Sergio Salazar is an emerging latin american composer and sound designer. His compositions have premiered in Mexico, including: The Cinco Cinco Cinco Contemporary Music Concerts at the Center of the Arts in Monterrey (2022), and in Mexico City at the Casa de la Paz Theater. He studied musical composition at the National University of La Plata and continued to explore experimental music through artistic residencies. His work lives at the intersection of sound, image, and the unseen structures that bind them, drawing inspiration from the aleatory patterns of nature, like the fractal sprawl of branches, the rhythmic pulse of water, or the spectral play of light through leaves. In photography, He chases these dynamics, framing compositions that mirror the chaos and order of natural forms, where geometry and entropy collide.

Matthew Tirona (ASCAP) is a Boston-based composer with a prolific and acclaimed output.Collaborators include the New England Conservatory Philharmonia and Wind Ensemble, the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (as winner of the MGMC 2024 Call For Scores), Vox Novus, and Trio Tyche, among frequent art-song collaborations with his operatic peers. In 2024, Matthew was named winner of the NEC Honors Ensemble Composition Competition for his piano trio. The same work was awarded first prize in the 2025 Belvedere Chamber Music Festival Composition Contest. Matthew is enrolled at New England Conservatory studying with Michael Gandolfi.

Moshe is a Colombian composer and was selected as one of the UCMC Composer Commissioning Winners for 2025. We are thrilled to feature his powerful new work, Transcontinental, in our upcoming performances and can’t wait for audiences to experience his inspiring artistry!

Brittney holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Composition with a Minor in Music Technology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Masters in Music Composition from the Yale School of Music. She is very interested in working outside of the concert hall, especially in the realm of video game music. Brittney’s music has been performed by the Bellevue Chamber Chorus, ZOFO, the Beo String Quartet, the Lowell Chamber Orchestra, the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, SOLI Chamber Ensemble and more. She was named one of the winners of Chicago a Capella’s “Her Voice Competition” in 2022. In 2024 she was named one of the winners of the SOLI Chamber Ensemble’s “30x30x30” competition and was a recipient of Kind of Kings “Bouman Fellowship”. Recent composition festivals include the 2020 Charlotte New Music Festival and Connecticut Summerfest 2021. She also attended the inaugural Akropolis Chamber Music Institute (ACMI) in 2022. In 2024, she attended the Alba Music Composition Festival in Alba, Italy.

Joseph Jones is a New York City–based composer and conductor whose catalog of more than 200 works spans symphonies, operas, chamber music, and solo repertoire. He studied composition and conducting at the Peabody Conservatory and is Artistic Director of Orchestra Amadeus, which he founded in 2015 following early humanitarian projects including Beethoven for Boston and Symphony for Haiti. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and internationally. Guided by a philosophy he calls Earnest Aestheticism—the belief that beauty is not ornament but necessity—Jones creates music of sincerity, courage, and communion that seeks to dignify human experience.