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Dutch composer and pianist Maud Nelissen has earned international acclaim performing live and recording both solo and with her ensemble, The Sprockets. She made her American debut in 2008 at the Telluride Film Festival and, in 2011, she performed at the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Los … [Read more...] about Maud Nelissen

Toychestra is an all-woman experimental music group from Oakland that plays “symphonic miniatures” using toy musical instruments, including tiny pianos, recorders, xylophones, and other noise-makers like jack-in-the-boxes and Fisher-Price See ’n Says. They perform their own compositions as well as … [Read more...] about Toychestra

Clark Wilson began his musical training at the age of nine. Growing up in Ohio, Wilson accompanied numerous stage productions and was the organist at several churches. His professional playing career began in earnest when he was appointed as the featured organist at Pipe Organ Pizza in Milwaukee. He … [Read more...] about Clark Wilson

A specialist in orchestral music from the 1920s and ’30s, conductor and composer Timothy Brock has been responsible for the restoration of several landmark silent-era scores, including Dmitri Shostakovich’s New Babylon to George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique. In 1998 the Chaplin estate commissioned … [Read more...] about Timothy Brock

Serge Bromberg is a grand impresario of cinema. Fortunate audiences around the world know him for his Retour de Flamme clip shows, during which he may burn a bit of nitrate film stock on stage and accompany some early animation on the piano while presenting his latest discoveries. Through Lobster … [Read more...] about Serge Bromberg

Conductor, composer, pianist, and violinist GUENTER BUCHWALD is a pioneer of the renaissance in silent film music. He has accompanied silent films for thirty-eight years with a repertoire of more than three thousand titles and has conducted orchestras worldwide from Iceland to Romania, Tokyo to … [Read more...] about Guenter Buchwald

Philip Carli brings both prodigious musical talent and a committed scholarly outlook to his lifelong passion for the music and culture of the turn of the last century. He discovered silent film at the age of five and began his accompaniment career at thirteen, with a performance for Lon Chaney’s … [Read more...] about Philip Carli

Arwen Lawrence and Jorge Liceaga founded Cascada de Flores in San Francisco in 1999 and have been re-imagining Mexican tradition for years. They began by journeying into the hidden corners of Mexico, seeking the real stories of that hugely diverse country. Lawrence fell for Mexican music as a young … [Read more...] about Cascada de Flores