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Adam Beiter (he/him/his) is a composer, musician, and teacher hailing from Hamburg, NY and a current B.M. candidate in Music Education and Composition at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music. Incorporating a wide variety of styles such as contemporary classical, folk, jazz, and musical theatre, his music seeks to uplift the unique voices of its performers and explore themes of community, identity, and resilience. He has been commissioned to write for live theater productions, religious services and social justice oriented events, and for the Forest Music exhibit at the Wild Center, a natural history museum in Tupper Lake, NY. His music has also been performed by chamber groups including FiveByFive, the Bridge Music Collective, the Rosetta Arts Collective, and loadbang, as well as student groups including Crane's own Hosmer Choir and Eclectic Ensemble. Adam’s original score for the award-winning film We Are the Vessels of Each Other’s Melancholies was showcased at Cinefest Fairfield and NYLIFF, and his score for the animated short film Shelved was screened at Buffalo’s historic North Park Theater. 

Matteo Bertolina (he/him) was born in Valfurva (Italy) in 1988. He studied piano with M° Silvia Leggio, electronic music and composition with M° Paolo Ferrara at the Conservatorio “A.Vivaldi” (Alessandria, Italy).

Bertolina took part in the “Festival 5 Giornate” (Milan), "Shanghai Electronic Music Week", “Fifteen Minutes of Fame” (New York), “250 piano pieces for Beethoven” (Germany) and “Bled Contemporary Music Week” (Slovenia).

He won the First International Plathner's Eleven Composers Competition (Hannover), the first prize in “V Concorso Internazionale di Musica AMIGDALA” and the second prize in “Fratelli Pedrotti Composers Competition" in Trento (Italy).

His work has been performed in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Slovenia, China and USA.

Bertolina is also active as a teacher, pianist and choir conductor, performing various repertoires and genres with a particular interest in contemporary music.

Mark Francis’ musical career has varied from teaching, composing, performing and journalism to orchestral administration.  He has studied composition with Walter Hartley and James Eversole. He holds a D.M.A. in composition from the University of Kentucky.  He also holds degrees from the University of Connecticut and SUNY Fredonia.   He has taught at Texas A & M Corpus Christi, University of Kentucky, Mississippi State University, Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts, Centenary College, Northwestern State University, Emory University, Agnes Scott College, Midwestern State University and Power Academic and Performing Arts Complex.  He has received 10 ASCAP Standard Awards and 10 ASCAP Plus Awards for his compositions.  The Jackson State University Orchestra premiered his composition on the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, at the Library of Congress.  He is Executive Director of the Daytona Beach Symphony Society. 

Originally from central Illinois and based in Falls Church, Virginia, Dave (He/Him) is a singer, composer and pianist, veteran of the Choral Arts Society of Washington, Russian and Georgian choirs, the University of Illinois Men’s Glee Club, musical theater, a cappella ensembles, and most recently the Arlington Chorale.  Dave took to choral composing during the pandemic, and he seeks out unusual texts for choral settings that evoke feelings of solace, beauty, healing, and wonder.  Dave works for the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC, preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and spends the rest of his time with his wife and two boys, volunteering, and stealing moments away in the mornings to write music.  His original, meaningful music for high school, community and university choirs is available at www.davefroman.com. 

Rachel DeVore Fogarty's works have been commissioned, awarded and performed by organizations in the U.S. and internationally, including the Bryan Symphony, St. Olaf College, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the Young New Yorkers' Chorus, the Luna Nova Music Ensemble, and VocalEssence.  She is inspired by the way stories distill the power of language, evoke vivid imagery, and resonate with the complexities of the human condition.  Her string quartet, sky darkening early, was selected as part of a reading session with the Grammy-nominated JACK Quartet. Upcoming projects include two musicals (Unbelievable and A Thousand Faces), a chamber music commission, On the rim of a thin place,  for Duo Atypique, Liturgies for the 2025 NATS Mentoring Program for Composers with Cincinnati Song Initiative, and a new micro-opera, Untangled Threads for the SALT Quintet.  

Jon F. Howe (he/they/any) is an asexual Rhode Island-based composer and french hornist whose practice exists at the intersection of conversation, mythology, folksong, improvisation, synthesis, and queerness to create music with lush harmonies and lyrical melodies; often combining acoustic elements with electronics. Their works seek to fuse the queer identity with folk traditions and mythological stories. Interweaving moments of tonality with post tonality, Jon’s music fluidly shifts across various styles of music. Outside of concert halls, Jon’s music can be heard in original soundtrack for the upcoming video game, Bullets and Ballgowns, the title theme of the Legend of a Heartland Slayer audiobook, and the soundscape for Mystified Escape Rooms’ Mystic’s Ritual in Mystic Connecticut. Jon is currently pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Composition from the Hartt School in West Hartford, Connecticut, where he also obtained his Masters of Music in Composition.

