Composer Websites

Jimmy Keane is an Irish music accordion virtuoso, born in London to Irish-speaking parents. He achieved success in competitive playing, winning five consecutive All-Ireland titles on the piano accordion. Keane is a collector and arranger of old tunes and is known for his original compositions. He has recorded and produced numerous albums. He was praised as the "savior of the piano accordion" by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and described as "one of the true giants of Irish traditional music of the past fifty years" by eMusic. He was named "Male Musician of the Year" by the Irish American News in 2010, and honored with the "Male Musician of the Decade" award by Live Ireland and the Irish American News in 2011. In 2023, he was honored in The Legends Series by Irish Music Magazine and presented The 2023 iBam Irish Music Award. He is a member of The Irish Rovers and performs with bohola and The Irish Music All-Stars.

J.Q. Whitcomb is a trumpet player and composer based in Cork, Ireland. He creates moods through his music, ranging from tenderness to exuberance. He has released two albums with his quintet Five Below, "Airports" (2010) and "Tales of Enchantment" (2014). J.Q. was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and started playing professionally as a teenager. He graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music with degrees in Jazz Performance and Chinese Language. He also holds a master's degree from The Juilliard School. He lived in Shanghai from 2003 to 2010 and was involved in the jazz scene there, including co-founding the JZ School.

Solveig Sørbø is a composer, music producer, and musician. She creates opera, chamber music, film scores, electronic music, as well as alternative fusion music with Pysj and atmospheric music with Naturhistorisk. Her music has been featured in audiovisual productions and festivals, and she scored the documentary film “Hans pluss Liv”. She is interested in mixing symphonic sections with electroacoustics and synthesized sounds, employing various tonalities and incorporating improvised elements and sonifications. Solveig wrote the opera Heroin Chic with Maria Kjos Fonn, which premiered in Romania in February 2025. In 2022, she released the song cycle Five Songs of the Bodied with Susanna Wolff.

Jamsheed Master is a composer of LGBTQIA+ choir music. He aims to be both popular and original in his work.

Johannes Haage was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany. He began playing violin at age 5, switching to guitar about eight years later. As a high school exchange student in Portland, Oregon, he started playing jazz regularly. He studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen before transferring to Berlin to finish his studies. He has studied with Bill Frisell, Brad Shepik, Ben Monder, Mark Turner, Dave Douglas, Drew Gress, and Ralph Alessi. Since 2002, he has been an active member of the jazz and improvised music scene in Berlin, playing with many musicians. He leads his own groups, including Johannes Haage´s P.O.5, the Slowtrio, and the Johannes Haage Trio. His current main band is the Trio DRIFT, which has four albums out on shoebill music.

Tim Corpus is a Filipino-American composer and arts manager. He is recognized for his compositions across concert music, film, and interactive media. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Bolshoi Theatre. As a film and media composer, he has scored over 30 films and episodic projects. He is also an orchestrator and arranger, preparing music for performers worldwide. Corpus serves as Executive Director for the Hyde Park Youth Symphony and the 2025 Ear Taxi Festival. He is also co-founder of the Society of Composers & Lyricists Chicago Chapter, Governor of the Recording Academy’s Chicago Chapter, and Board Member of the Illinois Council of Orchestras. He founded Attacca Publishing, LLC in 2012.

Gavin Arturo Gamboa is a composer and pianist based in Los Angeles. He works with code, visual art, and software. His interests include digital gardens, personal wikis, and music composition.

Marc Hoffman is a composer and performer of jazz, film, concert, theatrical, pop, choral, and gospel music. As a pianist and vocalist, Marc performs 200+ dates per year with a repertoire of original jazz and piano instrumental, and his own arrangements of standards, ballads, and pop. He performs as a soloist, with his trio, and with other ensembles at concerts, festivals, clubs, and other public and private events. Marc's music has been performed across the US and in the UK and Europe by orchestras, and other ensembles and soloists. He released Telegraph, a concert piece for woodwind trio, in November 2024. Marc is also founder and artistic director of the Salisbury School of Music, and lives in Salisbury, NC with his wife, Anne and daughter, August.

