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Variant 6 is a virtuosic vocal sextet that explores and advances the art of chamber music in the twenty-first century. The ensemble’s work includes concertizing throughout the United States, commissioning substantial new works, collaborating closely with other ensembles, and educating a new generation of singers and composers. Variant 6 believes that the process of compromise achieved from the diversity of opinion and specialty of its six individual artists can create deeply impactful experiences for its audiences, collaborators, and students.

Mobius Percussion is an ensemble of young musicians that bring a visual and theatrical edge to their performances. By working with a wide range of collaborators including videographers, dancers, fashion designers, thespians, and like-minded composers, they are breaking down the traditions of classical music performance in favor of an immersive concert experience.

Veronica Jurkiewicz is an instrumentalist, vocalist, educator, and curator based in Philadelphia. She is drawn to sound involving the intersection of experimental, improvisational, and traditional practice. Veronica is often seen playing in a string quartet performing new/experimental music, singing Bach as a soprano in Choral Arts Philadelphia, improvising alongside Afro-Cuban percussionists, interpreting new music as member of Arcana New Music Ensemble, and bringing chamber music to the people with Classical Revolution Philly.

Wally Gunn is a composer whose work makes use of patterns and processes, and sometimes utilizes physical gesture and speech to heighten the theatricality of musical performance, creating music that is expressive and emotionally direct. Hailing from rural Australia, Wally first played in rock bands, then attended Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, before moving to New York to study with Julia Wolfe at Manhattan School of Music, and then pursue a PhD at Princeton University. Wally writes concert music and collaborates with theater makers and visual artists. He currently divides his time between New York, NY, USA and Castlemaine, VIC, Australia.

Víctor Pablo García Gaetán, 2019 Pregones/PRTT Step Up Artist In Residence, comes from a musical family from San Juan, Puerto Rico. At an early age, his father Víctor García – a pianist/composer – taught him his first rhythms: Puerto Rican plena on panderos, martillo on bongó, marcha on conga, cáscara and campaneo on timbales, and songo on drumset. In New York City Victor Pablo is a member of contemporary percussion quartet Mobius Percussion, bomba/jazz group Fernando García Band, genre-free TM Street Band, slavic/caribbean fusion Slavo Rican Assembly, and is co-music director/composer/drummer for People of Earth.

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