In a recent article on the League of American Orchestra’s Symphony Now website, Jennifer Melick profiles Reed Lizard, a start-up baroque reed making company supported by a Julliard School entrepreneurship grant. In the article, Melick interviews Reed Lizard founder Kristin Olson who shares insight into the process of starting a “side business.” Read the interesting interview here!
Steve Danyew is a composer, saxophonist, teacher, and arts administrator based in Rochester, NY. Danyew composes works for chamber ensembles, large instrumental ensembles, choirs and more, and currently serves as Managing Editor of Polyphonic.org. His music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful” and “undeniably well crafted and communicative” by the Miami Herald, and has been praised as possessing “sensitivity, skill and tremendous sophistication” by the Kansas City Independent. Steve received a B.M. cum laude, Pi Kappa Lambda from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and holds an M.M. in Composition and Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music.