Artists

Kate Ambacher is currently an active freelance flutist in the Washington, DC region. Originally from New Jersey, Katie also lived in Philadelphia for many years, performing with Harrisburg and Lancaster Symphonies, various chamber ensembles, and at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Since moving to DC, Kate has played flute and piccolo with Apollo Orchestra, Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Opera NOVA, and Signature and Olney Theaters, among others. She still makes time for music (and pizza) in Philly whenever she can.

Sean Bailey, Ph.D. enjoys an active, interdisciplinary musical life in the Philadelphia area, engaging with the field of musical creativity in ever-evolving contexts: including roles as an audio engineer, composer, educator, performer, and technologist—making music at the intersection of technology and the creative spirit.

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Massachusetts native Ross Bellenoit is a guitarist, record producer, and teacher that has been living in Philadelphia for 23 years. After graduating University of the Arts with a jazz studies degree in 2007, he has gone on to produce upwards of 50 records for independent Philadelphia musical artists. He has produced content for various children’s music platforms such as Toniebox and Omoberry. He was commissioned by the Philadelphia Jazz Project, which yielded a song-suite utilizing the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, and was music director for the Philadelphia Centennial concert celebrating 100 years of music in Philadelphia. He has toured internationally with Amos Lee, Joseph Parsons and has appeared on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion” and “Mountain Stage” numerous times.

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Viola Bordon is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia whose work examines transformation across material, ecological, and social systems. Raised in South India as the child of missionaries, she approaches land and material as sites shaped by belief and power. Her practice includes quilting and environmental installations, drawing on methods of reuse, endurance, and collaboration. Through projects supported by the Fulbright Commission and work with community-based organizations, she explores how cycles of making mirror broader ecological and political change. Bordon’s teaching and research emphasize tactile knowledge and the quiet radicality of sustained attention to material and processes.

Micha Boyett is the author of Blessed Are the Rest of Us and Found: A Story of Questions, Grace, and Everyday Prayer. A poet and disability advocate, she writes about prayer and the wonder of ordinary life.

Bethany Danel Brooks is a musician, teacher, and liturgy-crafter living in Prague, Czech Republic. She has performed as a soloist and collaborative pianist throughout North America, the UK, and Europe. With violinist Samuel Nebyu, she recorded Music by Composers of African Descent (BCM&D Records, 2017). She has premiered numerous works by Joshua Stamper, including as a member of the ensemble color as time.

For ten years, Bethany was Director of Musical Worship at City Church, Philadelphia, where she developed a passion for letting the gifts of composers, visual artists, and local musicians enrich congregational worship. In 2012 she released Quarry Street Hymnal, a recording project of sacred music which was shaped by her years in Philadelphia’s roots music scene. Her essay “The Discipline of Delight” was published in the book It Was Good:Making Music to the Glory of God (Square Halo Press, 2013).

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Award-winning saxophonist Mike Cemprola is an in-demand member of the Washington, DC and Philadelphia music scenes. He he has performed/recorded with The Mike Cemprola Quartet, the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Fresh-Cut Orchestra, the co-led quartet Gunshow, Norman David and the Eleventet, Color as Time, and a host of other creative ensembles. Since 2016, he’s been the jazz alto saxophonist for the United States Air Force’s Airmen of Note. In addition to being a member of these groups, he has performed with the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra, Christian McBride, Branford Marsalis, Kenny Barron, Larry McKenna, and many other jazz icons.

Evan Chapman has built a multifaceted career across both the film and music industries, most notably as a founding member of percussion-driven trio Square Peg Round Hole and film production company Four/Ten Media. As a solo artist and with Square Peg Round Hole and indie-pop band Lydia, he has toured extensively across the U.S., performing at festivals such as SXSW, Treefort, and Bunbury, and at Lincoln Center alongside legendary minimalist composer Steve Reich. His work with Square Peg Round Hole has been praised by NPR, and his 2024 solo album Reveries, released on Better Company Records, blends contemporary-classical, electronic, and post-rock into a genre-defying sonic world. He is endorsed by Zildjian Cymbals, Vic Firth, and Evans Drumheads.

