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Mark Adamo (b. 1962) is a composer and librettist of music for opera. His pieces also include chamber, symphonic, and coral compositions. His operas include Little Women (1998), Lysistrata (2005), The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (2011), The Lord of Cries (2021), where he was the librettist, and Becoming Santa Claus (2015).

Samuel Adams (b. 1985) is an American composer who combines acoustic and digital sound. His repertoire includes works for orchestra, large ensemble, small ensemble, and piano. He also creates multimedia and collaborative works. His orchestral piece No Such Spring, which premiered in 2023, received widespread acclaim. It was composed for pianist Conor Hanick and conductor Esa-Pekka Slonen of the San Francisco Symphony. Adams was involved in the establishment of the Civic Orchestra New Music Workshop with the Negaunee Institute of Music, a program for emerging composers.

Thomas Adès (b. 1971) is a British performer and composer of opera, orchestra, chamber, and solo works. Adès is the author of three operas: The Exterminating Angel, The Tempest, and Powder Her Face. His orchestral works include the titles Asyla, Tevot, In Seven Days, and Totentanz.

Christopher Adler (b. 1972) is a contemporary composer, performer, and improviser. His works draw on the traditional music of Laos and Thailand as well as his interest in mathematics and 20th century Russian futurism to form cross-cultural hybrid concert pieces. He is best known for his work with the khaen, a traditional instrument from southeast Asia. Some of Adler's notable works include the chamber oratorio, Aeneas in the Underworld; a piece for two pianos titled Science Fictions, which is based on mathematical sequences; and Zaum Box, a collection of ten movements for speaking percussionist. Adler is also an accomplished pianist, a Professor of Music, and Director of the Asian Studies Program at the University of San Diego.

Arooj Aftab (b. 1985) is a composer of classically inspired experimental acoustic and electronic ambient music that incorporates elements of jazz, South Asian classical music, pop, and blues. Aftab employs a variety of techniques in her compositions, including music production, sound engineering, and vocal practice. Notable titles of her authorship include Night Reign and Love in Exile, which she co-created with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily.

Kati Agócs (b. 1975) is a Canadian-born composer and vocalist of Hungarian and American descent. Her repertoire includes works for orchestra and chamber music. Recent works by Agócs include Hosanna of the Clouds, Transluminescence, Horn Concerto, and Voices for the Immaculate.

Andy Akiho (b. 1979) is a composer of contemporary classical music who plays the steel pan and steel piano. Akiho is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received seven Grammy nominations. Notable works composed by Akiho include Nisei, a cello concerto; Sculptures, which was composed as a symphonic piece; and BeLonging, composed for wind instruments.

Robert Livingstone Aldridge (b. 1954) is a contemporary composer of mostly instrumental pieces. His compositions include works for orchestra, opera, music-theater, voice, dance, string quartet, solo, and classical ensembles. Aldridge was a founder of the Composers in Red Sneakers, an internationally recognized composer consortium. He is the composer of the opera Elmer Gantry, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis, with libretto by Herschel Garfein. The opera was released as a CD by the record label Naxos, and received two Grammy Awards in 2012 for Best Contemporary Classical Composition and Best Engineered Classical Recording.

Ralph Alessi (b. 1963) is a jazz trumpet player, composer, ECM recording artist, and educator. He is a member of the Alessi, Black, Ducret Trio, and also performs in a quartet with Matt Mitchell, John Hebert, and Ches Smith. As an educator, he has taught improvisation, composition, and trumpet, and is the founder and director of the School for Improvisational Music in Brooklyn, New York.

Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962) is a Minnesota-based composer who focuses on orchestral, chamber, piano, and vocal works, often liturgical in nature. One of Alexander's latest works is the musical Split Hickory, which is set in Central Appalachia, where she grew up. The musical features Alexander's original folk-country music.

Kathryn Alexander (b. 1955) is a composer of instrumental pieces for ensembles using traditional and technological instruments. She is also a Professor of Composition at New York University. Alexander's work draws on literature, visual arts, science, and technology. Her pieces include music for solo, chamber ensemble, voice, and orchestral music, as well as multimedia works. Some titles by Alexander include AroundAbout; In the Purest Air, Sapphirine; Dreams and Reveries; and The Faraway Nearby.

Bill Alves (b. 1960) is a composer, writer, and video artist based in Southern California. who creates music for traditional acoustic instruments from around the world, in particular Indonesian gamelan, and electronic media. Examples of musical releases by Alves include The Terrain of Possibilities, Imbal-Imbalan, Mystic Canyon, and Guitars and Gamelan. Alves is also the author of books such as Music of the Peoples of the World and Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, a biography that he co-authored with Brett Campbell. Alves is also the director of the Harvey Mudd College American Gamelan ensemble, which plays non-traditional music with specially tuned Javanese instruments.

Charles Ames is a composer with a background in mathematics and programming, which he employs to create music using a combination of computers and traditional instruments. His compositions include Peripheries, Crystals, Protocol, Gradient, Undulant, 11 Demonstrations, Excursion, Artifacts, Maze, and Concurrence.

David Werner Amram III (b. 1930) is a composer of chamber, orchestral, choral music, and operas. Amram's career spans over 50 decades. Some examples of notable moments in his career include the creation and performance of the first ever Jazz and Poetry readings in New York City with novelist Jack Kerouac in 1957; the music direction of the Lincoln Center Theater from 1964 to 1966; and his appointment as the first Composer-In-Residence for the New York Philharmonic in 1966. His personal and professional papers are housed at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts branch of the New York Public Library.

Laura Andel (b. 1968) is an Argentine musician, conductor, composer, and sound artist based in Harlem, New York. Her creative practice focuses on sound, music drawing, instrument building, installation, and performance. Her compositions combine written music with improvisation, and span a variety of genres and instruments from different parts of the world. Ansel also builds her own instruments in clay. Examples of such creations include seashell-shaped trumpets that she employs on electroacoustic pieces.

Beth Anderson (b. 1950) is a New York City-based composer of neo-romantic, avant-garde music, text-sound works, and musical theater. Anderson's style is characterized by the use of cut-ups of newly composed materials that she combines into musical collages that she calls "swales." Some examples of these works are Pennyroyal Swale, Rosemary Swale, January Swale, and March Swale. These compositions combine different types of instrumentations, such as solo, chamber, and orchestra.

Laurie Anderson (b. 1947) is a violinist and composer of experimental electronic music and multimedia works. She also performs as a rock musician. Anderson's hit song O Superman released in 1981 brought the artist to notoriety in the United Kingdom. Other notable works by Anderson include United States I-V (1983), Empty Places (1990), The Nerve Bible (1995), and Songs and Stories from Moby Dick (1999-2000). She is also a filmmaker and has written music for the films of directors like Wim Wenders.

Timo Andres (b. 1985) is a Brooklyn-based composer for orchestral and chamber music principally. Notable titles by Andres include Everything Happens So Much, Strong Language, Steady Hands, and The Blind Banister. His works often include piano and a collaborator with Philip Glass.

Mark Applebaum (b. 1967) is an artist most known for his work as a jazz pianist. He has also composed works in the genres of chamber, orchestral, pop, and electro-acoustic music. His repertoire also includes pieces that challenge "the conventional boundaries of musical ontology: works for three conductors and no players, a concerto for florist and orchestra, pieces for instruments made of junk (...)." Applebaum builds electroacoustic instruments that he uses as compositional and improvisational tools. He serves as the Leland & Edith Smith Professor of Composition at Stanford University.

Jon Appleton (1939-2022) was a composer of instrumental, choral, and electro-acoustic music. Appleton was also an educator and considered a pioneer in electro-acoustic music.

Darcy James Argue (b. 1975) is a jazz and big-band composer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the bandleader of the band Secret Society, an 18-piece jazz ensemble.

Christopher Ariza is a contemporary composer and software engineer who has developed tools for algorithmic music composition and computer-aided musicology. In his works, Ariza combines his background in programming and design with contemporary music theory to create works that blend technology with more traditional instruments. As a performer, Ariza has worked with the New York City-based ensemble KIKOU, which plays music inspired by Asian traditions and improvisation. He is currently a Partner and Chief Technology Officer for Research Affiliates, an investment advisory firm.

Ólafur Arnalds (b. 1986) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Reykjavík, Iceland. In his compositions, Arnalds employs the use of strings and piano in combination with sound loops and beats. Arnalds was one of the creators of the experimental techno project Kiasmos in collaboration with Janus Rasmussen. He was also part of multiple musical groups such as Fighting Shit and Celestine, where he played the drums, and the electro-pop band Bloodgroup.

OPIA Community is an artistic initiative founded by Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and producer Ólafur Arnalds (1986-) in 2023. The project is integrated by musicians and composers of different countries, and includes Sofi Paez, Thorleifur Gaukur Davidsson, YANA (Joanna Bieńkowska), The Vernon Spring (Sam Best), and Talos (Eoin French). OPIA is based around three main functions: it works as a travelling festival series, a record label, and a space to foster community through a variety of events and projects, such as workshops, musical compilations, and a magazine.

Robert Reynolds Ashley (1930-2014) was a composer of contemporary operas, and a pioneer of opera composed for television. Ashley's musical career spanned over six decades. He was the organizer of the ONCE Festival, an annual event of contemporary performing arts in Ann Arbor, Michigan and director of the ONCE Group, a music-theater ensemble. Ashley also served as the Director for Contemporary Music at Mills College. Some of his operatic works include Perfect Lives, Atlanta (Acts of God), Now Eleanor's Idea, Dust, Celestial Excursions, and Concrete.

Daniel Asia (b. 1953) is a symphonic, opera, and chamber music composer, as well as a writer and educator. Recent works by Asia include the opera The Tin Angel, Divine Madness: An Oratorio, Iris (for found-hand piano), and Iris: The Symphony (No. 6). He also writes articles on culture and music for The Huffington Post. Asia serves as Professor of Composition and Head of the Composition Department at The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, in Tucson.

Christian Asplund (b. 1964) is a Canadian-American composer interested in the intersections between text and music; improvisation and composition; and modular textures and forms. Asplund is based in Utah and is a professor at Brigham Young University.

Matthew Aucoin (b. 1990) is an American composer, conductor, writer, and pianist. His compositions include chamber, solo, vocal, orchestral music, and opera. As a writer of operas, he created Eurydice and Crossing, and has written a book titled The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera. Aucoin is also a co-founder of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC).

