Amy Canada earned her M.A. in composition from the State University of New York in Stony Brook, a B.M. in piano performance from William Paterson University and has pursued advanced studies in composition at Temple University.  Her composition teachers include Daria Semegen, Jeffrey Kresky, John Link, and Maurice Wright.
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Known for his meticulous craft and remarkable expressivity, Andrew Rindfleisch has consistently gained both popular and critical acclaim while garnering performances worldwide.  With over 50 national and international awards honoring his music (including the Rome Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Aaron Copland Award), Rindfleisch consistently produces innovative works for the concert hall, including solo, chamber, choral, wind, and orchestral compositions.  He is currently Professor of Music Composition at Cleveland State University where he has created one of the most intensive and supportive programs of music composition in the country.
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Glenn Engstrand is a self-proclaimed Renaissance man who has served as architect and director for various software vendors by day and endeavors as a bassoonist, writer and visual artist at night. He is the publisher for the online magazine, Projection located at .
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DAVID A. JAFFE (b. 1955, New Jersey) has an international reputation as a composer, computer music researcher and music software developer. His composition "Silicon Valley Breakdown for synthesized plucked strings" has been acclaimed as a landmark of computer music by sources as diverse as Le Monde, Newsweek and Smithsonian Magazine, and has been performed in over twenty-five countries. He designed the pioneering Music Kit software at NeXT Computer and was a founder of Staccato Systems, where he created VisualAudio and the SoundMAX sound engine, used on millions of PCs worldwide. He has taught composition at Princeton University, Stanford University, Melbourne University, and the University of California at San Diego.

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