What is a voice, if not breath shaped by longing, memory, and meaning? Moreover, what is music if not the soul’s yearning made audible? Jasmine Choi has built a life from that breath, a life where silence becomes story, and melody becomes memory.

Composition, for Lee, is like cooking without a recipe: the ingredients may be familiar, but the result is always new. Each work is built from the raw material of sound, emotion, and memory, delicately balanced between structure and spontaneity.

Helen Grime's music unfolds like a painting in sound. Layered, intricate, and emotionally resonant. With a voice that bridges poetic intimacy and orchestral grandeur, Grime has quietly become one of the most compelling composers of her generation.

Some artists mirror their era, while others subtly shape it, rendering the invisible audible and the unspeakable inevitable. David Ludwig belongs to the latter. A composer, scholar, and institutional leader, Ludwig treats music not as ornament or entertainment but as a sacred act of meaning-making.

Jason Eckardt is not a composer who takes the easy route, nor does he expect his listeners to. His work is defined by precision, complexity, and an almost architectural obsession with structure. But beneath that surface lies a deeply human drive: to connect, to question, and to elevate voices through music in a world that often ignores nuance.

In the ever-evolving world of new music, few voices are as distinct and unforgettable as that of Amy Beth Kirsten. Her work defies easy categorization, it is daring, rigorous, theatrical, and unflinchingly original. While many composers find comfort within the borders of tradition, Kirsten thrives at the edges, where music becomes movement, sound becomes language, and performance transforms into a ritual.

In a world where the boundaries of classical composition continue to expand, Luxembourgish composer Catherine Kontz stands at the frontier, merging music with theatre, movement, and space in electrifying ways. Her journey into composition wasn't linear nor conventional, but this path has shaped her into one of the most imaginative minds in contemporary music.

 Drewett explains what inspired her to become a composer: "I always knew I wanted to do something creative. I was very creative growing up; it was essential to me—but it didn't always come from music; it came from painting." Her artistic instincts initially found expression through visual art before music became her primary creative outlet.