Composer and sonic artist Nina C. Young creates works, ranging from orchestral concert pieces to interactive installations, that explore aural architectures, resonance, virtuosity, and ephemera. She dialogues with natural acoustic environments, instrumental performance techniques, and digital signal processing. Her music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Aizuri Quartet, and the Grossman Ensemble, among others. Winner of the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Young serves on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School, as Slee Visiting Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo, and as faculty and Composition Coordinator at the Tanglewood Music Center. Her music is published by Peermusic Classical.

Leilehua Lanzilotti is a composer, multimedia artist, and curator whose works often explore dramatic expanses of color and timbre. By world-building through multimedia installation works and nontraditional concert experiences/musical interventions, Lanzilotti’s works activate imagination around new paths forward in language sovereignty, water sovereignty, land stewardship, and respect. Lanzilotti was honored to be a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Other prestigious honors Lanzilotti has received include recognition as a 2025 USA Fellow, a Creative Capital Award, and a Native Arts + Cultures Foundation’s SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts Award.