Sarah Hennies (b. 1979, Louisville, KY) is a composer and percussionist based in upstate New York whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity, psychoacoustics, and the social and neurological conditions underlying creative thought. She is primarily a composer of acoustic chamber music, but is also active in improvisation, film, and performance art. She is the recipient of a 2024 United States Artists Fellowship, a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, a 2016 fellowship in music/sound from the New York Foundation for the Arts, was a participant in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, and the Composer-In-Residence at the 2025 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival She performs regularly as a soloist and in a duo with the bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause and is an Assistant Professor of Music at Bard College.

Lulu West is an NYC-based composer, improviser, songwriter and educator. Her music is guided by rural queer and trans histories as she looks to create experiences of communal healing. Lulu is specifically fascinated by how folk melodies, field recordings and ambient drones can merge with the freakiness of harsh noise, hardcore, power electronics and experimental found-sound sampling. Lulu’s main collaborative projects consist of a folk/classical guitar duo project entitled Polsky West, a noiserock trio called DUCHESS, and a free-improv duo with percussionist Paul Sakai. Lulu’s compositional works have been performed by artists such as, the New York Philharmonic, Yo-Yo Ma, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Akropolis Reed Quintet, the abeceda. Ensemble and more. Her work has been supported by residencies at Tippet Rise, GLISS, the .abeceda Institue and more. Lulu is currently a lead teaching artist for the New York Philharmonic’s Very YoungComposers Program and Philharmonic Schools Program.

inti figgis-vizueta (b.1993) is a composer who works to reconcile historical aesthetics and experimental practices with trans & Indigenous futures. Described as a “rising new music star” (LA Times), whose “raw, scraping yet soaring” (Washington Post) music brings “a sense of true dramatic stakes” (New York Times), inti has been commissioned and performed by leading artists including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Attacca Quartet, Rothko Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, and soloists including James McVinnie, Conor Hanick, Jennifer Koh, Andrew Yee, and Jay Campbell, among many others. inti is the recipient of the Lotos Foundation Prize, ASCAP Fred Ho Award, National Sawdust Hildegard Award, Café Royal Music Grant, and residency fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks, Civitella Ranieri, and Music at Copland House. Upcoming projects include 1968 for the 2025 Venice Immersive, the 2026 premiere of opera mad scramble for crumbs at Lincoln Center's Rubenstein Atrium, and new works for Trickster Orchestra, Jennifer Koh, James McVinnie, and Andrew Yee with Roomful of Teeth.

Andrew Yee. Two time GRAMMY Award winning cellist and composer Andrew Yee (She/They) loves making art. She is a founding member of the Attacca Quartet whose recordings of the string quartets of Caroline Shaw; ‘Orange’ and ‘Evergreen’ have each won GRAMMY awards. They can also be heard on the score of the Alfonso Cuaron show ‘Disclaimer’ scored by Finneas O’Connell and on Billie Eilish’s album ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’. As a composer she has written for film and television including Wu Tsang’s ‘Moby Dick’, ‘Love, Jamie’ and the BBC show ‘We Might Regret This’. She has had pieces premiered by the Zurich Chamber Ensemble, the New York Philharmonic, and Caroline Shaw. Her new version of the opera ‘Carmen’ was premiered in Zurich in 2024. She recently premiered a new work for orchestra, choir and trans soloists called “Trans Requiem”. As well as performing with orchestras and chamber groups around the world as a soloist she also has solo project called “Halfie” which draws from her experience as a trans woman and being bi-racial. Her son Otis is the love of her life.