QCNMG

Paul Kerekes

Paul Kerekes (b. 1988) is an undergraduate Piano Performance and Composition student at Queens College. He has attended notable programs such as Stony Brook Summer Music Festival, the Young Artists Piano Program at Tanglewood, California Summer Music and Yale’s New Music Workshop in Norfolk, CT. At Queens College, Paul received the Gabriel Fontrier award for achievement as an undergraduate composer and has had the privilege of hearing his music performed by the Second Instrumental Unit, Stonewall Chorale, and the Mannes Preparatory Division Choir. Additionally, Paul enjoys playing the cello, drawing, and painting. He currently studies piano with Donald Pirone and composition with Bruce Saylor.

Composition

• O sweet spontaneous for Soprano and Piano
  performers: Siri Howard, Soprano; Paul Kerekes, Piano
  
  
• Suite for chamber ensemble
  I. Etude:
  II. Chorale:
  III. Budapest:
  performers: SIU ensemble
  
  
• Soliloquy; aside for Alto Saxophone and Piano:
  performers: Eliot Gattegno, Alto Sax; Eric Wubbels, Piano
  

Emmanuel Sikora

Emmanuel Sikora was born and raised in Central New York. He is currently a Freshman at Queens College, where he is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Composition. Dr. Edward Smaldone is his composition teacher.

Composition

• Emmanuel Sikora, Nocturne
  performer: Emmanuel Sikora, piano
  
  

David Bridges

David Bridges is an internationally performed composer who is pursuing his MA degree in composition at the Aaron Copland School of Music and studying with professor Bruce Saylor. He is the Secretary and Treasurer of the QCNMG. David has received commissions from clarinetist Laurie Friedman-Adler, hornist Daniel J. Partridge, and pianist Krissy Kaplan for solo works on their respective instruments, the Hofstra New Music Ensemble, and PMEA District IX. He received the Luigi Dallapiccola Award in Composition from ACSM, is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honors Society and was awarded several honors from Hofstra University.

David Bridges

David Bridges is an internationally performed composer who is pursuing his MA degree in composition at the Aaron Copland School of Music and studying with professor Bruce Saylor. He is the Secretary and Treasurer of the QCNMG. David has received commissions from clarinetist Laurie Friedman-Adler, hornist Daniel J. Partridge, and pianist Krissy Kaplan for solo works on their respective instruments, the Hofstra New Music Ensemble, and PMEA District IX. He received the Luigi Dallapiccola Award in Composition from ACSM, is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honors Society and was awarded several honors from Hofstra University.

David Bridges

David Bridges is an internationally performed composer who is pursuing his MA degree in composition at the Aaron Copland School of Music and studying with professor Bruce Saylor. He is the Secretary and Treasurer of the QCNMG. David has received commissions from clarinetist Laurie Friedman-Adler, hornist Daniel J. Partridge, and pianist Krissy Kaplan for solo works on their respective instruments, the Hofstra New Music Ensemble, and PMEA District IX. He received the Luigi Dallapiccola Award in Composition from ACSM, is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honors Society and was awarded several honors from Hofstra University.

David Bridges

David Bridges is an internationally performed composer who is pursuing his MA degree in composition at the Aaron Copland School of Music and studying with professor Bruce Saylor. He is the Secretary and Treasurer of the QCNMG. David has received commissions from clarinetist Laurie Friedman-Adler, hornist Daniel J. Partridge, and pianist Krissy Kaplan for solo works on their respective instruments, the Hofstra New Music Ensemble, and PMEA District IX. He received the Luigi Dallapiccola Award in Composition from ACSM, is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honors Society and was awarded several honors from Hofstra University.