Elisa Chodan is a singer, music educator, and music therapist based in Philadelphia and Lancaster, PA. Current projects include leading music therapy initiatives that join youth with elders with dementia to explore music making, relationship building, and mental health through singing. Elisa holds a BS in Music Education, MMus in Voice Performance, and an MA in Music Therapy and Counseling.

Melissa Choi is a Philadelphia-based freelance stylist and fashion designer specializing in embellishment design. She holds a B.S. in Fashion Design from Philadelphia University and has designed for brands including Free People, Anthropologie, and Urban Outfitters. She also co-designed her own label, Senpai + Kohai.

Melissa previously lived and worked in India, where she focused exclusively on embellishment design, developing the skills that have become a defining element of her practice.

Melissa has an ongoing collaborative creative project, Choi Lin, with her husband, Isaac Tin Wei Lin.

Websites:

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Andrew E. Colarusso is author of The Sovereign (2017), Hívado (2022), Black Body Index (2024), and Pettyg-d (2026). He is the owner of Taylor & Co. Books, an indie bookstore in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, where he grew up.

Kendall Cox is a professor, writer, and artist living on the Main Line of Philadelphia. She studied Studio Art and Religion and has her MDiv and PhD in Religious Studies. Kendall teaches ethics and aesthetics in the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University, where she is involved with the gallery and arts programming. Her ten-year-old has mostly taken over the studio now, so they often paint and print together. 

Calvin Cummings is a writer from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His fiction and poetry are featured in (or forthcoming from) The Hopkins Review, The Arkansas International, Volume Ø, Blue Arrangements, SARKA, Soft Union, Haskell Industries and elsewhere. A standalone chapbook of his short story, “Gifts of the Spirit,” is forthcoming from Peter Books Press in 2026. Besides participating in Presence & Mystery, he is a regular participant at Storyfort, the literary component of the Treefort Music Festival in Boise, Idaho. Work on a currently untitled novel-in-progress has received sponsorship from the Turner Research Awards at the University of Baltimore. He is also the host of the reading series Green House Prayer Group, which connects Baltimore’s diverse audience of readers to emerging and established literary voices.

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John Cunningham leads a culture-engagement fund dedicated to connecting ideas with broader public life. He lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife, three children, and one dog. He wants to talk to you about food, wine, or books.

davy is the recording project of singer-songwriter + producer duo Megan and Daniel Tavani. The Boston-based couple weaves their classical background with indie-folk & alt-pop idioms to depict stories of life, grief, faith, and love. Daniel is an independent music producer, audio engineer, and multi-instrumentalist, touring with artists such as Owl City and Josh Garrels. Megan enjoys an eclectic freelance career as a vocalist, cellist, and songwriter, most recently recording and performing with the Porter’s Gate. They have been on tour with Jon Guerra since 2025 and are set to release their debut album later this year.

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Michael Dechane is the author of The Long Invisible (Wildhouse Publishing, 2024). His poetry has appeared in Image, Spiritus, Tar River Poetry, Lake Effect, and elsewhere. He lives in the historic Stackhouse home in Marshall, NC.

Janelle is a multimedia artist specializing in graphic design and cinematography, drawn to stories that sit at the intersection of music, community, and social change. Her video work includes Storming (forthcoming on Independent Lens), PBS docuseries Getting Off the Streets, Live on KEXP, and At: Guitar Center. Her illustration and design work spans the full breadth of human endeavor — from global NGOs to Trader Joe’s. She is currently Art Director and Graphic Designer at inquisitive Magazine by Heterodox Academy — where she wrangles esoteric ideas into well-behaved visuals. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children, and can usually be found reading, daydreaming and staring at the sky.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, spiritual director, and gatherer. Her work has woven together themes of belonging, art, and soul exploration for more than 25 years. With a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and a certificate in spiritual direction, Charlotte guides writers and other creative souls in developing sanctuaries of acceptance and connection.

In 2020, Broadleaf Books published Charlotte’s first book, The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. Spiritual Direction for Writers: Everyday Rituals for Your Writing Life is slated for release by Here Below in September 2026. Three volumes of Charlotte’s “Guidebooks for the Soul”—Take More Retreats, The Great Belonging Project, and Belonging Through Art—will also be published in 2026.

