Since 2014, WCM has welcomed a small number of pre-professional performers and composers as Fellows. The Fellows collaborate in performer/composer groups creating new works to be composed and presented at the festival. And, they also become an important part of our growing community.
2015 Immersion Fellows
Jack Gulielmetti is a composer and guitarist based in New York City. Born and raised in the big apple, Jack grew up playing a wide variety of music from jazz to rock to metal to electronic and classical and everything in between.
Lydia Parkington has Masters of Music in Cello from Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University. She was principal cellist of the University Symphony Orchestra and a member of the graduate quartet at Setnor. She has performed with the Society for New Music and Symphoria as well as for the grand opening of the WCNY radio station in Syracuse.
Matteo Longhi has a dual music education/violin performance masters from Syracuse University where he was an orchestral teaching assistant. He previously received a B.M. in Violin Performance at Ithaca College where he was awarded the James J. Whalen Young Artist Award.
2014 Immersion Fellows
Branic Howard is a composer engaged with sound and how place is inscribed with meaning through its negotiations with its sonic surrounding. Whether writing for acoustic ensembles, electronic media, or dealing with recorded sound his focus is on the specific aural situation of that place or the internal ‘space’ of the music.
Lydia Parkington has Masters of Music in Cello from Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University. She was principal cellist of the University Symphony Orchestra and a member of the graduate quartet at Setnor. She has performed with the Society for New Music and Symphoria as well as for the grand opening of the WCNY radio station in Syracuse.