Earl MacDonald is a composer, jazz pianist, and music educator. He is currently creating a fully notated chamber song cycle with the Black Square Ensemble for operatic bass-baritone, cello, piano, and percussion. His work extends into collaborations with artists, institutions, and communities in settings where music meets education and civic inquiry. His engagements include artist-in-residence projects, commissioned composition and arranging, cross-disciplinary collaborations, performance projects and solo appearances, guest conducting, clinics and workshops, festival adjudication, educational residencies and summer programs, record production and creative consultation.

Jun is a composer, songwriter, and writer who creates stories and music in Japanese, English, Chinese, and Cantonese. Their music blends Japanese soundtracks and musical theatre. Jun aims to move audiences with memorable melodies and plain language, writing for themself and people they care about. Their work explores themes of kindness, hope, and love, even in dark situations, where characters feel understood and cherished. Jun also arranges music for musicians, plays various instruments (mostly string instruments), and creates music videos. They were born in Hong Kong in 1993.

Reilly Spitzfaden is a composer and programmer with an interest in noise, obsolete media, electronics, and nostalgia. They build handmade electronic instruments, design interactive software interfaces, and repurpose audio and telecommunications equipment as instruments. Reilly's compositions have been performed at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and the TaPIR Lab, and by BlackBox Ensemble, Apply Triangle, and others. Reilly's recordings appear on Apply Triangle’s release Oxalis Triangularis: Vol. 2 and elsewhere. Reilly is currently a lecturer in music technology, film and game scoring, and music business at SUNY Geneseo. They hold a PhD in composition from the Eastman School of Music.

John Ozbay is a designer, coder, and composer. He is the founder and CEO of Cryptee and an active contributor to Open Web Advocacy. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a master's in music & technology, Ozbay is an award-winning creator who attended the Oscars in 2016. His music has been aired in festivals and hundreds of radio stations globally, and he has millions of streams across popular music streaming platforms. He is a multiple Midas Gold Awards winner and Shorty Awards finalist. He excels in designing unique experiences and artifacts, using design, code, music, electronics, and robotics as a medium of art and expression.

Silvano Stralla is a software developer living in Turin with Greta. He has decades of experience developing software and teaching. For many years he worked as a freelance developer, then as an engineering manager and software architect. Currently, he works for DatoCMS as a developer. He works with web technologies, particularly HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and considers himself a full-stack developer. He has worked extensively with Ruby on the back-end. Silvano enjoys photography, bicycles, the mountains, writing, and traveling.

Rhyd Lewis is a consultant and musician based in Whitstable, UK. He is a passionate guitarist, musician, and consultant with over 20 years of experience in software engineering and product management. He helps organizations rethink how they deliver value to their customers, applying lean, agile, and systems thinking principles to solve complex problems. Rhyd is also a composer, creating music as himself and dabbling with synths and movie dialogue as his alter-ego, entMOOT. He also hosted the podcast Rethinking Work & Life.

Hammy Havoc is a composer for video games and motion picture product. He is the CEO of Split An Atom and Previous Magazine. He makes music as The Orion Correlation and co-founded Voidance Records. He is a developer and producer who scores film, TV, commercials, and video games, such as All Walls Must Fall (2018) and Manta (2022). He was a former writer for HuffPost. An active cypherpunk, he advocates the usage of open standards. He regularly creates and contributes to open source projects such as Cookie Dunker, and the Nunomo QUN synthesizer. He is based in Hoylake, Wirral.

Dan Palladino is a guitarist, vocalist and composer based in Central New Jersey. He began playing guitar at the age of seven and has performed publicly for 50 years. He has backed Broadway stars, opened for comedians, and performed with jazz groups, singer/songwriters, and R&B groups. Currently, Dan performs live with Acoustic NRG, an acoustic cover trio. Dan's latest release is the ambient album, *Lunar Currents*. In 2019, Dan released his first ambient album, *Pastoral Memory*, which was awarded Best Meditation Album of 2019 by New Age Music Guide, and Best Ambient Album of 2019 by One World Music Radio. From 2005 - 2022, Dan was on the music faculty at County College of Morris, where he taught music courses. He has also taught private guitar lessons for 35 years. Dan earned his Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music in 1985.