Her essays have been featured in publications such as The Washington Post, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, and The Millions, among others. A new essay about art conservation, Joan Mitchell, and mystery is forthcoming in Image journal.

Abigail Engel lives in Haddon Heights, NJ with her husband (Nick) and dog (Gertrude). She is an active and enthusiastic member of the Resurrection community. She holds a BFA from NYU and a Certificate in Screenwriting from Chapman University.  

Katie‘s background is in music, non-profits, and ministry. She is a singer-songwriter, but spends most of her time clowning around for her children. For 15 years, Katie led worship in a variety of settings and recorded and performed her own pop/rock music (under the name Everhart), before stepping back from music for nearly a decade when performance anxiety became too difficult to endure. The fact that Katie is even on this project is a testament to God’s healing work and she’d love to tell you about it sometime. Katie enjoys all forms of physical activity, conversation, reading, and comedy. She loves watching God work wonders in hidden places.

Isak Gaines is an award-winning composer, producer, audio engineer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has collaborated with artists like Michael Brook (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) and Donald Palma (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra), and was mentored by Grammy-winning producer and arranger Robert Sadin (Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter). He has performed at major venues around the world including Auditorio Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, The Guggenheim Museum in NYC, and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia. In 2025 he composed the original score for Lisse – a contemporary ballet which premiered in a run of five shows at the Joyce Theater in New York. His work has been recognized by organizations like the International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition, ASCAP, Downbeat Magazine, and the Tribeca New Music Festival. Born and raised in Seattle, he moved to NYC at age 19 to study music performance and composition at The New School. After graduating, he relocated to Philadelphia, where he currently resides.

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Laurel Garver is the author of the poetry collection Muddy-Fingered Midnights and three novels: Never Gone, Ever Near, and Almost There. She is managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature (Indiana UP) and a freelance editor in Philadelphia.

Ashton Gooding is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work focuses on human interactions within a populous city. The overall theme of each collection gives the subject a constructive platform while soliciting positive feelings from the viewer. Today and moving forward, he seeks to have his images look and feel as if they embody the quiet moments of everyday life; the moments we could spend a little more time with if we were not in such a rush. In his free time, he is also spearheading a photo community in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn at Taylor & Co. Bookstore; a monthly gathering for photographers with each meeting centered around a photo book. Throughout the year, he is an acting director of the Camera of the Month Club; a unique gathering of dedicated photographers from across NYC and a supportive space for emerging to mid-career photographers to share their work, receive critical feedback, and develop their portfolios.

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Audrey Gorton is a writer and bookmaker who has lived all along the east coast. Her work explores endings, grief, and prayer, urging the reader to examine the expiry of all things. Audrey’s poetry has appeared in Catacombs Press, Volume III and Apricity Magazine, and she received an honorable mention in the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Prize. She has been a judge for the Princemere Poetry Prize for two years running.

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Belgian-American violinist, Maximilian Haft resides in Geneva, Switzerland and has lived on the European continent since 2009. A multifaceted musician, Max specializes in contemporary repertoire and improvisation. He has performed on major stages and intimate venues across Europe, North America, South America, Australia and the Middle East. As a soloist, Max has performed and premiered contemporary violin concertos with the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, The Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Collegium Novum Zurich, and the Kosovo Philharmonic. Max has held the position of violin solo with Ensemble Contrechamps since 2015 and is a founding member of Ensemble Proton Bern, two new music institutions based in Switzerland. Max has performed, recorded and collaborated with a diverse cast of jazz, electronic, pop, and folk musicians including Marc Ribot, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Roscoe Mitchell, Eef van Breen, Matmos, Colin Self, Tesla, White Hinterland, Anais Mitchell, Maya Hawke, and Sam Amidon. Max studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music pre college division with Zaven Melikian and Wei He. He has a Bachelor’s in Violin Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he studied with Masuko Ushioda†. He graduated with a Master’s degree cum laude from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague having studied with Vera Beths. He is a native of Sacramento California.

