DIRECTORS & STAFF
KATIE COX, Executive Director, Co-Founder
Originally from Fairbanks, flutist Katie Cox resides in Brooklyn, NY. An active contemporary musician in NYC, Katie has performed with leading contemporary ensembles such as Transit, Contemporaneous, Ensemble Signal, Experiments in Opera, Little Opera Theatre of NY, Opera on Tap, Bang on a Can, and 2017 Latin Grammy winners Mariachi Flor de Toloache. She is a member of the NYC ensemble Hotel Elefant, and a member of Corvus, the resident new music ensemble of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. Katie is the Executive Director of Wild Shore New Music in Alaska and Program Manager for Exploring the Metropolis in NYC, an arts service organization dedicated to resolving workspace issues for NYC's performing arts communities. Katie has performed at major venues in New York such as Roulette, the Park Avenue Armory, The Kitchen, Hearst Plaza for Lincoln Center Out of Doors (2014), Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Zankel Hall, and Weill Recital Hall. She has worked with leading composers included 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams, 2015 Guggenheim Fellow Richard Carrick, Conrad Winslow, Anna Clyne, Carlisle Floyd, and Mary Kouyoumdjian. Katie is also a teaching artist for Little Orchestra Society and teaches private lessons at St. Luke’s School in Manhattan. katie@wildshore.org
Originally from Fairbanks, flutist Katie Cox resides in Brooklyn, NY. An active contemporary musician in NYC, Katie has performed with leading contemporary ensembles such as Transit, Contemporaneous, Ensemble Signal, Experiments in Opera, Little Opera Theatre of NY, Opera on Tap, Bang on a Can, and 2017 Latin Grammy winners Mariachi Flor de Toloache. She is a member of the NYC ensemble Hotel Elefant, and a member of Corvus, the resident new music ensemble of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. Katie is the Executive Director of Wild Shore New Music in Alaska and Program Manager for Exploring the Metropolis in NYC, an arts service organization dedicated to resolving workspace issues for NYC's performing arts communities. Katie has performed at major venues in New York such as Roulette, the Park Avenue Armory, The Kitchen, Hearst Plaza for Lincoln Center Out of Doors (2014), Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Zankel Hall, and Weill Recital Hall. She has worked with leading composers included 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams, 2015 Guggenheim Fellow Richard Carrick, Conrad Winslow, Anna Clyne, Carlisle Floyd, and Mary Kouyoumdjian. Katie is also a teaching artist for Little Orchestra Society and teaches private lessons at St. Luke’s School in Manhattan. katie@wildshore.org
ANDIE SPRINGER, Co-Artistic Director, Co-Founder
Andie Springer is a violinist and performer. Her audio visual album “Dandelion” will be released in the spring of 2018. She is the cofounder and musical director of Wild Shore New Music, now in its sixth year as Alaska’s premier new music festival. She has toured internationally as a company member of the New York City Players and has served as a multi-instrumentalist in theater groups Object Collection and New Paradise Laboratories. Musical collaborations include a duo with guitarist James Moore and new music ensembles Hotel Elefant and Transit. Her album with James Moore, “Gertrudes”, was released on New World Records in 2016. She has performed at LA Opera, The Kitchen, The Pompidou, and Carnegie Hall. Springer is faculty at Larchmont Music Academy and St. Lukes School. Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times, New Sounds Live, and The Wall Street Journal. andie@wildshore.org
Andie Springer is a violinist and performer. Her audio visual album “Dandelion” will be released in the spring of 2018. She is the cofounder and musical director of Wild Shore New Music, now in its sixth year as Alaska’s premier new music festival. She has toured internationally as a company member of the New York City Players and has served as a multi-instrumentalist in theater groups Object Collection and New Paradise Laboratories. Musical collaborations include a duo with guitarist James Moore and new music ensembles Hotel Elefant and Transit. Her album with James Moore, “Gertrudes”, was released on New World Records in 2016. She has performed at LA Opera, The Kitchen, The Pompidou, and Carnegie Hall. Springer is faculty at Larchmont Music Academy and St. Lukes School. Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times, New Sounds Live, and The Wall Street Journal. andie@wildshore.org
MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN, Co-Artistic Director
Mary Kouyoumdjian is a composer with projects ranging from concert works to multimedia collaborations and film scores. As a first generation Armenian-American and having come from a family directly affected by the Lebanese Civil War and Armenian Genocide, she uses a sonic palette that draws on her heritage, interest in music as documentary, and background in experimental composition to progressively blend the old with the new. She has received commissions from the New York Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alarm Will Sound, Roomful of Teeth, OPERA America, Beth Morrison Projects, the American Composers Forum/JFund, International Contemporary Ensemble [ICE], Brooklyn Youth Chorus, REDSHIFT, the Nouveau Classical Project, Music of Remembrance, Friction Quartet, Experiments in Opera, and Ensemble Oktoplus. Her documentary work was recently presented by the NY Philharmonic Biennial and her residencies include Alarm Will Sound, Roulette/The Jerome Fund, Montalvo Arts, and Exploring the Metropolis. Kouyoumdjian is pursuing her D.M.A. in Composition at Columbia University, holds an M.A. in Scoring for Film & Multimedia from New York University and a B.A. in Music Composition from UC San Diego. She is a co-founder of the annual new music conference New Music Gathering. mary@wildshore.org
Mary Kouyoumdjian is a composer with projects ranging from concert works to multimedia collaborations and film scores. As a first generation Armenian-American and having come from a family directly affected by the Lebanese Civil War and Armenian Genocide, she uses a sonic palette that draws on her heritage, interest in music as documentary, and background in experimental composition to progressively blend the old with the new. She has received commissions from the New York Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alarm Will Sound, Roomful of Teeth, OPERA America, Beth Morrison Projects, the American Composers Forum/JFund, International Contemporary Ensemble [ICE], Brooklyn Youth Chorus, REDSHIFT, the Nouveau Classical Project, Music of Remembrance, Friction Quartet, Experiments in Opera, and Ensemble Oktoplus. Her documentary work was recently presented by the NY Philharmonic Biennial and her residencies include Alarm Will Sound, Roulette/The Jerome Fund, Montalvo Arts, and Exploring the Metropolis. Kouyoumdjian is pursuing her D.M.A. in Composition at Columbia University, holds an M.A. in Scoring for Film & Multimedia from New York University and a B.A. in Music Composition from UC San Diego. She is a co-founder of the annual new music conference New Music Gathering. mary@wildshore.org