Lera Auerbach (b. 1973) is a Soviet-born Austrian-American conductor, pianist, poet, writer, visual artist, and composer. Auerbach's artistic exploration started at an early age, in particular as a poet and pianist. She composed her first opera at the age of twelve and established herself in New York when she was seventeen in 1991. The principal focus of Auerbach's work is her role as a conductor. Besides poetry, her writings include novellas and articles.

Richard Ayres (b. 1965) is an opera, orchestral, and chamber music composer born in Cornwall, England and based in the Netherlands. Ayres' works are numbered and include titles such as No. 48 (Night studio), No. 52 (Three pieces about Ludwig van Beethoven), No. 31 (NONcerto for trumpet and ensemble), and No. 26 (NONcerto for horn and ensemble). He is also a teacher at the Conservatorium Amsterdam and a visiting professor at the Royal Conservatoire in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Tom Baker (b. 1965) is a composer, guitarist, improviser, and electronic musician who has been in the Seattle new-music scene since 1994. He has been a leader of multiple projects such as the Seattle Composer's Salon, the Tom Baker Quartet (TMQ), the group Triptet, the electronic duo Baker/LaBerge with Anne Laberge, and the intermedia project Campbell/Baker with video artist Robert Campbell, among others. Baker is also a researcher and scholar of music.

Marcos Balter (b. 1974) is a Brazilian composer based in New York City. His works experiment with manipulations of timbre and the hyper-dramatization of live performance. He is the recipient of multiple honors and awards, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. Balter is also the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University.

Bang On a Can is a performing arts organization focused on supporting experimental music, founded by composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe. Events and projects run by the organization include LOUD Weekend, Long Play, Live Online, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Summer Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, the People's Commissioning Fund, Asphalt Orchestra, and OneBeat.

James "Rusty" Banks is a composer of acoustic music and a guitarist born in Alabama and based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His pieces include the use of traditional instruments for ballet and orchestra as well as modern multimedia tools. His work, Babbling Tower-to-Tower was chosen as the winner of the 2011 UnCaged Toy Piano Composition Competition. In 2013, Banks' chamber orchestra work Ashfall was the subject of a documentary film titled Ashfall Unearthed.

Guy Barash is an Israeli composer based in New York City. His works combine improvisation and notated music using electronic processing with acoustic instruments and microtonality. His musical inspiration draws from a variety of genres including European post-war avant-garde, rock, punk, and jazz. His works include orchestral, chamber, vocal, electroacoustic, and theater music. Examples of works by Barash include the interactive installation Manifests, Orders, Notifications; the opera Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins; the string quartet Wrong Ocean; and the multimedia theater piece Hildegard (Vision Cycle).

Richard Barrett (b. 1959) is a composer and improvising performer. He is part of the electronic composition/performance duo FURT, with Paul Obermayer. He is also a Professor of Music at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and at The University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. His works include both notated scores and improvisation and range from acoustic chamber music to the use of digital technologies.

Bernardo Barros is an improvisational musician and composer who creates works with acoustic and electronic instruments. For his improvisational performances, Barros often employs instruments and tools of his own creation. Examples of Barros' titles include spill, catastrophe, resíduo, trama, fragilidade, map of broken clear glass, electric arcs, contradição paradoxa, and Untitled 20140412.

Kyle Bartlett is a composer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bartlett has a background as a flutist and drummer and is a founding member of the counter)induction new music ensemble. Her musical style "is informed by a great fascination with timbre and virtuosity, storytelling, and the physicality of performance." Recent works by Bartlett include the titles Before, Aphorisms, Damnation, Inevitable Failure of Manifest Coherence, Unfolding, Lay Down Your Burden, and Sleepwalker.

William Basinski (b. 1958) is a composer who works with experimental media, including obsolete objects and analog tape loops, which he combines with his training as a classical musician to create his compositions. Some of Basinski's notable works include The Clocktower at the Beach (1979), The Disintegration Loops (2004), Lamentations (2020), and …on reflection (2022). Since 2020, he is also a member of Sparkle Division, a group in which he integrates with composers Prestron Wendel and Gary Thomas Wright.

Mason Bates (b. 1977) is a DJ and composer of music that integrates electronic dance music with classical, symphonic, and opera. Bates' work is primarily notable for his modern opera pieces. His opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs received a Grammy Award in 2019. Other works by Bates that obtained recognition include the symphonic work Mothership; the animated film Philharmonia Fantastique, which was also awarded a Grammy Award in 2022; and the music for Gus Van Sant's feature film titled The Sea of Trees.

Ross Bauer (b. 1951) is a composer of instrumental music, conductor, and professor. His works include orchestral, chamber, piano, and vocal music.

Armando Bayolo (b. 1973) is a composer and conductor of works for chamber, chorus, orchestra, ensemble, and opera works. His musical influences include Latin American rhythms, postmodern classicism, and popular music. Bayolo served as the artistic director of Great Noise Ensemble from 2011-2014 where he led emerging and established composers. Notable works by Bayolo include Orfei Mors, a cello concerto, and Kaddish:Passio:Rothko, a cantata, both of these pieces received Pulitzer price nominations.

Jeremy Beck (b.1960) is a composer of opera and contemporary music with strong classical influences based in Louisville, Kentucky. Recognized works by Beck include titles such as the award-winning choral work Invitation to Love, his one-act comic opera Review, and the String Quartet No. 2 (Feathers & Songs). In the composer's own words, Beck composes music "that is direct: music that unfolds in a fresh tonal dialect and propelled by a contemporary rhythmic profile, while still derived from historical Western practice. It is music where mystery and design are equally embraced."

Dan Becker (b. 1960) is a composer of classical music. His 2014 album release FADE was rated as the number 1 New Music Classical Recording for that year by New York City's Big City blog. Other works by Becker include titles such as Better Late, Lockdown, S.T.I.C., Tamper Resistant, and Time Rising. His pieces often address socio-political issues.

Gordon Beeferman (b. 1976) is a pianist and composer of opera, jazz, chamber, and orchestral music. He works with improvisation as well as scored pieces. He leads two musical groups: the quartet Other Life Forms and the septet Music for an Imaginary Band. An example of Beeferman's notable works is the chamber opera The Rat Land, which was written with librettist Charlotte Jackson.

Eve Beglarian (b. 1958) is a contemporary American composer, performer, and multimedia artist of Armenian descent. Since 2001, Beglarian has been working on a long-term project titled A Book of Days, which has the structure of a calendar and includes text, music, and visuals for each day of the year. The pieces featured in the project take inspiration from medieval books. The text and music are sometimes accompanied by videos, which the artist compares to the illuminating miniatures found in medieval texts. Beglarian's compositions include chamber, choral, and orchestral works. Some highlights of her compositions include Dollhouse, Animal Magnetism, Ecco Porco, Choephorai, and Shalom Shanghai.

David Behrman (b. 1937) is a New York City-based artist and composer of minimalist music who composes sound and multimedia installations for performance in gallery spaces. He also composes traditional music pieces meant to be played in concerts. Most of his works are flexible in their composition and rely on electronic media and performer interaction. Behrman is considered a pioneer of electronic music and was a producer of the record Music of Our Time, which was released in the 1960s and included the first recording of Terry Riley's piece In C. Some of Behrman's notable works include On the Other Ocean and Interspecies Small Talk. He was also a co-founder of Sonic Arts Union, a collective of experimental musicians in which he collaborated with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, and Gordon Mumma.

Gelsey Bell (b. 1982) is a singer, songwriter, composer, and scholar who uses experimental vocalism in her pieces. Her work is often collaborative and improvisational in nature. She works with living composers and creates works in the realm of experimental opera, musical theater, new music, creative music, and sound art. Bell is a member of multiple groups including the collectives thingNY and Varispeed, and the improvisation trio The Chutneys.

James Bergin is a composer, conductor, violist, and teacher. He composes works for chamber, solo, vocal, choral, piano, and organ music. Bergin is the conductor of an intergenerational string orchestra formed by people of different ages.

Derek Bermel (b. 1967) is a clarinetist and composer of works for orchestra, chamber, vocal, choral, and solo instrumental music. Bermel's compositions cover musical traditions of multiple backgrounds. Some of his works include Dust Dances, Thracian Echoes, and Elixir. He has also created works for live instruments and digital media, such as Nine Revolutions, which is inspired by the surface of Mars. Bermel has served as Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, and as an educator at different institutions.

Lauren Bernofsky (b. 1967) is a composer of choral, chamber, and orchestral works for films, musicals, operas, and ballets, and concerts. Some notable works composed by Bernofsky include Sonatine, the opera Mooch and the Magnificent, the string quartet Anacostia Journal, and the choral piece Prayer for Shantideva.

Abbie Betinis (b. 1980) is a Minnesota-based composer of choral, vocal soloist, and instrumental pieces using traditional and electro-acoustic instruments and vocalists. Her works have been described as "inventive" and "ethereal." Betinis has worked in collaboration with artists of multiple disciplines, including poets, singers, and choreographers.

Oscar Bettison (b. 1975) is a British-American composer of music that makes use of traditional and electric instruments for chamber and concert pieces. His works include pieces for opera; orchestra; small and large ensemble; chamber; and solo performers. He also creates percussion instruments for his works.

Lisa Bielawa (b. 1968) is a composer, producer, and vocalist. Bielawa was a 2023 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rome Prize in musical composition. Her work draws inspiration from literary sources, as well as from collaborations with other artists.

Hayes Biggs (b. 1957) is a New York-based choral singer, conductor, and composer of classically-influenced pieces for instrumental and vocal performance by orchestras, chamber music ensembles, choruses, and soloists. Biggs is a member of C4, a choral composer and conductor collective. He has been a professor at the Manhattan School of Music since 1992.

Andrew Bird (b. 1973) is an American singer, songwriter, indie rock musician, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. In his work, Bird draws from a variety of musical styles, including jazz, swing, German cabaret, and Central European folk. His recordings often employ violin accompanied by looped sounds and effect pedals in combination with whistling. Between 1998 and 2001, Bird released three albums with his band Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire. Solo releases by Bird include titles such as The Mysterious Production of Eggs, Armchair Apocrypha, Break it Yourself, and Are You Serious.