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Claire Holley grew up listening to her Dad’s classical and country records, as well as her Mississippi grandmother’s jazz piano playing. She started writing songs in college and, thanks in part to WUNC, stumbled into a career in music. Her self-titled debut from Yep Roc Records was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition, and Huffington Post called Claire’s voice “achingly beautiful.” Her latest album, WHERE I LIVED, includes “Beauty School,” an homage to the late Dolly Parton. She lives in Los Angeles and will soon be releasing an album of Taizé songs featuring Debby Boone and Kate Higgins.

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Dot Jackson (née Vile) is a multidisciplinary artist from Philadelphia, working with fiber, construction material, and artist books to investigate themes of the body and the home. Dot is a founding member of Mouse, an artist-run gallery in Detroit, MI. She earned her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, most recently in NYC, England, and Iceland.
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 Annelise Jolley is an award-winning essayist and journalist and author of the forthcoming book Mother of Flesh and Blood, which reimagines Mary through the eyes of early motherhood. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction and lives in California with her family.

On any given day, Cole Kamen-Green might be improvising in a Brooklyn club, circuit-bending a Speak & Spell, or arranging horn parts for pop stars. A trumpet and EVI player and composer based in New York City, he’s 1 of 2 in the art pop duo mmeadows, praised for its “lithe and elemental” sound (Under the Radar), and is a founding member of the indie chamber-pop collective Cuddle Magic (The New Yorker). He has arranged and recorded horns for Beyoncé, Lorde, Harry Styles, Kevin Morby, Silver Jews, Kevin Abstract, Joan As Policewoman, and Laurie Anderson.

Maxwell Kane is a painter based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Working primarily in oil and charcoal, his work explores the tactile quality of paintings, devotion, shame, and the tension between the physical and spiritual. Distorted figures embody his work, often drawing from religious symbolism and late nineteenth-century painters. His current series focuses on the “forced” figure—an exploration of the sublime as a crushing force rather than a lifting one, where the flesh is molded by the gravity of an aesthetic experience.

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Singer and writer Angela Hendryx Komline is originally from Iowa and is currently based in Philadelphia. Past projects include singing in the workshop for Paola Prestini’s Sensorium Ex and writing and directing her one woman show with music by Ian Zanski Silence Breathes Me. Hendryx graduated from Wheaton College (BM) and Bard College Conservatory (MM). While at Bard under the study of Dawn Upshaw, she was featured as a soloist with the Albany Symphony, and operas Pulcinella and Svadba directed by Alison Moritz. Hendryx has sung with the Saluzzo Opera Academy as Ruggiero in Alcina. Other festivals include Orford Music Festival, and SongFest. As a writer, she has studied with author and poet Dr. Benjamin Myers.

Thomas Kraines is a versatile cellist, composer, and teacher. He performs with the Network for New Music Ensemble, the experimental ensemble Unseen Rain, the jazz quartet Two Wings Two Biscuits, the ARCX Quartet, and the improvisation collective People’s Music Supply. He is a former member of the Daedalus Quartet and the Peabody Trio.

Thomas teaches cello at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also directs the chamber music program, and at Philadelphia’s Settlement Music School.

Thomas graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, and studied cello with Frederic Raimi, Orlando Cole, and Joel Krosnick, and composition with Tom Benjamin. He has performed at the SLLMF since 2006.

Heather Lanier’s memoir, Raising a Rare Girl, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She is also the author of four poetry collections, including Psalms of Unknowing. She is an associate professor of writing at Rowan University.

Isaac Tin Wei Lin explores the realm where representation and buzzing abstraction meet. His surfaces are often densely covered in calligraphic, brushed and handdrawn patterns that express both the logic and complexity of written language. Lin’s dense calligraphy—a kind of graffiti in which comprehensible lettering gives way to pure form—evoke patterns and structures found in nature. His abstraction brings to mind single cell organisms, entangling kudzu vines, DNA helices, and pulsating constellations all rendered in effervescing colors. Working across painting, screenprinting, collage, installation, and mural-making, Lin also collaborates with other artists and photographers in creating hybrid works.

Sarah Long is a musician, songwriter, and music therapist based in Philadelphia. She serves as Content Coordinator, where she manages digital communications and helps shape the community’s voice. She has released music under her own name and has collaborated with ensembles such as I’mechoes and Vistablue, while continuing work on new projects.

