collaborators
Drake Andersen (ESM technical director, artistic advisor) is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music for diverse performing forces of all sizes and categories, including works for orchestra, opera, theater, film and dance as well as site-specific installations and interactive electronic environments. Through frequent collaborations with artists from other disciplines, his creative work explores the confluence of musical expression and extra-musical inspiration. His compositions have been performed at venues throughout the United States and Europe, including Symphony Space, the Park Avenue Armory, Teaterhuset Avant Garden (Trondheim), Dixon Place, Irondale and Rice University. As a flutist Andersen has performed throughout the United States and Latin America. Andersen is frequently engaged as a sound designer for theater and dance, an electronic music specialist for contemporary music ensembles and an improviser with live electronics. He is currently Technical Director and Artistic Adviser for Ensemble sans maître and an editor and staff writer for New Music World. Andersen's principal composition teachers include Nils Vigeland, Joel Chadabe and Marjorie Merryman. He has also studied flute with Robert Dick. Andersen holds degrees from Macalester College and the Manhattan School of Music. drakeandersen.com
Jonah Rosenberg is a Brooklyn, NY based improviser, pianist, composer and sound designer striving to construct intuitive music. He has performed throughout the US and performs regularly as an improvisor in New York City venues The Firehouse Space, COMA, Douglass Street Music Collective, Ibeam, Spectrum and many others. Jonah performs regularly with members of the avant-garde jazz and experimental community such as Daniel Carter, Lukas Ligeti, Charles Downs(Rashid Bakr), Kevin Shea, James Ilgenfritz, Jean Carla Rodea, Blaise Siwula, Levy Lorenzo, Anna Webber, Sam Kulik, Martin Loyato Quintet, Jessica Pavone, Erika Kapin and many, many others. He has presented compositions and collaborations with Ensemble Sans Maître and at HERE arts center for AOMC's dance performance 'barrish', Dixon Place and the Bushwick Starr with Claire Moodey for the interdisciplinary work Spectral Findings and at the Gershwin Hotel as part of Vicky Chow's 'Contagious Sounds' series featuring the Heavy Hands Doublebass Quartet. jonahrosenberg.com