Timothy Kramer’s music reflects his fascination with motivic patterns, cyclical relationships, and musical gestures that unfold in a variety of changing speeds and textures.

Originally from Washington State, Kramer began playing the piano at a young age, and, although trained as a pianist, organist, and harpsichordist, he spent many years as a youth playing bass guitar in jazz and rock ensembles. His music reflects this influence and he sometimes integrates different aspects of American popular music into his pieces. His works have been performed widely throughout the United States and Canada - from Carnegie Hall to college campuses - and in Europe, South America, and Asia with performances by major symphony orchestras (Indianapolis, Detroit, Tacoma, San Antonio), chamber groups (North/South Consonance, SOLI Ensemble, ONIX Ensemble, Luna Nova, Detroit Chamber Winds), and university ensembles (Michigan State, Arizona State, Indiana University, Florida State).

He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Meet the Composer, Broadcast Music, Inc., ASCAP, the American Guild of Organists, and the American Music Center; and commissions from the San Antonio International Piano Competition, the Midwest Clinic, the Utah Arts Festival, and the Detroit Chamber Winds, among many others.

His degrees are from Pacific Lutheran University (B.M.) and the University of Michigan (D.M.A.), and he was a Fulbright Scholar to Germany. After teaching at Trinity University in San Antonio for 19 years, where he also founded CASA (the Composers Alliance of San Antonio), he accepted a post in 2010 as Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Illinois College. He was named the Edward Capps Professor of Humanities in 2013 and Professor Emeritus in 2020. In the 2019-2020 season, he served as the Composer-not-in-Residence with the San Francisco Choral Artists.

His works are commercially published by Southern Music, Earnestly Music, Hinshaw, and Selah and are recorded on Calcante, North/South, Capstone, and Parma. In June of 2020, Navona released a CD of all his orchestral music with the Janáček Philharmonic.

More information can be found at timothykramer.com.

William James Ross is an American composer born in Dallas, Texas. He was educated at Juilliard School of Music, Trinity University of San Antonio, Texas, and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, from which he received the Master of Music degree in Music Composition, where he studied composition with Pulitzer Prize winning composers Ross Lee Finney and Leslie Bassett.

He has won prizes for several of his works. Mr. Ross’s compositions have been published by H. W. Gray, Southern Music Company (San Antonio), McAfee Music Corporation, and C. F. Peters. He has also self published several works, and recently a number of teaching works have been published in several volumes under the auspices of the Composers Alliance of San Antonio by Kefali Press, LLC.

His compositions have been commissioned by renowned Organist, Marilyn Mason, several times, by several churches and several times by the Olmos Ensemble, an elite ensemble of principal players of the San Antonio Symphony.

His YouTube Channel is WilliamJamesRoss.