhattan, and educated at Horace Mann, Columbia, NEC, and Princeton. Principal teachers include John Heiss, Steve Mackey, and Paul Lansky, and Cooper's chief mentor was Otto Luening. In 2000, Cooper was the Aaron Copland composition fellow at Tanglewood, where he composed and produced incidental music tracks for several acclaimed Shakespeare and Company productions. In 2004, Cooper's "Hawthorne Fanfare and Meditation" was premiered at Ozawa Hall, at a gala event featuring Mike Wallace, Jane Fonda, David Strathairn, and Marisa Tomei.

As a multi-instrumentalist specializing in 7-string bass guitar and also flute with electronics, Cooper has performed all over the world, perhaps most notably as a member of singer Ute Lemper's trio, including performances at Town Hall, Joe's Pub, The Blue Note, Davies Hall, Chicago Theater, Massey Hall, Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Staatsoper Berlin, and Bunkamura Orchard Hall, plus broadcasts on NBC, Bravo, BBC, Radio France, and RAI. Cooper endorses Overwater bass guitars of Carlisle, U.K.

Cooper's music has been recognized with awards, commissions, premieres, recordings, showcases and residencies from Albany Records, Albany Symphony, Artists International, ASCAP, B3+, Cary Trust, Circadia, Electro-Music, Empire State Youth Orchestra, Engine 27, Fontainebleau, Imani Winds, International Street Cannibals, Majestic Brass, Meet The Composer, NARAS, New York New Music Ensemble, Palisades Virtuosi, and Sweet Plantain, among others. Cooper is currently on the faculty of the State University of New York/FIT, where he has created new courses in American Music, European-Classical Music, and Latin-American & Caribbean Music. Since 2005, he has also taught Music and Literature classes at the Greenwich House Senior Center. www.dan-cooper.com

COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE DIRECTOR: Composer/guitarist/rapper Gene Pritsker has written over three hundred ninety compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music, songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles, etc. All his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures. He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hiphop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble who have released a cd's on Col-legno and Innova Records. Gene's music has been performed all over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers, including the Adelaide Symphony, The Athens Camarata, Brooklyn and Berlin Philharmonic. He has worked closely with Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies.

The New York Times described him as "...audacious...multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur, described Pritsker as "dissolv[ing] the artificial boundaries between high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics and elevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre". Raul d'Gama Rose writes in All About Jazz: "Barring the obvious exceptions, much of 21st century composition appears to be thinning in significance, but this might be about to change. Gene Pritsker is one of a very spare handful of composers effecting this change."

Organizations he is associated with include: Composers' Concordance, Absolute Ensemble, The International Street Cannibals and the Austrian Outreach Festival. Some of Gene Pritsker's music is published by: Falls House Press, Gold Branch Music, Periferia Sheet Music & Calabrese Brothers music and recorded by: Col Legno, Enja, Eutrepe, Wergo, Innova and Capstone record labels.

For more information and music samples, go to: www.genepritsker.com

Art Director and Graphic Designer

* 1982, grew up in the foothills of the Alps in Steyr, Austria. She studied visual communication at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of the Arts Zurich.

She currently lives and works in Vienna.

A native of Belgrade (Serbia), one of the Kyle Gann's "Favorite Women Composers of All Time", Milica Paranosic lives in New York as an active composer, performance artist, music educator, and producer. Milica's music and performances have provoked audiences of widely different profiles (form opera goers to soccer fans) rarely leaving them indifferent. She was called: ...free-wheeling, performance-art-type cat (Kyle Gann) ...a painter, a music Jackson Pollack, SEAMUS, Eric Somers, ...edgily comical (Klaus Klingbeil, Der Lausitzer Rundschau, Germany), and her music ...amazing, astonishing... (Jack Anderson, New York Times), ...like liquor filled pralinés.(Von Martina Helmig, Morgenpost, Germany).

