(Front row, l-r: Tom Baker, Donald Skirvin. Back row: Nathan Grigg, Ben Houge, Scott Selfon, Greg Bartholomew. Not pictured: Kevin Siegfried. Photo by Korby Sears.)

Bartholomew is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Seattle Composers Alliance, the Washington Composers Forum, the American Composers Forum, the Society of Composers, Inc., the American Music Center, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He has sung since 1991 with Seattle Pro Musica, an award-winning critically-acclaimed choral ensemble under the direction of Karen P. Thomas.


Nathan Grigg (b. 1970)
Nathan Grigg is Composer and Music Director at Monolith Productions. He has been actively composing music ever since he was able to memorize his ideas at the piano (around age 6). Nathan obtained his Bachelor of Arts from the Evergreen State College in 1992, studying composition with Peter Winkler and Peter Randlette from 1989-91, and with Janice Giteck at Cornish College of the Arts from 1991-92. Nathan launched his music career in 1993 scoring games for publishers such as Sega of America, Warner Bros., Virgin Games, Tekmagik, and Microsoft. Since then he has worked at Microsoft Network as a Music Supervisor, where he pioneered the use of non-linear music technologies on the web, and at Microsoft Studios as Music Director, where he served as a creative resource for custom music company-wide. His critically-acclaimed soundtrack for "Pandora's Box" (Microsoft) brought game scoring back into center stage for him. Since then, Nathan has composed adaptive scores for Monolith, including "Aliens vs. Predator 2" (Fox Interactive), "No One Lives Forever 2" (Fox Interactive), and "TRON 2.0" (Disney/Buena Vista Interactive), with more exciting, immersive projects in the present and future.


Ben Houge (b. 1974)
Ben Houge is an enthusiastic participant in the Seattle music community, where he has been composing since 1996. He is a member of the Washington Composers Forum and serves the Seattle Composers Alliance as vice president. He is a founder of Sound Currents and contributes to the conceptual composers' collective Seattle School.

Ben has composed extensively for chorus, and his new work "Blossoms" was premiered by the Northwest Girlchoir in May 2003. He was composer-in-residence of the Cantorei Choir of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church from 1997-2003. His music has been commissioned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and published by Augsburg Fortress. From 1996-2003, Ben served as a staff composer and sound designer for Sierra Entertainment, contributing audio to such interactive titles as Arcanum, King's Quest: Mask of Eternity, and Half-Life: Opposing Force; he now works as a freelance composer and sound designer whose clients include Microsoft Game Studios and ArenaNet.

Ben obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Music Theory and Composition from St. Olaf College in 1996, studying with Peter Hamlin, and is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Composition at the University of Washington with Juan Pampin, focusing in computer music.


Scott Selfon (b. 1976)
Scott is an alumnus of the University of Southern California, where he obtained dual degrees in music composition (film scoring emphasis) and computer engineering/computer science. In the field of concert music, he has studied with Erica Muhl, Frank Ticheli, and James Hopkins; he has also studied film scoring with such composers as David Raksin, Leonard Rosenman, and Christopher Young. He has composed for a wide range of media, including film, television, PC titles, and live performance.

Scott works in the Xbox Advanced Technology Group as the audio content consultant, assisting composers, sound designers, and audio programmers with technical and creative implementation issues in more than one hundred Xbox titles. He previously worked as the test lead and composed sample content for DirectMusic Producer and DirectX Audio Scripting, Windows tools for creating non-repetitive, dynamic, and non-linear musical compositions. He has also worked as a program manager on the MSN Creative Audio team, which focused on the sonification of web content using interactive soundtracks.

Scott is the co-author of a recent book on interactive music entitled DirectX Audio Exposed: Interactive Audio Development (WordWare Publishing). He is the principal violist of several Seattle-area orchestras and ensembles, and is the artistic director of "Hachi Pele," a Jewish a cappella group at the University of Washington. He is also a member of the Seattle Composers Alliance and the Game Audio Network Guild.


Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969)
Although Kevin Siegfried moved from Seattle three years ago to pursue doctoral studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, his fondness for the Pacific Northwest keeps him connected with the Seattle music scene he still in many ways considers home.

Currently residing in Maine (he is quick to point out his new home is just a few short miles from the Red Hook Brewery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire), Kevin is in the final stages of completing his dissertation, and becoming acquainted with the music and arts scene in New England. He is currently an Adjunct Faculty member of the New England Conservatory, Teaching Fellow at Harvard University and resident composer of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was recently commissioned by the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire to write an anthem for the installation of Bishop-Elect Rev. Canon Gene Robinson.

While living in Seattle, Kevin’s membership in The Tudor Choir and The Compline Choir led to a number of publications and a recording. Pieces originally composed for these groups are currently published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company, Earthsongs, and Trinitas, while the recording Gentle Words: Shaker Songs arranged by Kevin Siegfried —a collaboration with The Tudor Choir and its director Doug Fullington—appears on the Loft Recordings label.

Kevin is pleased to be a part of the second Sound Currents concert and excited at the opportunity for the recent piano piece, Arcs and Circles, to be heard in his northwesterly home.


Donald M. Skirvin (b. 1946)
Donald Skirvin served for six years as the composer-in-residence with the a cappella vocal ensemble, The Esoterics, a post he assumed in 1997. During his tenure with this group Mr. Skirvin wrote 25 works premiered by The Esoterics, several of which appear on CD's released by The Esoterics. Recently Mr. Skirvin assumed the position of composer-in-residence with The Seattle Choral Company.

His choral works have been performed locally by The Bainbridge Chorale, the Northwest Chamber Chorus, The Seattle Choral Company, The Esoterics and the Seattle Men’s Chorus. Do Not Weep, a commission by the Seattle Men's Chorus, scored for men’s chorus, bass solo, trombone and piano, appears on their Pink Album CD; Earth Chants, also a commission by the Seattle Men’s Chorus and performed in St. Mark’s Cathedral as part of the theatre piece Fool’s Passion, was scored for men's voices, piano, organ, didgeridoo, percussion, and wine glasses. A large double-chorus work, Echoes from the Heart, appears on The Esoterics’ CD Antiphona, and a four-movement work, Songs of the Equinox and Solstice, can be heard on their Elementia CD.

His composition We Sing The Dream was selected as the Festival Anthem prizewinner for the GALA V music festival in 1996 and was performed by 1,500 singers at the conclusion of the festival. Since 1996 Yelton Rhodes Music Publishing Company has published his choral music, and choruses have performed those works around the United States and abroad. Currently Yelton Rhodes publishes 20 of his choral compositions. He studied music at the Jordon Conservatory of Music, Indianapolis, and at Indiana University, Bloomington, and is a member of ASCAP.