Stan Stewart is a pianist, composer, and songwriter who creates singer-songwriter and instrumental music. He improvises and adapts to situations, connecting with others through his creative tools. Some of his earliest memories are of playing the family baby grand piano and singing at church. He wrote his first composition on the piano at a young age and later taught himself guitar. He played in several bands while living in Europe and now writes and performs original music and poetry, often inspired by day-to-day interactions. He hopes to reach others who are unsure of their own creative process.

Steven Cravis is a pianist, composer and soundtracks producer in San Francisco. He is influenced by Sting, George Winston, Hans Zimmer and Andreas Vollenweider. His works have been heard in the award winning QUELL app, Calm app, Animal Planet, CBS, CNN, NBC, Matchroom Sport (UK) and more. He has released Soul Sampler Vol. VII and a 17 track piano album called Cloudwalker. Steven Cravis Radio is available on PANDORA (United States Only).

Muriel Anderson is a guitarist, harp guitarist, composer, and educator. Her album, Nightlight Daylight, was named one of the Top 10 CDs of the Decade by Guitar Player Magazine and won a dozen awards. She performs concerts and multimedia shows, and offers guitar workshops. She also has various products for sale including guitar box sets, t-shirts, a board game, and a cookbook.

Ben Tibbetts (born 1989) is a professional pianist and composer working in the Austin, Texas area. He specializes in collaborative performance and high-level improvisation as a piano accompanist. Ben teaches piano and composition lessons at Timbral Music Studios, the Armstrong Community Music School, and Premier Music Academy. He is a regular accompanist for classes at Ballet Austin and a frequent performer for events in the Austin area, including weekly services at the Trinity Church of Austin. Ben is also an active composer, arranger, and audio producer whose work has been featured in films, video games, and broadcast radio performances.

Martin Lass is an international pop violin virtuoso. He is known for crossing over from a classical background into rock classical, pop, gypsy music, love songs, Broadway, country, jazz, and original compositions. He won seven consecutive “Mo Awards” for Instrumental Excellence, as well as being awarded “Variety Club Showman of the Year.” Martin has performed alongside stars such as Julio Iglesias, Luciano Pavarotti, and George Benson, and has shared his mastery at three Royal Command Performances for the British Royal family. He has made over 200 appearances on Australian Television and has 11 CD recordings to his name. He recently won a Jury Prize in the Sydney International Piano Competition’s “Composing the Future” composition competition.

Fábio Luna was born in Rio de Janeiro in September 1974. He began studying guitar at age six, followed by flute, drums, and percussion. He studied music at UNI-RIO and joined Sivuca's band in 1997, playing percussion and drums. He has released three instrumental works, including "MACUNGUÊ-ARÁ" in 2003 and "Forró e choro Vol.I" with Marcelo Caldi. In 2014, he released the EP "Macunguê 2." He has performed with numerous musicians, including Hamilton de Holanda and Dominguinhos. He was invited to Copenhagen in 2009 with the band Caraivana to represent Brazilian music. In 2009, he released an album of his songs. He joined the vocal quartet Os Cariocas in 2010, playing drums, flute, and singing. He currently performs with Quarteto do Rio and Caraivana.

Nicole Dieker Finley is a writer, musician, and freelancer. She has been a freelance writer since 2012, focusing on personal finance and personal development. Nicole is also a classically trained musician and composer with an MFA in theater directing. She wrote the “On the Money” advice column and the “Money Talks” interview series at Vox, and previously contributed to the “Money Matters” advice column at Morning Brew. Nicole is the author of *Frugal and the Beast* and *The Biographies of Ordinary People*, and she completed a four-volume inquiry called *WHAT IT IS and WHAT TO DO NEXT*. She also wrote *The Larkin Day Mysteries* series. Her secular benediction “I Wish You Peace” has been a part of university choral repertoire since 2001.

Chris P. Thompson is a composer and percussionist whose work draws from electronic music, marching percussion, and contemporary classical music. His influences include growing up in California’s Silicon Valley and being part of the New York City contemporary music scene. He released his 5th solo album, Stay the Same, in April 2024. He is a member of Alarm Will Sound and has been a long-time member of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble. He has toured internationally as a performer with Tyondai Braxton’s HIVE and participated in the world premieres of over a hundred new works. He is a graduate of UCLA and The Juilliard School, where he studied with Mitchell Peters and Daniel Druckman.