Jim Altieri
New York, NY

Composer with experience in both acoustic & computer music; BA Oberlin College; BM Oberlin Conservatory.

Marshall Bessières
Santa Clara, CA

Composer & Educator; Pianist; Tenor; B.A. in Music, Santa Clara University; Former member of composition faculty at SCU; Recent works premiered in NY and by Wet Ink Ensemble; Software Engineer and Entrepreneur.

Madeline Biddle
Seattle, WA

Vocalist and educator; Bachelor’s degree in Music and French, Santa Clara University; currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Voice Performance at the University of Washington School of Music.

Tamar Bloch
Budapest, HUNGARY

Composer & Educator; Professional Accompanist; Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Budapest International Chamber Choir; Pianist of nota bene!, a duo specializing in the music of Gershwin, Sondheim, and Cole Porter; Advanced degrees from The University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Montclair University; post graduate work at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest and The Kodály Center of America.

Shawn Crouch
New York, NY

Composer Shawn Crouch, has studied composition with Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, and Malcolm Peyton, He has been a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, The Norfolk Music Festival, and has attended Berklee College of Music. Mr. Crouch received his BM in composition from the New England Conservatory, and his M.M. in composition from the Yale School of Music. Shawn currently serves on the faculty at Hunter College Campus School in New York City. His percussion music is published by Honey Rock Publication.

Nicholas DeMaison
San Diego, CA

Composer, conductor, educator, singer, writer; BM in Composition and Music Theory, Oberlin Conservatory; MA in Composition, University of California, San Diego; currently a PhD student in Composition at UCSD.

Renée Favand
New York, NY

Composer & Educator; Soprano; B.M. in Composition, Eastman School of Music; M.M. from the Yale School of Music; graduate studies at the Freiburg Hochschule fŸr Musik in Germany. Recipient of a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a Bearns Prize from Columbia University.

Brooke Joyce
Decorah, IA

Composer and Educator; Pianist; B.M in theory/composition, Lawrence University; M.M. in composition, Cleveland Institute of Music; Ph.D. in composition, Princeton University; assistant professor of composition, electronic music, and theory, Luther College

Tom Lopez
Oberlin, OH

Composer, both Acoustic and Electronic Music; Recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship; Degrees from Oberlin College and California Institute of the Arts; DMA, The University of Texas at Austin; Faculty member in the Division of Contemporary Music, Oberlin Conservatory.

Caroline Mallonée
Durham, NC

Composer and Educator; A.B. in composition, Harvard University; M.M. in composition, Yale School of Music; Ph.D. in composition, Duke University; 2004-2005 recipient of Fulbright Fellowship to study music in the Netherlands; 2004 ASCAP Award for Young Composers; recent residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH.

Aurora Nealand
New Orleans, LA

Composer & Educator; Saxophonist, Flutist, Pianist; B.M. in Contemporary Music (Composition, Music in Technology & Related Arts, Jazz Studies) Oberlin College and Conservatory; Program Director, The MAD* Factory, Oberlin, OH
* (Music Arts Drama)

Alexander Ness
New York, NY

Composer and pianist; B.A. in music from Harvard University; one year of tabla and vocal music study in Benares, India; currently a Ph.D. candidate in composition from New York University.

Loretta Notareschi
Alameda, CA

Composer & Educator; Violinist; B.M. suM.M.a cum laude, the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California; Fulbright Scholar: studies at the Zolt? Kod?y Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskem?, Hungary; currently a Ph.D. candidate in composition at the University of California, Berkeley.

Patricia Plude
San Francisco, CA

Pianist; Educator; Interdisciplinary Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Santa Clara University; member, Wing It! Performance Ensemble; Minister of Worship Arts, First Mennonite Church of San Francisco; B.M. Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University; M.M. San Francisco Conservatory; Director of Walden's Teacher Training Institute.

Samuel Pluta
New York , NY

Composer and Educator; vocalist; B.A. in composition and Computer Science, Santa Clara University; M.M. in acoustic and electronic composition, University of Texas; currently pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at Columbia University.

Pamela Quist
Sunnyvale, CA

Composer & Educator; Pianist; Lecturer, Santa Clara University; Founder and former Director, The Walden School; Director, The Walden School teacher training program; graduate of The Peabody Institute with a degree in piano performance and advanced degrees in music composition; former faculty member at SUNY Geneseo, Peabody Conservatory, Peabody Preparatory Department, Essex Community College, and in the Johns Hopkins University Continuing Studies program.

Dan Shaud
Watertown, MA

Educator; Horn player; Composer; Choir Director/Organist; BA in Music & BM in Horn Performance, Oberlin College and Conservatory; Masters of Music in Horn Performance, New England Conservatory of Music; currently on the faculty of The Rivers Music School in Weston, MA.

Bill Stevens
New Paltz, NY

Composer & Educator; Jazz Pianist; B.M. Oberlin Conservatory, Composition and Oral Music (Independent Major); M.M. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Piano Performance; certificate in Deep Listening™ from the Pauline Oliveros Foundation; second year psychotherapy student with the Helix Training program in New York City.

Leo Wanenchak
Baltimore, MD

Choral Conductor; Pianist / Organist; Church Musician; Assistant Conductor, Baltimore Choral Arts Society; Faculty member, Peabody Preparatory Department of the Johns Hopkins University; Lecturer, Peabody Elderhostel Program; Director of the Larks, a women's vocal ensemble under the auspices of the Junior League of Baltimore.B.M. Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

Cody Wright
Palo Alto, CA

Composer & Educator; Composer in Residence, Pittsburgh Children's Museum; Faculty, Pittsburgh Music Academy; B.M. in Composition from New England Conservatory of Music; M.A. in Composition from Carnegie Mellon University; member of Phi Kappa Lambda; studies at La Schola Cantorum, Paris; graduate studies in Composition at California Institute of the Arts.

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Whit Bernard
Providence, RI

Three year Walden student. Somewhere between junior and senior music / cultural studies double concentrator at Brown University. Co-chair, Brown New Music and Brown Music DUG. Composer, concert designer, public radio jazz DJ, pianist, cyclist, traveller.

Ethan Borshansky
Rochester, NY

Student; third year of BM in composition at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester.

Eliza Brown
Ann Arbor, MI

Composer and cellist; interdisciplinary artist. Walden alumna, currently composition major at University of Michigan with coursework in aesthetics. Recent collaborations in dance, theater, visual arts. Member of contemporary cello duo The Wild Brown Yonder.

Amy Krehbiel, RN
San Francisco, CA

RN, Tom Waddell Health Center, San Francisco, CA; BSN Bethel College; training in peer counseling and conflict management; Mennonite Voluntary Service & AmeriCorp Volunteer; Mennonite Disaster Service Volunteer

Marguerite Ladd
Boston, MA

Composer, studied composition and Musicianship at the Walden School; currently a sophomore at New England Conservatory studying composition under Michael Gandolfi.

Emil Margolis
Evanston, IL

Composer and student, entering second year of B.A. in composition at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Georgann Nedwell
Boone, NC

Composer and student, B.A. in music, Goucher College; currently pursuing a Master's degree in Higher Education Administration at Appalachian State University.

Molly Pindell
Boulder, CO

Chef and writer; B.A. in International Studies, Colby College; Professional Chef Certificate, Institute for Culinary Education; M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and Environment, Tufts University; currently works at Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy in Boulder, CO.