Michael-Thomas Foumai (b. 1987)      

Composer Michael-Thomas Foumai’s music has been performed across the United States and Japan. After receiving a B.M. degree in composition from the
University of Hawaii (UH) in 2009, he began work on a M.M. in composition at the University of Michigan (UM). His composition teachers have included Bright
Sheng, Donald Reid Womack, Byron Yasui, Takeo Kudo, Thomas Osborne and Peter Askim. Foumai, a violinist and violist, is an avid performer of new music and has studied with Craig Young and Ignace Jang. He was the Concertmaster of the University of Hawaii Symphony for four years and also served as Associate Concertmaster of the Hawaii Youth Symphony. Foumai has been the recipient of awards and honors from Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the American String Treachers Association (ASTA), the Transatlantic Arts Consortium (TAC), two graduate fellowships (UM), Outstanding Composition Student Award (UH), a 2008 Presser Foundation Award, the Danny Kalenikini Scholarship, the Lumana’I Award and many more. He has been commissioned by Ebb and Flow Arts, Royal Hawaiian
Band, the Hawaii Youth Symphony, the University of Hawaii, and the South
Salem Oregon High School among others. Recent performances of his music
have been presented at the Osaka College of Music and by the Honolulu
Symphony, Hawaii Youth Symphony and University of Hawaii Wind Ensemble,
and he has had operas performed by the University of Hawaii and at the CalArts
Theatre at Disney Hall in Los Angeles.

Kittiphan Janbuala

is the young composer based from Thailand. He received the bachelor of art (music) from the college of music, Mahidol University, Thailand and the graduatediploma from Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He began to study in composition with Valeriy Rizayev. Form 2008-2010 hestudied composition under Dr. Peter Ivan Edwards.
         Kittiphan got the local prize and participated to the international music composition festival. In 2004, 2006 and 2008 he participated the “Young Thai Artist Award Competition” (Music Composition Section) held in Bangkok, Thailand and was selected for the finalists awards. He was participated in “Weimarer Meisterkurse 2007" held by Hochshule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, Deutschland. In 2008 awarded scholarship from Tongyeong International Music Festival to attend Ensemble TIMF Academy in Bangkok.
         Recently he was the finalist in KLCMF 2009. Kittiphan has took the master class with the famous composer such as Unsuk Chin, Gerhard Müller-Hornbach, Liza Lim and Jeajoon Ryu as well.
         Presently, Kittiphan is the freelance, his present composition is express on sound shape, processing direction- technique, transformation, speed - rhythmic determinacy -indeterminacy and sound organization.

Massimo Lauricella

After years of concert activity as a pianist, he studied composition with his father Sergio Lauricella.  As composer, he quickly gained international attention. His first composition, "Impressions of an American sparrow" for two pianos, won the "Valentino Bucchi prize of Rome in 1986 and two years later he won the "Forum” prize of Cologne with "Tremiti", a work for string quartet. This piece, played by the Arditti Quartet and recorded by the German radio-tv station WDR, was subsequently also awarded the prize of the Kennedy Foundation of Washington.
In 1992 Witold Lutoslawski, chairman of the International Contest of Warsaw, awarded his symphonic work "Spectra" that, also performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, was a great success according to both the public and critics.
After two more prestigious international prizes (Jewish Culture Center of Los Angeles in 1994 - Tulane University of New Orleans in 1995), the "B. Barattelli Society” of l’Aquila, on the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary, appointed him to compose "Imis", a piece for seven instruments, which, among many other interpretations, was also played by the Ensemble Pierrot Lunaire at the Vienna Musikverein.
               In 2004 the Spanish “ACA Foundation” has published a monographic CD of his works and, the same year, the Harvard University gave him the “Fromm Award” commissioning also the new work for string orchestra “In memory of Carlo Walter Loeb”.
            From 1986, he is regular professor of Composition at the “N. Paganini" Conservatory in Genoa.

Feliz Anne R. Macahis (b.1987)

Philippine- born composer of chamber, orchestral and choral music which were performed in Asia. Ms. Macahis studied composition with Jonas Baes at the University of the Philippines College of Music, where she graduated Magna cum laude. She also took lessons under Josefino Toledo and Christine Muyco. She is currently taking her Master's degree at Memphis University under a full Master's assistantship where she’s studying composition under Kamran Ince.
         Her fascination with heavenly bodies and how they exhibit themselves against darkness shapes the aesthetic of her compositional work. She utilizes Asian as well as Western instruments in her composition.
         Ms. Macahis’s music for Violin and Orchestra ("Le genou et l'épaule des tissées étoiles")was premiered last 2008 by the Metro Manila Community Orchestra with violinist Alfonso Bolipata in Music Underkonstruction 3: Beyond Brahms, and was performed again during the Music Underkonstruction 4: Hearing the Symphonic Future (2009), with conductor, Josefino Toledo. Last November 2009, her piece for vocal ensemble ("Para sa Natutulog kong Mahal") was performed by the Manila Chamber Singers and AUIT Vocal Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Cholo Gino, during the KORO FILIPINO's 3rd Concert.
         She is one of the young composers chosen to participate in the workshop/masterclasses, and to have her new piece for voice and quintet be performed by the ECCE East Coast Contemporary Ensemble in the Etchings Festival (July 2011) in Auvillar, France.

Nicholas S. Omiccioli (b. 1982)

is currently a doctoral student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he is a Preparing Future Faculty Fellow.  He is the coordinator of the Composers in the Schools (CITS) program at UMKC and was previously assistant director of Musica Nova, UMKC's new music ensemble.  Mr. Omiccioli studies composition with James Mobberley, Chen Yi, Paul Rudy, and Zhou Long.  He has previously studied with João Pedro Oliveira and Brian Bevelander.  Mr. Omiccioli has received many awards and honors including a commission by the 2010 Wellesley Composers' Conference, winner and judge's choice in the 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 UMKC Chamber Music Composition Competitions, 2009 DuoSolo Emerging Composer Award, Kansas City Chorale Crescendo Competition, Brian M. Israel Prize, and a composition grant by Mu Phi Epsilon to name a few.  Just recently, Mr. Omiccioli was nominated for an award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a winner of the ASCAP Foundation's 2010 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.  His music has been performed by DuoSolo, the Kansas City Chorale, Contemporaneous, The Wellesley Composers' Conference, members of Brave New Works, the Society for New Music, and various new music festivals around the country including Regional and National College Music Society Conferences and numerous SCI Conferences at the National, National Student, and Regional levels.  In addition to composition, Mr. Omiccioli studies guitar with Douglas Niedt and teaches at the UMKC Academy of Music and Dance and the Kansas City School of Music.

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