Nathan Davis

Composer, Percussionist, Electronic Music Artist
(He/Him)

Nathan Davis "writes music that deals deftly and poetically with timbre and sonority" (NY Times). His opera/ballet “Hagoromo" was produced by American Opera Projects and premiered at the 2015 BAM Next Wave Festival with the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, choreographer David Neumann, and dancers Wendy Whelan, and Jock Soto. Lincoln Center presented the premiere of “Bells”, a site-specific work for ensemble, multi-channel audio, and live broadcast to audience members’ mobile phones. 

Nathan received other commissions from GMEM and Ensemble CBarré (Marseille), FringeArts and the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (including “Bellarmonic” for carillon, which incorporates samples of the historic bells of Christ Church Philadelphia, purchased by Benjamin Franklin), Donaueschinger Musiktage (Germany), Yarn/Wire, Claire Chase, Ekmeles, Miller Theatre, Ojai Music Festival, the Calder Quartet, and Third Coast Percussion, with premieres at Tanglewood, Park Avenue Armory, Guggenheim Museum, and Carnegie Hall. His music has been released on Starkland, Tundra, New Focus, and Bridge, with forthcoming albums on Infrequent Seams and Sono Luminus.

The 2018 Aaron Copland Fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation, Davis received awards and fellowships from the Camargo Foundation, New Music USA, NYSCA, Meet The Composer, Fromm Foundation, Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, MATA, and ASCAP. He and Phyllis Chen won an NY Innovative Theater Award for their score to Sylvia Milo's play “The Other Mozart”. 

Also an active percussionist, Nathan has premiered hundreds of works by luminaries and by emerging composers, and he appeared as a concerto soloist on hammered dulcimer with the Seattle Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, and Nagoya Philharmonic. Davis holds degrees in composition and in percussion from Rice, Yale, and the Rotterdams Conservatorium on a Fulbright Fellowship. He taught percussion at Dartmouth College for eight years and currently teaches composition and electronic music at The New School.

Peter evans

COMPOSER, TRUMPET PLAYER, IMPROVISOR, BANDLEADER
(HE/HIM)

Peter Evans is a composer, trumpet player, improvisor and bandleader based in New York City since 2003.  Evans is part of a broad, hybridized scene of musical experimentation, and his work cuts across a wide range of modern musical practices and traditions.  Peter is committed to the simultaneously self-determining and collaborative nature of musical improvisation as a compositional tool, and works with an ever-expanding group of musicians and composers in the creation of new music.  

He leads and composes for the band Being & Becoming (with Joel Ross, Nick Jozwiak and Savannah Harris) as well as several other groups. The Peter Evans Ensemble features a rotating cast of some of the most innovative performers in contemporary music: Mazz Swift, Levy Lorenzo, Ron Stabinsky, Sam Pluta, Jim Black, and many more. He leads a trio, “Forever 21” with virtuosi Andy Berman (guitar) and Michael Ode (drums). As well as collaborative projects such as his duo with Elias Stemeseder, Pulverize the Sound, Evans continues to work in a variety of new formations, exploring through-composed music, group improvisation, arranging, Jazz standards and electronic music. 

As a composer, he has been commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Wet Ink, Yarn/Wire, the Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival, the Jerome Foundation's Emerging Artist Program, and the Doris Duke Foundation. Evans has presented and/or performed his works at major festivals worldwide. He has composed works for his own ensembles, soloists, chamber ensembles, and choir. In 2022 Evans was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition. 

As an educator, Evans has given masterclasses and conducted workshops on improvisation, composition, instrumental practice and creativity at the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, the New School of Social Research, Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Hochschule für Musik Köln, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Institute of Sonology, Melbourne University, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, University of Toronto, University of Oregon, Cornish College, Oberlin Conservatory, and Cleveland Institute of Music. Between 2019 and 2022 Evans conducted a series of performance-centered workshops with young musicians in Lisbon, Porto and the Azores called Som Crescente. In 2020 he received a grant from the US Embassy in Lisbon to further develop this series. 

REBEKAH HELLER

BASSOONIST, IMPROVISER, COMPOSER
(SHE/THEY)

Rebekah Heller's work aims to expand the sonic possibilities of her instrument — both in her solo work and through a deep collaborative practice. Called "an impressive solo bassoonist" by The New Yorker, she is dedicated to exploration, experimentation, and the democratization of sound. She has two solo albums of music written for and with her, and in 2018, Rebekah made her solo debut with the New York Philharmonic. A member of the International Contemporary Ensemble since 2008, Rebekah has served many roles in the leadership of that organization, most notably as Co-Artistic Director, Director of Individual Giving, and since 2021, a member of the Board of Directors. Rebekah teaches and lectures at the Mannes School of Music, where she is Co-Chair of the Wind Department.

