Mark Simos
•Professor in the Songwriting department at Berklee College of Music
•A renowned songwriter, composer, tunesmith, teacher, and writer.
•He has built a reputation as one of the premiere “new traditionalist” songwriters, reinvigorating and reshaping progressive acoustic music.
Stacy Rujing Huang
•A scholar, singer-songwriter, composer/sound artist, and lyricist.
•PhD in Music (Ethnomusicology) from Harvard University.
•Her research crosses boundaries between musicology, music theory and sound studies, as well as Chinese history and philosophy; her recent work explores sonic materiality, music technology, engineering and the aesthetics of the voice in popular music.