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Ash Fure

Professor of Music;

Director, M.F.A. in Sonic Practice

Ash Fure's full-bodied sonic experiences work on the senses in startling ways. Called "purely visceral" and "staggeringly original" by The New Yorker, Fure's live performances and built-out worlds mobilize the elemental force of sound, the social muscle of listening and our animal capacity to sense. Winner of two Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize in Music Composition, a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Prize, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for Artists, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Stuttgart Composition Prize, a Darmstadt Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Columbia University, Fure holds a PhD in Music Composition from Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Sonic Arts at Dartmouth College and was named co-artistic director of The Industry LA in 2021.

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César Alvarez

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Assistant Professor of Music

CÉSAR ALVAREZ is a composer, lyricist, playwright, and performance maker. They create big experimental gatherings disguised as musicals, in the key of inter-dimensionality, socio-political transformation, kinship and coexistence. With a background as a jazz saxophonist, bandleader and sound artist, César's work inhabits a space between the worlds of theater, music, performance art and social practice. César is currently moving six musicals through development to production, touring with a 6-piece band in support of their debut solo album egg, and producing concerts of their musicals as part of a two-year residency at Lincoln Center. César was a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow, a recipient of The Jonathan Larson Award in 2016, The Kleban Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022.

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Bethany Younge

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Technical Director; Lecturer

Bethany Younge's music merges acoustic and electronic elements, exploring the contrast between machinistic noise and organic sound, highlighting the body's role in performance. She emphasizes the inseparable link between music-making and physical presence, often using instrumental deconstruction, motion, and sound-enhancing costumes to amplify corporeal expressivity. As a hands-on, critically-oriented educator, Younge fosters a reciprocal exchange between teacher and student. Currently Technical Director and Lecturer at Dartmouth College, her works have been featured in prestigious festivals and performed by renowned ensembles, earning her numerous awards, including the Darmstadt Stipend Prize, Kanter/Mivos Prize, Charles Ives Scholarship Award and a Fromm Commission.

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Samita Sinha

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Lecturer

Artist Samita Sinha creates expansive works of sound and performance rooted in the body, voice, and vibration. She has created a non-colonial and profoundly sentient language of vibration by distilling and unraveling Indian vocal traditions in both form and dogma, through body and mind. Her performances, practice, and pedagogy emerge and enact another way of being, and being together, and open pathways to recover our capacity to sense, feel, and know, at an essential level, ourselves, each other, the world, and the universe. Sinha has performed and taught throughout the United States and internationally, and received awards from the Mellon Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network, and others.

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Julia Waswo

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Administrative Coordinator

Julia Waswo is a vocalist and music educator. She specializes in choral, musical theater and commercial music. Julia has taught PreK-12 public school music education for nearly two decades, holding certifications in both New York and Vermont. She is also an active member of the local arts community, offering skills in all areas of performance and production. Her role as Administrative Coordinator includes office, facility and fiscal management; as well as department event and guest planning.

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