Concert V
June 25, 8:30PM
MISE-EN_PLACE (45 Saint Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10026)
Program
Jess Rowland (USA/USA): New Work (2025)
Alissa Voth (USA/USA): Deiopea (2023)
Tarik Inman (USA/USA): Idiom III (Quarrel) (2024)
Inga Chinilina (Russia/USA): Learning to Love America (2023)
About the composers




Jess Rowland is a composer and artist working at the intersection of sound, technology, and culture. She received her MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley, and the 2018 – 2020 Peter B. Lewis Fellow in Art at the Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited, presented, and performed internationally. She is also engaged with education and advocacy for new music and sound art, including teaching positions at Princeton University and School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Alissa Voth (she/her) is a composer and paper artist based in Chicago Illinois. Her creative work explores narrative and the unconscious mind with an artistic focus on the voice and woven imagery. She is a PhD candidate at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, and an alumni of the Boston Conservatory. Recent works include premieres by Cacie Miller and Missing Piece, Cosmia Opera Collective, Northwestern University’s Contemporary Music Ensemble, Masso Quartet, Stare at the Sun choir, Garden Unit duo, and the Unheard-of Ensemble. Her viral paper weaving art has been curated by Society6, Apartment Therapy, and the Chicago Collage Community. Alissa is a former church pianist and public-school accompanist from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Tarik Inman is a composer and electronic musician living in Philadelphia. In his notated composition practice, he aims to create music that can both be formally rigorous and socially functional, responding to contemporary conditions as well as historical contexts. Drawing on his background in experimental electronic music and performance, Inman’s interests lie in the relationship between artist and audience, the interaction between humans and our technology, and cross-cultural pastiche. In the wake of Modernism, the Second Viennese School, pop, and the internet age, he hopes to achieve an artistic aesthetic both referential and novel.
Inman holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Technology from Temple University and is preparing to attend Temple’s Master of Music in Composition in Fall 2025. He has studied under composers including William Dougherty, Erin Busch, Adam Vidiksis, and Maurice Wright. His most recent performance was the December 2024 premier of “Lament for Sumer and Urim.”
Composer-performer Oliver Kwapis (b. 1997) has written orchestral, chamber, vocal, and electronic works performed by ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic (through the LA Phil’s Composer Fellowship Program), the National Children’s Chorus, Wet Ink Ensemble, Calder Quartet, Atlantic Brass Quintet, and pianist Eric Huebner. His music has been featured at conferences and festivals including ICMC, NIME, NYCEMF, NSEME, and June in Buffalo. He holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Data- Driven Music Performance and Composition at the University of Oregon.
Inga Chinilina is a multimedia composer. She sees music as an act of translation, a concept she explores in both her academic and creative work. Inga’s research explores how cultural context shapes our perception and representation of auditory experiences. In her creative practice, Inga transforms personal stories into sonic expressions, reflecting a wide range of societal issues, including immigration, womanhood, and the environment.
Currently a PhD candidate in Music and Multimedia Composition at Brown University, Inga holds a BM in Composition and Jazz Piano Performance from Berklee College of Music and an MFA in Theory and Composition from Brandeis University.