Dennis Hilton-Reid

EVO DIRECTOR OF EQUITY, INCLUSION, & SOCIAL JUSTICE
(He/Him)

Dennis Hilton-Reid is a Socially Engaged Theatre Artist practicing both Internationally and Domestically. He runs an Anti-Racist workshop for Theatre Depts and Organizations. He has worked in Greece at the Epidaurus Lyceum International Summer School of Ancient Théâtre, where he is a member of the international committee. Dennis directed the Pulitzer Prize winning play “Ruined” by Lynn Nottage for the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2016, in Athens Greece. This was the first time a play by an African American writer had been presented to a Greek audience. He has also led several workshops in Greece where taught workshops on Staging Violence based on Michael Chekhov’s “Art of the Psychological Gesture” and “Playing with Chekhov.” Dennis directed the World premiere of the play Silent Voices for the National Theatre of Uganda.

He is member of the Actors Studio PDU (Playwright, Directors Unit). Dennis was a Resident Artist at Mabou Mines were he developed his one-man show Mandingo of Manhattan. For his work with Mandingo he was awarded a Jerome Fellowship and a grant from the Puffin Foundation. Dennis has performed Mandingo at Mabou Mines, The Thread Waxing Space, Stand up New York a benefit for the Artists Against the Contract with America, and the Nuyorican Poets Café. As an actor Dennis has performed at regional theaters throughout the country, including the Spolleto Festival in Charleston SC; The Cidermill Playhouse Binghamton NY; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Guthrie in Minneapolis; the Kennedy Center, D.C., Yale Rep; Voice and Vision (Smith College); Rites and Reason (Brown University). In New York he has appeared at HERE, NADA, the Public Theater, CSC, La Mama, Ohio Theater, En Garde Arts and Mabou Mines. He has taught at Vassar College, NYU, City College and Fordham University. Dennis has taught workshops on Chekhov at the Teatro-Ergastirion Drama School in Athens Greece. He has directed productions for Julliard, SUNY Purchase, Fordham University, Powerhouse Theatre, Avalon Theater co; Arc Lite Theater co; EST, Stella Adler and Pace University, NY Stage and Film. He has taught Theatre at Vassar College, Columbia University, NYU, City College, AMDA, Circle Rep, AADA and the NJ Shakespeare Festival. As a teacher he has created several courses centered around the African Diaspora. Dennis’s first book, ‘The Young Actor’s Notebook’ is on sale at The Drama Book Shop and The Strand. Dennis currently teaches at The New School. His articles are published in Word Magazine www.word.com Dennis’ article Safari Brothers has been reprinted by the University of Toledo in Ohio to be taught as part of a sociology course. Among his other adaptations is a stage version of “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”; and Pygmalion. Dennis completed his first film “You Cannot Eat Art”. As Writer and Director. He is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama.

Nicholas Houfek

Lighting Designer
(He/Him)

Nicholas Houfek He/Him (Lighting Designer) is a NYC based Lighting Designer. Frequent and recent collaborators include: International Contemporary Ensemble, Marcos Balter’s Oyá with the New York Philharmonic, Natalie Merchant, Claire Chase, Ojai Music Festival, Silk Road Ensemble, Nathalie Joachim, Marc Neikrug’s A Song by Mahler, Anohni’s She Who Saw Beautiful Things, Suzanne Farrin’s La Dolce Morte, George Lewis’ Soundlines, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s In The Light of Air, Ash Fure’s The Force of Things. Recent creations include the ColorSynth and other applications of live lighting for performance. Mr. Houfek is an ensemble member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, a member of USA829, and a graduate of Boston University.

DARIUS JONES

artist
(He/Him)

Darius Jones has created a recognizable voice as a critically acclaimed saxophonist and composer by embracing individuality and innovation in the tradition of Black music. Jones has been awarded the Van Lier Fellowship, Jerome Foundation Artist-in-Residence and commission, French-American Jazz Exchange Award, and a Fromm Music Foundation commission from Harvard University. Jones has received acclaim for not only his studio albums featuring music and images evocative of Black Futurism, but also for his commissioned work as a composer throughout the United States and Canada. Jones has collaborated with Gerald Cleaver, Oliver Lake, William Parker, Andrew Cyrille, Craig Taborn, Wet Ink Ensemble, Jason Moran, Trevor Dunn, Dave Burrell, Eric Revis, Matthew Shipp, Marshall Allen, Nasheet Waits, Branford Marsalis, Travis Laplante, Fay Victor, Cooper-Moore, Matana Roberts, JD Allen, Matthew Shipp, Nicole Mitchell, Georgia Ann Muldrow, International Contemporary Ensemble and many more. Jones was a JJA Jazz Awards finalist nominee for Alto Saxophonist of the Year in 2022 and the 2019 Downbeat Annual Critics Poll winner for Rising Star Alto Saxophone. He has been featured in Pitchfork, The Wire, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Downbeat, among others. In 2021, Darius released Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) on Northern Spy Records. Jones was the 2022 MATA Festival artist in residence and festival curator, where he premiered Colored School No. 3 (Extra Credit).

