Martin Bresnick’s compositions, from opera, chamber, and symphonic music to film scores and computer music, are performed throughout the world. Bresnick’s numerous prizes and citations include the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Rome Prize, The Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Koussevitzky Commission. As Charles T. Wilson Professor in the Practice of Music at Yale, Bresnick is well recognized as an influential teacher of composition and has mentored dozens of composers who are now leaders in the field and winners of Pulitzers, Guggenheims, Rome Prizes, and GRAMMYs.

A native of Australia, Lisa Moore has lived and worked in the new music scene of New York City since 1985, frequently collaborating with contemporary composers. Moore has performed hundreds of world premieres and recorded over 40 albums. Winner of the silver medal in the 1981 Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition, for sixteen years (1992-2008) Moore was the founding pianist for the Bang On A Can All-Stars – New York’s acclaimed electro-acoustic sextet.

Jordan Kuspa, composer, cellist, and conductor, founded the Del Mar International Composers Symposium in 2019. Kuspa’s compositions have been performed across North America, Europe, and Asia, and have been praised as “animated and melodically opulent” and “consistently alive and inspired” by the New York Times. Kuspa studied at Rice University and received his doctorate from the Yale School of Music.