School of Music

Chris Ryan Williams is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in NYC  and is most at home collaborating with contemporary improvisers and experimentalists. He has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. His work explores the dyad of ancestral trauma and power existing in all Black Americans. Williams has been the recipient of many grants and has been in residence with BANFF Centre for the Arts, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, CultureHub, Atlantic Center for the Arts, WasteLAnd, and others. He has collaborated with creators including Eyvind Kang, Joanna Mattrey, Miriam Parker, Patrick Shiroishi, Bennie Maupin, Nicole Mitchell, Fay Victor, Wendy Eisenberg, Luke Stewart, Amanda Beech, Marjani Forte-Saunders, and Eric Revis.
 

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Kubilay Uner makes adventurous, eclectic, colorful music for media ranging from film and television to concerts and records. He blends acoustic, synthetic and found sounds, builds his own instruments, bends tempos, layers noise, mixes metaphors, and is generally convinced that good music only happens when you mix things up.
 

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Babatunde Akinboboye, a Nigerian American Baritone, is celebrated for his diverse talents, enthralling stage presence, and innovative approach. He has graced prestigious stages, including the Los Angeles Opera, Portland Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Utah Opera. Babatunde's notable debuts include portraying Niimki in The Industry's world premiere production of Sweet Land and captivating audiences as Mattias Reyes in the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Central Park Five. Recent highlights feature his performances as Valentin in Detroit Opera's Faust and Escamillo in Pacific Opera Project’s Carmen.

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Delbert Anderson brings back the improvisation of the Diné Spinning Songs with modern jazz and funk. Inspired by the Diné social circle, Anderson continues to create new songs with a multi-cultured group known as the Anderson Quartet.

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 Mali Obomsawin is one of GRAMMY.com’s “top ten Jazz Artists to Watch this year.” An award winning bassist, songwriter, and composer from Odanak First Nation, Obomsawin’s stunning debut, Sweet Tooth (2022, Out of Your Head), received international acclaim and was named in “best of” lists from The Guardian, JazzTimes, and NPR. Sweet Tooth’s success has brought Obomsawin’s touring sextet to major jazz festivals across the US and Canada, and landed her a triple-feature in the hit Hulu FX series Reservation Dogs’ soundtrack.

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Adrianne Pope is a violinist and artist based in Los Angeles. As a chamber musician and promoter of new music, she is a member of the Grammy-nominated new music collective Wild Up and a founding member of Aperture Duo with violist Linnea Powell. In addition to her chamber music projects, Adrianne spends her time recording for film and television, playing with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra as a tenured section violinist, and teaching.

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"Trio Through the Looking-Glass" is inspired by the highly-nuanced chamber jazz trio of Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Brookmeyer and Jim Hall. It's members include Brian Walsh on woodwinds, Derek Stein on cello and Mike Fink on guitar and bass VI.

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