David Bird (b. 1990) is a composer, producer, and multimedia artist. He is a founding member of the New York-based chamber music ensemble TAK, which focuses on experimental music. Bird is also a collaborator of Qubit New Music, a non-profit group that curates and produces experimental music events. Recent works in his repertoire include American City (2024), for string quartet and electronics; Hinterlands (2024), for flute, clarinet, viola, electric guitar, and electronics; and Chroma (2024) a piece for flute, horns, saxophone, percussion, harp, piano, and strings.

John Bischoff (b. 1949) is a performer and composer specializing in live computer music. His compositions incorporate a combination of analog circuits and laptop, and interactive computers and traditional instruments such as the piano, harp, cello, and guitar. Examples of compositions by Bischoff include Visibility Study, Circuit Combine, Vocal Imprint, and Field Transfer.

Iva Bittová (b. 1958) is a Czech actress and composer specializing in violin and vocal work. Her compositions span a wide range of musical genres including jazz, rock, classical, and opera. She also has a background in ballet and acting and has participated as an actress in radio, TV, and film productions. In 2007, she relocated from the Czech Republic to upstate New York.

Olivia Block (b. 1970) is a media artist and composer of experimental and improvisational music based in Chicago. Block's artistic practice includes live performance, recordings, immersive multichannel sound site-specific installations, sound design, and scores. Examples of her recorded albums include Pure Gaze, The Mountain Pass, Heave To, Karren, Dissolution, 132 Ranks, and Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea.

Theo Bleckmann (b. 1966) a New York City-based jazz singer and composer of new music. Bleckmann's musical career includes multiple collaborations with artists of varied disciplines including music, dance, visual arts, acting, and composing. Some of his notable collaborations include artists and groups such as Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Meredith Monk, and Ben Monder. Bleckmann is also a visual artist focusing primarily on the creation of collages.

Borbetomagus is a musical group composed of Jim Sauter on saxophone, Don Dietrich on saxophone, Donald Miller on guitar, and Adam Nodelman on bass. The group was formed in 1979 and specializes in free improvisation and noise music. The band has released numerous albums since 1980, some of which include At In Roads, Industrial Strengths, Asbestos Shake, Buncha Hair That Long, and Experience the Magic.

Paul J. Botelho is an Azorean-American composer and vocalist. His compositions include acoustic and electro-acoustic music; multimedia installation pieces; visual artworks; vocal improvisations; and one-act operas. As a vocalist, he is a countertenor. Some of his vocal pieces include In Moscow We Marched (2019-2020), Visby Project (2017-2018), and Walmart 3 AM (2016).

Susan Botti (b. 1962) is a soprano singer and composer of music featuring classical and improvisational styles for both vocal and instrumental performance. Her repertoire includes chamber, orchestral, large ensemble, wind ensemble, and theatrical pieces. She is often the vocal soloist of her own compositions. Botti is also part of the Duo della Luna, a vocal and violin duo formed with Airi Yoshioka that specializes in contemporary music and folk-inspired arrangements and compositions.

Douglas Boyce (b. 1970) is a composer who specializes in chamber music that draws on Medieval Renaissance and modernist themes. Boyce's works are aesthetically and technically centered around humanistic traditions. He is also a composer-in-residence of the counter)induction music ensemble, for which he created his most recent work titled Dit de l'alerion. Previous album releases by Boyce include The Bird is an Alphabet, The Hunt by Night, and Some Consequences.

Peter Boyer (b. 1970) is a Grammy-nominated composer, orchestrator, and conductor for orchestras, films, and television. One of Boyer's most notable works is Ellis Island: The Dream of America, a piece for actors and orchestra. Other notable titles by Boyer include Silver Fanfare and The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers.

Glenn Branca (1948-2018) was a New York City-based composer whose works spanned a variety of genres, such as rock; large and small ensemble works for acoustic and electric instruments; opera; ballet; choral pieces; and music meant to accompany film, dance, theater, and art installations. Branca was the founder of the No Wave Movement in the 1970s and an inventor of multiple instruments including the double-body Harmonics Guitar. He also had multiple personal interests outside of the realm of music that influenced his compositions including literature, mathematics, modern philosophy, conceptual art, neo-surrealism, quantum physics, the harmonic series, and politics.

Tyondai Braxton (b. 1978) is an American composer and electronic musician whose work incorporates modern orchestral elements in a repertoire that ranges from solo to large symphonic compositions. Examples of Braxton's recordings include the albums Telekinesis, Multiplay, Dia / Phonolydian, Oranged Out, HIVE1, and Central Market.

Kitty Brazelton (b. 1951) is an American composer and singer based in New York. Her album releases include multiple genres, such as contemporary classical, electronic, pop, rock, punk, and avant-garde jazz. She has also fronted in bands such as Musica Orbis, Hide the Babies, the avant-garde ensemble Dadadah, and the cyberpunk trio What is it Like to Be a Bat?

André Brégégère (b. 1975) is a French-born composer, educator, and visual artist based in Queens, New York. His compositions include electronic, solo, vocal, chamber, and jazz pieces. Some examples of his works are Her Story, Twelve Algorithmic Studies, Shiloh, Soliloquy No. 2, and Le temps qui passe. Brégégère is a founding member and co-director of the new music organization Dr. Faustus, as well as a new music advocate. As a scholar, he is a specialist of the music and theoretical writings of Belgian composer Henri Pousseur, who was the subject of his doctoral dissertation.

Martin Bresnick (b. 1946) is a contemporary composer. His works span the genres of opera, oratorio, chamber music, symphonic music, solo, vocal, film scores, and computer music. Notable works by Bresnick include the cycle Opere della Musica Povera, the oratorio Passions of Bloom, the opera My Friend's Story, the string quartet The Planet on the Table, and the piano concerto Caprichos Enfaticos, among many others. He is also a Professor of Music Composition at the Yale School of Music.

Thomas Brett (b. 1971) is a composer, writer, and electronic musician. He is the author of The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book that examines the creative processes of electronic music production. He has also played mallets and percussion on Broadway since 1997.

N. Cameron Britt (b. 1974) is a composer, percussionist, and instrument builder. His work combines electronic music with acoustic instruments using both hardware and software. Britt invented the EMvibe, an electromagnetically-actuated vibraphone, and is a member of the ensemble Sidebar, as well as a collaborator of PLOrk (The Princeton Laptop Orchestra).

William Brittelle (b. 1977) is a Brooklyn-based composer, producer, and creator of hyper-text and multimedia. Recent titles of albums released by Brittelle include Spiritual America, Alive in the Electric Snow Dream, and Loving the Chamber Nautilus. Brittelle is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the non-profit label New Amsterdam Records. He is also the producer for the studio Figureight Recordings; and the creator and creative director of Eternal September, a project that consists of residences, recorded music, ritual capture events, and site-specific installations composed by artists and creative technologists.

Peter Broderick (b. 1987) is a musician, accompanist, session player, engineer, and producer. Broderick's work includes solo compositions as well as collaborations with other artists and groups. Some of Broderick's most recent solo works include Mimi (2024), Piano Works Vol. 1 (2022), After Tunes (2022), and The Wind that Shakes The Bramble (2021).

Margaret Brouwer (b. 1940) is a contemporary composer and violinist of classically influenced music. Her pieces include works for chamber ensembles, orchestras, vocal, choral, solo music, and concertos. In 2011, Brouwer founded the Blue Streak Ensemble (BSE) to bring contemporary chamber music to communities of Ohio along Lake Erie. In 2015, the Margaret Brouwer Collection was established at the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York City, which includes scores, manuscripts, and recordings of the artist.

Ryan Brown (b. 1979) is a composer, electric guitarist, and electric bassist based in San Francisco, California. Brown's musical style is characterized by a fusion of different genres, including classical elements and modern soundscapes. His work is inspired by the visual and performing arts, and includes different types of instrumentation, ranging from orchestral symphony to electronic synthesizers.

Zack Browning (b. 1953) is a composer, conductor, and performer. Browning has played the trumpet with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and served as co-director of the Atlanta New Music Ensemble. Solo albums by Browning include Banjaxed, Soul Doctrine, Secret Pulse, and Venus Notorious.

Gavin Bryars (b. 1943) is an English contemporary composer and bassist. His musical compositions encompass the genres of theater, dance, chamber music, and opera. Bryars' music encompasses multiple genres including improvisation, jazz, historicism, avant-garde, experimental music, and minimalism, the latter influenced by John Cage's style. Some of Bryars' notable works include The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971), and When Harry Met Addie (1999). Bryars has been playing with The Gavin Bryars Ensemble since 1986.

Lou Bunk (b. 1972) is a composer and improviser of experimental music with a background in classical composition whose work draws on avant-garde art. In his compositions, Bunk explores sound and silence through the use of microtones, amplified found objects, extended instrumental techniques, and generative approaches to texture and form. Bunk is the co-director of Collide-O-Scope Music, a New York City-based new music ensemble.

Warren Burt (1949) is an instrument maker, performer, video artist, sound poet, and composer of microtonal music who uses acoustic, electronic, and computer instruments. He makes different kinds of instruments, both in hardware and software, as well as electronic and acoustic.

Don Byron (b. 1958) is a composer of music described by the artist as "a sound above genre". It utilizes a variety of instruments and styles including jazz and classical. Byron is also a multi-instrumentalist and primarily plays the clarinet. He gained notoriety as a musician and composer when he started incorporating jazz into his musical repertoire. Some of Byron's album releases include Tuskegee Experiments, Nu Blaxploitation, Bug Music, Romance with the Unseen, and A Fine Line.

Jason Cady (b. 1974) is a New York City-based composer and librettist who performs on pedal steel guitar and modular synthesizer. He is the Artistic Director of Experiments in Opera, a non-profit opera company led by composers. Recent works by Cady include the operas Candy Corn, Valhalla Valley Mall, and Another One Bites. Cady's repertoire also includes sound installation, electro-acoustic, chamber, jazz, and vocal music.

John Cale (b. 1942) is a Welsh avant-garde, rock, electronic, contemporary classical, and art music composer; record producer; and a founding member of the rock band the Velvet Underground. Cale was a member of the band from 1964-1968. In the 1970s after leaving the Velvet Underground, Cale continued his musical career as a solo artist and record producer. He produced studio albums for bands and solo artists such as The Stooges and Nico. Some of his work also includes collaborations with artists such as Lou Reed, Brian Eno, and the Talking Heads, among many others. His discography includes studio, live, and collaborative albums, as well as soundtracks and scores.

