Korean Cellist, composer and improviser Ha-Yang Kim premieres new chamber works with funding from the Van Lier Fellowship.  With musical influences ranging from western classical music, American experimentalism, rock, jazz, and improvised music, to non-western musical sources from Bali, Korea and South Indian classical music (Karnatic), Ha-Yang has collaborated/performed with many diverse musicians such as Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Louis Andriessen, and Larry Polansky.

"Erik Friedlander can do things with a cello that should have a reasonable listener fearing for her life… Rostropovich one second and Rottweiler the next." (Pitchfork).  Cellist and composer Erik Friedlander will perform works from his always changing solo repertoire, focusing on the music from two solo cello CD's: Block Ice & Propane - inspired by American roots music and Friedlander's own history as a young guitar player, the album's thirteen tracks feature a kind of back porch pizzicato and rich evocative bowed landscapes; and Volac ten rich and romantic compositions from Zorn’s challenging Book of Angels.

Jane Rigler (flutist, improviser, composer, educator, producer) is known for her innovations in new flute performance, techniques and musical vocabulary. Jane’s compositions cover the gamut of simple solo acoustic pieces inspired by language, to complex interactive electronic works that pay homage to painting, poetry and dance.  An active featured performer in contemporary music festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe, Rigler presents “To Painting (a la pintura)” (2006-07) – a composition for flute, piano, cello, electronics and dance. 

Floriculture, led by composer/pianist Carl Maguire with Chris Mannigan, Trevor Dunn, and Dan Weiss, has developed a kaleidoscopic and tactile sound in Maguire's rhythmically sensuous music.  Overall, the band sound aims to envelop the listener in an unfamiliar yet inviting space. To magnify and stretch so that what would be solid may appear porous and vice versa.  Floriculture's recent release on Between The Lines (Germany) has been short-listed by several reviewers and hailed by Glenn Astarita as "one of the true modern jazz surprises of 2006," Bruce Lee Gallanter summed it up as "Excellent work from some of my favorite local heroes."