Richard Reed Parry is the music polymath in the heart of the art-rock band Arcade Fire, but his work reaches far beyond. In addition to navigating Arcade Fire’s adventures across the globe for the past 15 years, Richard released his debut album as a composer “Music For Heart and Breath,” composed soundtracks for film and art installations featured in the MET and Festival International de Jazz Montreal and collaborated/performed with artists across a dazzling musical/artistic spectrum including David Bowie, David Byrne, the New York Philharmonic, Neil Young, The National, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Mick Jagger, Spike Jonze, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Justin Vernon, Caroline Shaw, Sam Amidon, Terry Gilliam, and more. He has won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Juno Awards for both Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre, The Polaris Prize, Brit Awards, and Socan Awards among others.
Susie Ibarra is a Filipino composer, drummer/percussionist, and sound artist who creates live and immersive music that invites people to connect to their natural and built environments, Ibarra is a 2020 National Geographic Explorer in Storytelling, 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Music, and a 2018 Asian Cultural Council Scholar supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. She is a Senior TED Fellow and a Yamaha, Zildjian, and Vic Firth drum artist.
