Aurel Garza-Tucker is an arts administrator, music educator, and bassoonist who believes everyone deserves a meaningful connection with music and strives to facilitate those opportunities in her community. You can find her putting her values into action in many ways, including as Director of Program & Operations for Young Texas Artists, playing in various ensembles, maintaining a small private lesson studio, serving as a board member for line upon line, and as Vice President of the Austin Civic Orchestra Board of Directors. In her non-musical free time, Aurel enjoys baking, crafting, reading, and snuggling her pups Imelda & Pinto.

Jacob Schnitzer is a conduit through which the powers of music, storytelling, and art connect with others. Jacob’s work as a conductor spans symphonic, opera, and contemporary repertoire; his work in immersive concert design offers audiences unforgettable multisensory experiences. Recipient of The Solti Foundation U.S. 2023 Career Assistance Award for, he has served as Artistic Director of Density512 and Assistant Conductor Assistant Conductor of The Missouri Symphony. When not dreaming of ways to change the world, Jacob hikes, cooks, meditates, reads, and sings to his orange tabby cats.

Nicholas Perry Clark is a conductor, composer, and director of musical experiences currently pursuing a Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting and Master’s in Composition at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Nick is a champion of new music and musical productions focused on storytelling and audience experience. In 2017 he co-founded Density512 in Austin, TX, a contemporary chamber orchestra which focuses on curated multimedia musical experiences and championing local artists.

I'm a percussionist/audio engineer/noisemaker based in Austin, Texas. My work is primarily in performative perspectives in electronic music, and as a performer I make a point to perform the most absurd nonsense I can. Outside of Density I teach percussion and audio technology at Southwestern University and Austin Community College, and perform with a smattering of musicians including Less Than <10, James Tabata, Ciyadh Wells, and Up/Down Percussion. When I'm not making noise you can find me drinking pretentious beer, playing frankly embarrassing amounts of Stardew Valley, or petting my Australian Shepard Libby.

Kenzie Slottow (they/she) is a musician, composer and theatremaker. They write and perform music on flute, guitar and vocals, as well as producing and directing concerts and work that highlight connections between art forms and people. The form of collaborative chamber music improvisation that Kenzie began developing in 2018 - chamber improv - has transitioned well to the virtual medium, and their chamber improv group Sound Worlds has been producing live-scored virtual theatre with actors and instrumentalists since June 2020.

Ciyadh Wells is a multifaceted musician who prides herself in not only being an artist but also an activist, and a scholar. As a scholar and educator, Wells believes everyone deserves access to diverse and inclusive art, which she advocates as being essential to society. Ciyadh’s mission is to utilize the impact of music old and new, to manifest moments of meaningful change and to inspire community therein. She is the Artistic & Executive Director of Margins Guitar Collective and she is a member of the Sphinx LEAD program. Ciyadh is one half of guitar duo, Duo Charango, and lives in Austin, Texas where she works at Austin Soundwaves.

Tyler Ehrlich serves as a graduate teaching assistant and doctoral student in wind conducting at The University of Texas at Austin. In this role, he assists with conducting, teaching, and administrating the university’s concert bands, athletic bands, conducting courses, and the new music ensemble. Tyler previously lived in Atlanta, Georgia, where he served as conductor of the Emory University Wind Ensemble, director of bands at Decatur High School, and associate conductor of the Atlanta Wind Symphony.

Caroline Ferguson is an oboist at the University of Texas at Austin pursuing degrees in Music and English. Passionate about art in all its forms, she aspires to support creatives through a combination of law and arts administration upon graduation. In addition to her work with Density 512, Caroline is also involved with the UT Lab Orchestra and the Center City Chamber Orchestra in Philadelphia. Caroline enjoys running, reading, and attempting new recipes (with varying results) when she finds a spare moment.

West Philadelphia native Davey Hiester (b. 2000) enjoys a multi-faceted life in music, as a bassoonist, orchestrator, conductor, educator, and producer. Invested in innovative programming, storytelling, local collaboration, and community-building, Hiester is the Music Director and President of the Center City Chamber Orchestra, which he founded in Philadelphia in 2018. In addition, he serves as the current Music Director of Lab Orchestra at The University of Texas at Austin, bringing together the Butler School of Music together in the Chamber Orchestra setting, with committment to performing works by UT Composers. He will graduate with a BM in Bassoon Performance in 2024, and is excited to join the Density512 team. In Austin, you can often find him eating and cooking barbecue, playing pickleball, or in the stands at a UT Football game.

Sophie Mathieu is a composer and cellist based in Austin, TX. She specializes in creating ambient, ethereal, and immersive works about vast, expansive places in the natural world. Her music has won her numerous awards, including her orchestral work, moons, which received an ASCAP Morton Gould award. Sophie has collaborated with ensembles across the US, including Alarm Will Sound, yMusic, and Eighth Blackbird. She is the 2024 Draylen Mason Composer in Residence at KMFA Classical 89.5. As a performer, Sophie ​eagerly engages with any type of music making that is hands-on and fun. She currently plays with Austin-based folk band Middle Sattre and the indie-rock band Maru Haru. Outside of music, she enjoys cooking plant-based food, playing Sid Meier's Civilization, and watching psychological horror films in her free time.