Vincent Calianno (b. 1979) is a composer of music inspired by the American vernacular that incorporates new and obsolete technologies. Calianno's works include such genres as opera; musicals; large and small ensemble pieces; electro-acoustic music; and music for films and podcasts. Within his work as a composer for films, Calianno has created scores for early cinema productions including La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, Das Kabinet des Dr. Caligari, and Sherlock Jr. Calianno is also a co-founder of Two Trains, a hybrid music-theatre-dance project that he created in collaboration with Claire Hancock.

Richard Carrick (b. 1971) is a composer, conductor, pianist, and educator born in Paris, France. His compositions are largely classically-influenced instrumental, with some multimedia pieces, and intended for large ensemble, chamber, and solo performance. Carrick is a citizen of the United States and France, and is of French-Algerian and British descent. His multicultural background inspired his compositional style. He is also the co-founder and co-artistic director of the contemporary music ensemble Either/Or.

Raised in Wisconsin, Ryan Carter (b. 1980) is a composer for instruments, voices, and computers. His works explore the use of emerging technologies for musical composition. He is also a developer of interactive music systems for mobile devices. In 2012, he released iMonkeypants, a web-based system that allows audiences to interact with performers by playing motion-controlled sound on their phone.

Gustavo Casenave (b. 1971) is an Uruguayan-American pianist and composer. His compositions span a variety of genres including jazz, classical, and Tango music. Preserving and evolving Tango is one of the focuses of Casenave's musical career in the United States. His musical collaborations include his participation in a duo with Argentine drummer and percussionist Franco Pinna; the Gustavo Casenave Trio, which also features Pinna as well as bassist Pedro Giraudo; and the Casenave Quartet, which features John Patitucci, Sachi Patitucci, and Nick Danielson. In 2014, Casenave published a theory book titled The Harmonic Structure Levels.

Aaron Cassidy (b.1976) is an American composer, conductor, teacher, record producer, and author. His compositions are characterized by the development of tablature notations that aim to prioritize the physical and mechanical aspects of sound production. His work as a conductor includes contemporary and historical pieces. Cassidy has taught at different institutions; as of 2025, he is the Professor of Composition and Director of Incontri—Institut für neue Musik at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.

Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984) is a three-time Grammy nominated composer for opera, choral, solo instrumentalist, chamber ensemble, percussion, and electronic instruments. Some of his major works include The Year of Silence, A Body, Moving, Breaks and Breaks, The Insects Became Magnetic, and The Air Suspended. His first opera, Invisible Cities, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2014.

Joel Chadabe (1938-2021) was a composer, advocate, and a pioneer of electronic music, which he started exploring in the 1960s. Chadabe also developed software programs to facilitate the creation of music electronically and was the founder of the Electronic Music Foundation, a non-profit organization that produces events, publishes, and disseminates media and information about electronic music. He also founded the company Intelligent Music, through which he released his software programs in the 1980s. In the 1990s, Chadabe wrote books documenting the history of electronic music.

Wendy Mae Chambers (b. 1953) is a composer of works for strings, chamber, percussion, and piano. She has also experimented with unconventional instruments, such as car horns and toy pianos. Chambers has also organized large scale events, including Music for Choreographed Rowboats, which took place in 1979 and featured 24 musicians in rowboats at the Central Park Lake; The Grand Harp Event, which took place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1980 and featured 30 harps; and Antarctica Suite, a large-scale piece for solo piano performed in 1999.

Christopher Chandler is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, as well as the co-founder and executive director of the [Switch~ Ensemble] of new music. He is also a professor of music theory, composition, and technology. His works draw inspiration from "nature, poetry, the acoustic properties of instruments, and his experiences working closely with sound in computer music studios."

Enrico Chapela Barba (b. 1974) is a Mexican composer of orchestral, vocal, chamber, and film music. He composed the music for seven Mexican film productions titled Somos lo que hay, Amar no es querer, La posesión de Altair, Casi una gran estafa, Perdida, Estoy todo lo iguana que se puede, and La Dama del Silencio. Chapela Barba is also a director of the musical composition school Núcleo Integral de Composición (NICO) and the Academic Director at Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música (CIEM).

Ryan Chase (b. 1987) is a pianist and composer of pieces for orchestral and chamber ensembles with jazz and classical influences. His work is inspired by natural phenomena and humankind's relationship to technology and includes a mixture of tropes, contrapuntal traditions, and improvisation. He is also an Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Colgate University.

Rhys Chatham (b. 1952) is an American composer, guitarist, and trumpet player based in Paris. His music is primarily influenced by rock and minimalist music. He makes use of electric and acoustic instruments for ensemble performance. Notable works by Chatham include titles such as Guitar Trio, An Angel Moves too Fast to See, and Crimson Grail. One of the characteristic aspects of his music is that his works often include performances of over 100 guitars on stage.

Anthony Cheung (b. 1982) is a pianist and composer of classically-influenced instrumental works for soloists and ensembles of various sizes. Many of his pieces feature computer-generated music as well. His discography includes the titles All Roads (2022); Music for Film, Sculpture and Captions (2022); Cycles and Arrows (2018); Dystemporal (2016); and Roundabouts (2014). Cheung is also a member and co-founder of the new music Talea Ensemble, where he performs as a pianist and serves as artistic director.

Mary Ellen Childs (b. 1957) is a prolific composer known for her novel use of percussion and accordions in her music, which incorporates strong visual elements such as theater and dance. Her repertoire includes chamber, percussion, solo, vocal, large ensemble, and multimedia works. Childs is the founder of the ensemble CRASH, through which she creates pieces she defines as "visual percussion" works. Notable percussion pieces composed by Childs for CRASH include Click, DrumRoll, the eponymous Crash, and Sight of Hand.

Kee-Yong Chong (b. 1971) is a Malaysian-Chinese composer of contemporary music. Chong's philosophical approach to composition lies in exploring the integration of Western and Asian musical traditions, as well as how the aesthetics of multi-layered cultural and ethnic heritages can influence music. His works often include traditional Asian and Western instruments and he has worked in collaboration with musicians from different origins and cultural backgrounds. Some of his compositions are inspired by gamelan music, Chinese opera, kabuki, and Asian funeral rituals. He is also the creative director of Studio C, and has previously served as president and vice-president of the Society of Malaysian Contemporary Composers.

Joseph Church (b. 1957) is a composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, pianist, and author. He has been actively involved in musical theater, in addition to his compositional work of opera and chorus music. Church was the music director of the Broadway musical The Lion King from its opening in 1997 until 2003. He also worked as a music supervisor of the The Lion King's touring productions. Recent projects by Church include the compositions of music and lyrics for the production of Who Is Jimmy Pants? and Music of the City.

Ann Cleare (b. 1983) is a composer based in Ireland. Her work focuses on concert music, opera, extended sonic environments, and hybrid instrumental design. The focus of Cleare's most recent works has been the creation of experimental environments through works such as eyam i-v, rinn, and I should live in wires for leaving you behind. Her work eöl, for percussion and chamber ensemble, was created to be played using a collection of small percussion instruments that Cleare created to be simultaneously played and worn. The collection was built using different metals to create unusual sounds. Cleare is also an assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin.

Anna Clyne (b. 1980) is a composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music that she creates in collaboration with choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, and other musicians for a dynamic, "multi-sensual" experience. Clyne has collaborated on creative projects such as the film Between the Rooms; the stage work The Nico Project; and the reimagination of the tracks from The Cosmic Game, an album by the electronic music duo Thievery Corporation. Clyne was the co-creator of The Augmented Orchestra, a technology designed to expand acoustic orchestras by integrating contemporary audio technologies to the traditional orchestral model through sound manipulation tools.

Charles Coleman (b. 1968) is a composer, orchestrator, producer, and professional baritone born in New York City. Notable works by Coleman include Drenched and Bach Inspired, which were performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Kristian Järvi's conduction. Coleman is one of the founding members of the Absolute Ensemble, which blends classical, jazz, rock, and traditional music.

David Coll (b. 1980) is a composer and educator that creates concert music, installation art, and interdisciplinary projects who combine physical space with technology. He is a member of the groups Poto, an arts organization that gathers artists of diverse media for collaboration; Ice on the High, an interdisciplinary artist collective; and Obstacle in Obstacle, a group of artists and musicians dedicated to exploring concert music and installation art through the use of technology and multimedia. Coll has lectured at institutions including MIT, Columbia College, and Washington University.

Nicolas Collins (b. 1954) is a composer of electronic and instrumental music. Collins is also a creator of sound-producing electronics and circuits that he employs in his compositions. Some of Collins' record releases include Lucky Dip, Salvaged, Pea Soup to Go, Collect Them All!, and Prattle. He has also written instructional books on how to employ hardware to create electronic music at home. In February 2025, Collins released his latest book titled Semi-Conducting: Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket, where he delves into the music, technologies, and people that have transformed conceptions of sound over the past fifty decades.

Marc-Antonio Consoli (b. 1941) is an Italian-born American composer of classical music. Consoli relocated to the United States from Italy at the age of fifteen. His involvement with music started at an early age when he participated in a church chorus with his nine siblings and his father, who played the organ. Consoli earned a PhD in music from Yale, where he also founded, coached, and conducted the ensemble New Players for New Music. Consoli's pieces draw inspiration from his Italian heritage and combine tonal centers, meters, and irregular-length contrapuntal lines.

Emily Cooley (b. 1990) is a composer of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music whose works focus on harmony to represent complex emotions. Her compositions include pieces for orchestra, large ensemble, chamber ensemble, and vocal music. Cooley has also worked as a concert producer through the organization Kettle Corn Music. As of 2025, Cooley has announced a transition to a new career as an attorney focusing on disability and public benefits law.

Carson Cooman (b. 1982) is an American composer, editor, and music consultant. Cooman is also an organist who specializes in the performance of new music, in particular, using chamber organs. His compositions include solo instrumental pieces, operas, orchestral works, and hymns. As a consultant, Cooman specializes in composer estates and archives; and as an editor, he currently oversees the publication of organ and choral music at Lorenz Publishing Company and Sacred Music Press Imprint.

