Caroline Davis is a Brooklyn-based saxophonist, composer, and activist, whose work is driven by a desire for connection and a belief in music’s capacity to expand listeners’ ears, minds, and hearts. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Composition, she is the recipient of the DownBeat Critics Poll Alto Saxophone Rising Star Award, as well as fellowships from NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, Chamber Music America, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Kweku Sumbry is a multi-percussionist, sound healer, composer, and bandleader from Washington, D.C. He's grounded in the traditions of the Djembe Orchestra, and his journey began at age four, studying under his uncle and founder of Farafina Kan, Mahiri Fadjimba Keita. Today, Kweku proudly serves as the artistic director of the ensemble, continuing its rich legacy.

Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer cultural worker in the realms of Salsa, Bomba, And transdisciplinary performance. Based in Brooklyn, they hail from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, CT, and are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She makes within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and the precolonial languages ​​of the drum and the braid.

A native of South Florida, percussionist Murphy Aucamp began playing drums at the age of 6 and later congas after discovering his passion for Cuban music. Murphy studied classical percussion at Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, while simultaneously studying rumba in the streets of Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Kazemde George is an Jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator based in Oakland, California. Raised in Berkeley by Caribbean parents, Kaz has been playing Saxophone, Piano and Percussion in a wide range of musical styles from an early age.

Saxophonist, trumpeter, and multi-instrumentalist Caleb Wheeler Curtis has been called "one of the more daring musicians in jazz today" by All About Jazz, and his music described as "a masterpiece" by Italy's Musica Jazz.

Eliza Salem is an in-demand drummer, educator and composer currently based in Brooklyn, New York. As a multi-faceted musician, Eliza strives to explore and reach across the many domains of creative music.

Aaron Edgcomb (he/they) is a composer, percussionist, and multi-disciplinary artist from Reno, NV, currently living in Brooklyn, NY whose work appears in such contexts as improvisational music, jazz, “new music”, noise, and song.

American cellist and composer Mariel Roberts Musa, "one of the leading solo performers in new music" (Bandcamp) is widely recognized not just for her virtuosic performances, but as a fearless explorer in her field. Her ravenous appetite for collaboration and experimentation as an interpreter, improvisor, and composer have helped create a body of work which bridges avant-garde, contemporary, classical, improvised, and traditional music.

Violist Maren Rothfritz is a passionate artist and educator who enjoys seeking colorful musical expressions across a wide range of repertoire old and new.

Fiercely committed to the music of our time, violinist, composer, and writer Giancarlo Latta is interested in the intersection and convergence of music old and new. Through a broad repertoire and bold dedication to wide-ranging collaborative possibilities, he curates projects and programs that explore varied compositional voices and draw threads across styles and centuries.

As a violinist, curator, and educator, Clara frequently collaborates with others.  A curious listener, she enjoys learning about other people - how they think, what they feel, how they absorb the world around them.