"Francisco del Pino is a composer and guitarist with an affinity for music that is meticulous, expressive and patient. Drawing influence from both classical and vernacular traditions, his work revolves around process and pattern and is usually characterized by an extensive use of counterpoint. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Francisco is currently based in Princeton, NJ, where he is a doctoral student in composition at Princeton University.

His debut album Decir, a song cycle on texts by Argentinian poet Victoria Cóccaro, was released on New Amsterdam Records in 2021. Of the album, Bandcamp Daily says: "Francisco del Pino (...) achieves a stunning art-song hybrid (...). The album's sheer beauty leaves a deep, lasting impression that only grows more resonant as the small details emerge from the meditative din."

Francisco's music has been featured worldwide at venues and festivals such as MATA, ISCM World Music Days in Tongyeong (South Korea), St John's Smith Square (London), Summartónar (Faroe Islands), Druskomanija (Lithuania), Guitarras del Mundo and CETC Teatro Colón (Argentina). He has worked with ensembles such as Contemporaneous, loadbang, ICE and Sō Percussion, as well as with soloists like soprano Charlotte Mundy, percussionist Ayano Kataoka, and many others. Commissions came from Ithaca College, the Argentinian Ministry of Culture, TACEC (Teatro Argentino de La Plata), the Tuba-Euphonium Social Justice Initiative and guitarist Nicolò Spera, among others.

Francisco is a winner of the first International Jean Sibelius Composition Competition, where his piece Jardín de lágrimas, awarded by a world-class jury chaired by Kaija Saariaho, was a compulsory piece for the 2015 edition of the Sibelius Violin Competition. Further honors include first prizes at international composition competitions in Paris (Viola's 2014 Composition Contest, AFEA), Antwerp (Sorodha Composition Competition, 2014) and Moscow (Tchaikovsky Conservatory Composition Competition, 2013).

An avid educator, Francisco taught counterpoint, music notation and composition at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Argentina before relocating to the US. He holds a BAMus from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (Argentina) and an MFA from Princeton University, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Music Department as a Mark Nelson Fellow and a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities."

"Charlotte Mundy is a classically trained, "mesmerizing...preternaturally focused Canadian soprano" (NYTimes) who is passionate about working closely with others to explore the newest fringes of music and performance. She "slays the thorniest material like it's nothing" (WQXR) with TAK ensemble, whose debut album, Ecstatic Music, was album of the week on Q2 Music and Named a Top 10 Classical Recording of 2016 by the Boston Globe. She sings stratospherically high microtonal lines with Ekmeles vocal ensemble at venues such as The Metropolitan Museum, The Kitchen, National Sawdust and Music Mondays. She oscillates between thorny new complexity duels and supremely beautiful duets with guitarist Jordan Dodson. As a soloist she has given critically acclaimed performances of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maître, and Feldman's Three Voices. She has performed in staged works at the BAM Next Wave Festival, Abrons Arts Center, The Metropolitan Museum, the Under the Radar Festival, St. Ann's Warehouse, and the Park Avenue Armory working with theater makers Paul Lazar, Cynthia Hopkins, Katie Brook and Rachel Chavkin, visual artist Martin Creed and choreographer Miro Magloire. Mundy is honoured to sing sixteenth century mass settings every Sunday at the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin under David Hurd. She hosted weekday afternoons on Q2music, a Peabody Award-winning affiliate of WQXR dedicated to contemporary music, from 2012-16.

Mundy holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music's Contemporary Performance Program, where she studied with Lucy Shelton, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Music."