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SMT-Pod Season 4 Theme Music Composer: Maria Tartaglia

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Maria Tartaglia is a young upcoming Composer and Entertainer currently completing her undergraduate degree in Composition and Vocal Performance at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY. Maria grew up performing in restaurants in Lake Placid and playing keyboards for 4 years in her local Rocknroll band, “11B” additionally while discovering her voice compositionally. While working towards her undergraduate degree, Maria won the Wild Center Commission Competition and her works can be heard played over the trail speakers at Tupper Lake’s Wild Center. Her resume includes works varying from choir, acoustic instrument solos, electronic media, as well as film score works. The notorious Crane School of Music’s Hosmer Choir, will perform Maria’s choir work, “In the Depths” in the Spring of 2026. Maria plans to continue her Compositional education in pursuit of a Masters Degree and beyond.

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SMT-Pod Season 4 Closing Theme Composer: Yike Zhang

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Yike Zhang (b. 1993 in Wuhan, China) is a composer active in Toronto and New York. In 2024, Zhang received her Doctor of Music Arts degree from the University of Toronto, where she was composer in residence for the University of Toronto symphony orchestra. She also received degrees from the Manhattan School of Music (MM) and Wuhan Conservatory of Music (BM). Her music synthesizes the different worlds she was interested in from a young age — Western classical music and traditional Chinese concepts — organically combining those elements consciously and subconsciously. The fluidity and resonance that are the vitality of her music come from influences of impressionism and post-spectralism. Her works are performed in China, America, and Canada, with recent performances at the Asian Classical Music Initiative International Conference, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Columbia University, and Wuhan Qintai Concert Hall.

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SMT-Pod Season 1-3 Theme Music Composer: Zhangcheng Lu

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Piece Title: "BGM Scales"

Uen. L is a multi-talented musician. Piano player with many years of experience and a passion for improvisation. On the rise as a composer, arranger, mixer and established multi-instrumentalist. He created his own band in 2018. He experimented with various styles of music and later developed a passion for ACG music. Due to his love for anime, creativity, and jazz. Now he is working as a music producer and mixer at Run Up Studio, creating music for ACG & OST.

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SMT-Pod Season 1-3 Closing Theme Composer: David Voss

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Piece Title: "hnna"

David Voss is an award-winning composer who the Pi Kappa Lambda Composition Award described as “a composer…whose artistic concepts are complex and multi-faceted.” He was a finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the Sarasota Orchestra EarShot residency. His works have been performed all over the country and have been recorded by such ensembles as Yarn/Wire and Singer Pur. He attended the Atlantic Music Festival, Nief-Norf Summer Festival, and the Fresh Inc Festival, where he worked with a number of respected composers, including Anna Thorvaldsdottir, David Ludwig, Hannah Lash, and Ken Ueno, to name a few. He has been commissioned by individuals and arts organizations like the International Double Reed Society and continues to enjoy writing music for his friends.

He graduated with his Master of Arts in composition from Stony Brook University, where he worked with Perry Goldstein and Daria Semegen, and received his Bachelor of Music in music theory/composition from Lawrence University, studying with Asha Srinivasan and Joanne Metcalf.

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