Stephen Towns was born in 1980 in Lincolnville, South Carolina, and received a Bachelor of Fine Art in painting from the University of South Carolina. His work has been exhibited nationally, including solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Galerie Myrtis, York College, Goucher College, as well as group exhibitions at Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, August Wilson Cultural Center, Arlington Art Center, The David C. Driskell Center, Montpelier Arts Center, Star- Spangled Banner Flag House and Museum.
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Ed Hrybyk is an upright and electric bassist, composer, arranger, and educator emerging fromthe Baltimore/DC area. Ed graduated from Baltimore School for the Arts in 2006 where hestudied classical bass with Laura Ruas. He graduated from the University of the Arts in 2010 with an undergraduate degree in jazz bass performance. Under the tutelage of Craig Thomasand Steve Beskrone, Ed received the Jymie Menitt Bass Award.
Samuel Burt is a composer in Baltimore. He's composed works for orchestra, small groups, piano, and electronic music. He is an improviser on clarinet, bass clarinet, and daxophone. He is a professor at Towson and Johns Hopkins Universities.
Burt obtained degrees in music composition from the Peabody lnstitute and university of Georgia. He studied with Lewis Nielson, Leonard Ball, Geoffrey Wright, and Christopher Theofanidis.
Baltimore-based percussionist and performer Adam Rosenblatt has a penchant for finding interesting and uncommon ways to present and perform contemporary music. He has a keen interest for growing an interdisciplinary performance practice, believing that a mix of media and art forms can speak more directly and powerfully to our current modern context.
ellen cherry is a singer, songwriter, musician, designer, artist, producer, recording engineer, and human. Emmy nominated Song and Story Alchemist, ellen cherry (lowercase letters intentional!) is a full-time touring and working performer based in Baltimore, MD. In 2018, ellen co-produced a podcast that examines fame and celebrity from a working musician's viewpoint, called "Why Aren't You Famous?" In 2017, ellen presented a new touring project called Portraits in Song.
Amadou Kouyate is the 150th generation of the Kouyate family of Manding Diali (oral historians/musicians of West Africa) and the first generation born of his father’s lineage in America. Amadou performs a musical montage on the 21-string Kora, and rhythmic presentations on Djembe and Koutiro drums. His repertoire ranges from traditional songs from the 13th century to contemporary original compositions incorporating blues and jazz riffs.
Hailed by JazzTimes as one of the most "original saxophone voices” of his generation, Gary Thomas has secured a central place in jazz history.
As a saxophonist, flutist, composer and educator, Thomas is absolutely second to none. One of the few true pioneers of our time, his contributions place him in a class of wholly individual artists who have simultaneously set the technical standard for and reinvented the language of their art. His resume evidences this, as he has worked extensively with the top names in the business, including:
Degree in Architecture from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and in City Planning from MIT. Emeritas professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland. Weaver of MAXIMILIAN scarves.
James Patrick Sheehan lives in Baltimore City. His produced plays include one-acts Holidays In, Ball Lightning and Urban Pioneers; full-length comedies R.G.B. and Random Dríft, or the Finches of Galapagos; and the two-man show Wicked Pudding (co-written with Ed Valentine). His plays have been presented in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Baltimore.
He also has written libretti for two chamber operas, Dummy (Gil Kline, composer)and The Window Seat (Kendall Kennison, composer), both of which received premieres at Goucher College.
Ms. Perrin is a MFA graduate from Towson University where she wrote her thesis on the advantages of being a self-producing playwright. Her first episode of Dyke Tracy, Detective ("Murder Most Vile in Fakesville") has been shown at an international festival in Bratislava and produced by several states, including Maryland. She has been selected twice (2017 & 2018) by Fells Point Corner Theatre to be part of their 10x10x10 Festival and by Rapid Lemon Productions for their 2017 Variations on Magic festival.