Ross Feller Ross Feller is an accomplished composer, theorist, saxophonist, improviser, and educator. Feller grew up near Chicago, where he came into contact with performers from a thriving avant-garde jazz scene, including the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). While still in high school Feller began to systematically explore the boundaries of his instrument through improvisation, and experiment with graphic and indeterminate scores. Over the past twenty years he has developed a unique musical vocabulary that features raw, ecstatic layers of material that percolate with refined, virtuosic gestures. His awards and honors include the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Composition, ASCAP Young Composer’s Competition, Bent Frequency’s International Call for Scores, and the Gaudeamus Foundation International Composer’s Competition. His compositions have been performed at venues such as Symphony Space, Roulette, De Ijsbreker, Spoleto, Krannert Center, Presser Recital Hall, Park West, Cleveland Public Theatre, and at many national and international festivals, by ensembles and soloists including the Kenyon College Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Oberlin Conservatory Contemporary Music Ensemble, Oberlin Percussion Group, Prism Saxophone Quartet, Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, Ensemble Luna Nova, Goliard Ensemble, and members of the Cleveland Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. As a saxophonist, Feller has performed with well known improvisers and jazz performers such as Peter Evans, Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis, Leroy Jenkins, LaDonna Smith, Jim O’Rourke, Doctor Nerve, and many others. Feller holds a DMA in Composition and Theory from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a BM in Composition from the American Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Currently, he teaches composition, theory, and computer music at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and has also taught at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Georgia College and State University, and at the University of Illinois. Feller’s work has been reviewed in Time Out New York, The Plain Dealer, Chicago Tribune, and Wall Street Journal. Recordings of his compositions are available on New Dynamic Records, Athena Records, and on an upcoming release on Innova Recordings (#911). Frank Mauceri Composer, saxophonist, and teacher, Frank Mauceri is based in southern Maine. His compositions include chamber music, electro-acoustic music, multi-media works, and jazz arrangements. As a saxophonist he has performed with the Boston based Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, and in Maine with fire-caught-fire, Loki, Tom Porter and Friends, as well as his own trio. He has a series of works for solo saxophone with computer processing. He has also performed multi-media works in Germany and the U.S. collaborating with video artist Maciej Walczak. Frank studied music composition at Oberlin College and at the University of Illinois. His research has focused on the social effects of music technology and on computer assisted composition. Currently, he is developing interactive computer systems for use with improvising musicians. Frank founded Jazz for a New Society, a collective of jazz musicians who perform in order to raise funds and awareness in support of local activist organizations. Frank teaches at Bowdoin College.