Jocelyn Rowland Khalaf
Composition: Memories from the Old World
Performance date: October 2026
Jocelyn founded the Harmony Project Rock Orchestra, the only fully electric orchestra in Oklahoma. Her career has taken her from touring with Grammy winners Los Lobos to scoring award-winning films, including the 2026 Best Narrative Feature winner at Circle Cinema Film Festival. She’s currently composing the score for an upcoming documentary on the creator of Strawberry Shortcake.
Mary Bichner
Composition: Oh, the Of It All!
Performance date: February 2027
Mary has sound-to-color synesthesia — when she hears a pitch, she sees a specific color. She’s turned that gift into commissioned work across the world: a string quartet inspired by Santorini’s sunset colors as composer-in-residence in Greece, and two orchestral suites written for Cambridge, MA’s historic Mount Auburn Cemetery. Her music has been featured by National Geographic, BBC Music Magazine, and NPR, and she recently completed her first full-length opera, inspired by Marie Antoinette.
Harry Bulow
Composition: Chaconne for Strings
Performance date: February 2027
Harry’s principal composition teachers included Aaron Copland and Henry Mancini, and he holds a Performer’s Diploma in Saxophone Performance from Trinity College of Music in London. Since then, he’s won international prizes in Italy and Spain, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and 35 consecutive ASCAP awards, with recordings on labels including North/South Consonance and PARMA/Navona. He now chairs the music department at Purdue.