New Scores: The Cone Composition Institute Concert

T. Gregory Bloomfield is a multimedia composer and educator whose work is recognized for its “unpredictable” (Third Coast Review) qualities. Through distorted time and meters, obscured melodies, and delicate and hazy harmonies, he creates a variety of electric, meditative environments for the mind to become lost within. Working with a collaborative-first mindset, his projects are often combined with elements from across different mediums, including poetry, art, and dance. Since August 2025, he has served as a Lecturer in Music Theory at Eastern Michigan University.

The recipient of accolades including the Harvard University’s Fromm Foundation Fellowship and the GSVC Karen Slack Prize, he has collaborated with ensemble and organizations such as the JACK Quartet, the Rhythm Method, Hypercube, Unheard-Of//Ensemble, and the Owen/Cox Dance Group. His works have been featured internationally at festivals and venues including: Avaloch Farm Music Institute (NH), CBDNA (MI), Nief-Norf (TN), Heidelberg University New Music Festival (OH), the U.S. Navy Band Saxophone Symposium (VA), Ear Taxi New Music Festival (IL), Lake George Music Festival (NY), Hill Auditorium (MI), Dublin International Chamber Music Festival (Ireland), International Trombone Festival (Canada), International Clarinet Association New Music Weekend, and the Red Note New Music Festival (IL). He has been a composer fellow at CCI, Composers Conference, the NATS Mentorship Program for Composers, Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program, and the JACK Quartet Studio.

Bloomfield has studied composition and electronic music at Illinois State University (B.M.) and the University of Michigan (M.M.), where he received the Dorothy Greenwald Fellowship. His primary teachers include Bright Sheng, Michael Daugherty, and Carl Schimmel. In Fall 2026, he will begin further graduate studies in composition at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Composer, pianist, and conductor Apollonio Maiello works across a wide range of musical languages. He has collaborated with leading orchestras and institutions including the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (NL), the Richmond Symphony Orchestra (USA), the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo (IT), and the Staatsoper Hannover (DE).

His music has been performed and commissioned by ensembles such as Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi (IT), Intercontinental Ensemble (NL), Hear Now Berlin (DE), Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra (USA), ShoutHouse Ensemble (USA), Nymphéas Trombone Quartet (NL), Sputter Box (USA), and NEMA Ensemble (IT), and by soloists including Alexandra Sostmann and Alex Potter.

His work has been presented at venues and festivals including Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ (NL), TivoliVredenburg (NL), Grachtenfestival (NL), Princeton University (USA), Theaterhaus Stuttgart (DE), Heidelberger Schlossfestspiele (DE), Bayerischer Rundfunk (DE), Accademia Musicale Chigiana (IT), and Teatro Grande di Brescia (IT).

He has also worked as an arranger with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Becca Stevens. His music is released on BR-KLASSIK, AVROTROS Klassiek, Neuklang, and Backlash Music.

He currently works in the Community and Engagement Program at the Staatsoper Hannover as a composer and music director.

Gillian Rae Perry is a composer and songwriter whose work is dedicated to themes of mental health, vulnerability, and interconnectedness. She grew up on a bird farm in rural Texas, and her first compositions were written for the birds.

Perry was the Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer with Chicago Opera Theater during the 2022-2024 seasons where she wrote her first opera, The Weight of Light. Perry is a 2026 Opera America Discovery Grant Awardee for her opera Desert Bloom and she recently released a singer-songwriter album titled gilly's garden with support from New Music USA's Creator Fund. Her work has been performed by the Atlanta Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago Philharmonic, Intersection Music, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Perry’s work has been described as‬‭ “sweet and sensitive” (Parterre Box) as well as “gentle, introspective, caring, important,‬ and beautiful” (Music City Review).‬

With degrees in both film and music composition, as well as growing up a theater kid, Perry actively integrates art forms outside of music into her artistic practice. Perry is also influenced by text and poetry and she released her first collection of poetry, What Will I Wish for Now?, in 2024. She holds an MFA in music composition from the California Institute of the Arts and is currently a DMA candidate at the Peabody Institute, where she studies with Kevin Puts.

With music described as “accomplished and appealing” (San Diego Story) and “shimmering…euphoric” (Chicago Classical Review), Max Vinetz is an award-winning composer whose music thrives at the intersection of improvisatory, popular, and traditional classical forms, exploring how these convergences shape and reflect identity transformation over time. His work often focuses on the perception of rhythmic and timbral events, weaving intricate relationships between narrative, musical objects, and sonic artifacts across various media.

Max is a recipient of a Koussevitzky Commission from the Library of Congress, a Fromm Foundation Commission, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Druckman Prize from Aspen Music Festival and School, the ASCAP Leo Kaplan Award, ASCAP’s Morton Gould Award (2018/2020/2025), the Paul and Christiane Cooper Prize, and the Gardner Prize from the American Viola Society among numerous others. As a Yale undergraduate, Max won the Beekman Cannon Friends Prize, awarded for a “musical composition exhibiting unusual originality and promise,” the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize awarded to the “most promising and gifted composer” in the junior class, and was also awarded the Lewis P. Curtis Fellowship, the Tristan Perlroth Prize, and the R.J.R. Cohen Fellowship for Musical Performance (2017, 2018).

Max holds degrees from Yale University (BA), Rice University Shepherd School of Music (MM), and Princeton University (MFA, PhD), and counts Steve Mackey, Donnacha Dennehy, Christopher Theofanidis, Dan Trueman, Tyondai Braxton, Juri Seo, Kathryn Alexander, Kurt Stallmann, and Karim Al-Zand, among his important teachers and mentors. He is serving as a Lecturer in the Princeton Music Department in Spring 2026.