Since we last had the privilege of hearing their music live, the composers featured in SOLI’s 30x30x30 project have continued creating, collaborating, and achieving! Here’s a run-down of what five of them have been up to…
Adeliia Faizullina
Adeliia Faizullina has kept busy in the time since Showcase I! In addition to having new pieces performed with various groups, she sang for the master’s and doctoral graduates at Brown University during last year’s commencement, video linked. Faizullina also moved to Denver, Colorado, had her piece Jerlarem featured on Score Follower’s YouTube channel in the Fall of 2025, and next summer will have a new piece performed at the Next Festival of Emerging Artists. Festival details can be found on their website.
Alex Barsom
Since Macrocosm in May of 2024, Alex Barsom graduated from Mannes School of Music at The New School with a Master’s in composition and is now composing, performing, and teaching in Brooklyn, NY. His piece Lead Tongue (a clip of which is linked here) was performed by the Orange Road String Quartet in November as part of the Tribeca New Music Festival concert Controlled Burn.
Alexa Canales
In addition to tying for 2nd Place in the Professional Division of The American Prize Charles Ives Award in Composition (see our previous post), Alexa Canales has recently had works performed by both the New York Composers Circle in their program Just Listen and by the North/South Chamber Orchestra in Women of Note.
Alexandros Darna
Since Showcase I, Alexandros Darna’s work Fables was premiered in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. His work Minnaloushe earned the NY Federation Of Music Clubs Israel Prize, and his composition Apparitions premiered at the Thailand International Composition Festival in a concert produced by the Asian American New Music Institute. Darna also joined the American Young Artists Association last November.
Asuka Kakitani
In addition to leading her Inatnas Jazz Orchestra in regular gigs, Asuka Kakitani had a new release, The Nights (listen and download on bandcamp), last September. She was featured by the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers during Women’s History Month (see post), and this March received the American Composers Forum McKnight Composer Fellowship for demonstrating exemplary achievement and commitment to her artistic and cultural work! More information about the McKnight Foundation’s Composer Fellowship can be found on the ACF’s website.
We’ll be back with updates on more composers soon, but in the meantime, please support these terrific artists by following the links above!