Awarded Artists

Jade Guterman is a composer and musician who releases music under the name Jadelain, creating her recordings with MIDI instruments from the notation software Guitar Pro. The flattened soundworld inherent to this software enables her to weave together ideas from disparate music scenes and traditions. Favoring an alien-like magical realism in her work, she arranges unlikely notations, like a timpani pitch bent with a tremolo arm. As an instrumentalist, she trained as a double bassist and now focuses on steel-string acoustic guitar. She collaborates & performs with acts like Iceblink, Jana Horn, more eaze, and Pink Must. Jade performs at Roulette on Wednesday, April 22 in our forthcoming Spring Season.

Emilio Modeste is a saxophonist and composer from New York City. Best known for his tenure with the late great Wallace Roney, he now leads INSTANT ALTER and tours with Stanley Clarke, Kassa Overall, and Julius Rodriguez. Equally adept on tenor and soprano, Modeste’s singular tone and storytelling creates a gravitational field that pulls in even the most reluctant of listeners. This can be heard on INSTANT ALTER’s eponymous debut album, Dezron Douglas’ Atalaya, and additionally on Stanley Clarke’s upcoming album. A student of the legendary drummer and producer Lenny White, Modeste also explores endless musical styles in his artistry. Emilio performs at Roulette Tuesday, February 17 in our current Winter Season.

Dreamcrusher is a non-binary queer New York City-based musician/artist. Since 2003, their work has been at once personal and abstract, revealing and antagonistic; performances and recordings shift between genres while subjecting the characteristic elements—melodies, beats, vocals, instrumentation—to distortion until the point of transformation. Continually maintaining its musical visceral physical nature while simultaneously being nostalgic, otherworldly and revelatory. Dreamcrusher has released dozens of recordings with labels such as PTP, Fire Talk, and Corpus, as well as on Bandcamp and other online platforms. Dreamcrusher is also a member of the duo Centennial Gardens with King Vision Ultra. Dreamcrusher performs at Roulette on Thursday, April 9 in our forthcoming Spring Season.

Lambkin (she/her) is a musician and director based in Brooklyn, New York. The DMV-born artist synthesizes the kineticism of electronic music and modern dance to stage narratives at the nexus of grief, memory, and capital. Lambkin has collaborated with fellow artists such as KeiyaA, Cleo Reed, Ms. Boogie, and OHYUNG. Lambkin’s work has been presented with institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim, Jacob’s Pillow, The Kitchen, and The Shed. Perfect Blue, Lambkin’s debut EP which she self-released in 2020, is a collection of abstractionist R&B songs which earned recognition from the likes of the FADER, KEXP, and Resident Advisor. Lambkin performs at Roulette on Wednesday, June 17 in our forthcoming Spring Season.

Yvonne Rogers is a pianist and composer from coastal Maine, now based in Brooklyn, NY. She is in demand as a bandleader and side-person, performing with artists including Adam O’Farrill and Ingrid Laubrock at venues including the Kennedy Center and NYC Winter Jazz Fest. She has received the Next Jazz Legacy Award and Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award. Her album “Seeds” was released in 2023, and forthcoming albums “The Button Jar” and “Brackish” will be released in 2026 and 2027. Her work is rooted in improvisation and play, with an organic approach to rhythm and harmony informed by her rural upbringing. Yvonne performs at Roulette on Tuesday, June 9 in our forthcoming Spring Season.

Eliza Salem is an artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Eliza strives to reach across the domains of creative music through drumming, and loves exploring quiet grooves and colorful improvisatory spaces. Eliza regularly performs and teaches alongside artists they deeply admire, and has traveled across the United States, Europe, India, and Australia on multiple tours. Eliza is largely inspired by their friends, and spends a lot of time learning music, contributing to various bands and projects, or writing with special people in mind. Outside of music, Eliza loves cooking, crocheting, fishing, and spending time by the water. Eliza performs at Roulette on Wednesday, May 27 in our forthcoming Spring Season.

