JOSEPH BRENNAN has composed works for voice, choir, solo instruments, assorted chamber groupings and for documentary film . His music has been performed by the Ensemble Green, Rachel Rudich, Genevieve Lee, Jack Sanders, Susan Allen, William Powell, Vicki Ray, the New Centry Players, Thomas Buckner, Robert Black and others. He writes mostly acoustic music, but has written a few works using the interactive software MAX/MSP. Brennan is currently employed in the music department at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. and is active as a freelance recording engineer and music technology consultant. Brennan holds the MFA in music composition from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA in music from California State University. His principal teachers have included Mel Powell , Stephen L. Mosko, Karl Kohn and Larry McFatter

TOM HIELhotel near airport Turin Hiel is best known as a film and television composer, composing scores for "You're Killing Me", (Automatic Media, 1999), starring Julie Bowen, Traci Lords, and Neal McDonough, "Swimming with Sharks", (Trimark, 1995), starring Kevin Spacey; "Dark Side of Genius", (Paramount Home Video, 1994) starring Finola Hughes; "First To Go" (Overseas FilmGroup, 1996) starring Mark Harmon; "The Louie Show", (CBS/Shukovsky-English, 1996) starring Louie Andersen. Hiel is currently an orchestrator on "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" coming out this from Universal. Previously Hiel has performed solo improvisatory piano and electronic music nation-wide. His electronic music performances have included the opening of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden under commission from the Walker Art Center, Northwestern University, Nova Express in Los Angeles. Hiel has performed his solo piano improvisatory work at many Colleges and Universities, nominated twice for Jazz Artist of the Year by the National Association for Campus Activities. Other awards and honors include two New Music Composer and New Music Performer nominations for the Minnesota Music Association, First Place for his Concerto in A minor for Piano and Orchestra by the Minnesota Music Teachers Association which was given him at the age of 13. Hiel has an MFA from theCalifornia Institute of the Arts studying in music composition, and conducting with Stephen L. Mosko and music composition with Morton Subotnick. He also studied piano and composition with Herbert Wigley in Minnesota. Hiel holds a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota.

STEVEN HOEY Hoey has been awarded the Meet-The-Composer grant for his piece, ". . . the ties that bind . . .", which was commissioned by Marcella DeCray and premiered in San Francisco in 1996. The work was performed during the Summer of 1998 along with a chamber ensemble piece, "Primer", by the Nieuw Ensemble of the Netherlands. Mr. Hoey's solo harp work, "Sudden Travel", was written for Susan Allen and will be premiered at Merkin Hall in New York City in October. Ms. Allen will also be performing Mr. Hoey's works in Mexico City in November. Mr. Hoey has had numerous works performed by The CalArts New Century Players, and his recent work, "SpectraLines" was performed in August 1998 by The California E.A.R. Unit. Steven Hoey recently completed his graduate composition studies at CalArts where his primary teachers were Mel Powell and Stephen Mosko. While at CalArts Hoey was the recipient of the Betty Freeman Foundation Scholarship in Composition, and his work, "A Peal of Shadows" was chosen as part of the CalArts Performance & Composition CD Competition in 1997. . Prior to coming to California to pursue composition, Hoey studied at Harvard University and at Oxford University in England as a Marshall Scholar. After a career in international management consulting, Hoey began writing music.

PATRICIO da SILVA was born in Alcobaa, Portugal on January 17, 1973. Mr. da Silva's compositions have been heard at the California Institute of the Arts, Indiana University, and in Europe. He received formal musical training at the Lisbon College of Music where he studied piano and composition. He holds an MFA from CalArts studying composition with Morton Subotnick, Stephen L. Mosko and the late Mel Powell. He is currently a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara studying with William Kraft. Mr. da Silva was awarded the first prize at the V Concurso Nacional de Piano Maria Campina (1990), and more recently a Betty Freeman Foundation Scholarship.