Adam Anderson

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Hello! I am Adam Anderson. I originally began composition as a hobby in my years of middle school—though it was primarily improvised, unnotated, and not recorded. This changed throughout my secondary education, however, as I studied composition in my free time. I started with music theory, but it soon evolved into a full study of the elements of composition and music as a whole. Orchestration, harmony, counterpoint, music history—all of these were extremely interesting to me, and it was then that I decided to pursue composition. As of now, I am a university student at Northern Arizona University, wherein I am studying composition with Dr. Bruce Reiprich.

Outside of music, I am also a writer in my free time, though this is mainly a hobby. I also have a sincere and ever-growing interest in subjects pertinent to geography, linguistics, philosophy, and cultural studies.

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Betty Booher

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Betty Booher studies composition at Portland State University with Professor Renée Favand-See and jazz voice with Professor Sherry Alves. She played soprano and alto sax with the PSU Jazz Band, and currently plays in two jazz combos and also sings in the advanced choir. In addition, she identifies as the ‘squawk’ half of the jazz duo Bellows & Squawk.

Betty holds a BA in Music from Reed College, where she played oboe and English horn, and is an alumna of the Portland Youth Philharmonic. In the years when she worked in the corporate arena, she continued to play oboe and English horn in several Portland-area community orchestras. She studied with Karen Wagner, of the Oregon Symphony.

In adding jazz studies to her classical background, Betty combines these varying influences in her approach to composition, and often incorporates vocal parts into her chamber music.

Her current projects include a chamber opera for choir, small instrumental ensemble and solo voices, a reed quintet, a short orchestral elegy to honor a bassoonist friend who passed away recently, and a duet for xylophone and English horn. Returning to school had been a longtime goal of hers, and she’s delighted to have the chance to tell stories through the medium of music.

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Sergei Khvorostianov

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Sergei Khvorostianov was born in 2002 in Moscow, Russia. In 2020, he finished his studies at the Gnessin Special Music School in Moscow. He studied composition with Vyacheslav Osminin and Ekaterina Khmelevskaya. Laureate of international bassoon competitions and of composition competitions. Participant of the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition. Participant of masterclasses on composition by Professor A.Tchaikovsky, K.Bodrov, P.Klimov, V.Voronov, Patrick De Clerck. Participant of the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra (Verbier, Switzerland), ISA (international Summer Academy, Payerbach, Austria) - 2019,2021. Founder of the classical music concert series «Immersion Musicale» in Lausanne, Switzerland, he is currently a student at the Lausanne High School of Music in the class of Professor Carlo Colombo and continues to compose and conduct.

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Daniel Kim

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Daniel is an aspiring composer whose works range from classical to contemporary, film to game. His works draw influence from composers such as Korngold, Prokofiev, Williams, Larkin, and Yuuji. Daniel's music tends to be heavily thematic with a focus on manipulating motivic material. He mainly enjoys writing for chamber ensembles such as the UT New Music Ensemble, Press Start Orchestra, and US Naval Academy Band. Daniel is currently a member of the Asian Memory Project, writing and arranging music for Asian-inspired and family events.

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Prin Varojtecha

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Born in Bangkok, Thailand, Prin Varojtecha began his musical path as a young child studied classical piano in 2016. He started to be interested in composition during his high school at the Young Artists Music Program and has been majoring in music composition since. He began his composition lessons with Dr. Arsid Ketjuntra at grade 11 and later on studied with Dr. Narong Prangcharoen until present. During his time at the Young Artists Music Program, he passed the grade 8 piano examinations of the International Examinations board of Trinity College London. In 2021, he received the 1st prize from Siam Sinfonietta Young Composers' Competition with his orchestra piece. In 2022, he received Distinguished prize from Young Thai Artist Award by and he was commissioned and premiered by Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra in 2023, the piece called Macrocosm.

Prin’s Varojtecha’s music is always related to science, mysterious theories, or concepts that might exist but for which we still can’t find answers. Perhaps it’s his signature style that will further develop in the future. He is now pursuing his bachelor's degree at the College of Music, Mahidol University.

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