Milica's works range for one-woman multimedia shows to operatic and symphonic works, to sound installations and theatrical and movie soundtracks. Her tracks appeared in award winning movies and have been released on Bridge, Electroshock Records and The New Sound record labels. Milica performed and had her works performed at formal and alternative spaces throughout the world.

Milica is on the music faculty of The Juilliard School since 1995. She is a co-director of Composers Concordance and had recently founded "Give to Grow", an education project which brings music technology to Volta region of Ghana.

More Info at www.milicaparanosic.com

Hailed by the New York Times for her "magnificently sweet tone", oboist Keve Wilson has captivated audiences with her imaginative programming and electric personality. Her 2011 CD "Pure Imagination" was released on CCR/Naxos and resulted in a two-year contract with Baird Artists Management to promote her show "Cabaret Oboe". A past winner of Concert Artists Guild, Keve is solo oboist with Kristjan Järvi's Absolute Ensemble and can be heard on the group's numerous albums, including the Grammy nominated "Absolute Mix". She premiered "After Hearing Bach" for oboe and strings by Peter Schickele, won a coveted position in 2004 with Opera Pacific, and co-founded the innovative chamber music series "Project Accidental" while living in Los Angeles. A fellow at the Tanglewood Institute, she has performed at many summer festivals, including Chamber Music Northwest, Bremen MusicFest, Savannah Onstage, Juneau Jazz and Classics, and New Zealand International Arts Festival. Radio appearances include NPR's Performance Today, WQXR, and A Couple of Musicians, a weekly radio show she and her husband hosted and produced on Mountain Public Radio. A graduate of the Eastman School of music, Keve studied oboe with Richard Killmer, piano with Judith Handman and dance with Elizabeth Clark. Her YouTube video "Do you know what the oboe is?" has been a favorite among oboists and other musicians.

Astrid Steiner (living and working in New York & Vienna)

Astrid Steiner is a pioneer of VJ culture in Austria and projects as part of the duo LUMA.LAUNISCH visual journeys on screens from techno clubs to opera houses. A graduate of the University of Applied Science in Hagenberg with a masters degree in Media Technology & Design, she started her career as an editor on Austrian and international TV shows, like the Red Bull Air Race and worked on internationally acclaimed documentaries.

In the last years her video installations gained the attention of the international art scene, including invitations to Thessaloniki's Photobiennale in 2010, the exhibition Sound: Frame at Vienna's Künstlerhaus, to New York's Austrian Cultural Forum and to Athens' Benaki Museum.

Recently LUMA.LAUNISCH have performed in concert with Groove Armada, Jeans Team, DJ Mehdi, Dominik Eulberg, Mike Keneally, the Zawinul Syndicate, Sound Liberation & Kristjan Järvi's Absolute Ensemble and Composers Concordance.

Patrick Grant is a composer/performer living in New York City and creates music for a wide range of media. A native of Detroit, MI (aka Motown), he moved to NYC in the mid-80s where he studied at the Juilliard School, worked on the production team for composer John Cage, and produced his first recordings at the studios of Philip Glass. Interest in world music brought him to Bali three times to study the gamelan which has since manifested itself in his work through the use of alternative tunings and pieces requiring multiple keyboards. He founded his production company, sTRANGEmUSIC, in 1998 and has since produced numerous recordings and concerts of his and other artists' work.

He has created scores for theatrical visionaries Gerald Thomas, Robert Wilson, the Living Theatre, and music for installations at the Louvre and the mus�e du Quai Branly in Paris. His music has been applied visually through seven collaborations with the artist Kehinde Wiley, scores for feature documentaries, and music tech seminars each semester at the NYU Film School. Within the last year his music has been performed extensively by theater troupes in Brazil, appearing in the major cities and international festivals there. In 2009, with radio producer Jocelyn Gonzales, he created the MMiX Festival of Interactive Music Technology at NYC's Theaterlab, an event co-sponsored by Ableton and Cycling '74. In December 2009, he music directed the European premiere of his electronic realization of the Morton Feldman/Samuel Beckett opera �Neither� in Vienna. In 2010, Grant returned to Europe and Brazil for new works in concert, theater, and multimedia and created H2Opus: Fluid Soundscapes by Multiple Composers for Make Music New York 2010. Grant also produces content for the new music blog The MMiXdown.

