Christopher Jones and Osnat Netzer

Osnat Netzer /osˈnat ˈnɛtsɛʁ/ is a composer, performer and educator. Osnat creates her compositions collaboratively, tailoring her work to the performer’s sensibilities, physicality and improvisational inclinations. She takes inspiration from cognitive linguistics, and in dialogue with the embodied experience of physical forces, such as potential and kinetic energy, resulting in compositions that are rich in musical languages and connected to the fulsome pursuit for tension and relaxation.

Netzer’s works have been commissioned and performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), saxophonists Kenneth Radnofsky and Geoffrey Landman, Spektral Quartet, and Winsor Music, among many others, published by Edition Peters and earthsongs, and recorded on Bridge Records and New Focus Recordings. She is currently Associate Professor and Director of Composition and Musicianship at DePaul University.

Christopher Wendell Jones is a composer of intricately designed music that explores issues of identity, memory and time in distinctive, unconventional ways. Jones' music has been performed internationally and throughout the United States at venues including the Darmstadt Ferienkurse in Germany, the Havana Festival of Contemporary Music, Merkin Hall in New York, and the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D. C. He has given lectures at many institutions, recently including Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.

As a recipient of commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation and the American Composers Forum, among others, Jones has collaborated with a broad range of musicians, including sfSound, the Mivos and St. Lawrence String Quartets, the Callithumpian Consort, David Milnes and the U. C. Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, and many outstanding soloists. Jones currently resides in Chicago, where he is Associate Professor of Musicianship and Composition and Chair of Musical Studies at DePaul University.