Thomas Clark, born 1949 in Detroit, earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Michigan in 1976. He studied composition with Pulitzer Prize winner Leslie Bassett and was trombonist for Contemporary Directions, Michigan’s Rockefeller Foundation supported new music repertory ensemble. He has also studied trombone with virtuoso trombonist Stuart Dempster. His compositions have been performed at festivals throughout the U.S.A., in Canada and Japan, three times at “Moravian Autumn” the Brno International Music Festival in the Czech Republic, and at the Festival Internacional Alfonso Reyes in Monterrey, Mexico. Several of his works, affiliated with BMI, are published by Borik Press (based in North Carolina) and recorded on Centaur Records. His writing has appeared in Perspectives of New Music, In Theory Only, Computer Music Journal, New Groves Dictionary of American Music, and Contemporary Composers published by St. James Press. Co-author with Larry Austin of Learning to Compose (1989), Clark also wrote an aural development textbook, ARRAYS, published in 1992.After teaching at The University of Michigan, Indiana University, Pacific Lutheran University, and for 10 summers at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, in 1976 Dr. Clark joined the music faculty of the University of North Texas. There he developed the New Music Performance Lab and served as Chair of the Doctor of Musical Arts program and Director of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia. He went on to serve eight years as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and one year as Interim Dean of the UNT College of Music. In those administrative roles, he helped found the Texas Center for Music and Medicine, the Center for Shenkerian Studies, the Artist Certificate in Music Performance program, and the “ASPIRE” programs promoting academic success and student retention. He retired from UNT in 2004 and holds the title Professor Emeritus at that institution.

Jon Christopher Nelson (b. 1960) is currently a Professor at the University of North Texas where he serves as an associate of CEMI (Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia) and also the Associate Dean of Operations. Nelson’s electroacoustic music compositions have been performed widely throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He has been honored with numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Commission. He is the recipient of Luigi Russolo and Bourges Prizes and was recently awarded the Bourges Euphonies d'Or prize. In addition to his electro-acoustic works, Nelson has composed a variety of acoustic compositions that have been performed by ensembles such as the New World Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, ALEA III, and others. He has composed in residence at Sweden's national Electronic Music Studios and at IMEB in Bourges, France. His works can be heard on the Bourges, Russolo Pratella, Innova, CDCM, NEUMA, ICMC, and SEAMUS labels. 

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Pak Hei (Alvin) Leung’s compositions have been played in the U.S., Italy, Taiwan and Hong Kong by music groups including Transient Canvas, the Rhythm Method String Quartet, Duo Zonda, Trio Mythos, Resonance, Stellar Trio, Music-Joint Association, Hong Kong Wind Kamerata, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Contrast Trio, Hong Kong Saxophone Ensemble and Romer String Quartet. His works are featured in ICMC 2021, SCI National Conference 2021, NSEME 2021, Longy’s Divergent Studio 2021, Hong Kong Contemporary Music Festival 2021&2020, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra Net Festival, SCI Summer 2020 Student Mixtape, AL&N Creative Music Online 2020, Charlotte New Music Festival 2020, AL&N Letters for Others, Earth Day Art Model 2020, highSCORE Festival 2018, as well as New Generation 2014, 2016 & 2018.

Alvin is currently a PhD Music Composition student at the University of North Texas. He graduated with a Master of Music degree at Bowling Green State University and received the Bachelor of Arts in Music from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His principal teachers include Panayiotis Kokoras, Marilyn Shrude, Christopher Dietz, Mikel Kuehn, Victor Chan Wai-kwong, Wendy Lee Wan-ki, Lo Hau-man and Ricky Tse Kin-chuen.

Aleyna Brown is a contemporary American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and audio engineer based in Denton, TX.  In her role as an artist and entrepreneur in the music industry, Aleyna is an advocate of inclusive concert programming and the exploration of feminism in art.
As a composer, Aleyna writes and codes electroacoustic and mixed-media solo and chamber music. Much of her music serves to both celebrate and recontextualize ideas of beauty and femininity. Aleyna is also an active contemporary music flutist specializing in electroacoustic performance. She performs with the NOVA new music ensemble at the University of North Texas where she currently attends as a dual-masters student. She also works as a recording, mixing, and mastering studio engineer and as the Assistant for the Music Business & Entrepreneurship program. Aleyna earned her three bachelors degrees from the Florida State University College of Music. In 2019, Aleyna released her debut independent album, “EXHALE.”

Alejandro Carrillo (Mexico City, 1993) is a composer and improviser whose work oscillate from contemplative instrumental landscapes to unique electronic/interactive music performances. His interests in multimedia have led to collaboration with dancers, photographers, filmmakers, actors, visual artists and instrumentalists as well as solo performances in different types of venues in Mexico, United States and Poland. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Composition at the University of North Texas where he is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Composition. His teachers include Panayiotis Kokoras, Joseph Klein, Kirsten Broberg and David Stout as well as summer courses and master classes with Mark André, Chaya Czernowin, Zygmunt Krauze, Martin Bresnick and Johannes Kreidler. He had workshops and recording sessions with contemporary music ensembles Lydian String Quartet, E-MEX Ensemble, Roomful of Teeth and UNT Concert Orchestra.

