Step out of the Car	Roger Kleier is a “downtown” New York City performer and composer.
WENDIGO	Jonathan Katz lives in Tokyo, and works as a composer and jazzer.
Ex tempore	Marek Zebrowski was a pupil of Casadesus and Boulanger.
Absolutis-s	Patricia Elizabeth Martinez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1973.
The Scream	Donal Fox recently won the Guggenheim Prize in composition.
Specks	Robert Eidschun heard the Tiajuana Brass and took up the trumpet.
HARU NO YOI-Miyabi no Uta	Atsushi Yoshinaka is chair of the Creative Music Education Lab, Tokyo.
Sonata Moirai	Frederick Frahm is organist and cantor for two Chicago area parishes.
Joke	Danielle Baas is self-taught and lives in Bruxelles.
cold springs branch, 10 p.m.	Alan Shockley spent most of his first 20 years in rural Georgia.
EIGHT 8	Pepe-Tonino Caravaggio is actually a controversial pseudonym.
Verschiebung	Alper Maral was born in 1969 and lives in Istanbul, Turkey.
Cowboy Song	Charles Shadle is a member of the Choctaw Indian Nation.
im afraid you might ask for a fragment of my soul	Gene Pritsker shifted from violin to electric guitar.
Brooklyn, October 5, 1941	Annie Gosfield never expected to be in Sports Illustrated.
re: dance (PNMR)	Paul Beaudoin teaches composition at Brandeis University.
Jenseits des Guten und des Bösen	Victor Ekimovsky is from Moscow but wrote this in Germany.
NA’OU’RA (Wedding Dance)	Eilon Aviram was born in Israel in Kibbutz Ein-Harod Meuhad.
Punch and Judy’s Waltz	Barbara Engel runs a radio show in Boston.
Miro Sketch: Mostly Yellow	Joseph (Butch) Rovan travels between Paris and Amsterdam.
1’ de Tonio Kröger (op. 10)	Martial Robert received a Gold Medal from the Conservatoire de Lyon.
Polis	Sergio Pallante has invited me to visit him in Messina, Sicily.
Theft	Lansing McLoskey came to composition via a rather unorthodox route.
Presented in cooperation with Paris Transatlantic Magazine: www.paristransatlantic.com This performance was inspired by the “arrêts fréquents” show in Paris, and is dedicated to the Ensemble Aleph: Dominique Clément, Sylvie Drouin, Monica Jordan, Françoise Matringe, Christophe Roy, and Jean-Charles François, for all their encouragement and advice. Special thanks for organization of the Sixty-Seconds project go naturally to all the composers who generously donated their time to this project, to the Jack Daniels Distillery in Tennessee, to the Gaudeamus Foundation, to Neale McGoldrick, to Maria Sperling, and to Marc Schots and Stephie Buttrich. Steinway Piano