Ross Thompson

Matthew Cmien

Alec Jeong

Alexis Alrich

Alexis Alrich is an active San Francisco composer who writes orchestral, chamber and vocal music.  As one of the winners of a Continental Harmony grant from the American Composers Forum she has written a piece for chorus, orchestra and soloists for the state of Maine.  Avenues, her first orchestra piece, was premiered by the Women's Philharmonic and has been played around the country.  Her childrenâs piece for orchestra and narrator, Island of the Blue Dolphins, based on the classic novel, has also been performed by several orchestras around California.  The San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra recently performed her Marimba Concerto.   
Her chamber compositions have been performed by members of the San Francisco ballet, opera and symphony orchestras and ensembles including Bay Brass, City Winds, the Ariel Ensemble, New Release Alliance and Earplay in San Francisco. She studied piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music, at California Institute of the Arts, and received her Masterâs Degree in music composition from Mills College, where she studied with Lou Harrison. Ms. Alrich has long been a vocal advocate of living composers. She is one of four hosts a weekly radio show on KUSF in San Francisco, ãClassical Salonä with little-heard music from 1800 to the present.

Loren Jones is a native of San Francisco. He studied with Tom Constantine, Herb Bielawa, Alexis Alrich and is currently working with David Conte at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  He has performed professionally, and produced a CD of his own music, Woodward's Gardens. He's recorded for radio and film, including the sound track for an animated short which won a special Academy Award.

Jan Pusina, MA, Music Composition, U.C.Berkeley. Operations Supervisor, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Janâs compositional career started in the 60âs, with ãFour Songs on Zen Textsä and ãTape Composition #1.ä It continues today in the instrumental and elecreoacoustic genres. He recently produced a CD of computer music pieces, and had a performance of Pink Wind, by the San Francisco CMC Orchestra.

Michael A. Kimbellis Composer-in-Residence and Principal Clarinetist of the Community Music Center Orchestra, which recently premiered his tone poem Taklamak‡n. He studied composition with Alfred Swan, John Davison, Robert Palmer and Karel Husa, and received his D.M.A. in composition from Cornell University in 1973. His Arcadian Symphony won the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra Competition in 1998 and has also been performed by the Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose. He has written a variety of chamber, choral and theatre works including the chamber opera The Hot Iron performed by the Cinnabar Opera in Petaluma and Fresh Voices in San Francisco.

Zachary Ostroff,born in 1992 in Tokyo, Japan is currently a seventh grade student at Del mar Middle School in Tiburon, California. He is a member of the advanced instrumental band, jazz band, and percussion ensemble. Zachary has recently attended the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and regularly studies music theory and composition with Lisa Prosek and Neal Harris. Music for Movies is Zachary's first submission of a classical orchestration.

Lisa Scola Prosek received her BA in music composition from Princeton University, where she studied with Ed Cone and Milton Babbitt. Her graduate studies in Composition were at the Conservatorio Cherubini in Florence, and she studied with Lucas Foss in N.Y. and voice with Metropolitan Opera soprano Margaret Kalil. Lisa has premiered several operas including "Satyricon"which was reviewed by the San Francisco Observer as a "Tour de Force," with excerpts featured on KRON TV, and "Pericles" of which Ken Bullock wrote for On Stage "an exquisite sense of balance, yet of white sounds, of waves, all fleeting, a vague reminder of modern neoclassicism, but entirely on it's own..." Lisa is the recipient of numerous awards, commissions, and residencies, including for the upcoming premiere of "Libera Me" for the chorus of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, with the Schola Cantorum choir and the SFCCO, made possible by the American Composers Forum. Watch for Lisa's new opera next May: "Leonardo's Notebooks", at the Thick House Theater.

David A. Graves initially studied electronic music composition at the University of Nebraska. He has composed music for multiple genres, including ambient, jazz, and rock. He has also scored music for film and theatre, including A Period Piece, a play by Rachael Kerr, performed in San Francisco and New York (1995-1998) and ICON: The Photography of Gordon Parks (2003) a movie by PCTV. He has been a resident at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in Woodside, California (2003, 2005). In the past two years, he has focused on scoring music for "new classical" works; he is currently studying composition with Alexis Alrich at the SF Conservatory of Music. This is the second piece he has written for orchestra. Additional information is available at www.finevermin.com.

Dr. Mark Alburger is the Music Director, Conductor and founder of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. Mark is an eclectic American composer of postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities.He is the Music Director of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music Journal, an award-winning ASCAP composer of concert music published by New Music, Instructor in Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College, Music Critic for Commuter Times, author, musicologist, oboist, pianist, and recording artist. Since 1997, Dr. Alburger has gridded and troped compositions upon pre-existent compositions ranging from world music and medieval sources to contemporaries such as George Crumb and Philip Glass. To date, he has written 16 concerti, 7 masses and oratorios, 12 preludes and fugues, 20 operas, 6 song cycles, 9 symphonies -- a total of 130 opus numbers and more than 800 individual pieces. He is presently at work on Waiting for Godot and Diabolic Variations.

Composer, conductor and bass trombonist, has recently returned to California after performing as acting bass trombonist with the Auckland Philharmonia, in Auckland, New Zealand. Among his top honors: he was 1st place in the 2001 Zellmer Competition, the world's largest cash-prize awarding trombone competition; 1st place in the 1997 Eastern Trombone Workshop HS division competition; and 3rd place in the 2002 Lewis Van Haney competition.