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TANIA LEON, born in Cuba, is the C.L. Tow Professor in Music at Brooklyn College, and Distinguished Professor of the City University of New York. She has been featured on ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, Univision, and Telemundo. Her recent works include Inura, premiered by Dance Brazil and çcana, jointly premiered at Carnegie Hall by Orpheus and the Purchase Orchestras. Leon served as U.S. Artistic Ambassador of American Culture in Madrid, Spain, held a Composer/Conductor residency at the Beijing Central Conservatory, China. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fromm Music Foundation commission, a Distinguished Professor of the City University of New York, "La Distinci—n de Honor de la Rosa Blanca", Patronato Jose Mart’, a New York Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, the NEA, Chamber Music America, NYSCA, ASCAP, Meet-the-Composer, Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund and the Koussevitzky Foundation.

ORLANDO JACINTO GARCIA is Professor of Music and director of the Composition Program for the School of Music at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Garcia has composed over 140 works, and his music has been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Latin America. His music has been recorded by the New Albion, CRI, New World, O.O. Discs, North/South, Albany, Edicion Sonora, Opus One, Contemporary Recording Studios (CRS), and Capstone labels. His scores are published by Kallisti Music Press, the American Composers Alliance, BHE, and North/South Editions. His music has been performed by Joan La Barbara, Bertram Turetzky, Jan Williams, Joseph Celli, and the Gregg Smith Singers, as well as many orchestras in the Americas and Europe. He has received grants from the Rockefeller and Fulbright foundations, and is a two-time winner of the Cintas Foundation Fellowship (1994-95 and 1999-2000). In 2001 he won the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award. He received a DMA degree in composition from the University of Miami in 1985. He studied composition with Morton Feldman

JOSE R. LOPEZ is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Keyboard Department at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He has performed throughout the United States, Italy and Central and South America with orchestras, solo recitals, and chamber groups in concert halls, summer festivals such as the Music Festival of the Hamptons in New York and the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. He has been a featured performer in the Florida International University’s Music Festival; ISCM New Music Miami Festival, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, Coral Gables' Mainly Mozart Series, University of Miami’s Miami Festival, and in the Deering Estate at Cutler’s ÒLiving Artist Concert Series.Ó Recent activities have included performances through villages around Lake Como, Italy for the International Convention on 12-tone music. He has been asked to record the complete piano works of Riccardo Malipiero, a composer whose works he performs widely and on whom he has published.

Jose Lopez was a founding member of the Dalbergi Trio, has collaborated as a member of FIU’s resident Nodus Ensemble for new music, and was the orchestral pianist of the Florida Philharmonic for 13 years. Dr. L—pez received his MM and DMA degrees from the University of Miami School of Music, where he studied with Dr. Rosalina Sackstein, a former pupil of Claudio Arrau and Isabelle Vengerova. He has recorded for SNE, Albany and Innova record labels.

Canadian-American violist and violinist, LAURA WILCOX is a founding artist of The Deering Estate Chamber Ensemble and the Music Director of The Deering Estate Living Artist Concert Series, at the Deering Estate at Cutler, the archeological, architectural, environmental and historical preserve located along the Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida. She has received awards from the Canada Council, the Chalmers Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council, MetLife Foundation and the American String Teachers Association. She has performed as a chamber musician and as a soloist throughout the United States and Canada and in South America and Europe. Laura received a Concert Diploma from McGill University in MontrŽal and currently resides in Miami, where she teaches in the Greater Miami Youth Symphony and string programs of South Florida. Laura’s CDs are with the SNE label.

KRISTIN MUELLER-HEASLIP Soprano is is a graduate of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, where she studied piano with William Aide and voice with Jean MacPhail. In 2004 she created the role of Ciel in the original SummerWorks Festival production of Enoch Arden and most recently performed it at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in London, England. Other recent performances include a live performance of a new score for the silent film Metropolis by David Ogborn; an appearance as soprano soloist in the interdisciplinary music drama Bridge of One Hair by Alice Ping-Ye Ho; Exsultate, Jubilate with the Silverbirch String Quartet; and the monumental Kafka Fragments by Gyorgy Kurtag with violinist Christian Robinson; the world premiere of tampobata by Andrew Staniland for singing pianist; and Soprano/Soprano, a duo recital with New York saxophonist Rob Mosher. Recent recordings include The Miserable End of Captain Alonso for Friendly Rich. Kristin also performs regularly with her band, The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra.

ZACHARY EBIN, violin, holds a MM in Performance from The Boston Conservatory and and MA in Music from Brandeis University and is a candidate in musicology at York University. He was the chair of Suzuki Strings at the South shore conservatory in MA and now teaches at the Etobicoke Suzuki School. He has studied with Lazar Gosman, Daniel Stepner, Joseph McGauley and Jacques Israelievitch. His recent work includes articles on comparative studies of violin cadenzas for Mozart and on Suzuki teaching methods.

          David Lidov is a music theorist, occasional pianist, and a composer best known for works for small ensembles or voice.  His music has been performed in North and South America and in Europe.  Except for short stints in Mexico, Brazil and Germany, he has taught in the York University Department of Music, where he was a founding member, since 1970. His theoretical investigations, beginning with a computer algorithm to write melodies in 1972, were an early and influential source for musical semiotics.  St. Martin's Press published his general theory, Elements of Semiotics (1999) and Indiana University Press released a collection of his best known writings on music, Is Language a Music? (2004).  His never up-to-date website is www.yorku.ca/lidov.