Jacob Cooper (b. 1980) is a Philadelphia-based electroacoustic composer and producer who often collaborates with performers, poets, and directors. His compositions include works for chamber, opera, vocal, orchestral, and solo performances. Notable works by Cooper include Terrain (2020), Silver Threads (2014), and Timberbrit, an opera about a fictional reunion between Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. He is also a Professor of Music at West Chester University and holds a doctorate in composition from Yale School of Music.

John Corigliano (b. 1938) is a composer whose body of work consists primarily of symphonies and operas and vocal and soloist instrumental music. In 2001, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Symphony No. 2 for String and Orchestra. He is also a recipient of five Grammy Awards and an Academy Award, among other multiple recognitions across his career.

Anthony Cornicello (b. 1964) is an artist who uses composition, electronics, melody, and performers to create post-classical concert music. His compositions include works for stage, orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, chamber ensembles, vocal, choral, and solo performers. Cornicello also has a background as a jazz pianist and is a member of the Straight-Up Jazz Trio formed in 2015, which plays re-interpretations of jazz standards. The other members of the group are Venlo Odum and Rick O'Neal.

Sylvie Courvoisier (b. 1969) is a Swiss pianist, composer, and improviser based in New York City. Courvoisier's work combines traditional chamber music with jazz. She is the leader of the ensemble Chimaera, which composes music inspired by the symbolism of Odilon Redon's paintings. Wadada Leo Smith, Nate Wooley, Christian Fennesz, Drew Gress, Kenny Wollesen, and Nasheet Waits are also members of Chimaera. Courvoisier is also a part of a jazz trio featuring bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen.

Julie Covello, also known as DJ Shakey Weddings, is a New York-based composer and DJ specializing in electronica. She is also a webcast host. Covello has collaborated with Banginclude in Asstronauts; Terry Dame and Dawn Drake in Daughter of Darrr; Aaron Goldsmith in FreeBassBK; The Funky Beatbots; and with Kathleen Cholewka in Opal Crocus. She was the host of The Near Death Experience Show between 1998 and 2000, which was an extreme metal video and interview webcast. She also founded Warper Party, an electronic music and art showcase in New York.

Ellen C. Covito (b. 1974) is an Argentine composer, improviser, and choreographer. Covito's musical career evolved as an extension of "her interest in the mechanism underlying theories of ecology and feminism." Her recent works have focused on the dichotomy between composition and improvisation. Her works titled Composer Improvisation and Improvised Composition have gained her recognition. In 2014, Covito published a book titled Works After Weather, which brings together her major works, as well as theoretical texts by different authors analyzing her pieces.

Shawn Crouch is a contemporary composer based in Florida. He specializes in chamber orchestra, choir music, and melodies for theater and dance. He is also a Professor of Composition and Theory; the artistic director of the Ensemble Ibis, a New Music ensemble; and the director of the Experimental Music Curriculum at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music.

Juan Cruz-Guevara (b. 1972) is an avant-garde music composer based in Granada, Spain. His compositions are primarily orchestral. Some of his notable works include Caitrodantiana (2016), a concert for box-drum and symphonic band; Maktub (2002), a concert for percussion and orchestra; and Pictograma (2018), a concert for violin and orchestra. Cruz-Guevara is also a music academic and professor. His PhD dissertation focused on the work of the Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino. He teaches composition at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Victoria Eugenia in Granada.

Conrad Cummings (b. 1948) is a composer of classically influenced pieces intended for vocal, opera, or instrumental ensembles. Some examples of Cummings' repertoire include Positions 1956, At the Window, and the Golden Gate Opera. Cummings works often include elements of minimalist music.

Douglas J. Cuomo (b. 1958) is a composer for films, television shows, theater, and concerts. His works are influenced by jazz, world music, and classical music, and other styles. Cuomo has a background as a professional guitarist, and has studied jazz, world music, and ethnomusicology. He is also a co-leader of the band Turquoise Lake with singer Humayun Khan.

Alvin Curran (b. 1938) is a composer of experimental music based in Italy whose work includes pieces for multiple disciplines such as theater, dance, film, video, and visual arts. Curran was the co-founder of the music collective Musica Elettronica Viva, and his repertoire has often employed synthesizers, voice, taped sounds, and found objects. His work is also known for the exploration of new musical places for performances outdoors at lakes, ports, and parks.

Nathan Currier (b. 1960) is a pianist and composer, whose work is largely inspired by the Gaia theory. Some of his earlier works include Adagio and Variations, A Musical Banquet, Tanz Nachtanz, and The Quarter Book. One of his most notable projects is Gaian Variations, which is also his largest work, and is a celebration as well as a guide to understanding the Gaia theory. After the creation of Gaian Variations, Currier became interested in science, and began participating in climate-related initiatives.

Sebastian Currier (b. 1959) is a composer of classically-influenced instrumental and computer music for performance by soloists, orchestras, vocalists, and ensembles of various sizes. Currier has often worked with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who has commissioned and played several of Currier's pieces.

Chaya Czernowin (b. 1957) is an Israeli-American composer specializing in orchestral and chamber music often accompanied by electronics. Some of Czernowin's notable titles include Pnima…ins Innere, Adama, and Infinite Now. Besides orchestra and chamber, her repertoire also includes operas, concertos, and vocal music. She is the co-founder of the Summer Academy at Akademie Schloss Solitude, a biannual international summer course for young composers in Germany. She is also a Professor of Music at Harvard University.

Michael Daugherty (b. 1954) is a multiple Grammy Awards-winning composer. He has a prolific repertoire that includes compositions for a variety of instrumentations and genres such as orchestral, concerto, band, opera, dance, chorus, symphonic, vocal, percussion ensemble, and solo music, among others. Daugherty's compositions gained notoriety in 1994 with his work Metropolis Symphony, which was performed by the Baltimore Orchestra at Carnegie Hall under the conduction of David Zinman. Other examples of notable works by the artist include Tales of Hemingway, Alligator Alley, and Vulcan.

Rob Deemer (b. 1970) is a composer, educator, and author. Deemer is also an arts advocate for composers from underrepresented demographic groups. He is the creator of the Institute for Composer Diversity at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance.

Miguel del Águila (b. 1957) is an American composer born in Montevideo, Uruguay. His compositions, which draw from his Latin American roots, are classically influenced and intended for orchestral, chamber, and solo performances. Del Águila's works have been recorded in 65 albums, and he has received three Grammy nominations during his career.

Christopher DeLaurenti (b. 1967) is a sound artist, improviser, and phonographer based in Virginia. His work includes field recordings; electroacoustic and acousmatic music,; scores; improvisations; installations; and scored compositions for acoustic instruments. DeLaurenti has also invented a musical tool called the flap-o-phone, which is a record player made out of cardboard that can play 78 rpm records. He has also written essays, articles, and reviews on music which have been featured in multiple publications.

Justin Dello Joio (b. 1955) is an American composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, opera, and solo music. He is also a Professor of Composition based in New York City. Dello Joio is the seventh generation of composers in his family. His works include commissions by The Boston Symphony, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and The Barlow Foundation, among others. Dello Joio was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a four-time recipient of the Virgil Thompson Award for Vocal Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Amy Denio (b. 1961) is a Seattle-based composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, international collaborator, and record producer. Her main instruments are voice, accordion, alto saxophone, clarinet, electric guitar, bass guitar, and Theremin. She is also a founding member of several music groups, including Ama Trio, Tone Dogs, The Tiptons, Danubians, Pale Nudes, Lao Tse and The Entropics, and the trio Gli Autopiloti.

Dennis DeSantis (b. 1973) is a composer, sound designer, percussionist, author, and educator. He is the Head of Music Learning for Ableton, an online resource for learning the fundamentals of music making through the use of beats, melodies, harmonies, basslines, and song structures. DeSantis previously worked as a sound designer for Native Instruments. He has also organized and produced concerts and multimedia events with the Alarm Will Sound ensemble and the Minimum Security Composers Collective.

Bryce Dessner (b. 1976) is an American composer, songwriter, and guitarist based in Paris. His classical music compositions include music for large ensembles, orchestra, chamber, and vocal music. Dessner is also a founding member of the American rock band The National. As a composer, he has written scores for major film productions including such titles as The Two Popes, The Revenant, and C'mon C'mon.

Nicholas Deyoe (b. 1981) is a composer and guitarist based in Los Angeles who experiments with different sounds and equipment to create his music, including microtonal tunings, preparation, bows, and cans. Deyoe is a co-founder of the ensemble and concert series wasteLAnd; and formed part of KillDry, a dark-ambient electric guitar duo with musician Jay Sorce. He is also a member of Serpentine Transmission, an improvised music quartet.

Mario Diaz de León (b. 1979) is a composer and performer, whose work explores the intersections of sound, spirituality, and technology, and encompasses modern classical music, experimental electronic music, extreme metal, and creative improvised music. Diaz de León works as a solo artist, as well as in collaborations with other musicians. He is a part of the duo Luminous Vault and the improvisation trio Bloodmist. He has also released heavy ambient electronic music under the stage name Oneirogen. Recent works by Diaz de León include Tree of Life (2024), Procession (2023), and Labrys (2017).

Ian Dicke (b. 1982) is an American composer and educator inspired by social-political culture and interactive technology. Dicke was the founder and curator of the Outpost Concert Stories in Riverside California between 2013 and 2023. He is also a Professor of Composition at the University of California Riverside. His compositions include pieces for orchestra, wind ensemble, opera, chamber, solo, and piano. He is also a developer of musical software.

Nick Didkovsky (b. 1958) is guitarist, composer, and music software programmer. The focus of his work is primarily on rock music. He has played in such musical groups as Vomit Fist; the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet; and Doctor Nerve, a band that he founded in 1983. Didkovsky is the co-creator of the Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), a Java API that he uses to teach algorithmic music composition at New York University. He is also the founder of the record label Punos Music, through which he releases "extreme musical projects."

Natacha Diels (b. 1981) is a performing and composing musician from New Mexico. She founded the experimental chamber group Ensemble Pamplemousse, which also includes David Broome, Andrew Greenwald, Bryan Jacobs, and Weston Olencki. Diels' work combines choreographed movement, improvisation, video, instrumental practice, and cynical play. In recent works such as Beautiful Trouble (2019-2024) and Somewhere Beautiful (2022-2024), Diels collaborated with the JACK Quartet, an American group dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music.

