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Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider writes music of direct expression and vivid narrative that has been hailed as “rapturous” (The New York Times), “groundbreaking” (The Boston Globe), and “ravishingly beautiful” (NPR). One of the “Top 35 Female Composers in Classical Music” (The Washington Post), Snider’s work has been commissioned and/or performed by the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, National, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras; New York Philharmonic; Birmingham Royal Ballet; Emerson String Quartet; Renée Fleming; Colin Currie; eighth blackbird; and Roomful of Teeth, among many others. Snider’s recent works include Forward Into Light, an orchestral commission for the New York Philharmonic; Drink the Wild Ayre, the final commission by the Emerson String Quartet; and Mass for the Endangered, performed by dozens of choirs the world over. Her four full-length LPs – The Blue Hour, Mass for the Endangered, Unremembered, and Penelope – have garnered acclaim from The New York Times, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Gramophone Magazine, BBC Music Magazine, Pitchfork, and many others. A founding Co-Artistic Director of New Amsterdam Records, Snider has an M.M.and Artist’s Diploma from the Yale School of Music, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. Her music is published by G. Schirmer.

Elkhanah Pulitzer’s bold, nuanced stage direction explores the intersection of music and theater through innovation and hybridized forms, creating compelling and visually stunning productions, from newly composed works to operas and oratorios stretching back to the Baroque era. The director has forged a deep working relationship with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams, most recently directing his Antony and Cleopatra, which served as Pulitzer’s Metropolitan Opera debut in spring of 2025. She also has an ongoing collaboration with cellist Alisa Weilerstein as the director of her FRAGMENTS, a groundbreaking, six-part multisensory performance series for solo cello that had its first complete performance at Spoleto USA in 2025. During the 2025–26 season, Pulitzer looks forward to directing Alban Berg’s Wozzeck at Berkeley’s West Edge Opera and the world premiere, in November 2025, of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s HILDEGARD at LA Opera with Beth Morrison Projects. She will also serve as Artistic Consultant for a project that sees students from Interlochen Center for the Arts partner on tour with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Detroit Symphony to foreground a youth perspective on America250. Collaborators on the project include composers Reena Esmail and Wynton Marsalis, cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua McClendon, and conductor Cristian Măcelaru. Pulitzer was honored with the Opera America Success Award for her libretto Dream of the Pacific, an opera composed by Stephen Mager, commissioned by a consortium and performed at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Washington National Opera, and others. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in Theatre Arts and holds an MFA from Columbia in Directing. Pulitzer also serves as board vice president of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, which advances experimentation in art curation, installation and live programming.

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Gabriel Crouch is a conductor, singer, producer and teacher. He is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Chamber Choir Ireland, founding Artistic Director of the British early music ensemble Gallicantus, and Director of Choral Activities and Professor of the Practice in Music at Princeton University, where he leads a flourishing and all-embracing choral program and teaches courses in conducting, small ensemble singing and opera performance. 

His professional singing experiences date back to 1982 as an eight-year-old in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where his solo credits included a Royal Wedding, and continued with an eight-year tenure in the renowned a cappella group The King’s Singers, with whom he made a dozen recordings on the BMG label (including a grammy nomination), and gave more than 900 performances in almost every major concert venue in the world. He performs regularly with Tenebrae, the Tallis Scholars and The Gabrieli Choir, and as a lutesong recitalist has collaborated with such acclaimed lutenists as Jacob Heringman, Liz Kenny, Daniel Swenberg and Nigel North.

Since taking his first academic position in the US in 2005 he has become one of the most respected choral leaders in the country, and is regularly invited to present workshops at Yale, Westminster Choir College, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and elsewhere. He has conducted all-state choirs throughout the United States, and his student choirs have earned performances at several major conferences, with the Princeton Chamber Choir’s performance of Francis Poulenc’s Figure Humaine given the honor of closing the National Collegiate Choral Organization’s annual conference in 2023. In 2025 he was presented with the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.

As a record producer, his credits have included Winchester Cathedral Choir, The Gabrieli Consort and Tenebrae (for whom he produced the acclaimed first recording of Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles in 2005), the Spanish choir El Leon de Oro; and in the US, Chanticleer, Ensemble Altera and Skylark, for whom he co-produced the recent grammy-nominated ‘Clear Voices in the Dark’(2024). 

In the professional realm his recent guest conducting invitations have included Tenebrae, Cappella Romana, the Edvard Grieg Kor in Norway, the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. In 2008 he founded the British early music ensemble 'Gallicantus', with whom he has released six recordings under the Signum label to rapturous reviews (in the words of Early Music Today – ‘everything Gallicantus touches turns to gold’). The group has garnered multiple ‘Editor’s Choice’ awards in Gramophone Magazine, Choir and Organ Magazine and the Early Music Review, and, for the 2012 release ‘The Word Unspoken', a place on BBC Radio’s CD Review list of the top nine classical releases of the year. His recording of Lagrime di San Pietro by Orlando di Lasso was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in 2014, and his follow-up recording - Sibylla (featuring music by Orlandus Lassus and Dmitri Tymoczko) was named ’star recording’ by Choir and Organ magazine in the summer of 2018. The group’s most recent release - Mass for the Endangered, a new composition by Sarah Kirkland Snider released on the Nonesuch/New Amsterdam labels - has garnered high acclaim from the New York Times, Boston Globe, and NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’.