Here are some composers and other new-music people I met in January 2016 at the New Music Gathering, a conference at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. I’m checking out their music now!

Composers

Clare Shore, composer, Florida

Meg Schedel, composer, Stonybrook, New York

Kirk O’Riordan, composer, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania

Kala Pierson, composer, Pennsylvania

Jamie Klenetsky Fay, composer, mezzo-soprano

Ruby Fulton, composer, Baltimore, MD

Alexandra Gardner, composer, Baltimore, MD

Brooks Frederikson, composer, New York

Henry Stewart Engart III, composer, harpsichord, organ, North Carolina

Steve Layton, composer, virtual community: playgroundsound

Music Business People

Chris Robinson, Parma Recordings

Tom Steenland, Starkland Records

Kevin Clark, composer, New Music USA

Maggie Stapleton, Second Inversion radio