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Elizabeth Hoffman, composer (NYC), works in acoustic, electroacoustic, and computer media and has created collaborative projects with performers including Ivan Goff, Jane Rigler, Margaret Lancaster, gamin, Marianne Gythfeldt, Elena Demyanenko, Pauline Kim Harris, String Noise, Azalea Twining, Sarah Plum, Andy Kozar, and others. Elizabeth teaches in NYU's Arts and Science Music Department. Her electroacoustic music is published by empreintes DIGITALes. Recognition includes Bourges, Prix Ars Electronica, Pierre Schaeffer, and Sonic Circuits prizes; MacDowell, NEA, Seattle Arts Commission, and Jerome Foundation grants, an International Computer Music Association (2000) commission, and most recently an OPERA America/Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Discovery Grant. Her music often connects computer processes to acoustic sound in textural, tuning, and spatial explorations. Recent projects concern musical inter-textuality, the musicality of natural language, and multi-media interaction.

Andy Kozar is a New York City and Boston based trumpeter, improviser, composer and educator who has been called a 'star soloist' by TimeOutNY. An advocate of contemporary music, he is a founding member of the contemporary music quartet loadbang. He is on faculty of New England Conservatory Prep, and Longy School of Music of Bard College in Boston where he also acts as the Conservatory's Artistic Director and Chair of the Instrumental Studies Department.  Andy Kozar's appearance is made possible in part with funding from Yamaha.  Andy is a Yamaha artist and performs exclusively on Yamaha instruments.

Azalea Twining is a soprano and composer. She was a 2020-21 Fellow of the Luna Composition Lab at Kaufman Music Center and a winner of the 2021 G. Schirmer Luna Lab Prize. Azalea studied voice with Eileen Clark from 2014-2023 and is an alumni of the WNO Opera Institute, Eastman Summer Classical Studies programs, NYU's MPAP Summer Classical Voice Intensive. She is currently a student at Columbia University, where she studies voice with Josephine Mongiardo-Cooper, and sings in the Collegium Musicum.

Electroacoustic Music @ Eastman (EMuSE) builds on the strong tradition of the studio as a creative space in which technology empowers new paths of expression for compositional and performative imagination. EMuSE will foster musical expression occurring at the intersection of contemporary music composition, instrumental/vocal performance, and technology.

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