Mohammadreza Ajdari

Born: January 17, 1990

MohammadReza Ajdari – Composer | Conductor | Global Music Visionary

MohammadReza Ajdari is an Iranian composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist known for his soulful blend of jazz, world music, and cinematic soundscapes. With a formal education in Global Music Performance from the University of Art in Tehran, Ajdari bridges Persian musical traditions with contemporary global genres.

His recent instrumental track "Els"—a deeply emotional composition performed on soprano saxophone—has earned international acclaim and was nominated for the 2025 Hollywood Independent Music Awards in the World Music category. Ajdari has also been recognized by the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, the Global Music Awards, and received top honors at the FM Contest for three consecutive years (2021–2023).

Stefanie Haklar

Dennis Haklar

Dennis started performing music at Rutgers University. He joined the Improvising Structures Ensemble lead by minimalist composer Dan Goode. The group performed the music of John Cage, Terry Riley and others, it also gave Dennis  the opportunity to hear his original compositions played by a large ensemble. This group also featured jazz saxophonist Eric Kloss. After a few years playing with this ensemble Dennis left to work as a session guitarist at Pyramid Recording Studio. It was there that he became fully immersed in the world of 24 track, 2” analog tape recording. He experienced  sounds that he never heard before, so big, so warm, so clear

Taliya Hafiz

Taliya Hafiz is an internationally acclaimed journalist having worked for several organisations from Jazz Ascona (Switzerland) to Cyprus Observer (Cyprus). She is also a multilingual singer-songwriter, composer, and dancer. @taliyahafiz

Willie Hill

Born: July 1, 1952

Willie Hill Biography

Willie Hill is a veteran musician who spent a number of years playing with touring R&B and soul acts before starting his own recording studio and record label in Durham, NC.

Hill is a native of Durham and attended North Carolina Central University (located in Durham), where he played trumpet in the University's marching band. He began playing guitar as a teenager and soon gravitated to bass guitar, a move which landed him his first band gig, at age 15.

By the age of 19, Hill was playing bass with the Communicators and had written a hit single, "One Chance," which was recorded by the group in 1974 and is featured on the 1999 album Lost Soul Oldies, Vol. 5.

John Grey

I started playing piano when I was seven, after listening to my grandmother play by ear for years. I studied music at UCLA where I played analog Moog for awhile before discovering how to get sounds from a computer. That was in the 1960s. Soon after, Roger Shepard (inventor of that tone) became my mentor and enabled me to use the Stanford AI Lab to play with digital sound creation and do psychoacoustic research on it. Then that turned into cofounding CCRMA, the computer music center at Stanford, where I started digitally sampling orchestral instruments and engaged in analysis and resynthesis

Daniel Walzer

Born: February 2, 1977

Daniel Walzer is an Indianapolis-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and audio engineer. Originally trained as a percussionist, Walzer��s recording discography includes more than two dozen albums as a session musician, engineer, and producer. A versatile collaborator, Walzer��s performance credits span a wide range of commercial and art music styles and include a five-year stint living in Nashville, TN. As a composer and collaborator, Walzer��s work has been featured at the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, the International Computer Music Festival, New Music on the Bayou, TUTTI New Music Festival, and labels including Janus Music and Sound and others.?Walzer has a BM in Jazz Studies from Bowling Green State University, an MM in Jazz Studies from the University of Cincinnati, and an MFA in Music Production and Sound Design for Visual Media from Academy of Art University

Kat Epple

Emmy, Peabody, and Edward R Murrow award-winning composer Kat Epple, has released 36 music albums internationally, composes music for film scores, and performs in concerts around the world. - Film scores include National Geographic, PBS Nova, CNN, ABC, Valentino Fashions, History Channel, NASA, "Killing Eve", and Apple Computers. - Music Performances include Guggenheim Museums, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, The United Nations,?London��s Union Chapel, National Gallery, concerts in Russia, Africa, Europe, and Asia.? - For twenty years, legendary visual artist, Robert Rauschenberg commissioned her to perform at his art openings internationally

Jeff Oster

Born: May 31, 1957

Described as Miles Davis meets Pink Floyd, Jeff’s sound is unique, combining New Age beauty and progressive rock. Jeff’s albums feature esteemed contributors such as guitarist Nile Rodgers, iconic bassist Chuck Rainey and legendary drummers Bernard Purdie and Keith Carlock. Jeff’s accolades include: ZMR Album of the Year (5x winner), multiple #1 albums on NPR’s Echoes, and multiple Independent Music Awards.

Jeff is a founding member of the group FLOW, comprised of Will Ackerman, Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt and Jeff Oster, of course. FLOW took home this year’s ZMR Album of the Year, and the IMA for Best New Age Album. They are performing all over the continent, including a September 28 appearance at Carnegie Hall in NYC.

Flow

FLOW stands for Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt, Jeff Oster and Will Ackerman. Its a New Age group formed out of friendship and a history of working and playing together over eight years. FLOW is a New Age music group �C Will Ackerman, Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt and Jeff Oster. In early 2015, Lawrence Blatt invited Fiona Joy and Jeff Oster to join him at Will Ackerman��s Imaginary Road Studios to create an album Inspired by the iconic Windham Hill ensembles. Once recording began, it became clear that Will could be an essential part of this group as an artist as well as producer. When invited, Will was happy to join the others and FLOW was born