Oakland, CA-based oboist Kyle Bruckmann tramples genre boundaries in widely ranging work as a composer/performer, educator and New Music specialist.

David Milnes presently serves as music director of the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, conductor of the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, and Director of the ECO Ensemble (Ensemble in Residence at CNMAT and the Department of Music). 

Transparent yet richly multifaceted, Cindy Cox’s compositions synthesize old and new musical designs.  The natural world inspires many of the special harmonies and textural colorations in her compositions, as in her piano trio la mar amarga, the octet Cañon, and the str

Nathan Corder is an Oakland-based composer of works for electronics, objects, and arrays of people.