Margins Guitar Collective

Brittany J. Green (b. 1991) is a North Carolina-based composer, creative, and educator. Described as “cinematic in the best sense” and “searing” (Chicago Classical Review), Brittany’s music is centered around facilitating collaborative, intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses. The intersection between sound, movement, and text serves as the focal point of these musical spaces, often questioning and redefining the relationships between these three elements. 

Her research and creative interests include mapping aural gestures to gestural recognition technology and exploring virtual reality platforms as a tool for experiencing immersive, intimate musical moments. Her music has been featured at Society of Composers National Conference, New York City Electronic Music Festival, SPLICE Institute, the West Fork New Music Festival, and Bowling Green State University Graduate Conference. She has presented research at the North Carolina Music Educators Association Conference, East Carolina University’s Research and Creative Arts Week, Darkwater Women in Music Festival, and the Intersection@ Art and Science Symposium. From 2018-2019, Brittany served as composer-in-residence for the PCS/ECU Young Composers Project. Current projects include commissions from JACK Quartet as an inaugural member of JACK Studio Artists, as well as work with Margins Guitar Collectiveand bassist Kate Alexandra.  

Brittany holds a BM in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a MM in Music Composition and Theory from East Carolina University. She is currently in residence at Duke University, pursuing a Ph.D in Music Composition as a Deans Graduate Fellow.

Nebal Maysaud is a queer Lebanese Druze composer based in the Washington D.C. Metro Area. Their music is a convergence of different styles across Western and Middle Eastern Classical Music. Their musical influences extend beyond the Western Classical repertoire, taking inspiration from Baligh Hamdi, Koji Kondo, Vaughan Williams and Arvo Part. 

Their music has been featured on Scorefollower, The District New Music Conference 2018, the Lawrence University Wind Ensemble and Opera Department, and Art Song Lab 2016, and the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra. Their writing and workshops have been featured on NewMusicBox and at YallaPunk 2019. They studied with Asha Srinivasan, Andrew Cole, Joanne Metcalf, Dirk D’Ase, John Benson, and Mark Camphouse. They received their B.Mus degree in Music Composition at Lawrence University.