COMPOSER’S BIO Argentine composer Valdo Sciammarella began his prolific career as a concert pianist in Buenos Aires.

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Mary Elizabeth Neal is a student at Florida State University, pursuing a M.M. in composition and studying with Ladislav Kubick.  She received her B.M. in composition from Birmingham-Southern College where she studied primarily with Dorothy Hindman and Charles Norman Mason.  She attended the 2005 Czech-American Summer Music Institute in Prague studying with Ladislav Kubick.  She has attended master classes with performers such as double bassist Robert Black, the Goliard Ensemble, the Atlas Saxophone Quartet, the Korona Guitar Qvartet, and composers such as Chen Yi, Eric Whitacre, Michael Torke, Eric Ewazen, Neil Rolnick, and Ellen Zwillich-Taffe.  Her music has been played by the Bach Festival Chamber Choir (Rollins College), Birmingham-Southern College New Music Ensemble, and the Birmingham Art Music Alliance.  She is a member of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance and the Florida State University student chapter of Society of Composers, Inc.
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Richard Nance has been a long-time collaborator with Hultgren and other sonic subversives in the south.  He is a graduate of UAB and has recently earned a doctorate from De Montfort University in Leicester, United Kingdom.  His electronic music is based on plasticity in sound.  Recently, his work has played in Montreal, Paris, Turin, Glasgow, London and Liverpool.
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William Price’s music has been performed at many national and international events including the 2006 International Clarinet Association Conference, the 2005 Region IV and VIII North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) Conferences, the 2004 and 2002 NASA Biennials, the 2003 International Sonic Circuits Festival, the 2002 SEAMUS Conference, the XII World Saxophone Congress, the 12th Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the Imagine 2 Music Festival. He has received awards and commissions from numerous organizations including ASCAP, the Percussive Arts Society, the American Composers Forum, the National Association of Composers, USA, the Alabama Music Teachers Association, the Louisiana Music Teachers Association/MTNA, and the Southeastern Composers League. William is currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Composer Mikel Kuehn received degrees in composition from the Eastman School of Music (Ph.D., M.A.) and the University of North Texas (B.M.); his music has received awards and honorable recognition from ASCAP and BMI (student composer awards), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2000 and 2002 First Hearing Contests), Eastman (Hanson and McCurdy Prizes), the League of Composers/ISCM, the University of Illinois Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Contest, and the Luigi Russolo Competition (Italy).  In addition to his work as a composer, Kuehn has lectured on aspects of contemporary music at conferences of the Society for Music Theory, the Society of Composers, Inc., the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the U.S., and the 2003 Eastman Berio Festival. He is the author of nGEN, a free multi-platform computer music application used internationally and is currently Associate Professor of Composition at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.  Most recently, he was a resident composer at the Banff Centre where a concert of his music was presented including two world premieres.  He will be a resident at the MacDowell Colony in the spring of 2006. He is also an avid jazz pianist.
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