Violinist and arts administrator Lauren Conroy is a New York City-based musician who is passionate about performing, programming, and producing contemporary music in dynamic, multidisciplinary contexts. An avid performer of new music, she is a member of the BlackBox Ensemble and a co-founder of the Magpie Duo. She is currently the Company Manager for Ariel Rivka Dance.  
Lauren has been invited to several festivals and residencies including Toronto Summer Music Fellowship, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Norfolk New Music Workshop, Bowdoin International Music Festival Fellowship, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, and The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Lauren is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she completed her Master of Music and was the Departmental Assistant at The Juilliard School’s Center for Innovation in the Arts. After graduating from Juilliard, she then attended NYU and completed her Master of Arts in Contemporary Musical Arts Performance and Administration as a Koppenaal Scholar. At NYU, she was granted the Dean’s Award for Summer Research where she was a resident scholar at The John Cage Trust at Bard College.

Rainbow Chan is an award-winning vocalist, producer and multi-disciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Her practice bridges popular music and contemporary visual arts, exploring themes of cultural representation, (mis)translation, matrilineal histories and diasporic heritage. Central to her work is the research and reimagining of women’s oral traditions, particularly the fading bridal laments of Weitou women, Hong Kong’s first settlers, to whom she has deep ancestral ties. Through pop music, performance and immersive installations, she translates these endangered songs into contemporary art forms, preserving their subversive feminist voices while reflecting on loss, resilience and solidarity. She is particularly interested in the power of ritual, song and performance as both a means of reclaiming agency and a living archive.

Justin Wright is a composer, cellist, and multimedia artist from Montreal, Canada. After finishing his master’s in molecular biology, Justin left science to perform in bands of all sorts before eventually transitioning into composition, using the techniques he learned in recording studios. Justin’s primary composition tools, for both electronic and acoustic music, are his cello, Ableton Live, a modular synthesizer, and a 4-track tape machine. Lately, Justin has focused on filmmaking, early music, virtual reality, and in situ composition. He has opened for artists such as Johann Johannsson, Hauschka, Thomas Mapfumo, Lubomyr Melnyk, Colin Stetson, Okkyung Lee, and Mount Eerie, and has composed for Alarm Will Sound, JACK Quartet, and SO Percussion. This past summer, Justin travelled to Svalbard, an archipelago close to the North Pole, and serenaded the glaciers with the most northerly cello performances in history. He is currently a PhD candidate in composition at Princeton University.

Hillary Bonhomme is a performer and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently working on a musical trilogy and corresponding graphic notations. Her work is influenced by Nina Simone, Meredith Monk, Phillip Glass, and Beverly Glenn-Copeland.

She enjoys collaborations with choreographers, filmmakers, and podcast-makers. She aims to use music as a 'third space' and social cavern in a divided world. Hillary has participated in residencies in the US and abroad. She was a recipient of the Pablo Vela Memorial Scholarship to participate in the Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble Program, where she developed her skills in experimental composing styles and furthered her interest in cultivating community through music. Based in New York’s thriving arts and culture scene, she additionally opts to present her work in spaces not catered to live music. She has been a featured act in art exhibitions, theatre festivals, and city gardens.

As a singer and multi-instrumentalist, her original compositions are currently being performed solo with looping, vocal fx, synths, keys, hand drums, and guitar. She has created 'glacial humming,' where her pieces serve as a curriculum for a music-social experience conducted by Hillary. The mission of 'glacial humming' is to achieve higher levels of consciousness around connection through musical play.

Highly interested in the solo and chamber repertoires of the XX and XXI centuries, the Brazilian pianist Alice Belém has already performed in Brazil, Portugal and Germany. She has recorded works of emerging and emblematic Brazilian contemporary composers for the projects ‘Brazilian Music’s Memory’, ‘Listen Here Festival’ and ‘I would like to hear...’. She has also premiered works and developed collaborations with composers from Latin America, United States and Japan.

Since 2022, Alice Belém has been developing interdisciplinary concerts joining music, video, dance and literature, aiming to rethinking the traditional concert experience. By collaborating with other performers, composers, video makers and dancers, Alice Belém aims to incorporate new creative methods and refresh her own performance skills through an interdisciplinary approach. Other key themes in her current work include the experimentation of extended piano techniques and reimagining works by other composers through contemporary lens.
Alice Belém concluded her PhD at the Music Department of the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil, and attended a Split-site doctoral program at the Cologne University of Music in Germany. She is currently a Professor at the School of Music of the State University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, where she teaches Piano, Chamber Music and Contemporary Music Performance.

Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of writing, drawing and architecture. She is the author of numerous books, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians, as well as three collections of drawings, Prose Architectures (2017), One Long Black Sentence (2020), and Plans for Sentences (2022). My Lesbian Novel, a work of fiction and autobiography, was released in 2024. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Architectural Review, POETRY, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and e-flux, in addition to several artist monographs and exhibition catalogs. Since 2017, Gladman has exhibited her works on paper in galleries in the U.S. and across Europe. She has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies from the Menil Drawing Institute, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others, and received a Windham-Campbell prize in fiction in 2021. She makes her home in the Connecticut River Valley.

Michel Savoie has been a stage costume cutter for almost 35 years. Having worked for all the performing arts, in cinema, television and circus he’s as passionate about historical costumes as for performance and fantasy costumes but his greatest joy is to collaborate artistically with different designers from all over the world. For a few years now he has devoted a part of his time at teaching students in the university programs of Theater and Fashion at UQAM but he’s still fully active at making beautiful costumes for many productions.

Laura Elliott is a longtime teacher, choreographer, producer, and activist within the Winnipeg community. She is the executive director of the Fat Babes Dance Collective, a co-producer of Skylines Dance and Film Series, and works full-time in the wardrobe department at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Within her role at the RWB she has had the deep privilege of creating and developing costumes for dancers of all levels, ages, abilities, and shapes. She has worked on classical projects such as Coppelia, Swan Lake, Etudes, and Don Quixote, and more contemporary works supporting artists such as Cameron Fraser Monroe, Gabriela Rehak, Sahel Pascual, Meredith Rainey, Yosuke Mino, Rachel Cooper, and Philippe Alexandre Jacques. She is deeply passionate about creating costuming that both suits the choreographic vision, and the artist who wears it.