Paul Dooley (b. 1983) is an orchestral composer focusing on a "cross-cultural range of contemporary music, dance, art, technology and the interactions between the human and natural worlds." Some of Dooley's recent works include Circuits and Skins (2017), which is an EDM-inspired electronic percussion concerto; Mondrian's Studio (2019), a work for horn and wind ensemble; and the Conductor's Spellbook (2016), an educational and interactive work for young audiences.

David B. Doty (b. 1950) is a composer who specializes in just intonation, experimenting with various instruments, synthesizers, and samplers. Doty is the author of The Just Intonation Primer, and introductory book on the theory and practice of Just Intonation. He was also the co-founder of The Just Intonation Network in Northern California.

Mark Dresser (b. 1952) is a bassist and composer who has been a part of many musical groups and also works as a solo performer of the contrabass. Solo releases by Dresser include such works as GUTS: Bass Explorations, Investigations, and Explanations, UNVEIL, and Invocation. In 2007, Dresser started focusing on the research, performance, composition, and teaching of telematic music, which "explores the musical, technical, and social dimensions of live performance between multiple locations through high speed internet." Examples of his telematic internet performances include Deep Tones for Peace and ResoNations. Besides performing as a solo bassist, Dresser is also a current member of the collective Trio M.

Arnold Dreyblatt (b. 1953) is a Berlin-based American artist, and a member of the second generation of New York minimal composers. Dreyblatt has invented a variety of instruments and new techniques for tuning and playing traditional instruments in order to make his music and performance art. As a media artist, his work engages with archival materials and historical artifacts. As a composer, Dreyblatt's music primarily focuses on the exploration of the harmonic series. Dreyblatt was the founder of The Orchestra of Excited Strings, which originated in New York City in 1979.

Du Yun (b. 1977) is a New York City-based composer, instrumentalist, performer, and multimedia artist born in Shanghai, China. Her work includes orchestral, opera, and chamber music, and incorporates theater, cabaret, oral traditions, and visual arts. Du Yun's second opera, Angel's Bone, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for music in 2017. Other notable works by Du Yun include her studio albums Sweet Land, A Cockroach's Tarantella, and Dinosaur Scar. She is also the leader of the band Ok Miss, which doubles as a rock band and a chamber ensemble, and a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

R. Luke DuBois (b. 1975) is a New York City-based composer, performer, multimedia artist, and photographer. In his works, DuBois uses data-driven techniques to investigate time, memory, identity, and the meaning of portraiture in the United States in the twenty-first century. DuBois is a member of multiple musical groups, including the avant-garde electronic group The Freight Elevator Quartet, the duo Bioluminescence with vocalist Lesley Flanigan, and the Fair Use Trio with Zach Layton and Matthew Ostrowski. He is also the director for the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at NYU Tandon and the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for real-time manipulation of matrix data.

William "Bill" Duckworth (1943-2012) was a composer, performer, and pioneer of postminimalist music best known for choral pieces and piano cycles. Duckworth's works also included interactive electronic projects using the Internet. His series of 24 short pieces for piano titled The Time Curve Preludes is considered the first postminimal music composition. Other notable works by Duckworth include Southern Harmony, Mysterious Number, Imaginary Dances, Simple Songs About Sex and War, and Cathedral, an internet piece created in 1997.

Jason Eckardt (b. 1971) is a composer of music influenced by his interests in political activism, the natural world, and performance. His compositions include chamber, solo, vocal, and orchestral music. Examples of notable works by Eckardt include Subject, Undersong, Out of Chaos, and Wild Ginger. Before delving fully into his role as a composer, Eckardt played guitar in jazz and metal bands. He was also a co-founder of Ensemble 21, a New York City-based contemporary music performance group.

Rinde Eckert (b. 1951) is a writer, composer, and librettist. The principal focus of Eckert's repertoire is the creation of Opera and New Music Theatre productions. In 2012, he was awarded a Grammy Award for his recording of Lonely Motel: Music from Slide, in collaboration with Steven Mackey and the Eighth Blackbird ensemble. Other notable works by Eckert include Breathing at the Boundaries, Aging Magician, Five Beats, and Sandhills Reunion.

Ryan Edwards is a Boston-based composer of West African and jazz influenced dance music. He also produces multimedia performance and installation works through Masary Studios, a transdisciplinary artist collective he co-founded with Sam Okerstrom-Lang.

Marty Ehrlich (b. 1955) is a New York City-based saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, and composer of jazz-influenced pieces incorporating improvisation for large and small ensembles. He is the founder of the Emergency Peace Ensemble and worked extensively with composer and saxophonist Julius Hemphill. In 1996, Ehrlich became the director of Hemphill's Sextet after Hemphill's death and Ehrlich is also the chief researcher for the Julius Hemphill Archives housed at New York University. Examples of notable works by Ehrlich include The Long View and A Trumpet in the Morning.

Jewlia Eisenberg (1970-2021) was an American composer, singer, bassist, educator, and founding member of the group Charming Hostess. Through her compositions, she aimed to explore the full expressive capabilities of the human voice.

Melody Eötvös (b. 1984) is a composer of contemporary classical music who creates works for solo, chamber, orchestra, vocal, and multimedia. Eötvös' pieces include the use of traditional instrumentation as well as electro-acoustic sound art. Recent works by Eötvös include Bachgram for solo piano; In the Fire for mezzo soprano and piano; Shivelight for horn trio; At every instant, one must fly for violin and harp; and When Pine Cones Fall in Perfect Circles, for solo guitar.

Roshanne Etezady (b. 1973) is a composer of contemporary classical music. Etezady's musical background was originally as a pianist and flutist. Her interest in becoming a composer of contemporary classical music was inspired by Philip Glass and his ensemble's performance on the television show Saturday Night Live in 1986. Etezady's musical compositions combine lyricism with rhythmic intensity. Her discography includes the titles Breath Beneath, Glint, Wild Nights!, Harvest, Oncoming Traffic, and Breaking Training.

Michael Evans (1957-2021) was an improvising drummer, percussionist, Thereminist, and composer. Evans primarily worked with altered drum sets, but his work also included the implementation of unusual sound sources using found objects, homemade instruments, digital, and analog electronics of his own creation. During his career, Evans worked both as a solo performer and with groups such as God is my Co-Pilot and Fast Forward. He was also a teacher for drum students of all ages.

Noam Faingold (b. 1984) is a composer, performer, conductor, and music teacher based in Washington D.C. He plays rock guitar and drums, focusing on classical and jazz composition and performance.

Mohammed Fairouz (b. 1985) is an Arab-American composer based in New York City whose work encompasses several genres, including opera; chamber and solo music; symphonic instrumentation; and vocal and choral compositions. Fairouz is artistically involved with transcontinental geopolitical and social issues, which he seeks to engage through his musical compositions.

Fast Forward (b. 1954) is a New York-based English artist and composer of works that are known for incorporating all of the senses into the music, as well as making use of unusual objects to create unique compositions. Another characteristic aspect of Fast Forward's work is the in-depth exploration of the Trinidadian steel pan. A notable example of a work by Fast Forward that incorporates multiple senses is Feeding Frenzy, a culinary concert that includes musicians, cooks, and waiters. The concert is interactive, and explores the fabrication and consumption of food with performers who are selected from the local community where the performance takes place.

Mark Feldman (b. 1955) is an New York City-based American jazz violinist, composer, and improviser born in Chicago. Feldman was a founding member of the ensembles Arcado String Trio and New & Used. Solo album releases by Feldman include Music For Violin Alone and What Exit. Feldman is married to the pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier, with whom he regularly collaborates. Album releases by the couple include such titles as Time Gone Out, Miller's Tale, Birdie's for Lulu, and Oblivia.

Karin Elizabeth Dreijer (b. 1975), known by the stage name Fever Ray, is a Swedish musician and producer. Dreijer started using the alias Fever Ray in 2009 with the release of their first solo album of the same name. Other solo album releases by Dreijer include Plunge and Radical Romantics. Dreijer was a member of the electronic music duo The Knife with their brother Olof Dreijer.

David First (b. 1953) is a guitarist and composer of classical, electronic, and rock music. First's repertoire spans a variety of genres and his works often include the use of drones. He is a member of the punk band Notekillers and the band Matter Waves; and a founder of the New Party Systems Collective. Notable projects by First include SWATi (Spherical Waveform Audio Trance Induction), a collaboration with acupuncturist Isobeau Trybula; The Western Enisphere, a drone and micro-pulse acoustic-electric ensemble; and Folksinger, a project of instrumental works for acoustic guitars and harmonica.

Christopher Fisher-Lochhead (b. 1984) is a Vermont-based contemporary composer, performer, and member of the Grand Wallace Band. His compositions include music for ensembles, soloists, and vocal music. Fisher-Lochhead's pieces span a broad range of style and media. As a performer, his interests include contemporary improvisation; notated music; interdisciplinary and technological collaborations; and American vernacular music, such as jazz, bluegrass and folk.

Keith Fitch (1966) is a composer of works for orchestra, solo, chamber, and vocal music. He is the head of the Composition Department as well as Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he directs the CIM New Music Ensemble. Notable works by Fitch include Totem, The Range of Light, Ruthless Voicings, Alee, as Earth dreams, and still. In 2014 Fitch organized and co-authored an open letter addressing the lack of works by American composers in the programs of The Cleveland Orchestra. The letter gained national attention and extended the discussion about this issue to other orchestras across the country.

Adam Fong (b. 1980) is a composer, performer, and producer active in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fong is the co-founder of Emerging Arts Professionals, a network dedicated to the development and growth of next generation arts and culture works. He also co-founded the Center for New Music, a hybrid supporting and presenting organization fostering contemporary music. Some of Fong's titles include Senescence (2011), Goodnight Irene (2011), Hammer Duets (2010), and 5x5 (2008).

Michael-Thomas Foumai (b. 1987) is a composer of works for orchestra, chamber, vocal, opera, and film. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Foumai is the Director of Artistic Engagement and the first Composer-in-Residence for the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. Much of Foumai's work is focused on the issues and stories of the people of Hawaii. Among such works is Foumai's large-scale choral-symphony Raise Hawaiki.