Erick Odiweric (He/Him) (b 1996) is a Kenyan composer, based in Rongo and Nairobi. His music being illustrative, invokes natural imagery and an intention to write good music that paints beauty, freedom, justice and simplicity.

Despite holding a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Chemistry from the Technical University of Mombasa, the scientist has not secured any job in his field of learning for a very long time and therefore shifted to pursue his hobby, music.

He has completed a short certificate course in music from the International Youth Fellowship in Kenya (Weekend Academy) and is pursuing a music Diploma at Alison Courses, an online platform.

Erick also directed the TUMSDA Church Choir-Mombasa while at the Technical University of Mombasa in Mombasa and later sung in the Premier Academy of Music Chorale at the Technical University of Kenya in Nairobi.

Odiweric is currently participating in the Summer Mentorship Program, being mentored by maestro composer Soheil Shirangi, writing a piano solo work in the process.

Gillian (née Akinsoji) Omotoso (she/her) is a multifaceted, multimedia, performing artist and composer. She has been eager for long to bring her artistry to the public, and hopes that her time with Garden State Singers will bring her to the forefront to be heard and felt. She borrows from and builds on a varyingly eclectic array of styles, which in this showcase harken to both the classical and jazz-pop worlds, with a deep tinge of the avant-garde and industrial as well, all threaded by a theatrical boldness and confessionality, over a deeply introspective and often impressionistic lyricism. In her music, Gillian seeks to resound, to "redeem the dissonance", to challenge the listener to bring their head and heart... to wonder. Her vocal delivery is wide-ranging and diverse, having been compared to the likes of Nina Simone, Happy Rhodes, Cyndi Lauper, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Imogen Heap, and Marian Anderson.

Cruz Roger Romero (he/him) has previously performed as Ben in Menotti’s The Telephone, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, The Learned Judge in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, and Chorus in Bizet’s Carmen. He has performed choral masterworks, including Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, John Rutter’s Requiem, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass; the latter two being at Carnegie Hall. He is grateful for all the music educators who have inspired him to continue performing.

Edward Tait (He/Him) is an emerging British composer, currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music, under the tutelage of Gareth Moorcraft and Louise Drewett.

His music has received performances at the Royal Festival Hall, St John’s Smith Square, and Westminster Abbey, as well as by award-winning ensembles like the London Sinfonietta, Carducci Quartet, Orion Orchestra, and Lloyd’s Choir.

Edward previously studied with Jacques Cohen at the Purcell School of Music, and upon graduation, received the school’s Tim Stevenson Prize for Outstanding Composition. He also recently won 1st Prize in the Composition category of the Tiziano Rossetti Competition, and he is currently working on a symphonic suite, which was commissioned by the Chorleywood Orchestra.

Matthew Tirona (He/Him) (ASCAP) is a Boston-based composer whose catalog spans from intimate chamber and choral music to grandiose orchestral works and ambient electronica. Collaborators include the New England Conservatory Philharmonia and Wind Ensemble, the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, Vox Novus, and the b# chamber trio, among frequent art-song collaborations with his operatic peers. In 2024, Matthew was named winner of the NEC Honors Ensemble Composition Competition, in which a commissioned work for piano trio was premiered at the Trio Tyche Honors Recital in Jordan Hall. Recently, the same work was awarded first prize in the 2025 Belvedere Chamber Music Festival Composition Contest, selected among 98 entries from 18 countries. Matthew is enrolled in the Tufts University/New England Conservatory Dual-Degree Program, studying with Michael Gandolfi. As a musician of Filipino descent, Matthew hopes to be an advocate for diversity in composition, a field in which Filipinos are heavily underrepresented.

Canadian Composer & Educator Dr. Roydon Tse (He/Him) was born in Hong Kong and studied composition at the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto. Recent 2024/25 highlights include performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Macao Orchestra; the premiere of his concerto for string quartet by the Annapolis Symphony & Dali Quartet, and an 8-city Asia tour of "Illuminate" by the Asian Youth Orchestra across China, Japan and Taiwan.  

A passionate educator, Roydon taught composition and musicianship at the University of Calgary, and is currently Assistant Professor of Composition & Theory at the University of Saskatchewan.

Ben Zucker (He/They) uses music to speculate on the systems and shapes of change, which has lead to a wide-ranging career as a composer, multi-instrumentalist improviser, producer, and cultural worker, with contributions to experimental scenes worldwide. Acclaimed as a "master of improvisation" (IMPOSE Magazine), and “more than a little bit remarkable” (Free Jazz Blog), their work includes “stirring compositions…built on a lifetime of musical curiosity” (Chicago Reader), albums of experimental and electronic music, and performances on vibraphone, brass, keys, voice, and electronics across styles. Following PhD studies at Northwestern University, they continue to live in Chicago, working as a freelance musician, lecturer, President of New Music Chicago, and curator for Elastic Arts’ Improvised Music Series.