Jennifer Kessler

ARTS LEADER PASSIONATE ABOUT ADVANCING EQUITY THROUGHOUT THE ARTS ECOSYSTEM
(SHE/HER)

Jennifer Kessler is currently the Executive Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble, a musician's collective that develops and performs the works of living composers.  Previously, Jennifer served as Executive Director of Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls. In positions at Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Carnegie Hall, Jennifer produced concerts for children around NYC, launched a daily after school youth orchestra program, and managed pre-professional training programs with world-renowned artists. As a consultant, Jennifer developed education initiatives, produced festivals, raised money, and oversaw grantmaking at organizations including the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation, the Inner City Youth Orchestra of LA, and the League of American Orchestras.

Jennifer began her career as a performing French hornist in Europe, and holds music degrees from Northwestern University in Illinois and Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin, Germany. She was an El Sistema fellow at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, receiving a graduate certificate of nonprofit management with a focus on Venezuela’s El Sistema youth orchestra program.

eddy kwon

violinist, vocalist, and interdisciplinary artist
(She/Her)

eddy kwon is a violinist, vocalist, and interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking, or New York City. Her practice connects composition, improvisation, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser, she is inspired by Korean folk timbres & inflections, textures & movement from natural environments, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award in Music/Sound, an Arts Fellow at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, and a United States Artists Ford Fellow. In addition to an evolving, interdisciplinary solo practice, she performs and collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Holland Andrews, Tomeka Reid, Kenneth Tam, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Moor Mother, and Degenerate Art Ensemble. eddykwon.net

George Lewis

COMPOSER, MUSICOLOGIST, COMPUTER-INSTALLATION ARTIST, AND TROMBONIST
(HE/HIM)

George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University, is an American composer, musicologist, computer-installation artist, and trombonist. A member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Lewis is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Other honors include the Doris Duke Artist Award (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and a MacArthur Fellowship (2002). His music is performed worldwide, and he is widely regarded as a pioneer in the creation of improvising computer programs. He is the author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press) and co-editor of the two-volume Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies.  Lewis holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, New College of Florida, and Harvard University.

Dan Lippel

GUITARIST/LABEL OWNER
(HE/HIM)

Guitarist Daniel Lippel, called an “exciting soloist” (New York Times) has a multi-faceted career. Recent recital highlights include Le Poisson Rouge (NYC), Sinus Ton Festival (Germany), and the National University of Colombia in Bogota. As a contemporary chamber musician, he has been a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble since 2005, Flexible Music since 2004, and counter)induction since 2019, and played as a guest with many ensembles, performing at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Ojai Festival, Ottawa Chamber Festival, Macau Festival, and Kunst Universitaet Graz (Austria). He has worked closely with many composers including Mario Davidovsky, Nils Vigeland, Ken Ueno, Dai Fujikura, Tyshawn Sorey, Wang Lu, and Du Yun, as well as in various improvised and creative contexts. He is the co-founder, owner, and director of New Focus Recordings, performing and producing on several of its albums, as well as appearing on recordings on other labels including Kairos, Sony Classical Japan, Bridge, and Tzadik. Lippel has given presentations and masterclasses at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule (Berlin), Curtis Institute, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and San Francisco Conservatory, among others. He completed his DMA at the Manhattan School of Music.

lester st. louis

Cellist, Composer, Sound designer
(HE/HIM)

Lester St. Louis (b.1993) is a New York born and based Composer, Improviser, Cellist, Sound Designer and Curator. His work traverses through performance, installation, curation, artistic research and recording. His works are rooted in dynamic environments of improvisation both sonically and socially, ecstatic sound worlds, flow and interaction.  He has performed internationally throughout The U.S, The E.U, Canada, China and in South America; and collaborates with artists such as Chris Williams [under the moniker HxH],  Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die, Ben Lamar Gay, Darius Jones, edi kwon, Miho Hatori, Dré A. Hočevar, Aruan Ortiz, Charmaine Lee, Isabel Crespo Pardo, TAK Ensemble, Random International, Irreversible Entanglements, Superblue, Found Sound Nation, Wet Ink Ensemble and many more. As a composer, Lester has been commissioned by artists such as The JACK Quartet, RAGE THORMBONES, Jennifer Koh, String noise and Ghost Ensemble among others.

