Ben Cantil is an award-winning technologist, educator, and electronic music producer, operating at the creative intersection of machine learning and audio synthesis. He is the lead product designer for music tech startup DataMind Audio, building expressive instruments for the AI era. Ben has authored curriculum for music production courses for global institutions, while most recently focusing on Encanti Music Academy, where music theory is taught alongside neural networks networks. He has hosted talks and workshops throughout the world, including NYC, LA, Dubai, Beijing, Quito, Barcelona, Paris, & London. He is also an accomplished electronic musician under pseudonym Encanti, releasing music on major labels (Monstercat, Ophelia) to millions of streams, and frequently performing at electronic music festivals.

Romanian-born violinist Irina Muresanu transcends the traditional definition of a concert artist. A performer, scholar, commissioner, researcher, and cultural ambassador, she has built a career driven by a single conviction: that the violin is a vehicle for human connection across every border — geographic, cultural, and technological. Muresanu is a laureate of several prestigious international violin competitions (such as Queen Elisabeth and Montreal International), as well as being the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant and a "Grand Challenges" three-year institutional grant from the University of Maryland for her research. Before her affiliation with her present institution, she has previously served on the faculties of Boston Conservatory, Harvard and MIT. Muresanu holds an Artist Diploma and a Doctor in Musical Arts degree from the New England Conservatory. She plays a 1849 Giuseppe Rocca violin, and a Dominique Peccatte bow.

One of this country’s most accomplished music administrators and respected composers, Alan Fletcher was born in 1956 in Riverside, New Jersey, and earned his baccalaureate at Princeton University (1978) and his master’s degree (1979) and doctorate (1983) at Juilliard. He studied composition with Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone, and Paul Lansky and piano with Jacob Lateiner and Robert Helps. In 1985, Fletcher was appointed to the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, teaching composition and theory and serving successively during his 16-year tenure at the school as Dean, Provost, and Senior Vice President. From 2011 to 2006, he was Professor of Music and Head of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, after which he assumed his current position as President and CEO of the Aspen Music Festival and School. Fletcher has lectured nationally and internationally on music and music administration, served on many boards, panels, juries, seminars, and committees, and contributed articles and op-ed pieces to Symphony magazine, Gramophone magazine, Wall Street Journal, Sonus: Journal of Global Music, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Chronicle of Higher Education, and many others. Fletcher has won numerous composing awards and received commissions from the National Dance Institute, the Pittsburgh Symphony (2008 and 2011), the Nashua Symphony, the National Gallery of Art, the Boston Celebrity Series, Duquesne University, the New York Camerata, and other noted ensembles, organizations, and soloists. He chaired the 1997 Salzburg Seminar Music for a New Millenium: The Classical Genre in Contemporary Society. Most recently, Alan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class of 2025.