Clayton Simmons Davidson has been involved with different musical projects as a composer, guitarist, arranger and songwriter. His music has been performed around the United States, as well as in Europe. He is fascinated by tightly-integrated forms, polysemy, timbre, gesture, frames, and transcontextuality in his music. Mr. Davidson is currently pursuing an MA in Composition at the University of North Texas. Prior to coming to UNT, he previously studied composition with Michael Rothkopf at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, with additional instruction with Lawrence Dillon, Kenneth Frazelle and Shane Monds.

Greg Dixon completed his doctorate in composition at University of North Texas specializing in computer music in 2012. Currently, he is an adjunct professor of music at Grayson College in Denison, TX, where he teaches audio engineering and music appreciation. His compositional research focuses on electronic music and interactive music systems for acoustic instruments, sensor technologies, and human interface devices.

Jason Fick is a composer, a collaborator, and an educator originally from Baltimore, Maryland who completed a PhD in Music Composition at UNT in 2013.  His recent work explores relationships between computer-influenced networks and human behaviors.  In particular, he is inspired by movement and has worked extensively with dance.  Recent compositions and intermedia have been featured at the International Horn Symposium, the College of Music Society conference, The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States conference, Electronic Music Midwest, LaTex Festival, Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX), The American Colleges Dance Festival, and events sponsored by the Greater Denton Arts Council. Jason teaches courses in music technology at the Art Institute of Dallas and at Collin College.

Louise Fristensky (b. 1987) is a composer with projects ranging from acoustic solo and chamber ensemble to electroacoustic experimental composition. Her compositional voice ranges from sparse, cell-based explorations to lush, atmospheric and playful lyricism. Louise has had pieces performed by soprano Pamela Stein Lynde, the Nouveau Classical Project, glass armonica & percussionist Chui Ling Tan, and percussionist Greg Riss, among others. During the summer of 2016, she was a fellow of the nief-norf Summer Festival (nnSF16) during which her piece The Audacity for mixed ensemble and live electronics was premiered. Current projects and commissions include a commission for percussionist Chui Ling Tan, an evening-length dramatic work, and an album of electronic works.

Timothy Harenda is a pianist and composer of both acoustic and electro-acoustic music. He received his B.M. in Composition from Cedarville University, having studied composition with Steven Winteregg and Roger O'Neel, and piano with John Mortensen. He received his M.M. in composition at Bowling Green State University, studying with Burton Beerman, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Marilyn Shrude, and Christopher Dietz. Mr. Harenda is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of North Texas. Prior to that, he held a position as an adjunct instructor at Bowling Green State University. His compositions have premiered at festivals such as SEAMUS, ICMC, and EMM, the World Saxophone Congress, and others. His work has been featured in concerts by groups such as VERGE ensemble and the Tuscaloosa New Music Collective. In 2012, he was awarded grand prize by the Tuscaloosa New Music Collective in their composition competition.

Ben Johansen is curious. His intense drive to understand, experience, and absorb all that he can greatly shows in his work. Johansen completed his Bachelor’s in Music Education with a saxophone emphasis and Master’s in Music Composition at Baylor University (BU). He completed a Doctorate in Musical Arts in Composition Specializing in Computer Media and minoring in Installation Art in 2012. He is a CEMI staff member and a TA for Intermedia Performance Art at UNT as well as an adjunct professor of electronic music at BU. Teaching and inspiring others about music, electronics, and art are among his most significant ambitions.

Joseph Lyszczarz is a composer whose music combines traditional aspects of form, narrative, and hierarchy with the extended harmonic possibilities of the present day. He strives to meld a rich gestural language with clear motivic development in a way that is simultaneously engaging, challenging, and accessible. Most recently, his work his work has been heard at the VIII International Saxophone Festival in Szczecin, Poland, and the 2011 Region II North American Saxophone Alliance Conference in Las Vegas. Lyszczarz was a recipient of a BMI Student Composer Award in May, 2012 for his work Tracing Shadows. He holds a BM from SUNY Potsdam and MM from Bowling Green State University, where he has studied with Mikel Kuehn, Elainie Lillios, Christopher Dietz, Gregory Wanamaker, and Paul Siskind.

Patrick Peringer has received honors and awards nationally and internationally. He won the Juan Bautista Comes Choral Composition Competition in Segrobe, Spain, selected for performance at the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, and Electronic Music Midwest, as well as placing honorable mention two years in a row at the Bowling Green State University Concerto Competition. He has degrees are from the University of Idaho and Bowling Green State University where his teachers were Marilyn Shrude, Elainie Lillios, Burton Beerman, and Daniel Bukvich. Some his musical inspirations are Toru Takemitsu, Joseph Schwantner, and Jonty Harrison among others.

