Lyn Goeringer is a composer, sound artist, improvisor, and performer who makes her own instruments and multi-media pieces that focus on the unusual and everyday within sound, video, and electronics. Her work relies on intense focus and attention to bring the listener to a point of intentional hearing— a world where unusual objects bring haunting soundscapes to life, and everyday objects become sonic in ways we do not usually get the opportunity to hear. Informed by reductionism and essentialism in improvisation and compositional practice, her works investigate individual sounds and images, giving them the time and space they need for their inner complexity to rise to the surface. Her current research/practitioner focus is on the mythopoetic as it relates to the unconscious and the unseen.She received her Ph. D from Brown University in 2011, and an MFA from Bard College in 2005. As a performer and improvisor, she has performed throughout the United States with her handmade interfaces and instruments, and has exhibited her sound installations throughout the United States, including the Jack Straw New Media Gallery (Seattle, WA), Penny Stamps Gallery (Ann Arbor, MI), and Science Gallery Detroit (Detroit, Michigan).

Colton Arnold is a Baltimore based composer, electronic performer, sound designer, and audio visualizer creator. Through the wide variety of his work, Colton creates a new sonic experience for the audience in every performance, accomplished via sound installations, electro-acoustic performances, solo and group electronic improvisation.With his extreme interests in Max, Colton uses this as his playground for most of his work. His main area of study focuses on ways to increase his knowledge in this software. Here is where Colton creates his audio visualizers that adds an out of this world visual experience that adds to every musical experience. At Peabody, Colton also began VVAVEs, a student-run electronic concert series his sophomore year. Colton is currently a third year Computer Music undergraduate at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. 

Robert Hitz is an improvisational pianist, composer, and master teacher. Although classically trained at the Peabody Institute and Syracuse University, Robert now primarily plays and composes through improvisation. His music spans genres and influences, and he is open to all great musical ideas. He had the honor of composing “True Blue” for the 2021 Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Awards Ceremony. Known for both virtuosity and tenderness Robert also collaborates with spoken word and visual arts in participatory inter-arts programs and events. During his recent artist residency at Casper College, his music for A Midsummer’s Night Dream was the conceptual foundation for the production. Robert tours as a soloist, collaborative artist, and master teacher.  His current project is a book and video series on his methods of teaching through improvisation. He has recorded four solo piano albums with a new album due in 2024. He was a founding member and an officer of the Baltimore Composers Forum. Serving his second term, Robert is the Peabody Institute representative on the Johns Hopkins Alumni Council and an active member of the Engaging Future Alumni Committee.

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