Wild shore new Music History
Wild Shore New Music is one of Alaska's few organizations dedicated to contemporary chamber music. Founded in 2012 by three Alaska-raised musicians, Wild Shore fosters collaborations between living composers, musicians worldwide, and Alaska's creative artists and residents. Wild Shore presents concerts, lecture recitals, and educational workshops across Alaska. Over the past ten seasons, Wild Shore has featured members of Eighth Blackbird, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and Mivos Quartet; collaborated with Alaskan musicians, poets, and visual artists; and co-presented events with the National Park Service, Bunnell Street Arts Center, the Anchorage Museum, University of Alaska Anchorage, and the Alaska Lieutenant Governor’s office. Each season is built upon a diverse program of contemporary composers or features a specific composer and/or commission.
DIRECTORS
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. [email protected]
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. [email protected]
ANDIE TANNING, Co-Artistic Director, Co-Founder
Born and raised in Alaska and based in Brooklyn, Andie Tanning is a dynamic multi-instrumentalist whose work spans Broadway, experimental theater, and classical music. A versatile performer, Andie performs on violin, viola, mandolin, bass, banjo, and also lends her voice to a wide array of projects.
Andie’s passion for storytelling and nurturing relationships shapes her approach to art making, where openness and risk taking are at the core. In the world of experimental theater, she has toured extensively across the U.S. and Europe with the renowned New York City Players and performed with the avant-garde collective Object Collection.
Her television and Off-Broadway credits include The Gilded Age, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and The Snow Child at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., while her Broadway appearances feature celebrated productions Oklahoma!, Moulin Rouge, Some Like it Hot, Merrily We Roll Along, and Cabaret.
Deeply committed to her Alaskan roots, Andie co-founded the Corvus New Music Ensemble and serves as co-director of Wild Shore New Music, bringing contemporary and classical music to a wide array of communities across Alaska. In New York City, she regularly works with Pulitzer Prize nominated composer Mary Kouyoumdjian, having premiered numerous solo and chamber pieces of hers since 2010. Andie is one half of a creative duo with guitarist James Moore, and was a founding member of ensembles Transit and Redshift. Such projects have fostered many deep and meaningful collaborations with myriad composers and performing artists.
As a member of the Harrisburg Symphony and the Silvana String Quartet, she continues to expand her artistic reach, balancing classical precision with adventurous experimentation. Andie studied at Carnegie Mellon University with the esteemed Andres Cardenes and later at New York University with Arturo Delmoni, where she honed her craft and deepened her commitment to artistic integrity and exploration.
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Born and raised in Alaska and based in Brooklyn, Andie Tanning is a dynamic multi-instrumentalist whose work spans Broadway, experimental theater, and classical music. A versatile performer, Andie performs on violin, viola, mandolin, bass, banjo, and also lends her voice to a wide array of projects.
Andie’s passion for storytelling and nurturing relationships shapes her approach to art making, where openness and risk taking are at the core. In the world of experimental theater, she has toured extensively across the U.S. and Europe with the renowned New York City Players and performed with the avant-garde collective Object Collection.
Her television and Off-Broadway credits include The Gilded Age, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and The Snow Child at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., while her Broadway appearances feature celebrated productions Oklahoma!, Moulin Rouge, Some Like it Hot, Merrily We Roll Along, and Cabaret.
Deeply committed to her Alaskan roots, Andie co-founded the Corvus New Music Ensemble and serves as co-director of Wild Shore New Music, bringing contemporary and classical music to a wide array of communities across Alaska. In New York City, she regularly works with Pulitzer Prize nominated composer Mary Kouyoumdjian, having premiered numerous solo and chamber pieces of hers since 2010. Andie is one half of a creative duo with guitarist James Moore, and was a founding member of ensembles Transit and Redshift. Such projects have fostered many deep and meaningful collaborations with myriad composers and performing artists.
As a member of the Harrisburg Symphony and the Silvana String Quartet, she continues to expand her artistic reach, balancing classical precision with adventurous experimentation. Andie studied at Carnegie Mellon University with the esteemed Andres Cardenes and later at New York University with Arturo Delmoni, where she honed her craft and deepened her commitment to artistic integrity and exploration.
[email protected]
CONRAD WINSLOW, Co-Artistic Director, Co-Founder
Conrad Winslow is a composer whose musical forms are fiercely committed to legibility and broad expressive bandwidth, often combining precipitous edges with graceful shifting syntax, “…provoking questions of how arrangement shapes meaning” (Popmatters). His instrumental music has been commissioned by Alarm Will Sound, Carnegie Hall, the American Composers Orchestra, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute (for choreographer Justin Peck), receiving awards and support from The Minnesota Orchestra, and The MacDowell Colony. He lives in Waldoboro, Maine.
Conrad Winslow is a composer whose musical forms are fiercely committed to legibility and broad expressive bandwidth, often combining precipitous edges with graceful shifting syntax, “…provoking questions of how arrangement shapes meaning” (Popmatters). His instrumental music has been commissioned by Alarm Will Sound, Carnegie Hall, the American Composers Orchestra, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute (for choreographer Justin Peck), receiving awards and support from The Minnesota Orchestra, and The MacDowell Colony. He lives in Waldoboro, Maine.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Michael Amico, Don Meares, Martha Springer