Iconic Composers

David Lee Csicsko is an award-winning artist and designer whose distinctive artwork, stained glass, and mosaics beautify train stations, hospitals, churches and universities across the Midwest and East Coast. His many credits include designing the Obamas’ White House Christmas in 2012. David’s lively illustrations can also be seen in The Skin You Live In from the Chicago Children’s Museum, now in its 16th printing, as well as in LGBTQ+ Icons and Science People. Through his use of color, bold graphics and playful patterns, David Lee Csicsko celebrates the richness and diversity of life. Emi Ferguson is an English-American flutist and composer. She has spoken and performed at several TEDx events and has been featured on media outlets including The Discovery Channel, Vox's "Explained" series on Netflix, Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Julliard Digital’s TouchPress apps talking about how music relates to our world today. Emi was a featured performer alongside Yo-Yo Ma, Paul Simon, and James Taylor at the 10th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony of 9/11 at Ground Zero, where her performance of Amazing Grace was televised worldwide. Her performance that day is now part of the permanent collection at the 911 Museum. Emi is currently on the faculty of the Julliard School teaching Ear Training, the Bach Virtuosi Festival, and has taught on the faculty of the University of Buffalo. Jamie Bernstein is a writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker, and author of Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein. She travels the world as a concert narrator, and her documentary, Crescendo: The Power of Music, is now available on Netflix. She lives in New York City.

Featured composers include:


Hildegard von Bingen (Germany) Guillaume de Machaut (France) Claudio Monteverdi (Italy) Barbara Strozzi (Italy) Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (France) Antonio Vivaldi (Italy) Johann Sebastian Bach (Germany) George Frideric Handel (Germany) Ignatius Sancho (Slave Ship in the Atlantic Ocean) Joseph Haydn (Austria) Joseph Bologne (Guadeloupe) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austria) Ludwig von Beethoven (Germany) Franz Schubert (Austria) Clara and Robert Schumann (Germany) Richard Wagner (Germany) Giuseppe Verdi (Italy) Johannes Brahms (Germany) Lili’uokalani (USA) Chiquinha Gonzaga (Brazil) Gustav Mahler (Bohemia) Claude Debussy (France) Erik Satie (France) Harry Burleigh (USA) Scott Joplin (USA) Arnold Schoenberg (Austria) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (UK) Maurice Ravel (France) Igor Stavinsky (Russia) Florence Price (USA) Lili and Nadia Boulanger (France) William Grant Still (USA) Shirley Graham DuBois (USA) George Gershwin (USA) John Cage (USA) Leonard Bernstein (USA) Galina Ustvolskaya (Russia) Astor Piazzolla (Argentina) George Crumb (USA) Toru Takemitsu (Japan) Pauline Oliveros (USA) Arvo Part (Estonia) Philip Glass (USA) Louis W. Ballard (USA) Roscoe Mitchell (USA) Julius Eastman (USA) Meredith Monk (USA) Tania Leon (Cuba) Nobuo Uematsu (Japan) Young-Ja Lee (South Korea)