Jeffrey Milarsky is the leading conductor of contemporary music in New York City.  In the United States and abroad, he has premiered and recorded works by contemporary composers, including Charles Wuorinen, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Lasse Thoresen, Gerard Grisey, Jonathan Dawe, Tristan Murail, Ralph Shapey, Luigi Nono, Mario Davidovsky and Wolfgang Rihm.  His wide ranging repertoire, which spans from Bach to Xenakis, has brought him to lead such accomplished groups as the American Composers Orchestra (which has just named him Assistant Conductor), the New York New Music Ensemble, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Columbia Sinfonietta, Sinfonietta Moderna, Speculum Musicae, Cygnus Ensemble, The Fromm Players at Harvard University, The Composers' Ensemble at Princeton University, and the New York Philharmonic chamber music series. Most recently, he has joined the faculty of The Manhattan School of Music as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Percussion Ensemble.

Mr. Milarsky received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School.  Upon graduation, he was awarded the Peter Mennin Prize for outstanding leadership and achievement in the arts.  He regularly conducts The Juilliard Orchestra, with whom he has premiered over 150 works of Juilliard student composers over the past fifteen years.  He is also on the Pre-College Percussion Faculty at Juilliard, and has been, until recently, Director of the Composition Forum.

As an active chamber and orchestral musician, Mr. Milarsky performs and records regularly with The New York Philharmonic, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The American Composers Orchestra, The Stamford Symphony and Concordia.  He has recorded extensively for Angel, Bridge, Teldec, Telarc, New World, CRI, MusicMasters, EMI, Koch, and London records.            

Mr. Milarsky is Professor in Music at Columbia University, where he is the Music Director/Conductor of the Columbia University Orchestra.  Conductor, Percussionist, Professor, Music Director: Jeffrey Milarsky has created a truly unique international career.

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Pianist Stephen Gosling is a ubiquitous presence on the New York new music scene, and has also performed throughout the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. His playing has been hailed as ‘brilliant,’ ‘electric,’ and ‘luminous and poised’ (New York Times), and as possessing ‘utter clarity and conviction’ (Washington Post), and ‘extraordinary virtuosity’ (Houston Chronicle).

A native of Sheffield, England, Gosling relocated to New York in 1989 to begin studies with Oxana Yablonskaya at the Juilliard School. Upon graduation from the Bachelor of Music programme in 1993, he was awarded the Mennin Prize for Outstanding Leadership and Excellence in Music. Earlier that year he performed Corigliano’s Piano Concerto with Leonard Slatkin and the Juilliard Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, and gave the European premiére of Paul Schoenfield’s Four Parables with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic under Lukas Foss.

In 1994 Gosling received his Master’s degree from Juilliard and was awarded the Sony Elevated Standards Fellowship. He subsequently enrolled in the Doctor of Musical Arts programme, from which he graduated in 2000.

Stephen Gosling was for three years pianist of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and appeared in several seasons of the ‘Summergarden’ series at MOMA. He is a member of both Ensemble Sospeso and the New York New Music Ensemble, and has performed with Orpheus, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre, Speculum Musicae, the DaCapo Chamber Players, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Continuum, the League of Composers / ISCM Chamber Players, and Da Camera of Houston. He has also participated in off-Broadway productions and collaborated with a number of dance companies, including the American Ballet Theatre and the Parsons Dance Project.

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An acclaimed soloist and widely sought-after chamber music collaborator, clarinetist MICHAEL NORSWORTHY has emerged as one of the most gifted artists of his generation.

Michael Norsworthy’s performances have taken him to distinguished concert venues throughout the United States and Europe, including Vienna’s Musikverein, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Philharmonie Hall, New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Metropolitan Opera and Miller Theatre, Boston’s Jordan and Symphony Halls, St. Louis’ Sheldon Concert Hall, Festival Casals de Puerto Rico and the Aspen Music Festival. Recent seasons have included world premieres of works written for him by Michael Finnissy, Chris Dench and Pozzi Escot, domestic and international recital tours, radio appearances on Boston’s WGBH, recordings for the Mode, Gasparo, Canteloupe and Cauchemar labels and performances with leading contemporary music groups, including Klangforum Wien, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Columbia Sinfonietta, Fromm Players at Harvard, Boston Musica Viva, Callithumpian Consort, Ensemble 21 and Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. He has also given a series of East Coast recitals with pianist Marilyn Nonken, recitals on the West Coast with pianist Tyson Deaton, with the composer, a Boston performance of the music of Magnus Lindberg and a performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

A dedicated and persuasive champion of the music of our own time, Michael Norsworthy has given premieres of over 80 works in collaboration with composers Harrison Birtwistle, Elliott Carter, Chris Dench, Pozzi Escot, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Lukas Foss, Hans Werner Henze, Magnus Lindberg, Ralph Shapey and Marc Anthony Turnage, among many others.

As soloist, Michael Norsworthy has performed an extensive repertoire of concerti, ranging from Mozart to Ferneyhough, with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, NEC Contemporary Ensemble, Pottstown Symphony, Soria Chamber Players, Southern Illinois Symphony and Symphony Pro Musica, while audiences have heard his numerous recitals in Boston, Cambridge, Chicago and St. Louis. He has also collaborated with Tony Arnold, Patrick Demenga, Stephen Drury, Aleck Karis, John Zorn, the Borromeo String Quartet, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Conductors he has worked with include Boulez, DePriest, Knussen, Levine, Muti, Robertson, Ozawa, Tilson Thomas and many others.

Michael Norsworthy is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, among them: The John Cage Award, Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award and Southern Illinois University’s Chancellor’s Research and Creativity Award, grants from the Yvar Mikahashoff Trust for New Music, St. Louis Artist Presentation Society and St. Botolph Club Foundation, as well as a fellowship from the Aspen Music Festival.

Michael Norsworthy holds advanced degrees with honors from New England Conservatory and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and has attended Michigan State University. His teachers included Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, Eric Mandat, Kalmen Opperman and Richard Stoltzman. Beginning with the 2005-2006 season, he is artist in residence at Harvard University with the Harvard Group for New Music; in the fall of 2006, he begins service on the faculties of both The Boston Conservatory and Columbia University. He is co-director of the Sound Encounters Festival at the New England Conservatory. Mr. Norsworthy also maintains a respected private studio for advanced students in the Boston area.

Michael Norsworthy plays on Buffet Clarinets and mouthpieces by Kalmen Opperman. He is a performing artist for Buffet Crampon, the Parisian firm that is the world's oldest and most distinguished clarinet maker.

More information can be found at http://www.michaelnorsworthy.com