Chuck Roth is a New-York based guitarist and composer. Both his songwriting and improvised music practice allow him to explore the guitar’s range of sounds and the way musical forms evolve over time. He is interested in exploring the vast palette of sounds and textures available on the guitar without effects, objects or pedals. Chuck performs at Roulette on Tuesday, March 24 in our current Winter Season.

Jessica Cook is a Brooklyn based choreographer working with movement and sound to create a felt absurdity. She has presented her work in venues such as La MaMa Moves Festival, LMCC’s RIver to River Festival, Roulette Intermedium, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, and many, many AUNTS shows. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Chocolate Factory Theater, Movement Research, NY Live Arts Fresh Tracks, and MoMA PS1. She is a 2005 graduate of the SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory.

Jessica’s performance at Roulette will take place in Fall 2026.

Qasim Naqvi is a percussionist, composer and synthesist. Along with being the drummer of lauded cult minimalist trio, Dawn of Midi, Naqvi is an accomplished solo artist and his passion for multidisciplinary work has brought him into the world of film, dance, installation art, and the stage of orchestral and chamber music. His concert music has been commissioned and performed by The London Contemporary Orchestra, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Bang on a Can All Stars, Jennifer Koh, Stargaze, The Cello Octet of Amsterdam, The Helsinki Chamber Choir and others. Most recently Naqvi scored Showtime and Tremolo Productions’ true crime mini-series, The 12th Victim. Other collaborations include original music for the Academy Award winning documentarian Laura Poitras, and Turner Prize nominated filmmaker and installation artist Naeem Mohaiemen.

Qasim’s performance at Roulette will take place in Fall 2026.

Peter Burr is an artist from Brooklyn, NY who transforms complex computational systems into emotional, sensory experiences through large-scale immersive environments. Drawing from early experiments with computational graphics in the mid-nineties, Burr’s practice has evolved to incorporate techniques that merge fundamental computing operations with modern real-time rendering systems. His work frequently explores the relationship between human-machine interfaces and the underlying systems that drive them.

Peter’s performance at Roulette will take place in Spring 2026, date TBA.

Mary Prescott is a Thai-American interdisciplinary artist, composer, and pianist who explores the foundations and facets of identity and social conditions through experiential performance. Featured in “21 for ‘21: Composers and Performers Who Sound Like Tomorrow,” The Washington Post describes Mary’s work as “a bright light cast forward… uncompromising,” and “masterfully envisioned.” Mary is an awardee of a Jerome Fellowship in Music, McKnight Composer Fellowship, Princess Grace Award in Theater, NPN Creation and Development Fund and many more. Her residencies include Loghaven, Bogliasco, Camargo and VCCA. Mary is a Steinway Artist.

Mary’s performance at Roulette will take place in Fall 2026.

Selwa Abd is a Moroccan-born interdisciplinary artist and composer based in New York City, working under the alias Bergsonist.

Her multidisciplinary practice critically examines the evolving relationship between technology, identity, and virtual realities, drawing from the complexities of post-colonial urban environments. Through electroacoustic performances, she crafts intuitive terrains for exploration, informed by minimalism, musique concrète and experimental traditions. Frequently incorporating video art into her live sets, she builds immersive, speculative worlds shaped by contemporary socio-political landscapes.

Arone Dyer does a lot of things that don’t fit in tidy boxes. She has produced sound as a vocalist, musician, composer & as a founding member of the uncategorical duo Buke and Gase since 2007, which has toured around the globe multiple times. Outside of Buke and Gase, she’s founded the roving, ever-evolving, non-static Dronechoir, which continues to be performed across the US and in Europe. To support her music-habit she ventures into voiceover work, she teaches kids how to fix and ride bicycles in her community, has a landscaping side-hustle, and engages in her community as a Volunteer Firefighter.