about the directors

HERYL SELTZER, pianist, was a founder of Continuum in 1966. Active in contemporary music since studying at Mills College with composers Darius Milhaud, Leon Kirchner, and Lawrence Moss, she also holds graduate degrees in musicology from Columbia University. Mrs. Seltzer made her professional debut with the San Francisco Symphony, and appears as a soloist and ensemble performer in contemporary and traditional music. She has participated in the Marlboro and Tanglewood Festivals, and has recorded for Vox, Desto, Advance, Nonesuch, CRI, Musical Heritage Society, and TNC. She is on the faculty of the Lucy Moses School of Music and Dance (New York), where she directed the Young People's Program for ten years, and is an officer of the Stefan Wolpe Society, which oversees the restoration, promotion, and publication of the composer's works.

OEL SACHS, co-director of CONTINUUM, has conducted at major European and American festivals, has been music director for experimental operas, and performs extensively as a pianist. At Juilliard he conducts the New Juilliard Ensemble, a chamber orchestra for new music, and directs the annual "Focus!" festival. For ten years he also was Artistic Director of the MoMA's "Summergarden" (currently suspended during MoMA's reconstruction). Appearances include orchestral concerts throughout Europe and Latin America, and residencies in Brazil, Germany, Israel, Poland, and Russia. His CD of intercultural music of the Americas with Mexico's La Camerata de las Americas was released on Dorian. Joel Sachs is heard with CONTINUUM on Nonesuch, CRI, TNC, and Musical Heritage Society, among others. He received Columbia University's Alice M. Ditson Conductor's Award for service to American music. A Harvard graduate, he received the Ph.D. at Columbia and is writing a biography of Henry Cowell.