Liza Sobel Crane is a composer and soprano based in Chicago. Her compositions are often influenced by current social issues. Some of the venues her music has been performed in include: Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Symphony Space, Bang on a Can, the Aspen Music Festival, Eighth Blackbird's Creative Lab, and Aldeburgh Britten-Pears. Performers that have played her music include: the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Minnesota Orchestra, Ensemble Dal Niente, Spektral String Quartet, Cygnus Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, Nouveau Classical Project, and Ekmeles. Current commissions include: a chamber opera for the Zafa Collective (in which Liza will sing) and a new orchestral work for the New York Youth Symphony to be performed at Carnegie Hall.

Quirky and vibrant, Jonathan Hannau is a Chicago-based composer and pianist submerged in the surreal, abstract, minimal, and colorful possibilities of music. He actively embraces eclecticism and explores the concepts of narrative, drama, and stark expression while pushing them down the rabbit hole of timbre. He is currently working on the release of his first solo piano album Pieces I Wrote on a Cold Winter Night inspired by his meditation series: Music, Stillness, Solidarity, where musicians improvise in a quiet meditative spirit for people to center themselves to.