Awarded Artists

Lambkin is a singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer based in Brooklyn, New York. Through a kinetic synthesis of electronic sound, R&B experimentalism, and modern dance performance, the DMV-born artist breaks new musical ground with intimate narratives staged at the collision point of grief, memory, and capital. Lambkin has collaborated with fellow artists such as KeiyaA, Cleo Reed, Ms. Boogie, OHYUNG, and Ogemdi Ude. Lambkin’s work has been presented with institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim, Jacob’s Pillow, On the Boards, The Kitchen, The Shed, and Kampnagel. 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.

Double bassist and composer Henry Fraser has collaborated with artists including Ka Baird, John Zorn, Uniform, Mary Halvorson, Randall Dunn, and Joey Arias, performing at Unsound Festival, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Ireland’s National Concert Hall.

Fraser’s work explores raw sonic materials through collaboration and engagement with musical forms that are communal, ceremonial, and devotional. He approaches improvisation as a flexible framework shaped by personal histories and relationships.

Since 2019, Fraser has focused on solo double bass, developing a practice centered on resonance, physical gesture, and extended acoustic inquiry. His latest solo album, Pneuma, was released by Kou Records in June 2026.

An Art OMI Music Residency fellow and NYSCA/NYFA Finalist, Fraser has held residencies at Pioneer Works and The Stone. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone and The Wire.

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.

Zosha Warpeha is a composer-performer working at the intersection of contemporary improvisation and folk traditions. Combining textural bowed strings and voice, her durational performances are guided by focused listening, cyclical repetition, and spatial acoustics. Resonance is a defining aspect of her practice, as embodied by her use of Hardanger d’amore, an instrument with five bowed and five sympathetic strings closely related to the traditional Hardanger fiddle of Norway. Warpeha was a 2025 AIR at ISSUE Project Room and has been featured as a solo artist at Cafe OTO, Lampo, Frequency Festival, KM28, KRAAK Festival, Artacts Festival, and more. Her work has also been supported by the US-Norway Fulbright Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

DoYeon Kim is a Korean artist, composer, improviser, and gayageum player based in New York. Her work explores music as a practice of listening, connection, and transformation, drawing from Korean musical traditions, composition, improvisation, voice, and the physical possibilities of the gayageum to create a musical language of her own.

Her debut album as a bandleader, Wellspring (TAO Forms, 2026), features Tyshawn Sorey, Mat Maneri, and Henry Fraser and has received international critical acclaim. The Wire described Kim as “the bandleader and virtuoso gayageum player” who “connects consciousness with the cosmos,” while DownBeat called her “an avant-gardist in the truest sense” and “a pioneer bringing her instrument into entirely new sonic worlds.”

Kim has collaborated with artists including Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Joe Morris, Anna Webber, Ingrid Laubrock, Cooper Moore and others. Her work has been presented at the Vision Festival, Big Ears, the Lincoln Center, and venues throughout the United States and internationally. She has also worked as a music director, improvisation conductor, and educator.

A recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship and a Next Jazz Legacy awardee, Kim holds degrees from Seoul National University, New England Conservatory, and Berklee College of Music.

The expansive practice of Yaz Lancaster encompasses experimental electroacoustic performances, notated compositions, open format DJ-ing, writing, collaborative work, and organizing DIY shows across NYC’s underground and nightlife scenes. Yaz performs sets with violin, voice, microphone feedback, CDJs, and electronics. They are half of death ambient/hardcore duo “medium.” (with gg200bpm), and a member of PTP artist collective. They’ve had the opportunity to perform at The Shed, National Sawdust, Public Records, The Music Gallery, KINDL, Gaudeamus Festival, Nowadays, Paragon, The Lot Radio, and NTS; and recent collaborators include CENTENNIAL GARDENS, claire rousay, Miss Grit, OHYUNG, Tony Guarino, and Sean Pecknold. Yaz is also a poet and writer (ICIYL, The Wire, etc.), founder of performance series HEAVY HEARTS, and the director of event production at The Poetry Project.

Lulu West is a composer, improviser, and educator, originally raised in the mountains of Colorado and currently based in NYC. Her music, guided by rural trans histories and the intergenerational messiness of feminine bodies, invites her listeners to sit in the conflict of guttural outbursts and moments of stillness. In her solo work, Lulu is interested in the weaving of prepared acoustic guitars, experimental field recordings, and interview practices. Lulu’s main collaborative projects consist of: Bear Bear (experimental folk duo), Polsky West (guitar duo) and Duchess (noise-rock trio). Lulu is a teaching artist for the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers Program and Philharmonic Schools Program, and for the Community-Word Project.

Moira (Fan) Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York, working across installation, performance, and real-time media. Using 3D Gaussian splatting, sensors, live electronics, and volumetric capture, she builds interactive environments where landscape, perception, and the moving body meet—rooms where the body becomes the instrument. Her work returns again and again to our mediated relationship with land and nature, and to the distance between a place and the body that reaches for it. She has performed the live electronics of David Behrman’s On the Other Ocean at ISSUE Project Room, exhibited at PAKD Gallery, Berlin, and received awards at the 2026 MUSE Creative Awards. She has trained at NYU, the Royal College of Art, and UAL.

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.

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.

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.