Scott D. Miller (Artistic Director) is a New York City-based composer who has written extensively for various classical ensembles and has long explored diverse genres. He has composed musique concrète, electroacoustic music, experimental jazz, structured improvisation and works in collaboration with poets, dramatists and visual artists. Miller's works have been performed at MISE-EN, La MaMa, Symphony Space, The Knitting Factory, Roulette, CBGB, P.S. 122, Lincoln Center Library and many other venues.

Miller studied composition with Milton Babbitt and Paul Lansky, as well as clarinet with David Krakauer.   A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Miller also earned an MFA in composition from Princeton University and an MA in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He has received numerous awards and grants including ASCAP, NJSCA, Meet the Composer and the New York Composers Circle Award. 

Starting in 1989, Miller founded and directed the Inner Ear Music Series at the Brecht Forum and at Greenwich House, producing over seventy concerts of new music by many prominent experimental composers and improvisers. Recordings of his music are available on Cadence Jazz Records and on the Roulette Archive. 

Carl Christian Bettendorf (Conductor) is a New York-based composer/conductor. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he studied composition with Hans-Jürgen von Bose and Wolfgang Rihm in Munich and Karlsruhe before moving to New York, where he received his doctorate from Columbia University, studying with Tristan Murail.

Bettendorf’s compositions have been played at many prestigious venues and festivals on four continents. He has received numerous awards, among them a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska, and the MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH); and commissions from the Fromm Foundation and the Ralph Kaminsky Fund.

As a conductor, Mr. Bettendorf has worked closely with ensembles in New York (Wet Ink, counter)induction, Talea Ensemble) and abroad (piano possibile in Munich, Ostravská banda in the Czech Republic) and is currently director of the Manhattanville College Community Orchestra (Purchase, NY). He recently conducted opera productions at Bard College and the Opéra National de Montpellier (France) and has served as assistant conductor for the Columbia University and American Composers orchestras, Miller Theatre, and the Munich Biennale. Mr. Bettendorf has recorded for the Albany, ArtVoice, Carrier, Cybele, Hat Hut, and Tzadik labels.

Mitchell McCarthy (Producer) is a New York-based composer, orchestrator, and producer. He has written music for small ensemble, large ensemble, solo piano, voice, and electronics, and has collaborated as both arranger and conductor with a wide range of artists spanning an even wider range of styles and genres. Recent projects include orchestrations for Kristin Chenoweth and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony and Ballet, and The Washington Ballet, as well as acclaimed premieres at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Alice Tully Hall in New York, the New World Symphony Center in Miami, and with K/M•D/M, the contemporary ballet company he co-founded in 2012.

In addition to his concert work, Mitchell regularly serves as a session producer, conductor, arranger, and pianist for several artists and films. Recent recordings at Avatar Studios (NYC), Douglass Recording (Brooklyn), and Tonstudio Rajchman (Czech) have yielded releases on labels Discovery Music & Vision (UK), Wax Poetics, and Magnolia Pictures. Mitchell also works closely with a growing roster of indie artists in the United States and abroad. 

Born in Osaka, Japan, Yumi Suehiro (Piano) began studying piano at age 6, and marimba a year later.  In Japan, Ms. Suehiro won numerous national and international competitions, including the top prize at the Kobe International Competition as the youngest winner.

An undergraduate scholarship student at Lehman College (CUNY), she graduated magna cum laude, and she received her Master of Music degree in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music as a student of Zenon Fishbein and Peter Vinograde.  While at Manhattan, she won second prize in the school’s 2010 concerto competition (John Harbison’s Piano Concerto), and in 2011 was chosen to perform Richard Wilson’s “Flashback” for Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s master class.

Ms. Suehiro has appeared at numerous festivals for contemporary music, such as June in Buffalo, the Princeton Sound Kitchen, NUNC! (Chicago), Red Note (IL), New Music New College (FL), Sound of Stockholm, and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (where she received an honorable mention).  She is a core member of Ensemble Mise-en, with which she performed Ligeti’s Piano Concerto in 2017.  Most recently, her recording of Hans Thomalla’s complete works for solo piano was released on Sideband Records.  She has served on the faculty at Lehman College Continuing Education.