Tripp Lybrand is a writer and artist living in Austin, Texas. His work has appeared in Joie de Vivre. He’s been a fellow at The Glen Workshop and holds an MFA in fiction from Seattle Pacific University.

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William Mangold has three children and is on the faculty at Drexel University where he teaches interior architecture and design. His work explores the reciprocal relationship between people and place through ideas like home, atmosphere, and social responsibility.

Jon Mansen is a ThD candidate at Duke, writing on the Book of Job and its intersection with poetic contests and rap music. He is married with three daughters and aspires to write at The Onion.

Ty Maxwell is a musician, songwriter and writer currently based in the United States.

An in-demand session musician, Ty has worked with a wide variety of artists live and on record, such as The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Strange Ranger, Another Michael, Pinegrove, Fenne Lily, Sinai Vessel, Emperor X, Shannen Moser, Sam & Louise, and Lindsay Reamer. He writes, releases and performs music under the moniker Thank You Thank You.

As a writer, Ty’s focus is on live music: what makes it special, and vitally important, in our fractured age. He is currently working on a book about DIY touring. He is also a contributing interviewer at The Creative Independent.

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Chine McDonald is a writer, broadcaster and director of the UK think tank, Theos. She is author of God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations (2021) and Unmaking Mary: Shattering the Myth of Perfect Motherhood (2025). She is vice-chair of Greenbelt Festival, and a trustee of Christian Aid and Demos.

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Christopher McDonald is a music creator and a capturer/manipulator of sound and light. He is a founding member of the quiet-core band Cuddle Magic and has collaborated with many artists and organizations in an effort to bring more beauty into the world. Christopher runs a recording studio and production company and serves as the Director of Worship Arts and Technology at Resurrection Philadelphia. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Germantown.

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Jeremy is a musician, recording engineer and producer. He previously co-operated Mason Jar Music in Brooklyn before moving to Philadelphia where he currently runs Black Birch Recording with his brother Christopher. He lives in West Philadelphia with his family.

Megan Menzies received a BA in Art History from the University of Bristol in 2016 and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2022. She is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2021). Her practice involves drawing, painting and writing to explore memory, personal experience and storytelling. The memories, experiences and stories Megan chooses to work with and develop in her practice are often ordinary with a heavy, melancholic quality – they are what she calls heavy moments, where time thickens and small details are valued and intensified. They are moments of contemplation, imagination and sensitivity. Megan is based in London, UK.

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Beth Meyers has performed and recorded in a diverse range of genres with award-winning studio artists, smash-hit Broadway musicals, and her own critically acclaimed bands. Beth is a member of the neo-folk band, Damsel (with Monica Mugan) playing original music that features Beth on vocals, banjo, ukulele, and percussion. Damsel’s debut album Just Sit So was released in 2017 and includes “Forward” which was featured at the Michelberger PEOPLE festival in Berlin in 2018. Their sophomore album New To You was released in 2021. Beth is a member of the quirky, “folk-prog” band, ‘QQQ’ (viola, Hardanger fiddle, acoustic guitar, and drums) whose debut album Unpacking the Trailer (New Amsterdam Records 2009) was hailed “a bold statement of purpose disguised as an unpretentious lark” by Time Out New York. She was a founding member of the flute/viola/harp trio, janus whose debut album i am not (New Amsterdam Records) was called “gorgeously subtle” (NPR’s Studio 360). Through their more than 14 years of collaboration and touring, janus commissioned over one hundred new works for the trio repertoire. The group’s final album “Book of Memory” (New Focus Recordings 2016) features the music of Paul Lansky and Jason Treuting. Beth plays regularly with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. She specializes in the music of Steve Reich and is featured on Nexus Percussion’s Drumming At 50. As a violist Beth has also played for several hit Broadway shows including Hamilton and Wicked and has recorded and performed with renowned recording artists such as Regina Spektor, The National, and Sufjan Stevens. Beth is currently an adjunct faculty member at Rider University where she teaches Music for Dance. She plays a Moes and Moes viola and a Mike Ramsey banjo.

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Born in Cincinnati, Joshua now writes, teaches and makes his home in Philadelphia with his wife and two special needs cats. His previous writing has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Brilliant Corners, Channel Magazine, and the Raleigh Review. 

