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  • 05Bphil_copy_croppedPHIL COLLINS (Artistic Director), co-founded New Music Works and has served as the organization's Artistic Director and Conductor since 1982. Collins has guest-conducted numerous ensembles and has performed residencies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and at Vassar College on a Martha Farmer Fellowship. His orchestral and chamber works have been played throughout the U.S. and Canada. He has also composed and conducted for numerous theatre companies and colleges including, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Western Stage, Mount Madonna Players, UC Santa Cruz, and Cabrillo College.

    As a lecturer, Collins has been hosted by numerous schools and conferences, including the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, the American Composers Forum, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and in February 2007 he lectured in Wellington, New Zealand, for the ACL (Asian Composer League). Awards include: First Prize (Air), 1996 International Clarinet Society Composition Competition; First Prize (Sappho Songs), 1994 L'ARCIM Festival in Montreal; The Gail Rich Award; and Dramalogue Award for Best Musical Direction.

    Collins studied composition with Edwin Dugger, Lou Harrison, and Henry Onderdonk. He studied conducting under Nicole Paiement at UC Santa Cruz; classical guitar with Stanley Beutens; and jazz guitar with Jerry Hahn. He holds a Bachelors in Music Composition from San Francisco State University and a Masters in Music (conducting) from University of California Santa Cruz.


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  • CLIO BAVALEE (Stage Manager), brings her professional stage managing experience to New Music Works since 2010, with the Benefit Concert, “Spring Garden Tour, Wine Tasting & Frog Musicale”.


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  • GIAN-CARLO BAVA (Technical Assistance), brings his technical stage production experience to New Music Works since 2010, with the Benefit Concert, “Spring Garden Tour, Wine Tasting & Frog Musicale”.


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  • Sayaka_20100425-IMG_4415SAYAKA YABUKI (Publicity/Outreach/Logistics), is an electronic sound artist from Japan, currently based in California, USA. Sayaka immigrated to the USA from Japan during the 1980s, at the same time beginning her classical violin studies. As a teenager, she began her studies in visual arts, experimenting with sound installations, sound collage and performance art. Her love for music has sent her far away places including Australia, where she studied with one of the country's most respected experimental electronic music composers, Steve Law. Sayaka is a graduate of Brown University where she obtained her B.A. in Visual Arts, studying interactive visual media with Rachel Stevens, then curator of Creative Time(NYC) and Max/MSP/Jitter with Todd Winkler, director of the MEME(Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments) program.

    Since relocating to California, Sayaka has studied music composition with Philip Collins and Rick Walker, in addition to participating in the program of Music Technology and Recording Arts (MTRA) at Cabrllo College, where she became a recipient of the Sherman David Cowen Memorial Scholarship in 2009. Sayaka is the violinist and vocalist in the band Noise Clinic and also performs under the name Sayaka Starlite. She has been a New Music Works board member since 2008 and was a featured composer in New Music Works' 31st Season, with the premiere of her muti-media and live looping based work, “Water and Wine”. Sayaka is also New Music Works' Publicist, Outreach Coordinator and performs in the Ensemble occasionally.


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  • Andrew_BurkhartANDREW BURKHART (Logistics Assistance), brings 20 years of technical project management experience to the New Music Works, having led and directed a wide variety of key projects with such companies as Sprint, Time-Warner and Westinghouse. Andrew works at Unilect as Director of Operations and Election Project Management. Andrew has 10 years of union experience as a C.W.A. organizer, contract negotiator and steward. He enjoys volunteering with his family at New Music Works' events.


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  • daevDAEV ROEHR (Sound design & Recording): When Daev is not busy designing the sound and recording for New Music Works, he works as Plantronics, Inc.'s Senior Product Engineer. Daev enjoys taking photographs and also produces an experimental a/v event series called Garage Sounds (http://garagesounds.wordpress.com/).


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  • lynnFlinkLYNN FLINK (Hospitality provider): When Lynn is not busy taking care of guest artists and volunteer crew, she runs her own business as a technical writer, specializing in a/v products. Lynn volunteers together with her husband at New Music Works' concerts.


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  • JudyForeman_closeupJUDY FOREMAN (Graphics), has been the graphic designer for NMW for about five years. She's lived in Santa Cruz for 38 years. She paints and make small sculptures and jewelry. She and her husband, Frank, live on a family compound with their two children (each of them has a daughter). Their whole immediate family lives on the same property. Judy is also a frequent volunteer at New Music Works' events, along with her husband, Frank Foreman, chief director of the coffeehouse review site, espressopolice.org.


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  • MARTI HOLGUIN (Web Design), runs a freelance website development company called Fruitbat Productions (fruitbatproductions.net), based in Seattle, WA.


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