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Molly Joyce’s music has been described as “serene power” (New York Times), written to “superb effect” (The Wire), and “impassioned” (The Washington Post). Her work is primarily concerned with disability as a creative source. She has an impaired left hand from a previous car accident, and the primary vehicle in her pursuit is her electric vintage toy organ, an instrument she bought on eBay which suits her body and engages her disability on a compositional and performative level.

Molly’s creative projects have been presented at TEDxMidAtlantic, Bang on a Can Marathon, Danspace Project, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, National Gallery of Art, Classical:NEXT, VisionIntoArt’s FERUS Festival, and featured in outlets such as Pitchfork, Red Bull Radio, WNYC’s New Sounds, and I Care If You Listen. Additionally, she has written for publications 21CM, Disability Arts Online, and collaborated across disciplines including with visual artists Lex Brown and Julianne Swartz, choreographers Melissa Barak and Jerron Herman, director Austin Regan, and writers Marco Grosse and Christopher Oscar Peña.

Molly is a graduate of The Juilliard School, Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Yale School of Music, alumnus of the National YoungArts Foundation, and currently serves on the composition faculty at New York University Steinhardt.

Dianne Berkun-Menakeris the founder and artistic director of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy (BYCA). Under her visionary leadership, BYC has become one of the most highly regarded ensembles in the country and has stretched the artistic boundaries for the youth chorus. Berkun-Menaker has prepared choruses for performances with acclaimed conductors, including Alan Gilbert, Lorin Maazel, Marin Alsop, James Levine, Charles Dutoit, and Robert Spano. Most notably, she prepared BYC for its 2002 debut with the New York Philharmonic in John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls, the cording for which the Chorus won a GRAMMY® Award in 2005.

Ms. Berkun-Menaker has also prepared the Chorus for appearances and recordings with artists such as Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Lou Reed, Philip Glass, Grizzly Bear, John Legend, Natasha Beding field, and Alicia Keys. She has developed an active commissioning program, born out of a desire to showcase the Chorus's versatility and uniquely beautiful sound and has collaborated with some of the most important composers of our time, including Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Julia Wolfe, Richard Reed Parry and Shara Worden. Ms. Berkun-Menaker is a regular choral clinician and teaching artist for such organizations as the New York Philharmonic and The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, and has also presented workshops and master classes for New York University, NYSSMA, the American Choral Directors Association, and the New York City Department of Education. She is the creator of the Chorus's Cross-Choral Training program, a proven holistic and experiential approach to developing singers in a group setting encompassing both voice and musicianship pedagogy.

Ms. Berkun-Menaker earned her B.S. degree in Music Education and Piano magna cum laude from New York University. She studied at Mannes College of Music, holds a diploma in the Kodály Concept from the University of Calgary, and the Artist-Teacher diploma from the CME Institute.

Zoe Aja Moore is an artist and director who makes new performance, theater, and opera. She uses practices that are both experimental and rigorous to make work that is visceral and visual, exploring new forms to locate story in the body and articulate a female experience. Her work has been presented by LACMA, REDCAT, Prototype Festival, Long Beach Opera, Studio Teatrgaleria Warsaw, Beth Morrison Projects, The Ford, SFMOMA, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Sawdust, HERE Art Center, CalArts’ Center for New Performance, National Gallery of Singapore, Williamstown Theater Festival, LAX Festival, the Tank, home LA, and the Theater at the Ace Hotel among others.As an educator Zoe has taught and been a guest artist at institutions that include University of Michigan, NYU, UCLA, CalState Dominguez Hills and CalArts. Originally from New York City, Zoe is a member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab and holds an MFA in Directing from the California Institute of the Arts.

A 2024 Grammy-nominated producer, recipient of the 2020 Musical America Award for Artist of the Year/Agent of Change and a Kennedy Center 50NEXT Honoree (2022), Beth Morrison is an opera-theatre producer and the President and Creative Producer of Beth Morrison Projects and the co-Founding Director of PROTOTYPE: Opera/ Theatre/ Now Festival. Morrison is noted as a “contemporary opera mastermind” (LA Times) and “a powerhouse leading the industry to new heights” (WQXR). Beth created Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) in 2006 to identify and support the work of emerging and established living composers, and to change the opera industry by cultivating a new generation of talent and telling the stories of our time. BMP has commissioned, developed, produced and toured over 65 works in 19 countries around the world, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning chamber operas Angel’s Bone (Du Yun/ Royce Vavrek) and p r i s m (Ellen Reid/Roxie Perkins). Opera News has noted, “More than any other figure in the opera industry, Beth Morrison has helped propel the art form into the twenty-first century." In 2013, Beth co-founded the PROTOTYPE Festival for which she serves as Artist Director, which has become “essential to the evolution of American opera” (New Yorker). Morrison is also in demand as a speaker both nationally and internationally and has delivered key note speeches for Classical:Next, Opera America, Opera Europa, Mannes School of Music/ The New School, among others. Morrison holds a Bachelor of Music from Boston University, a Master of Music from Arizona State University, and an MFA from Yale School of Drama. Beth is also a Lecturer at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.