Catherine Ricketts is editor-in-chief of Re:Echo Journal. She is the author of The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity (Broadleaf, 2024). Her essays appear in Image, Comment, The Christian Century, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She lives near Philadelphia and works at Villanova University.

Mike Robinson Is a Brooklyn based Musician specializing in guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo and voice. Over his career he has performed and recorded with many artists including Zach Bryan, Maggie Rogers, Dijon, Orville Peck, Sarah Jarosz, Iris Dement and more. Mike is currently touring with Sierra Ferrell.

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Clarinetist, multi-reedist and composer Sam Sadigursky has released thirteen acclaimed albums as a leader and appears on over seventy albums. He’s a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble, and has also toured and recorded with Brad Mehldau, David Byrne, Bruce Hornsby, Fred Hersch, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Gabriel Kahane, Tom Jones, Yuka Honda, Edmar Castaneda, the Mingus Orchestra and U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. From 2017-2019 he was the onstage clarinetist for the Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award winning Broadway show The Band’s Visit. 

Matt Scarano has performed throughout the world with numerous artists in a wide variety of styles. Notable artists and venues include Amos Lee, Chris Brubeck, Time For Three, Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and Red Rocks Ampitheatre. He is an active private teacher and clinician and has taught at University of The Arts, Swarthmore College, and The Boysie Lowery Living Jazz Residency. You can currently find him performing with his bands U.S.E. Trio and Spaga. Matt received his B.M. and M.M. from Temple University. He is currently based in Amsterdam.

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I was born and grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From my father’s record collection, I learned to hear and to love jazz from the thirties and forties. I learned clarinet in the music program at Susquehanna Township School District, from trumpet player Bill Perbetsky. He connected me with great reed players, Dave Godshall and Tom Strohman. I learned lots playing for years in a youth band led by trumpeter/composer Ronnie Waters. Then, I got a physics degree at Harvard College, near Boston. But, while there, I couldn’t help diverting myself with music on campus and around town. After school I stuck around Boston for a while, teaching lessons and playing weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, bars, brunches, parades, and so on. And during the same I started hitting the road with scrappy touring operations all around the US. I learned guitar and started writing songs in a band called Cuddle Magic. I moved to Brooklyn in 2009. I kept playing (many instruments), and singing, and got to back up Anais Mitchell, Iris Dement. I learned audio engineering and started making records, for Ana Egge, Taylor Ashton, the David Wax Museum, and others. I played winds (sax, clarinet, & flute, and even a little brass) on television scores, commercials, films, and many records.

Benjamin Stamper is a filmmaker who explores the nature of perception and human consciousness through slow cinema. His most personal work has been likened to a “spiritual mandala” by film critic Paul Schrader in his book Transcendental Style in Film (Second Edition).

Benjamin’s video installation commissions include Dark Burn Creative (LA), The Sorenson Center for Excellence at Utah State University, The Center for Faith and Work, New York City, and Met Live Arts at the Met Brauer, NYC.

Benjamin is a Lincoln City Fellow and has been the artist-in-residence at Center for Faith & Work and Grace Farms Foundation.  He is a longtime collaborator with director/cinematographer Andrew Michael Ellis and renowned choreographer Andrea Miller.

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Joshua Stamper is a transdisciplinary artist and composer whose work explores hiddenness, revelation, ephemera, and archive.

He has worked as an orchestral arranger, studio conductor, and session musician for Columbia / Sony BMG and Concord Records, Lionsgate Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Legendary Entertainment, and for independent labels Domino, Dead Oceans, Important Records, and Smalltown Supersound.

He has received fellowships from MacDowell, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Speranza Foundation, the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation. Joshua’s work has been supported by the American Composers Forum, the NewAm Composers Lab, the Lilly Endowment, the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, the Eric Stokes Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Kory Stamper has been a professional editor for over 25 years and has edited works for small journals and large publishing houses. She is currently a freelance copyeditor and proofreader with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where she works on nonfiction and fiction in translation. Kory is also the author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries and True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink. She roasts her own coffee.