L. Scott Price completed a PhD in Music Composition at UNT in 2012. His work reflects an overall interest in the expressive potential of sound, focusing especially in the areas of acousmatic/fixed media composition, synthesis, sound processing, spectral composition, just intonation, algorithmic composition, and both human and computer improvisation.

Brad Robin is a composer of both acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Compositions have included strictly acoustic instrumentation as well as live electronics for ensembles of various sizes from large chamber ensembles to solo pieces. Noise and timbre has become a greater focus of recent works such as Cycles, Chakra and Lament and the Growl. Brad is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in Composition at University of North Texas, having completed his Masters in Composition at De Paul University in Chicago. Brad Robin has also performed numerous concerts as a pianist including a series of interactive improvisational concerts. Seasons of the Mind, an interactive improvisational dance/music exploration, features Brad Robin on piano in a collaboration with artistic director Joshua Lee Foist in Seasons of the Mind, an interactive improvisational dance/music exploration on March 12th in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater.

Seth Shafer is a native of Southern California with interests in traditional composition, film scoring, and interactive electronic music. His music was recently performed in the 2013 La MaMa Spoleto Open Festival in collaboration with South Korean director Byungkoo Ahn. His sound installations have been shown at the Long Beach Museum of Art’s Pacific Standard Time Exhibit and the Long Beach Soundwalk. Seth previously taught courses in music technology, audio production, and film scoring at Cypress College, and he holds a BM and MM from California State University, Long Beach. His other interests include astronomy, modular synthesis, and backpacking with his wife in the Sierra Nevadas.

Benjamin Shirey is an American composer currently residing in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He received a bachelor’s degree in Music Composition in 2010 from University of North Texas and is currently pursuing a MA in Music Composition from the same university. His compositional work explores acoustical phenomenology, art teleology, and the epistemology of music itself, expressed through a variety of forms such as installation art, experimental opera, textural counterpoint, and intermedia performance.

J. Andrew Smith is a composer, teacher, and electronic musician from the Atlanta, GA area. His works, both acoustic and electronic, embrace the intersections between poetry, acousmatic sound, improvisation, and the idea of personal connection between composer, performer, and listener. These works include A Poem is Not a Memoir for performers Lisa Kaplan and Matthew Duvall, In the Midst of Night for cellist Stephen Marotto, and a darkness carried, for saxophonist Drew Whiting. Andrew’s works have been performed at SEAMUS conferences, the SPLICE Institute and Festival, Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Toledo Symphony’s Student Orchestra reading program, New Music on the Point, and the Southeastern Composers' Symposium. Currently a PhD student studying at the University of North Texas, Andrew studied with teachers such as Elainie Lillios, Mikel Kuehn, and Christopher Dietz at Bowling Green State University.

Zachary Thomas draws on his training as performer, theorist, and educator as well as his experience as programmer and technician to explore the consequences of diverse philosophical positions and psychological states in (primarily musical) media with a methodology heavily informed by J.T. Fraser's chronosophical paradigm, the musico-semiotic tradition initiated by E. Tarasti, and contemporary advancements in acoustics and computation?a plethora of influences that explain his extensive use of stochastic processes, algorithmic schemes, extended instrumental/notational techniques, and alternate tuning systems; his interest in multimedia installations; and, above all, his dedication to electroacoustic composition. Mr. Thomas received his MM (2012) and BM (2010) in Theory from the University of Louisville while studying composition with Krzysztof Wolek and musicology with Jean Christensen, with additional lessons and masterclasses from Esa-Pekka Salonen, Per Nørgård and Louis Andriessen.

Robert Trusko, a Philadelphia native, completed a Master's degree at University of North Texas in Music Composition in 2014. Robert’s main focus is creating and performing music that is both artful and accessible. In addition to composition, Robert plays electric bass and double bass in a wide variety of genres including gospel, jazz, r&b, hip-hop, new music, classical, and South Indian Karnatik music. He also has completed work as a film composer, songwriter, engineer, arranger, sound designer, and producer.

Mark Vaughn is a composer working primarily in electronic music and intermedia environments. Originally from Southwest Montana, he received his Bachelor's degree in Music Technology from Montana State University and his Master's degree in composition from UNT. ​Artistically, he is interested in the relationship between audience experience, compositionally-determined materials, and external mediating structures, be they societal, historical, political, architectural, etc. His music has been performed throughout the U.S, at venues including ICMC, SEAMUS, NYCEMF, and Electronic Music Midwest.

Composer Rachel Lanik Whelan writes lyrical, honest, narrative-driven music. Much of her w ork is written in collaboration with living poets. Her instrumental music is an exploration in color and character. Passionate about arts management and administration, she regularly works for summer music workshops and performing arts organizations.
Her dedication to the performance of music by living composers is evident in her work as Assistant Director for the non-profit concert series Treefalls: New Music in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She is currently a PhD student and teaching fellow in composition at the university of North Texas.