Friday July 1 * 7pm * MASKS, VAX REQUIRED * TICKETS

Carlos Cotallo Solares is a Spanish composer and improviser currently living in Philadelphia. His work deals with subjects like quotation, meter and tempo polyphony, improvisation, and the relationship between music and language. His pieces often focus on a single concept or technique that is interpreted in multiple ways. He is a member of the free improvisation trio Wombat and creates audiovisual works with the video artist Timothy David Orme. He also performs as a solo improviser and makes experimental rock music under the name Black Stork. Carlos finished a PhD in composition at the University of Iowa, completing previously a Master's degree at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and a Bachelor's degree at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.

Heather Stebbins is a composer, technologist, synthesist, and educator based in Washington, DC, where she is a professor at George Washington University. She works with sounds created by instruments, objects, and electricity to generate new musical experiences. Really wonderful people and ensembles have performed her music in a lot of neat places, and she is grateful for that. Her recent album, Olney (Zeromoon, 2021), is available on Bandcamp. Other recordings are available on the New Focus, SEAMUS, and Coviello labels. www.heatherstebbins.com

Ian Power is a composer and performer in Baltimore, USA. He released two albums in 2020: Diligence on Edition Wandelweiser Records, featuring long solo works; and Maintenance Hums on Carrier Records, featuring chamber works. Dusted described him as “a force guiding the rapid-fire development of instrumental syntax and its expressive components.” Power is Assistant Professor and Director of the Arts Production & Management program at the University of Baltimore, where he won the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018. Power studied primarily with Chaya Czernowin.