Shara Lunon

Vocalist, Improviser, Composer, Educator
(She/They)

Shara Lunon is the product of the evolution of Black American musical traditions. As a poet, vocalist, composer, and improviser, her art finds the ethereal in the chaotic. With voice and electronics as the foundation, Lunon’s music is an exploration of text and sound that seamlessly weaves through the ongoing relationship of struggle, resilience, and resolution. Her goal is to challenge lassitude and in its place, instill hope. Her work has been featured in The Gothamist, commissioned by the Metropolis Ensemble, and has won residencies with A+J Productions, and the OneBeat Initiative. Lunon has collaborated with creators including Darius Jones, Ches Smith, Joy Guidry, Chris Williams, Lesley Mok, and Laura Cocks.

lesley mok

DRUMMER, COMPOSER, IMPROVISER
(THEY/THEM)

Lesley Mok is a drummer, composer, and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. Interested in the ways social conditions shape our beings, Lesley’s work focuses on transposing, augmenting, and overacting humanness to explore ideas about normalcy, alienness, and privilege. They like to write in a way that considers the whole expressive range of each instrument, often utilizing extreme ranges and dynamic timbres in their writing as a framework for individuality and personal expression. Their ongoing explorations with composition and improvisation are most notably documented in their ten-piece improvising chamber ensemble, The Living Collection.

Lesley's work has been recognized by the ASCAP Foundation and the Asian American Arts Alliance, and has been performed by International Contemporary Ensemble, Metropolis Ensemble, and JACK Quartet. They have collaborated with Tomeka Reid, Fay Victor, William Parker, Cory Smythe, Jen Shyu, Sara Serpa, Elias Stemeseder, David Leon, Anna Webber, Adam' O’Farrill, and edi kwon.

Wendy Richman

Violist and Educator
(She/Her)

Violist Wendy Richman has been celebrated internationally for her compelling sound and “absorbing,” “fresh and idiomatic” interpretations with “a brawny vitality.” (The New York Times, The Washington Post). As soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Royce Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mostly Mozart Festival, and international festivals in Berlin, Darmstadt, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Karlsruhe, Morelia, and Vienna. She collaborates with a wide range of composers, commissioning pieces in which she sings and plays simultaneously. Wendy’s debut solo album, vox/viola, was released on New Focus Recordings (2020). She frequently performs with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and she has been a regular guest with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the orchestral viola sections of Atlanta, Minnesota, and St. Louis. She is a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble.

Also a distinguished educator, Wendy serves as academic music faculty at UCLA and viola faculty at California State University at Northridge. She is a sought-after clinician at universities and conservatories across the country, offering classes on viola repertoire and technique, lectures on string instrument notation, and workshops on contemporary string techniques. She holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory (BM), New England Conservatory (MM), and Eastman School of Music (DMA with Diploma in Ethnomusicology). Wendy’s research interests address musicians’ communities, stemming from her own experiences with composer-performer relationships, gender-based discrimination, and disability. Her own compositions link her love of unconventional string sounds with reflections on nature, physical trauma, and invisible disability.

matana roberts

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST, MUSICIAN, COMPOSER
(They/them)

Matana Roberts is an internationally renowned composer, saxophonist, and mixed-media practitioner. Roberts works in many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, dance, poetry, and theater. She is perhaps best known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, a multi-chapter work of “panoramic sound quilting” that aims to expose the mystical roots and intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression, while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrativity, history, community and political expression within improvisatory musical structures. find out more at www.matanaroberts.com

Joshua Rubin

Clarinet, Sound Technology
(He/Him)

Joshua Rubin is clarinetist and former Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble. As a clarinetist, the New York Times has praised him as, "incapable of playing an inexpressive note." His interest in electronic music has led him to work on making these technologies easier to use for both composers and performers, and to build platforms for collective management of ensembles. He maintains an artistic presence in New York and Los Angeles. joshuanrubin.com

Cory Smythe

Pianist-Improviser-Composer
(he/him)

Pianist Cory Smythe has worked closely with pioneering artists in new, improvisatory, and classical music, including saxophonist-composer Ingrid Laubrock, violinist Hilary Hahn, and multidisciplinary composers from Anthony Braxton to Zosha Di Castri. His own music “dissolves the lines between composition and improvisation with rigor” (Chicago Reader), and his first record was praised by Jason Moran as “hands down one of the best solo recordings I’ve ever heard.” Smythe has been featured at the Newport Jazz, Wien Modern, Trondheim Chamber Music, Nordic Music Days, Approximation, Concorso Busoni, Darmstadt, and Mostly Mozart festivals. He has received commissions from Milwaukee’s Present Music, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, the International Contemporary Ensemble, of which he is a longtime member, and the Shifting Foundation. Smythe received a Grammy award for his work with Ms. Hahn and has played regularly in the critically acclaimed Tyshawn Sorey Trio.

