Hannah McLaughlin

Hannah McLaughlin is studying Musicology at Brigham Young University. Although her current focus is writing about new music, she continues to explore music performance and pedagogy. She participates in both traditional choral as well as experimental ensembles throughout Utah.

Jacob Rosenzweig

Jacob Rosenzweig is a musician who grew up in Salt Lake City, studied Jazz Performance at the U, got an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, moved to LA, spent 6 years in traffic, and upon his return to SLC last year began collaborating with DEXO on Life Relegated. Along the way, he composed and performed music for a wide variety of ensembles including The Sogo Takeover, Stupid Man Suit, Three Thirds, My Allowance, and the Jacob Rosenzweig Bass Quartet.

Jesse Quebbeman-Turley

Jesse Quebbeman-Turley is a performer/composer/drummer based in Los Angeles, California. He is a co-founder of the Deseret Experimental Opera Company, and has composed two large scale operas, “Parking Lot for Hyacinths” (2013, with Logan Hone). He is a co-founder and host of the Avant GaRawge concert series in Provo, Utah. He and Luke Williams colaboratively score as the collective “Giant Frame.” He is one fourth of the avant-rollercoaster-jazz-n-roll band Similar Fashion, and one third of experimental pop trio Bright Whistles.

Stuart Wheeler

Stuart Wheeler is a composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger, and producer. His work tends toward microtonality, vernacular timbres, diverse singing traditions, and the folk ethics of collaboration, improvisation, and non-virtuosity. His teachers have included Christian Asplund, Neil Thornock, I Nyoman Windha, Sam Richards and Steve Ricks.

Since 2014 he has been a regular performer and composer in the Deseret Experimental Opera Company, which premiered his chamber opera “Red Lake” (winner of the Alfred Lambourne Prize) at the 2016 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, in collaboration with librettist Luke Swenson and choreographer Emma Wilson. In 2017 Stuart premiered his choral work “Did Rise” commissioned for the BYU Singers and was the recipient of a Barlow Endowment Commission, which will result in a new work for Gamelan Bintang Wahyu in 2018. That same year he performed a 90-minute version of his variable trio piece “are one (holy, holy, holy)” and composed and performed music based off of Sacred Harp songs for Christopher Clark’s devised theater piece “Jumpers.”