Oakland, CA, USA
Adrian Montufar works in free improvisation, concert music, and sound art, where he engages the connections between the voice and the body, exploring how technology can extend and disrupt them.
Montréal, QC, Canada
Annette Bauer is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and music educator with a background in early European and classical North Indian music styles. Her primary instruments are the sarode, a 24-stringed lute, and the many members of the recorder family. In combination with photography, she creates evocative soundscapes inspired by the natural world.
Atlanta, GA, USA & Istanbul, Turkey
Ipek Eginli, a native of Turkey, is an electroacoustic music composer/performer. She holds a doctoral degree in piano performance and is the founder of a piano academy in GA, USA.
Toronto, ON, Canada
Jeff LaRochelle is a Toronto-based woodwind specialist, composer, arranger, and producer. In addition to co-leading the Autobahn Trio for over a decade, he has been developing his own solo woodwinds/synth project called Gloomtube in recent years as a vehicle for multi-genre/disciplinary collaboration.
Montréal, QC, Canada
Katelyn Clark is a historical keyboard specialist (harpsichord/organ/pianoforte) based in Montréal QC. Her work re-imagines the sound of early instruments and lost soundscapes.
Ottawa, ON, and Montréal, QC, Canada
A fun-loving queer arbor-artist based in Ottawa and Montreal, Kim Farris-Manning creates works across disciplines, allowing ideas to grow and change; pieces are often made in versions, through a process of experimentation and collaboration with others. Working as an artist, arborist, forest technician and researcher, Kim often finds creative inspiration on the field and likewise brings an artistic lens to tree work.
Los Angeles, CA, USA & Dessau, Germany
Michel is a classically trained guitarist and plucked string multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, CA, who enjoys creating interdisciplinary experiences that play with notions of time and space, truth and reality. A lifelong learner and educator, he often employs non-idiomatic improvisation, conceptual strategies and graphic representations in his projects.
Toronto, ON, Canada
Rashaan Allwood is a composer, pianist, organist and synthesist. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis which explores natural settings, improvisation, and cultural reflection in music at Western University.
Tio'tia:ke/Montreal
Sarah Rossy is a Tio'tia:ke/Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist and educator unravelling themes of identity, healing and community connection.
Guelph, ON, Canada
Reza Yazdanpanah is a community-based musician, improviser, composer, and multi-instrumentalist with a Persian background.
Guelph, ON, Canada
Ben Finley is a performer-composer specializing in acoustic bass and electric bass (in multiple tunings and with effects).
Guelph, ON, Canada
Raised in the Coachella Valley, annais linares is a Residency Facilitator of Westben's Performer-Composer Residency. Sonically, she is a vocalist, improviser, and collaborator. She is currently working on co-creating musical playground installations.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Davy Sumner is a Residency Facilitator of Westben’s Performer-Composer Residency. He is also an installation artist, composer, improviser, and Maker based in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sarah Belle Reid is a Residency Facilitator of Westben’s Performer-Composer Residency. She is a Canadian performer-composer, active in the fields of electroacoustic trumpet performance, intermedia arts, music technology, and improvisation.
