Doug Balliett is a prolific artist whose career has spanned classical performance, composition, rap, rock, spoken word, period performance and conducting. As a double bassist he has performed with Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble Modern, the Ensemble Modern Orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony (principal and assistant principal) and the Metropolis Ensemble.
He has earned fellowships at Tanglewood, where he performed as principal bass under James Levine, Aspen (principal under Jane Glover), National Orchestral Institute (principal under Andrew Litton) and the Lucerne Academy (principal under Boulez). He also maintains an active life as a recitalist, including live radio recitals, solo recitals throughout New York, and recital tours. Recent engagements have included double bass concerto performances at Alice Tully Hall and the ACFNY, commissions for new works from SOLI San Antonio and New York’s The Millenials, and tours with his band The Oracle Hysterical in Germany and Switzerland.
Mr. Balliett’s compositions have been heard throughout the US, garnering several awards, including prizes in the Frederick Delius Competition, the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship, the Kirkland House Music Award and Harvard’s first annual Artist Development Grant. Recent compositional projects include a late-night events at the Chelsea Art Museum (as part of his continued residency at the Chelsea Music Festival) and the composer-in-residence Spotlight with The Oracle Hysterical at the Lucerne Festival, where he and his collaborators presented an evening of Grimm songs and a new hip-hopera based on Melville’s Billy Budd. Mr. Balliett graduated from Harvard in 2007 with high honors and is recently completed a master’s at The Juilliard School in Historical Performance.
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Bora Yoon is an award-winning, Korean-American composer, vocalist, and sound artist who creates immersive audiovisual soundscapes using digital devices, voice and found objects and instruments from a variety of cultures and historical centuries — to create a unique language of storytelling with music, space, and sound.
Inspired by architecture, she has composed for the 55,000 sq. foot abandoned McCarren pool, historic churches, a Frank Gehry building, galleries and black box theaters, and the digital film and video realm with music art films, live dance, and multimedia performance. Collaborators include DJ Spooky, poet Sekou Sundiata, artist Ann Hamilton, choreographer Noemie Lafrance, Kaki King, live visualist R. Luke DuBois, digital artist Joshue Ott, LEMUR, among others.
Named one of the “14 Artists Who Are Transforming the Future of Opera” by Huffington Post, Yoon’s pioneering works have been presented by Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Nam June Paik Museum (Korea), Singapore Arts Festival, MADE Festival (Sweden), Festival of World Cultures (Poland), Park Avenue Armory, and Walker Art Center, among others.
Yoon’s latest album SUNKEN CATHEDRAL (Innova) was released to a sold out theater at Asia Society New York in April 2014 and was named Album of the Year by ABC Australia. The world premiere of the theatrical staged multimedia performance of SUNKEN CATHEDRAL was presented at the 2015 PROTOTYPE Festival, co-produced by HERE Arts Center and Beth Morrison Projects.
Classically trained and steeped in a first love of choral music. She is endlessly fascinated by the intersection of space and sound, maps, human Venn diagrams, handsome sounding kitchenware, subconscious association, memory, and the pulleys and strings that hold everything together. Yoon is a Music / Sound fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts, a TED Fellow and a doctoral fellow in Music Composition at Princeton University.
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New York-based composer Nina C. Young (b.1984) writes music characterized by an acute sensitivity to tone color, manifested in aural images of vibrant, arresting immediacy. Her experience in the electronic music studio informs her acoustic work, which takes as its given not melody and harmony, but sound itself, continuously metamorphosing from one state to another.
Young’s music has garnered international acclaim through performances by the American Composers Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Orkest de ereprijs, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the US Army Band, Argento, Either/Or, the JACK Quartet, Sixtrum, and Yarn/Wire. A recipient of the 2015 Rome Prize, Young has received a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Martirano Memorial Award, Aspen Music Festival’s Jacob Druckman Prize, and honors from BMI, IAWM, and ASCAP/SEAMUS. Young has held fellowship residencies at the Atlantic and Aspen Music Festivals, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne’s 2014 Forum, and the Tanglewood Music Center.
Recent commissions include a piece for orchestra and baritone voice for the American Composers Orchestra Underground with support of the Jerome Foundation, a bassoon pocket concerto for Brad Balliett and the Metropolis Ensemble, as well as new works for the Divertimento Ensemble at the 2015 Milano Expo, the American Brass Quintet, the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, and WildUp.
A graduate of McGill and MIT, Nina is currently pursuing her DMA at Columbia University. She worked as a research assistant at the MIT Media Lab and CIRMMT and is now an active participant at the Columbia Computer Music Center.
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