From 1999 to 2001 he was composer-in-residence to the BankBoston Celebrity Series, and from 2002 to 2005 composer-in-residence to the New England Philharmonic. In 2001 he was appointed as Chair of Composition, Theory, and Music History at The Boston Conservatory.

Awards and prizes include a Koussevitsky Fellowship, the Alea III International Composition Competition, the Ian Whyte Award, the Tanglewood Prize for Composition, the Omaha Symphony Guild New Music Festival, the Richmond International Festival, The National Orchestral Association, and the Huddersfield Festival. His music has been broadcast in Europe and the US including Urban Affair, a recently released CD of chamber music.

A prolific composer and active performer since childhood, Dalit Warshaw’s works have been performed by over twenty-six orchestral ensembles, including the New York and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras (Zubin Mehta conducting), the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Y Chamber Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony and the Albany Symphony.

Born in 1974, Ms. Warshaw began her piano studies at age three with her mother, Ruti Hadass Warshaw. She began composing one year later, writing her first orchestral work at age 8, for which she became the youngest winner of the BMI Award. In 1985, Zubin Mehta conducted her second orchestral work, In the Beginning, with both the New York and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras.  She continued to study piano, musicianship and composition with Ruti Warshaw until the age of seventeen.

Ms. Warshaw went on to receive degrees from Columbia University and the Juilliard School, where she obtained her doctorate in music composition in May 2003. Significant teachers from that time include Milton Babbitt, David Del Tredici, and Samuel Adler. Important awards and distinctions include a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, five Morton Gould ASCAP Foundation grants, two BMI Awards, and a Fulbright Scholarship to Israel.

Recent performances include the premiere of After the Victory for orchestra and chorus by the Grand Rapids Symphony and the North American Choral Company, Sonate Francaise (The Unwritten Chapters) by Collage New Music in Boston, and Chamber of Dreams for written for horn, violin and piano written for acclaimed hornist Eli Epstein.

As a pianist, Ms. Warshaw has performed widely as both soloist and chamber player, in venues as diverse as Avery Fisher Hall, Miller Theater, Alice Tully Hall, and the Stone, her repertoire ranging from the piano concertos of Mozart, Schumann and Grieg to her own compositions and improvisations.

Having studied with renowned thereminist Clara Rockmore from an early age, Ms. Warshaw has appeared with ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony. 

Ms. Warshaw continues to cultivate a multi-faceted persona as composer, performer and educator. She currently serves on the composition faculty of The Boston Conservatory, where she received an award for “Outstanding Faculty of the Year” in 2005. Previously, she taught orchestration (beginning and advanced levels) at the Juilliard Evening Division from 2000 to 2005. She was also a Visiting Professor at Middlebury College and a composer-in-residence at the Interlochen Arts Academy and at the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

Frequently inspired by themes gleaned from literature and visual art, Ms. Warshaw has often collaborated with her brother, writer and filmmaker Hilan Warshaw. Musical influences range from Mahler, Ravel, Puccini and Stravinsky to early Broadway composers, Jewish liturgical chant and various Israeli artists. Ms. Warshaw’s music has been widely praised for its lyricism, its unique orchestral palette, its sense of drama and emotional intensity. 

Jan Swafford's compositions range from orchestral and chamber to film and theater music. They include six works for orchestra, a symphony for winds, Midsummer Variations for piano quintet, They Who Hunger for piano quartet, and They That Mourn in memoriam 9/11 for piano trio. In 2007 his In Time of War for cello and piano and A Celebration with Cathy for solo viola were premiered in Boston and Northampton. He has also written music for film and theater.

Swafford's music has been played around the country and abroad by ensembles including Boston's Musica Viva, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Civic Symphony, New England Philharmonic, Alea III, Collage, and Dinosaur Annex; New York's American Composers Orchestra and Composers Concordance; the Minneapolis Artists Ensemble and Minnesota Chamber Symphony; the Scott Chamber Players of Indianapolis; and the symphonies of Indianapolis, St. Louis, Harrisburg, Springfield, Jacksonville, Chattanooga, and (in Europe) the Dutch Radio. His work appears on a CRI disc and is published by Peer-Southern.

