Brad Beyenhof

Brad Beyenhof received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he studied composition with Phillip Keveren. For a while he worked in educational publishing at the Neil A. Kjos Music Company, editing and engraving works by Bruce Pearson, Wendy Barden, Andrew Boysen, Scott Boerma, and others. Plagued by vocational

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Amos Gillespie

Amos’ music has been heard on WFMT in Chicago, WQXR in New York City and PBS. His music spans a wide range of genres including chamber and orchestra concert music, jazz, as well as music for film, theater and dance. His music has been commissioned and performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Atlantic Music

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Trevor Patricia Watkin

Trevor Patricia Watkin is named after his grandmother, a fellow native of Southern California. Although at various times he has called both Boulder County, Colorado and — for the past 16 years — Chicago home, he is looking forward to returning to San Diego for good. A teacher since 1997, from 2013-2022 Trevor taught at

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Amy Wurtz

A fervent advocate for new music and the community that surrounds and supports it, Amy Wurtz is a staunch performer, composer, and curator of new music based in Chicago. Her recent album, Cello Dances at Night, with the Wurtz-Berger Duo, a cello-piano collaboration with Alyson Berger, features Amy’s work Songs and Dances and was commissioned

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