Tessa Brinckman photo: © John Klicker, Julie Keefe New Zealand flutist Tessa Brinckman works in many orchestral, classical, festival and contemporary chamber ensembles around the Northwest, including the Oregon Symphony and Ernest Bloch Festival. She has received numerous grants and awards, including a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant for her Pacific Khyal project of commissions and performances of Western and Hindustani classical music. Recent recordings includes a flute and electronic media work on the CD Dog Star (North Pacific Music). She has continued to explore Indian raga and more recently tango during the last four years. Tessa is the founding director of the East West Continuo, a group which has been warmly received by Northwest audiences since its inception in 2003, incorporating other artistic media to reach an enthusiastic and diverse audience. East West Continuo is a flexible ensemble of flute and stringed instruments, both Western and non-Western, which continues its mission of exploring traditional and hybrid material, commissioning new works and reviving old ones. D'Arcy Reynolds D'Arcy Reynolds is a well known composer on the West Coast where her compositions have been premiered at numerous concert halls and music festivals. In recognition for her outstanding work D'Arcy has won several grants from such prestigious organizations as the American Composers Forum, the American Music Center and Meet the Composer. She received a 2004 Meet the Composer Global Connections grant for this project. Ms. Reynolds is featured in a Fall 2004 Newsletter and in news articles discussing her grants, commissions
and concerts on the news page.
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