Angela Elizabeth Slater is a UK-based composer and Director of Illuminate Women’s Music. She has an interest in musically mapping different aspects of the natural world into the fabric of her music.

Recent significant achievements include being selected for the Royal Philharmonic Society Composer programme for 2021-22, 2020-22 Tanglewood Composition Fellow, and a 2017-18 Britten-Pears Young Artist through which Angela worked with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi. Angela was the 2019 Mendelssohn Scholar at New England Conservatory (Boston) and has continued to have performances of her works across the US, including the world premiere of Roil in Stillness by the New England Philharmonic.

In 2021 she wrote two new works for Royal Scottish National Orchestra, alongside six new solo works for the Connected skies project funded by Arts Council England. In Autumn 2022 Angela is looking forward to the performance of her piano concerto Tautening skies supported by PRS Foundation, the Ambache Charitable Trust, and the RVW Trust. In 2022 she is also developing a new accordion concerto working with accordionist Sanja Mlinarič. Her clarinet quintet called The Light Blinds was premiered by Ensemble 360 at Music in the Round as part of the RPS Composers 2021-22 programme. In July of this year, she also had premiere performance of her viola concerto, Through the fading hour, given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with the soloist Richard Waters.

Looking ahead to 2023 she is looking forward to the world premiere of her orchestra work Unravelling the crimson sky, a CBSO commission as part of their Sound New programme for their centenary celebrations.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Adrian Wong (b. 1999) creates engaging and moving music full of imagery, drama, and unapologetic conviction. Adrian takes inspiration from a wide array of subjects, from the impending climate crisis to matters of identity and social justice, as well as life’s smaller things, from the lullabies his mother sang to his favorite foods’ tastes and textures.

Adrian’s pieces have been performed or recorded by ensembles such as the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, h2 Saxophone Quartet, and the NOTUS Contemporary Vocal Ensemble. He has also been commissioned by Hub New Music, the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild, Cong Quartet, and NOĒMA, among others. He is a winner of the Red Note New Music Festival Composition Competition, the American Prize in Composition, and the Hong Kong New Generation Composition Competition.

Adrian is currently pursuing a M.M. in composition at the Curtis Institute of Music where he is the Milton L. Rock Composition Fellow, studying with Amy Beth Kirsten, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Nick DiBerardino, Richard Danielpour, and Steve Mackey. Adrian received a B.M. in music composition at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, studying with Bright Sheng and Kristin Kuster.

Bracha Bdil (1988), is a composer, conductor, and pianist, winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Composition (Israel, 2022) and the ACUM Award (2019). Her repertoire spans different mediums including orchestral music, chamber, vocal and electronic music.

Bracha's compositions have won several first prizes, among them: MaestrosVision Awards International Composition Competition, China (2022); The International Symphony Orchestra Composition Contest named after Michal Kleofas Oginski, Molodechno, Belarus; The Electo Silva International Choir Festival, Santiago de Cuba; Donne In Musica XVIII Composition Competition, Belgrade; the VIII and the IX International Piano & Composition Competition, ULJUS, Smederevo, Serbia (2021); the Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award, Germany (2018) and the Yardena Alotin Composition Competition, Bar-Ilan University, Israel (2016).

Bracha's composition Yizkerem (May Our Lord Remember Them), for a cappella choir, represented Israel at the Asian Composers League Festival, Taiwan (2018). Yizkerem was also awarded a prize in the III International Composer Competition “New Music Generation", Kazakhstan (2021) and in the International Choral Writing Competition named after A.D Kastalsky – Moscow (2018).

Bracha Bdil is a member of the Israel Composers' League, her works are broadcast on the Israel Radio Voice of Music program and published by the Israel Music Institute.

Bracha has been a lecturer for the faculty of music at the Levinsky College of Music Education, the Jerusalem College, and at the Ron Shulamit Conservatory, she has also worked as a pianist in dance classes at the Wingate College and in theater performances. Beginning in the fall of 2018, Bracha became the artistic director and chief conductor of the Zmora Women's Orchestra in Jerusalem.

Site and list of works: http://brachabdil.blogspot.com/p/list-of-compositions.html