Over three decades, Roberto Sierra’s music has become part of the repertoire of many of the leading orchestras, ensembles, soloists and festivals in the US and Europe. His wide-ranging catalog has been championed by conductors Leonard Slatkin and Giancarlo Guerrero, along with saxophonist James Carter, Pacho Flores (trumpet), and soprano Heidi Grant Murphy. Commissioned works include: Concerto for Orchestra; Salseando (for Trumpet and Orchestra); Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra, and the popular Fandangos. He has served composer-residencies with the Milwaukee, Puerto Rico and New Mexico Symphonies and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Victoria Bond leads a multifaceted career as composer, conductor, lecturer, and artistic director of Cutting Edge Concerts. She has composed operas, ballets, piano concertos, orchestra, chamber, choral and keyboard compositions. Commissions include the Houston and Shanghai Symphonies, Cleveland and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestras, Cassatt String Quartet, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Ballet Theater, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Bond is the first woman awarded a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the Juilliard School, and has premiered and presented the works of over 200 composers.

Dan Gawthrop has been the recipient of over 100 commissions to write original music for chorus and organ. His a cappella motet “Sing Me to Heaven” is among the most frequently performed contemporary choral pieces. Gawthrop’s music has been performed internationally at such places ad the Kennedy Center, the Tabernacle at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, and Washington National Cathedral. In addition to composing, Gawthrop has been active as a broadcaster, clinician and adjudicator, organist, conductor, teacher and writer, and as a music critic for The Washington Post.