Meet the Artists

Hila Plitmann

Ola Gjeilo

THREE

Andrew Cyr

Ricardo Romaneiro

Ryan Francis

Leo Leite

Mike Atkinson

Thomas Boulton

Jack Chou

Sean Connors

Rachel Drehmann

Jonathan Greenberg

Nate Hepler

Tom Hutchinson

Danielle Kuhlmann

Britton Matthews

Katie Miller

Rajesh Prasad

Luke Rinderknecht

Annie Stevens

Jason Sugata

Alana Vegter

Mike Atkinson
horn

Hornist Mike Atkinson is currently active in New York as a performer, arranger and instructor.  As a performer: The Knights Chamber Orchestra, Gotham Orchestra, Manhattan Sinfonietta, Fireworks Ensemble, Sylvan Winds, Wind Soloists of New York, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Speculum Musicae, Burning River Brass, Shanghai Broadcasting Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus, Orchestra of St. Luke's Pittsburgh Symphony, numerous Broadway musicals, Clogs, My Brightest Diamond, St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens.  In 2007, Mike conducted the world premiere of Sufjan's "BQE" for orchestra, band and film at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Mike's arrangements have been performed in settings varying from chamber music festivals to Fashion Week NYC at Bryant Park.  Last spring, Brooklyn-based string quartet OSSO premiered a set of Mike's arrangements adapted from Sufjan's "Enjoy Your Rabbit" album at n Cincinnati's Music Now! festival.  Since then, OSSO has played these works extensively in NYC, and, in February 2008, was featured on WNYC's "Spinning on Air."  Currently, Mike is collaborating as performer/arranger with St. Vincent's leader Annie Clark in preparation for their next album.