David Lang is the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music for the little match girl passion, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices, directed by Paul Hillier.

One of America’s most performed and honored composers, his recent works include writing on water for the London Sinfonietta, with libretto and visuals by English filmmaker Peter Greenaway; the difficulty of crossing a field – a fully staged opera for the Kronos Quartet; loud love songs, a concerto for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie, and the oratorio Shelter, with co-composers Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, at the Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, staged by Ridge Theater and featuring the Norwegian vocal ensemble Trio Mediaeval. The commercial recording of the little match girl passion will be released this June on Harmonia Mundi, coupled with a cappella choral works sung by Ars Nova Copenhagen.

Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of New York's legendary music festival, Bang on a Can.

For a full biography, please visit: www.davidlangmusic.com.

Born in Vancouver, Canada in 1953, Joel Hoffman received degrees from the University of Wales and the Juilliard School. He is part of a distinguished musical family that includes brothers Gary and Toby, cellist and conductor, and Deborah, harpist. Honors include a major prize from the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bearns Prize of Columbia University, a BMI Award, ASCAP awards since 1977, and three American Music Center grants.

Currently, Hoffman is Professor of Composition at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, where he is also Artistic Director of its annual new music festival, MusicX. During the 1993-94 season, he served as composer-in-residence with the National Chamber Orchestra of Washington, DC and in 1991-92, he held the position of New Music Advisor for the Buffalo Philharmonic. He has been a resident composer at the Rockefeller, Camargo and Hindemith Foundations, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Hoffman is also an active pianist, having appeared as soloist with, among others, the Chicago Symphony, the Belgian Radio and T.V. Orchestra, the Costa Rica National Symphony and the Florida Orchestra.

Hoffman's works draw from such diverse sources as Eastern European folk musics and bebop, and are pervaded by a sense of lyricism and rhythmic vitality. They have been performed by many ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony Brass, the BBC Orchestra of Wales, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, members of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Quartet, the Shanghai Quartet, the Brentano Quartet and the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio. "Self-Portrait with Gebirtig", for cello and orchestra, has been performed in New York, Paris, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, San Jose (Costa Rica), Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Santa Barbara, Kronberg (Germany), and has been recorded by the Berlin Radio Symphony, the Kiev Chamber Orchestra as well as by the Slovenian Radio Symphony in Lubliana. Hoffman’s opera, "The Memory Game", received its first performances in May of 2003. The opera examines the destructive nature of war, as seen from the perspective of Mordechai Gebirtig, the Polish-Jewish sogwriter from Krakow. The opera's libretto was written by Dutch novelist Henk Romijn Meijer. “Brave Old Mordechai” (based on material from the opera) was recently taken on tour in Holland by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Brave Old World.

For a full biography, please visit: www.joelhoffman.net.

Matthias Pintscher sees his two main spheres of activity - composing and conducting - as entirely complementary. He has created significant works for some of the world’s leading orchestras, and his intrinsic understanding of the score from the composer’s perspective informs his ability to communicate on the podium. He now regularly conducts throughout Europe and the U.S.

In the 2010/2011 season, Mr. Pintscher begins a three-year appointment as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s first ever Artist-in-Association, elected to the post after a single appearance before the orchestra. He will conduct two programs during their 75th anniversary season, both a contemporary concert and a program of modern classics juxtaposed with traditional repertoire.

He makes his debut with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and with the Bamberg Symphony, and returns to the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin and the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra. Elsewhere in Europe, Mr. Pintscher returns to the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI (Torino) in the Rai NuovaMusica series, and performs with the Slovenian Philharmonic.

In the U.S., Mr. Pintscher makes his Philadelphia debut in the Perelman Theater at Kimmel Center with the Curtis Contemporary Music Ensemble 20/21, his Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra debut, and returns to the Cleveland Orchestra in a program that includes one of his own compositions, Reflections on Narcissus. In New York, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) will dedicate a “Portrait” program to his works at Columbia University’s Miller Theater.

For a full biography, please visit: www.matthiaspintscher.com.