Kerry Farrell has had a long and successful career as a performer and an administrator, highlighted by his time as Executive Director of the National Repertory Orchestra, Director of Community Programs at the Henry Mancini Institute and General Manager of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Mr. Farrell is founder and CEO of AuditionTour.com (AT). AT uses the latest technology in conjunction with the best personnel and processes to efficiently grow organizations. He has also worked on several media projects as performer and contractor including the Academy Award winning "Ray", a Mary J. Blige video entitled "We Ride", and Guy Pearce's latest project set to be released in 2012, among others. Mr. Farrell studied music at the University of California at Los Angeles.

FOUNDING COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE DIRECTOR, composer, has had his music performed throughout the United States, Europe, Brazil and Japan. Commissions have come from the Composers Guild of New Jersey, Queens Philharmonia, Adolphe Saxquartette, and the North/South Consonance Ensemble, among others. His music is published by Calabrese Brothers Music, and Deffner Publications and is recorded on Capstone Records (The Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo) and Finnadar (William Schimmel, accordion). His music can be heard on the soundtrack of the film Immortal Cupboard, by Cathy Cook.

Two new CDs to be released soon by Esther Lamneck, clarinet and The Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo will include two recent works by Mr. Hardish. The composer has been in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, has lectured and given presentations of his music at New York University and the Governor's School for the Gifted in Virginia, has been guest composer at WNYC-FM, WKCR-FM Radio and Columbia University, has received several awards from Meet The Composer, and has been awarded the Margaret Fairbanks Jory Copying Assistance Program Award from the American Music Center.

He has contributed to Notes (of the Music Library Association) and the New Music Connoisseur magazine where he serves on that magazine's Editorial Board. Mr. Hardish has studied music at the Juilliard School, Queens College of the CUNY (BA), Bennington College, and has done graduate work at Columbia University. Before becoming a composer he played drums professionally for several years in dance bands and to a lesser extent in shows. He also holds a MS degree in information science from the Pratt Institute. He is co-founder and co-director of the Composers Concordance and recently retired from a job as a Senior Librarian with The New York Public Library.

Composer and a native of New York City, has had a passion for music since he saw the movie Star Wars at age 4, which was also when he started taking piano lessons. Following a deep and abiding love of film scores, has been composing music since the age of 12. Having written music for a variety of media including a number of orchestral works, his passion lies heavily in setting poetry to music. In 1990 he was admitted to Manhattan School of Music as a composition student and won the Absolut Vodka Composers Award. Completing both his B.M and M.M., he studied with David Noon, Aaron Jay Kernis, Richard Danielpour and Giampaolo Bracali (whose sudden passing in 2006 inspired the work The Disarrange, for Soprano, Cello and Piano with poetry of Jennifer Michael Hecht which was performed at his memorial concert in NYC), and gained a profound understanding of technology while studying electronic music with the late Elias Tanenbaum.

In 1996 he was the recipient of the Concert Artist's Guild Composers Award, which resulted in the commissioning of three chamber works: Prelude and Millennium for Oboe and String Quartet, Postlude for Baritone, Flute, Cello and Piano, and Personal Demons for piano trio. In 2005, he accidently discovered the poetry of Jennifer Michael Hecht while searching for new poets online and has since set 5 of her poems, one of which was part of a commission for a work for Chorus, Oboe and Piano titled Fall In Time. Songs are not his only passion, however, as his plans currently include his first Opera with playwright August Schulenberg of the Flux Theatre Ensemble, an orchestral work for the voxnovus 60x60 series, and a work for Absolute Ensemble.

By day he works as a software engineer for large reputable companies (Google, Bank of America etc). He is a single dad, living in Brooklyn with his two cats, Tom and Finster and is currently taking applications for the position of muse.

More info at www.luisandreicobo.com