Category: Collaborators

Elliot Cole

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Elliot Cole, Composition & Vocals

Elliot Cole (*1984) is a composer and “charismatic contemporary bard” (NY Times).  He has performed his music with Grammy Winners Roomful of Teeth, Grammy Nominees A Far Cry and Metropolis Ensemble, as well as the Chicago Composers Orchestra, New Vintage Baroque, the Lucerne Festival Academy, and as a member of the book-club-band Oracle Hysterical.  His percussion music has been performed by over 250 percussion ensembles all over the world.  In 2017 he was invited by Talks at Google to share his unique approach to music through computer programming.  He is on faculty at the The New School and Juilliard Evening Division, and is Program Director of Musicambia at Sing Sing, where he runs a music school for incarcerated men.

Danny Clay

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Danny Clay, composition

Danny Clay is a composer and teaching artist from Ohio, currently based in San Francisco. His work is deeply rooted in play, curiosity, and the sheer joy of making things, in collaboration with everyone from professional ensembles to classrooms of elementary schoolers. His projects often include musical games, open forms, found objects, archival media, graphic notation, homemade instruments, digital errata, cross-disciplinary research, and the everything-in-between. Recent collaborators include Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Youth Speaks, Third Coast Percussion, 826 Valencia, Post:Ballet, Sarah Cahill, Phyllis Chen, the Living Earth Show, and Friction Quartet. As a teaching artist, he has worked with the San Francisco Opera, Little Opera, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the John Adams Young Composers Program at the Crowden School.

Kyle Flens

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kyle flens, percussion

Kyle Flens, (b.1991, Baltimore, MD), is a multi-faceted percussionist. Based in Chicago IL, he is a member of the chamber music collective Ensemble Dal Niente. As a performer Kyle gravitates to experimental music written by composers of our time. This gravitation has led to concerts across the Western Hemisphere. Concert highlights include the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enriquez (Mexico City, Mexico), the MetLiveArts concert series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the LA Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), the 5th International Festival of Percussion Ensembles (San José, Costa Rica), Institutio Inhotim (Minas Gerais, Brazil), and the Phillips Collection’s concert series (Washington DC). As an advocate for teaching about experimental music he has been in educational residencies at University of California Davis, The Walden School, Brandeis University, Brown University, Stanford University, and the University of Maryland. Kyle performs on Pearl Drums and Adams Percussion Instruments, and is honored to be an endorsed artist.