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Jason Stein is a professional trombonist living in the Philadelphia region. He has performed with many of the top orchestras around the US, and toured with many high level recording artists around the world.

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Caleb Stoltzfus (b. 1992 Elverson, PA) began learning to draw and paint at an atelier under Nelson Carlin in 2008. He receiving a BA in Art from Covenant College in 2015 and studied landscape painting and composition under Daud Akhriev from 2016-2017. He completed the Mount Gretna Studio Seminar in 2023.

Caleb is based in Philadelphia and has exhibited his paintings throughout the North East, including a solo show at Gross McCleaf, group shows at Procession Gallery in Philadelphia, Art at Kings Oaks in Newtown, First Street Gallery and Pushup Gallery in New York, as well as internationally at the Hampstead Society in London. Caleb has done three previous installations for Resurrection Philadelphia, including Pentecost in 2018 and Easter in 2020 and 2024.

Andy Thierauf is a Philadelphia-based percussionist specializing in the creation and performance of contemporary music. His work is driven by a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration, frequently integrating percussion with theater, dance, and technology to create immersive and innovative performances. He is an active member of Arcana New Music Ensemble, NakedEye Ensemble, Network for New Music, and Orchestra 2001, among other ensembles in the Philadelphia area. In addition to his performance career, Andy serves on the faculty of Settlement Music School and is Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Kutztown University, where he teaches music technology and directs the steel band.

Painter. Living in New Orleans, Louisiana (by way of Chicago IL, Richmond VA, Charleston SC and St. Francisville LA). Work available through Philip Martin Gallery.

Renee Warnick teaches K-2 general music at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia and maintains an active performing career as an orchestral, chamber, and studio musician. She received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in viola performance from Temple University, completed Kodály pedagogy training at West Chester University, and holds violin pedagogy certification from the Suzuki Association of America. When she is not performing or teaching, Renee enjoys cooking, knitting, and spending time in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

Hallie Waugh is a poet and essayist. She holds an MFA in poetry and is currently serving as the inaugural Poet Laureate for the Oklahoma Metropolitan Library. She lives in Oklahoma City with her husband and sons.

Hadley Whittle is a writer, musician, and woodworker born in Argentina and raised in Northern Virginia. Hadley graduated from Westmont College in Santa Barbara where she studied poetry and creative non-fiction, and participated in Gordon College’s arts and humanities program in Orvieto, Italy. Now based in Philadelphia, she has spent time in international christian ecumenical communities, where she has written and produced a number of alternative musical projects and continued to develop her craft in reclaimed-wood carpentry. Releasing music under the pseudonym Dream Home, Hadley’s music centers around themes of faith, birth, paradox, and the natural world.

Leah Wrenne is a singer-songwriter and Philly native who pairs melody with emotions by crafting eclectic songs based on mental health, disability, faith, and love. Inspired by artists such as India Arie, Sara Bareilles, and Lizzy McAlpine; Leah Wrenne blends soul, indie-folk, and indie-pop elements together to create music that touches the soul.

Christopher Yates is a philosopher, writer, and occasional woodworker from Crozet, Virginia. He teaches at James Madison University, is an associate fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and is a longtime student of, especially, aesthetics and phenomenology.

Cellist Branson Yeast, a native of Houston, TX, is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music (B.M.), the Juilliard School (M.M.), and is also a protégé of cellist Wendy Warner. His performances as a chamber musician, soloist, and orchestral musician have brought him to Chicago, London, Lucerne, Hamburg, Heidelberg, St-Jean-de-Luz (broadcast on RadioFrance), and across the north-eastern United States. While at Curtis, Branson was the last student of the late David Soyer of the Guarneri Quartet, a Jacqueline du Pré Memorial Fellow, and his graduation recital aired on WHYY Television. His passions for contemporary music and cross-disciplinary projects (including a tour with Grammy-award winning ensemble “eighth blackbird”) have led him to make dozens of premieres of new works for solo cello, chamber music, and chamber opera in halls such as Alice Tully and with companies such as Philadelphia’s BalletX and Opera Philadelphia. Branson resides in Philadelphia and is Principal Cello of both Opera Philadelphia and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the latter of whom he recently performed concerti of CPE Bach, Boccherini, and Vivaldi.