Gustavo Aguilar is an interdisciplinary artist whose approach to making cooperatively combines the archive (preconceived elements such as notation, texts, documents) and the repertoire (present-conceived elements such as gesture, orality, aurality). A Brownsville, Texas native, Gustavo has performed at major festivals throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Gustavo is the Co-Artistic Director of Tug an interdisciplinary arts collective that creates contact zones where people can generate insights about, and produce actions around, contemporary social issues and an Associate Arts Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts/NYU and on the faculty in the MFA Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts, NYC.

jacqui armbruster (they/them) is an award-winning fiddler, multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and improviser driven by the pursuit of honest and vulnerable expression. a nationally touring artist based out of boston, jacqui can be found patchworking their passions through a growing body of original work and collaborations that reflect their omnivorous musical interests. 

Devi Majeske is a Brooklyn-based sitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She began studying sitar in the North Indian classical tradition in 2019 and has since performed at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barclays Center, and for the Indo-American Arts Council. Alongside her classical work, Devi writes songs under the name Air Devi, a project that originated in the underground scene in Philadelphia while she was studying psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. As the 2025 Van Lier Fellow in Music Performance, Devi is currently working on an album that reflects the synthesis of her background–– exploring how sitar and Hindustani vocal ornamentation can be woven into contemporary songwriting with a punk ethos. 

Daniela Mandoki is a Mexican composer, producer, and singer with a passion for transforming samples and field recordings into innovative instruments. She creates immersive atmospheres that orbit around her distinctive vocals. A meticulous artist, Daniela self-produces and mixes all her material, carefully curating every sound to bring her music to life.

Her skills as an artist extend into theater and composition, where she has experience directing, arranging, acting, and producing. She was a OneBeat Fellow in 2023, which gave her the opportunity to collaborate with musicians from around the world, and in the same year, she created the multidisciplinary concert Fragmentary. 

Her solo project, Reifier, unites her experience as a composer, producer, and performer into an intimate and experimental sound world.

M. Turner McCabe (he/they) (b. 2000) is a versatile artist and composer based in Brooklyn, NY, specializing in not only classical and chamber music, but also electronic music, DJing, pop music, and many other mediums. Turner graduated from New York University in 2025 with an MM in Music Composition, having studied personally with Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, and Shelley Washington.

Being a queer individual from Appalachia who grew up on the internet, Turner’s work not only celebrates queer community and collaboration but also the opportunity for levity in music and art. Their work has been described as both fun and dirty, while also being thoughtful and emotionally impactful, drawing inspiration from Gen Z and internet culture. This includes online queer spaces, absurdist meme culture, glitch aesthetics, and open access to information and music, which have led to their musical inspirations ranging from Philip Glass to Charli XCX.

Robin Rutenberg is an interdisciplinary sound and media artist placing an emphasis on trans*feminist worldbuilding through storytelling, performance, game art, experiential sound and composition. Through an enmeshment of mediums, they build emotionally resonant and stimulating worlds which archive, imagine otherwise, and hold trans* narratives. Their work entwines poetics of reflection and resonance and manifests as immersive game art, performances, publications, and sound and musical works.

Robin's forthcoming musical works include the official score for Lancer Tactics, a computer game to be released on Steam in 2026. They have composed music for film, including The Grey Area (2022) and Biopic (2021), and for their self-published poetry walk Portals (2023) available on the App Store. Robin's previous and ongoing musical projects include Gabe Darling (solo), The Little Books (a duet with Rick Colado), and Four Families. They spent nearly a decade as a touring and session musician, joining acts such as Radical Face, Ceschi, Monarch MTN, and RickoLus, among many others.

Praised for her “soulful bandoneón” (Washington Classical Review), Heyni Solera is a sought after bandoneonist throughout the United States and abroad. Heyni’s major projects include the bandoneon duo, Avalos Solera Duo, who released their debut album, Bach en Bandoneon, in 2021. Her cello/bandoneon duo, Arco & Aire, won Washington, DC’s 2021 Wammie award for Best Latin Song, for their recording of “La Bordona,” and in 2024 released their full-length album Una Noche Entre Sueños” of contemporary tangos.. Heyni is a bandoneonist for the PanAmerican Symphony Orchestra, with whom she had her Kennedy Center debut in 2022. Also a music scholar, she completed her Master’s in Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland, and has presented her lecture, “Today’s Women in Tango: Carving Out Spaces,” throughout North America. Currently, Heyni is finishing her Masters of Composition from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.