Adele Fournet is a musician, producer, video artist, and composer, based in Brooklyn, New York, who has been involved as a percussionist, vocalist, and keyboard player in several ensembles. Fournet is also a music scholar. She holds a PhD in Music from New York University and her research interests include the intersections of gender, technology, labor, and aesthetics in popular music production with a geographic focus on the Americas. She is also the creator of Bit Rosie, a video production company she runs in collaboration with Felipe Wurst.

Ryan Anthony Francis (b. 1981) is a composer of orchestral and piano music based in Portland. Notable titles commissioned to Francis include High Line for American Composers Orchestra, Cloudscape for Camerata Jeonnam Orchestra, Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra for Metropolis Ensemble, Sylvan for the Banff Centre of Canada, Akhet for the El Sakia String Orchestra, Nightwalk for Fear No Music Ensemble, Album for Guitar for Mattias Schulstad and Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and Voynich Transcriptions for Chatter New Mexico.

Davíð Brynjar Franzson (b. 1978) is an Icelandic experimental composer based in the United States. Franzson is a founding member of the Icelandic composers collective s.l.a.t.u.r, as well as a co-director of the new and experimental music record label Carrier Records with Sam Pluta and Jeff Snyder. Examples of Franzson's musical repertoire include the Cartography of Time (2016), on Matter and Materiality (2014), the Negotiation of Context (2016), utterance #2.1 (2019), and Aviary, fragment (2017).

Miguel Frasconi (b. 1956) is a composer and improviser who works with electronics and experimental music instruments made of glass. He was also a founding member of The Glass Orchestra. Frasconi's repertoire includes operas, ensemble music, scores for modern dance, and improvisation pieces produced on modular analog electronics. Through the use of his glass instruments, Frasconi applies electronic music principles to the acoustic realm.

Joshua Fried is a composer, performer, and producer whose works incorporate non-traditional instruments such as shoes and steering wheels with commercial FM radio and various musical technologies to create recombinant funk music. Fried is the creator of a solo project called Radio Wonderland, through which he performs dance music using an old boombox.

Fred Frith (b. 1949) is an English songwriter, composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist. Firth was one of the founding members of the English avant-rock pop group Henry Cow, which he co-founded with Tim Hodgkinson in 1968. He has also been a part of multiple other groups such as Arts Bears, Massacre, Skeleton Crew, the Fred Guitar Quartet, Costa Brava, and the FF Trio. His work also includes compositions for film, dance, and theater. Firth is the subject of a 1990 music documentary by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Pensel titled Step Across the Border.

Paul Frucht is a composer for traditional instruments. His works have been played by many different chamber and orchestral groups. His compositions include chamber, orchestra, large ensemble, solo, and vocal music. Frucht is also involved in several music education groups such as the Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra and the Danbury Chamber Music Intensive, which seek to educate musicians through training and performance. He is also the founder and artistic director of the Charles Ives Music Festival (CIMF) based in Ridgefield, Connecticut, which explores the history and legacy of Ives.

Keith Fullerton Whitman (b. 1973) is a composer of live electronic and computer music based in Brooklyn, New York. Whitman's musical focus was initially concerned with creating records, but his current interests have shifted to performing. His works pair primitive analogue-computing concepts with contemporary sound tools. Examples of some of his musical compositions include the titles Generators, Occlusions, Redactions, and Playthroughs. Whitman also runs the label group Alpha State NYC and is a researcher of early electronic and experimental music.

Ellen Fullman (b. 1957) is a composer of works that mainly focus on exploring the acoustics of large resonant spaces through her installation titled The Long String Instrument. The installation features dozens of tunes strings of fifty feet or more which are played in a variety of architectural spaces. Some of Fullman's album releases include titles such as Harbors, music for the man who grew common in wisdom, In the Sea, and Through Glass Panes.

David Fulmer (b. 1981) is a composer, conductor, and violinist. His repertoire includes chamber, electronic, orchestral, solo, and vocal music. His Violin Concerto performed in 2010 at Lincoln Center drew international acclaim, and was later performed by major orchestras around the world. Other examples of his compositions include Sky's Acetylene, Original Wood, Speak of the Spring, Faces of Awilda, Chain by Chain, and Mnewmosyn's Beams.

Ash Fure (b. 1982) is an American composer and sonic artist that blends performance and installation. Some of Fure's titles include Animal (2023-2024), The Force of Things (2014-2022), Interior Listening Protocol 01 (2021), and Hive Rise (2020). She is also an Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and co-artistic director of The Industry, an experimental company of interdisciplinary artists that creates collaborative performances of operatic music.

Raphael Fusco (b. 1984) is an Italian-American composer, keyboardist, and conductor. His compositions include pieces for voice, chamber ensembles, historical instruments, orchestra, opera, and theater. Recent notable titles by Fusco include the song cycle Quarantine Camp (2023), American Requiem (2022), and La canora contesa (2022).

Reiko Füting (b. 1970) is a German composer and pianist based in the United States. Füting's interests include the political nature of music and the exploration of the psychological nature of memory through the use of musical quotations. His compositions include instrumental and vocal music, as well as works for theater, dance, and film. Füting serves as Department Chair of Theory at the Manhattan School of Music.

Diamanda Galás (b. 1955) is an American composer, singer, and visual artist. Her work explores the ways in which poetry, visual media, and music can be brought together to convey profound concepts. Notable works by Galás include Plague Mass, Defixiones: Orders from the Dead, Vena Cava, Schrei X, and The Refugee. Galás has also been involved in campaigns in support of social issues such as AIDS and mental illness. Her visual art pieces draw inspiration from Expressionism.

Kyle Gann (b. 1955) is a composer of microtonal instrumental music. He is also an author and served as a new music critic for the Village Voice. Gann's most notable piece is Hyperchromatica (2015-2017), "a three-and-a-half-hour cycle of pieces for three returned, computer-driven pianos in a 33-tone scale." He was also a co-founder of the Society for Minimalist Music.

Alexandra Gardner (b. 1967) is a composer whose music mixes acoustic instruments with electronics while drawing inspiration from mythology, poetry, and her training in percussion. Her compositions include chamber, ensemble, solo, orchestral, and multimedia works. Some examples of her repertoire include Time Unfolding (2024), Watershed (2023), Sanctuary of Joy (2022), and Foreign Exchange (2019).

Stacy Garrop (b. 1969) is a Chicago-based composer whose music is centered on dramatic and lyrical storytelling. Her repertoire includes works for orchestra, opera, oratorio, wind ensemble, choir, art song, chamber ensembles, and solo instruments. Some recent works by Garrop include Forging Steel, Goddess Triptych, There's a village in my sneakers, and Spectacle of Light. From 2018 to 2020 she was the first Emerging Opera Composer of Chicago Opera Theater's Vanguard Program.

Erin Gee (b. 1974) is an American composer and vocalist whose work features non-traditional vocal techniques such as nonverbal sounds paired with instrumental music. Gee's most notable project is the series Mouthpiece, which began in 2000, and contains works composed for voice and ensemble. The series includes a variety of musical elements such as choirs, string quartets, and opera, combined in multiple ways.

Florent Ghys (b. 1979) works as a double bassist, guitarist, vocalist, multimedia artist, and composer of music that he performs both solo and with his music group, Bonjour. His works include electronic and acoustic instruments, and are characterized by the use of recorded media such as radio and TV samples in the creation of audiovisual pieces. Ghys is also the creator of Ghys Entertainment System, a digital environment developed to create audiovisual works in real time which was the focus of his doctoral research at Princeton University.

John Gibson is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music often combined with instrumental soloists and ensembles. He seeks to complement and extend the musical inflections of performers with electronic sound, sometimes generated in real time by the software he develops. His music embraces influences ranging from contemporary classical to jazz, funk, and electronica. Gibson has a background in purely acoustic music composition, some of which he retains in his electronic work.

Randy Gibson (b. 1982) is a composer of music that explores the experience of time and the senses using intonation combined with live performers and live or pre-recorded sound, as well as visual aspects. His work has been influenced by the work of minimalist artists La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. Since 2008, Gibson has been developing an ongoing project titled The Four Pillars, through which he uses a set of rational numbers to guide his artistic practice. Gibson is also the founder of Avant Media, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting artists of multiple disciplines.

Michael Gilbertson (b. 1987) is an American conductor, composer, and pianist. His works include orchestra, choral, chamber, opera, and wind music. In 2018, he was one of three finalists for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in music for his Quartet, a piece for strings. Gilbertson's music was featured in the 2006 documentary Rehearsing a Dream, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Gilbertson is also the founder of ChamberFest Dubuque, an annual music festival that takes place in the composer's hometown in Iowa, and features fundraising concerts by young classical artists in benefit of the Northeast Iowa School of Music.

Daniel Gilliam (b. 1978) is a composer based in Louisville, Kentucky. He composes music for orchestra, as well as for smaller instrumental ensembles. His compositions are inspired by his life and other musicians. Some titles of works composed by Gilliam include The Clearing Rests, a piece written for choir; The Aggregate of Our Joy and Suffering, a chamber work for flute, clarinet, violoncello, and piano; and Body at Rest, for solo piano.

Gisburg (b. 1966) is an Austrian singer, composer, and music editor based in New York City. Her work focuses primarily on scoring music for films. Gisburg was also the co-founder of the Filmette Film Festival showcasing films of unconventional running times, between 30 and 60 minutes long.

Dylan Glatthorn (b. 1987) is a contemporary composer and lyricist from Florida currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His work includes music for film, theatre, and TV. He has created commercial projects for Lindt, Nickelodeon, Oakley, Red Bull, Alessi, PBS, and the Tokyo Metro; and was awarded the Clive Davis Award for Excellence in Music in Film and Best Original Score at the First Run Film Festival.

God is My Co-Pilot is a New York City-based band formed by Craig Flanagin and Sharon Topper in 1991. The band's music covers themes such as gender identity, queer sexuality, and religion. Its musical style is varied; taking elements from genres such as hardcore trash, avant-garde jazz, new wave, and Finnish folk, among many others. Besides Flanagin and Topper, who are the permanent members of the group, other musicians who have been involved with the band include Anthony Coleman, Jad Fair, Andy Hass, Fred Longberg-Holm, Clan Marshall, Ann Ruper, Elliot Sharp, and John Zorn.