He has written music for three film documentaries: New York City Marathon, Falmouth Road Race, and Turning Point, about a Vermont high school. The theater music is for Euripides’ Hekabe and Iphigenia, Brecht’s The Good Woman of Setzuan, and Alice in Wonderland

Swafford has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. His teachers included Jacob Druckman, Earl Kim, and, at Tanglewood, Betsy Jolas. In 1988-9 he was a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard.

Among his honors as a composer are an NEA Composers Fellowship, two Massachusetts Artists Council Fellowships, and a commission from Chamber Music America. His piano fantasy Music Like Steel and Like Fire was a Grand Prize co-winner in the Delius Composition Contest.

Also an active journalist and writer, Mr. Swafford has appeared in Guardian International, Slate, Gramophone, Symphony, Musical America, and 19th Century Music. He has written program notes for the Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago Symphonies, for the Carnegie Hall program, and for Naxos and Sony Classical Recordings. He has been a frequent commentator on NPR music and news programs. His writings on music include The Vintage Guide to Classical Music and the biographies Charles Ives: A Life with Music from Norton (winner of the PEN-Winship award for New England book of the year, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award), and Johannes Brahms: A Biography from Knopf. The latter two books were Critics’ Choices in the Times. Currently he is Currently he is writing music columns for Slate and working on a biography of Beethoven.

The music of Curtis K. Hughes (b. 1974) has been described as "fiery" in the New York Times, "well crafted" in the Boston Phoenix, and "colorfully scored" in the Boston Globe. Works of his have been commissioned by numerous chamber groups, including the Callithumpian Consort, Collage New Music, the Yesaroun' Duo, the Firebird Ensemble, the Saxophone Quartet of the U.S. Marine Band, and many others. His orchestral and large ensemble music has been performed by the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Wind Ensemble, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, and by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project as the winner of their 4th annual composition competition.

He held the position of 2007-2008 composer-in-residence with the Radius Ensemble, and from 2005 through 2007 was the composer-in-residence with Collage New Music, He has taught composition and theory at Brandeis University and New England Conservatory (NEC), and is an instructor in music theory at MIT. He received a Doctoral degree from NEC in 2005 and a Masters in 2000, studying primarily with Lee Hyla and also with Michael Gandolfi. He received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Param Vir and Pieter Snapper. At NEC, he was the winner of composition competitions for the Contemporary Ensemble and the Honors String Quartet, as well as the recipient of NEC's Tourjée Alumni Award. In 2000 he received the Japan Society of Boston's Toru Takemitsu Prize for Composition.

Recently his music has been performed in such diverse venues as the Red House Center for Culture and Debate in Bulgaria, the Library of Congress in Washington, Ozawa Hall at the Tanglewood Music Center, Elebash Hall at CUNY in New York City, the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition in Rotterdam, the Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance (SICPP), NEC's Jordan Hall, the New Gallery Concert Series in Boston's South End.

His debut CD, Avoidance Tactics, released in late 2003 from Cauchemar Records, was praised in The Wire as "spiky" and "absorbing," and in New Music Box as "an emblem to pulling together the wherewithal to do something audacious," and a live version of the title track was broadcast internationally on WGBH's Art of the States. Curtis is also a co-founder, with composer David T. Little, of National Insecurity, an annual program of American political music. In 2005, he was awarded the ASCAP Foundation Leonard Bernstein Composer Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center, and a St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant-in-Aid Award.

An active member of greater Boston's new music community, Curtis routinely organizes and produces concerts around the greater Boston area. He has performed and recorded for New World Records with Gamelan Galak Tika, a Balinese/Western ensemble, and has participated in numerous music festivals, including Aspen, the June in Buffalo conference, and the Composers Conference in Wellesley, MA.