JEN SHYU

vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, theater maker, producer
(SHE/HER)

Guggenheim Fellow, USA Fellow, Doris Duke Artist, multilingual multidisciplinary artist Jen Shyu is “one of the most creative vocalists in contemporary improvised music” (The Nation). Born in Peoria, Illinois to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrants, she’s produced eight albums available on her record label Autumn Geese Records on Bandcamp. She’s performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Theater of Korea, Rubin Museum, was named Downbeat’s 2017 Rising Star Female Vocalist, and is a Fulbright scholar speaking 10 languages. She’s worked with such musical innovators as Sumi Tonooka, Terri Lyne Carrington, Nicole Mitchell, Val Jeanty, Ikue Mori, Linda May Han Oh, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Dresser, Francis Wong, Jon Jang, Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey, Kenny Barron, Reggie Workman, Bill Frisell, and Immanuel Wilkins. Her  Song of Silver Geese was among The New York Times’ “Best Albums of 2017.” She’s currently touring her third solo production Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (commissioned by John Zorn) across all 50 states and has received wide critical acclaim for her latest album of the same name, with “When I Have Power” NPR’s “Best Songs of 2021.” She is a Paul Simon Music Fellows Guest Artist, a Steinway Artist and co-founder with Sara Serpa of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians).

alice teyssier

FLUTIST, VOCALIST, SOUND ARTIST, EDUCATOR, COMMUNITY ORGANIZER
(SHE/HER)

Flutist and vocalist Alice Teyssier brings “something new, something fresh, but also something uncommonly beautiful” to her performances. She has appeared as a soloist with the San Diego Symphony, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Bach Collegium San Diego, Talea Ensemble, La Jolla Symphony, Ensemble Echappé, Cantata Profana, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and is regularly featured on Los Angeles’ renowned Monday Evening Concerts series. A uniquely gifted advocate for new music, Alice has given residencies for composers and performers of new music at such universities as Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Huddersfield, Oberlin and University of Michigan. She has premiered hundreds of works and appeared at the Ojai, Mostly Mozart, June in Buffalo, Resonant Bodies and Huddersfield Contemporary Music festivals. Equally devoted to historically-informed yet inventive performances of early music, she is co-founder of the chamber ensemble La Perla Bizzarra. She has earned degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Conservatoire de Strasbourg and the University of California-San Diego. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she is a core member of the International Contemporary Ensemble and founding member of the interdisciplinary troupe The Atelier. Alice serves as Clinical Assistant Professor of Performance in the Music Department at New York University.

Fay Victor

SOUNDARTIST, COMPOSER, EDUCATOR
(SHE/HER)

“She’s essentially invented her own hybrid of song and spoken word, a scat style for today’s avant-garde.” - The New York Times 

Fay Victor is a sound artist and bandleader that uses performance, improvisation and composition to examine representations of modern life and blackness. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Fay’s ‘everything is everything’ creative aesthetic permeates her working approach to the vocal instrument. Having released eleven critically acclaimed albums as a leader, including her latest release,“WE’VE HAD ENOUGH!” with her improvising quartet SoundNoiseFUNK (ESP-Disk) in October 2020 and having performed with luminaries such as Gary Bartz, Archie Schepp, Nicole Mitchell, Randy Weston, Roswell Rudd and Moor Mother, Victor has shown the through line of her unique vocal force and expansion. An innovative educator, Victor is on the faculty of the New School and Long Island University. 

Clara Warnaar

Percussionist and Drummer
(She/Her)

Clara Warnaar is a percussionist and drummer who tends towards collaborative, devised and interdisciplinary projects. In addition to being a member of the Contemporary Ensemble, Clara has appeared as a guest artist with So Percussion, Yarn/Wire, the Bang on a Can Orchestra, and Ensemble Signal. She has premiered and recorded the works of many, including, most recently, Ted Hearne, Ellen Reid and Missy Mazzoli. Clara has appeared on Broadway on the show Into the Woods, and can be heard playing on major motion picture scores.