Anne H. Goldberg is a composer, choreographer, and performer. She is the founder and artistic director of the Synthesis Aesthetics Project, a collaboration between musicians, dancers, and multimedia artists. She also co-founded the new music ensemble Tempus Continuum Ensemble, and is a member of the Reform@ trio. Goldberg is also a researcher. Her interests include semiology of the composer-performer; the study of signs and symbols; deciphering the various stages of conceptions; interpretation; and reflection of pieces.

Gil Goldstein (b. 1950) is an American jazz composer, pianist, and accordion player, as well as a five-time Grammy Award winner. Notable works by Goldstein include the music for the films Radio Inside (1994) and Simply Irresistible (1999). He was also a Professor of Music at NYU Steinhardt.

Malcolm Goldstein (b. 1936) is a New York City-based violinist and composer who has been involved in several musical ensembles and solo projects since the early 1960s. Many of his works incorporate improvisation and unusual performance techniques in the genres of new music and dance. He co-founded the Tone Toads Ensemble and was the director of the Ensemble for New Music of the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt, Germany. He also played in a pipa and violin duet with musician Liu Fang.

Daniel Goode (b. 1936) is a composer and clarinetist with influences ranging from bird song to Indonesian gamelan music. He uses circular breathing techniques to create his characteristic sound. Other influences of his work include Cape Breton fiddling, drone, and minimalist music. Goode was a co-founder and is the co-director of the New York City-based DownTown Ensemble. He has also been a member of the ensemble Gamelan Son of Lion since 1976, and has a project called the Flexible Orchestra, which takes elements from Western orchestras and combines them with his experience with gamelan music and culture.

Geoffrey Gordon (b. 1968) is an American-English composer. His work includes orchestral and chamber music—vocal and instrumental—and scores for theater, dance and film. Recent works by Gordon include Escher Circles (2025), a chamber piece for oboe and guitar; TITUS (after Shakespeare) (2024), a piece for orchestra; At the round earths imagin'd corners (2023), a vocal work; and Hymn Magnificat (2022), for solo organ.

Michael Gordon (b. 1956) is a composer of orchestral works and chamber pieces that make use of electronic tools to modify the sounds of traditional instruments. His most recent titles include Travel Guide to Nicaragua, which was based on his own family's history, and Field of Vision, a large-scale outdoor piece for 36 percussionists. He is also a noted performer on the electronic keyboard and the founder of the Michael Gordon Philharmonic. Gordon also has a collaborative partnership with the ensemble Kronos Quartet. As a composer, he is interested in exploring a variety of sound textures, which has resulted in the creation of chamber works that distort traditional classical instruments with electronic effects and guitar pedals.

Annie Gosfield (b. 1960) is a New York City-based composer who incorporates improvisation into scored pieces, utilizing both electric and acoustic instruments to create compositions that balance noise with music. Her repertoire comprises a variety of musical styles and genres, including opera, pieces for violin, jammed radio signals, orchestral, and chamber music. Among Gosfield's notable works is EWA7, a piece that recreates a factory environment which she wrote for her band Combustion Chamber.

Edward Noel Green (b. 1951) is a composer and music scholar. His pieces include chamber ensembles, chorus, symphony orchestras, solos, music for film, and the theater. Notable works by Green include his Brass Quintet and his Symphony in C. Green has served as a professor at the Manhattan School of Music since 1984. As a scholar, one of Green's principal focuses is Aesthetic Realism.

Judd Greenstein (b. 1979) is a composer of primarily post-genre and orchestral instrumental works for ensembles and soloists. He has collaborated with groups such as Roomful of Teeth, NOW Ensemble, and yMusic and is a founder of the label New Amsterdam Records and the Ecstatic Music Festival. Greenstein is also an advocate for the independent new music community.

Rachel Grimes (b. 1970) is a Kentucky-based touring pianist; rock, and indie-rock group member; arranger; and composer of instrumental works for chamber and orchestral ensembles. She also creates music for film, multi-media installations, and collaborative live performances. Some of her more recent titles include The Blue Hour (2022), a Grammy-nominated work; The Way Forth (2019), a folk opera and film piece; and the soundtrack for The Doctor From India (2018). Grimes is also a board member of the African-American Genealogy Group of Kentucky, and is interested in the study of how genealogy and history research can lead to social change.

Moon Young Ha (b. 1980) is a composer and artistic director based in New York City. He is the founder and director of the ensemble mise-en, through which he serves as a curator and conductor of contemporary classical music. Ha's pieces combine acoustics, electronics, video, and choreography with influences of jazz, pop, western, and non-western music styles.

Yotam Haber (b. 1976) is a pianist and composer of classically-inspired instrumental chamber pieces. He was born in the Netherlands, and grew up in Israel and Milwaukee. His first monographic album of chamber music titled Torus, was released in 2015. He is also a Professor of Composition at the UMKC Conservatory and the Artistic Director Emeritus of MATA, a non-profit organization founded by Philip Glass.

Daron Hagen (b. 1961) is an American filmmaker, writer, and composer of art songs, song cycles, choral works, operas, symphonies, concerti, and chamber works. In his role as a filmmaker, Hagen writes and directs "operafilms," where he combines music and screenplays authored by him. Hagen also published a memoir in 2019 titled Duet with the Past.

Joseph Hallman (b. 1979) is a contemporary composer based in Philadelphia, PA. His works include concertos and chamber music, which combine influences of classical, Renaissance, and popular music.

Michael Harrison (b. 1958) is a New York-based composer and pianist. His compositions are specialized in just intonations and Indian ragas, and blend the classical music traditions of North India and Europe. Harrison is the inventor of the "harmonic piano," a grand piano that plays 24 notes per octave. Some examples of Harrison's most recent works include Seven Sacred Names, Just Constellations, and Tone Room.

Jonathan Hartman is a composer of television and film. His work is influenced by film scores, jazz, blues, and 20th century minimalism. Hartman's compositions include science fiction and fantasy, as well as dramatic scores. He has extensively created musical compositions for Warhammer, a company that produces collectible fantasy miniatures.

Volker Bertelmann (b. 1966), also known as Hauschka, is a German experimental composer, producer, and pianist, best known for his works for prepared piano. His approach to composition is interdisciplinary, often exploring the tension between different musical styles and genres, including classical, dance, theater, and electronic music. Notable works by Hauschka include A Different Forest (2019), What If (2017), and Abandoned City (2014), and the original score he created for the film All Quiet on the Western Front, which received an Academy Award for Best Music.

Gabriel Hays is a Los Angeles-based composer of film, television, multimedia, orchestra, band, and chamber music. Works by Hays include the music for Netflix's original film Secret Magic Control Agency, released in 2021; Disney projects such as Star Wars: Galactic Pals; and the PBS television release Half the Sky.

Ted Hearne (b. 1982) is a composer, singer, bandleader and recording artist. His works focus on unconventional interactions between text and music. Notable works by Hearne include Sound From the Bench and Place, both of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 and 2021. Other titles by Hearne include The Source, Katrina Ballads, and Law of Mosaics. Hearne also participates in collaborative musical projects such as the vocal-electronic duo R WE WHO R WE with Philip White.

Gerry Hemingway (b. 1955) is a percussionist, composer, soloist, collaborator, ensemble member, and educator. In the 1970s he played with artists such as Anthony Davis, Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis and Anthony Braxton. During this time, he was also a member of the collective trio BassDrumBone. From 1983-1994, Hemingway was also part of the Anthony Braxton quartet and has participated in multiple other collaborations and musical groups such as GRH Trio and WHO Trio. His repertoire ranges from solo to quintet music.

Katt Hernandez (b. 1974) is a composer, improviser, violinist, producer, and artistic researcher based in Stockholm, Sweden. Since relocating to Stockholm from the United States in 2010, she has worked as a solo violinist and in collaboration with multiple musicians across Europe. She is also the co-founder of The Schematics and Deuterium Quartet.

Michael Hersch (b. 1971) is a composer and pianist. His compositions include large ensemble, soloist, chamber, opera, cantata, and vocal music. Recent premieres of Hersch's work include his Violin Concerto, his piece On the Threshold of Winter, and his 10-hour chamber cycle titled sew me into a shroud of leaves. Other examples of notable works by Hersch include Domicilium, along the ravines, and end stages.

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962) is a composer of contemporary classical music whose works include orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, opera, and wind ensemble. Higdon has been a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in music and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Compositions. Higdon's concertos are among her most acclaimed works. Examples of these pieces include her Violin Concerto, Percussion Concerto, Viola Concerto, and Harp Concerto.

Shelley Hirsch is a singer, performer, and composer active in New York's Downtown scene and internationally since the 1980s. She has done extensive solo work, as well as collaborations on musical and multimedia works.

Elizabeth Hoffman (b. 1961) is a New York City-based composer of pieces for opera, orchestra, solo, and ensemble performances created through both acoustic and computer-driven media. Hoffman compositional interests include micro-timbre, texture, tuning, and spatialization. In 2019, Hoffman created a permanent sound installation located inside the atrium of New York University's Bobst Library. The piece is titled RETU(R)NINGS, and sounds daily for 1 to 2 minutes at sunset. She is also a Professor of Music at NYU.

Robin Holcomb (b. 1954) is a pianist, composer, librettist, singer, and songwriter. She is a founder and co-director of The New York Composers Orchestra and The Washington Composers Orchestra (WACO). Examples of notable compositions by Holcomb include Paradise, No Thing Lives to Itself, We Are All Failing Them, and All the White.

James Holdman is a composer, performer, and improviser based in Minneapolis, MN. Holdman's compositions explore music of different cultures and styles, including post-tonal art music, jazz, and non-Western musical traditions. Holdman has performed with different groups including the Marimba Bullies, earWorm, Ammala Middle Eastern Music and Dance, Mandragora, Modal Operandi, The Dextet, and Head Octet, among others. His repertoire includes works such as Turncoat Hat (2021), Haunted House (2013), and Maddy's Eaten a Little Hummus Again (2008).

Damon Holzborn is a Brooklyn-based composer of computer music, often featuring electronic instruments and improvisation. He is also a new media artist and software developer. Works by Holzborn include algorithmic image and language projects; mobile games; music tools; and sound installation. In his musical compositions, Holzborn employs custom software in combination with traditional effects. He was a founding member of the experimental music group Trummerflora Collective (1999-2009) and a co-creator of Zu Casa (1997-2013), an online guide for experimental music.