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Composers Misha Swersey and Elias Valle
Tonight, host Alexa Smith features music by two rising young composers: Misha Swersey and Elias Valle. Misha Swersey is a New York City-based composer whose music has been performed at venues across the country, from the Walt Disney Theatre in Orlando to Le Poisson Rouge in downtown Manhattan. In 2018, he was selected a first prize winner of the National Young Composers Challenge, and has received additional honors from ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards over the years. He is currently pursuing a masters degree at Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, studying with Oscar…
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