Kristina Teuschler

co-Director
 

Clarinetist Kristina Teuschler grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. She graduated from Middleton High school, and played with Wisconsin Youth Chamber Orchestras from 2005-2009, where she made her solo debut with an orchestra performing Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie. She received her bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and her master’s degree from Manhattan School of Music. Her primary teachers were Mark Nuccio, Steven Cohen, and J. Lawrie Bloom. In 2019, Kristina joined the West Point Band as a clarinetist full time.

Kristina received Orchestra of St. Luke’s Community Liaison Fellowship from 2017-2018, and helped the orchestra become more accessible by producing their education & community concerts and programs, forming new community partnerships, and working to deepen their action plan surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is passionate about molding the classical music world to be more reflective of the mixed American culture, and works to be a force of encouragement for musical institutions to use their programs as a vessel for progressivism and social change.

Caitlin Mead

Co-Director
 

Soprano Caitlin Mead is a native of Madison, WI and made her debut as Third Spirit in Madison Opera’s 2006 production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at age 15. Most recently, Ms. Mead performed at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and the Missoula Art Museum as part of artist John Hitchcock’s award winning exhibit, Bury the Hatchet. Other recent performances include Rava in Evan Kassof’s sci-fi opera Ganymede 5 at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Lisa in La Sonnambula, Giannetta in L’Elisir d’Amore, the iSING International Festival singing Chinese language concert repertoire in the Jiangsu province of China, and Center for Contemporary Opera’s world premieres of Hester by Richard Alan White and Jane Eyre by Louis Karchin, the recording of which was recently released by Naxos. In 2015, Ms. Mead won the Alsop Entrepreneurship Award for her combination art gallery and recital entitled “Utopian Dream,” which centered around Luciano Berio’s Folk songs. She is a graduate of Mannes School of Music- The New School (MM) and Northwestern University (BM).

Zachary Green

FOUNDEr, Director Emeritus
 

Zachary Green is a Madison, WI-born composer and administrator. After graduating from Oregon High School in 2011, Zachary received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, where he was awarded the Joseph W. Polisi Prize for exemplifying Juilliard's values of the "artist as citizen.” He founded the Madison New Music Festival in 2016 with the dream of sharing and celebrating high-quality new music with the Madison community. As a writer, Zachary has interviewed musicians including Huang Ruo, Leon Fleisher, and Leonard Slatkin for The Juilliard Journal. As a teacher, Zachary has served as an Ear Training Teaching Fellow at Juilliard, a Morse Teaching Artist Fellow in New York City’s P.S. 11, and has taught theory at the Brevard Music Center. His chamber, vocal, and dance compositions have been performed around the United States by organizations such as Fifth House Ensemble, Periapsis Music and Dance, pianist Robert Fleitz, The Phoenix Concerts, and members of the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra. Recent projects include commissions from the New York Choreographic Institute, the Madison Area Youth Chamber Orchestra, and the Rogue Trio. Zachary will be pursuing his law degree at the University of Pennsylvania Law School starting in fall 2020.