DEL SOL COMPOSER ALUMNI
We’re proud to have worked with these fantastic composers!
2022-2023
Anjna Swaminathan
Wen Ziyang
2020-2021
deVon Russell Gray
deVon Russell Gray is a polyglot organically fusing contemporary classical, jazz, hip hop, Afrofuturistic, and popular music performance practices and styles. Gray’s music takes listeners on an outermost and deeply resonant journey. He approaches newness with a refreshing and enlightening sense of mystery, wonder, and beauty.
Adeliia Faizullina
Uzbekistan-born composer Adeliia Faizullina (b.1988) has studied as a composer, singer, vocal coach, and Tatar quray instrumentalist. She received her bachelor’s degree in Voice in Auhadeev College of Music (Kazan, Russia) and bachelor’s degree in Music Composition in Gnesins Russian Academy of Music (Moscow, Russia). She has an MM in Music Composition from University of Texas at Austin, and is currently pursuing her DMA at the University of Southern California. With a particular ear for cutting-edge vocal colors and an affinity for the music and poetry of Tatar folklore, Adeliia also writes music for chamber and symphonic genres.
Davor Vincze
With the increasing complexity of human environment, the core processes of systems that govern our daily lives become less apparent. On one hand, there is more accessible information, but there is also less time to deal with and understand that information. This dichotomy results in fascinating social phenomena, which lie at heart of my artistic interest. Incessant flows of music, glitch sounds, iterative processes, and static noise are but a few elements that help me describe resilience of human spirit as we race against our rapidly changing reality.
Taking part in renowned festivals and residency programs for composers like Présences, Impuls, Mata, Manifeste, Steirischer Herbst, Royaumont, etc., I was able to exchange and discuss my ideas with C. Czernowin, P. Ablinger, M. André, H. Parra, and others. My pieces have been performed by professional ensembles for new music (Secession Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Talea, Slovene Philharmonics, Ensemble Recherche) and the acceptance of my work also led to several scholarships (Boulanger, Frankopan, Erasmus, …).
Marguerite Brown
Marguerite Brown (b. 1990) is a composer and performer based in Seattle, WA. As a life-long learner, she is drawn to projects that allow her to explore new mediums, forms, and performance practices. As an avid collaborator, she seeks out composition and performance opportunities that foster connectivity and encourage a collective freedom of expression.
Marguerite’s compositions range from fully notated scores to ambiguous lists where musical parameters may be indeterminate or highly organized and time may be governed or lawless. Her compositions have been performed by the Del Sol String Quartet, Gamelan Pacifica, the Corigliano String Quartet, Ensemble Audax, James Moore, and Andie Springer, andPlay, the Cornish College Guitar Quartet, the William Winant Percussion Ensemble, the UCSC Experimental Ensemble, among others.
As a multi-instrumentalist, Marguerite has performed at a variety of festivals and venues across the United States and Canada including the REDCAT in LA, Art Basel in Miami, the Fusebox Festival in Austin, and Club PuSh in Vancouver, B.C. Her recent performance projects have involved refretted guitars in just intonation tunings systems, including those in systems of her own devising.
Marguerite holds a BM in music composition from Cornish College of the Arts (2013) and a MA in music composition from the University of California Santa Cruz (2019). From 2013-2014 she was awarded a Darmasiswa Fellowship to study Central Javanese gamelan music in Surakarta, Indonesia. Marguerite currently plays in Gamelan Pacifica and continues to compose and perform in a variety of settings.