Toby Twining (Composer) began composing, performing, and recording experimental vocal ensemble music in the mid 1980s. His early work often combined classical ensemble singing with world vocal techniques and experimental sounds, such as African yodeling, Tuvan throat singing, unconventional tremolos, and phonetics. To perform the music he was developing, he formed the a cappella quartet Toby Twining Music, which released its début CD Shaman in 1994 on BMG Classics. Around that time, Twining also became interested in new possibilities for harmony through just intonation and began using sequences of extended consonant intervals to modulate microtonally (Hotel Destiné, 1992). He put together an expanded ensemble of twelve voices in 1999 to perform his first large work of this kind, Chrysalid Requiem (Cantaloupe Music, 2002), at the Festival of New Spiritual Music in Amsterdam. Twining’s music has been recorded by avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan (The Art of the Toy Piano, Uni/Point, 1997), pioneering cellist Matt Haimovitz (Anthem and Please Welcome Matt Haimovitz, Oxingale/Artemis, 2002), and has been featured in the film The Sorceress of the New Piano, and FX’s Nip/Tuck (episode 17, Mrs. Grubman). The American Music Center selected his 9/11 Blues for the Annual List of the 2006 IAMIC conference in Sweden. Twining was a 2003 Pew Fellow. He lives currently in Wolfeboro, NH where, in pursuit of another goal—the development and support of cutting edge art within progressive religious communities—he directs music at First Congregational Church (United Church of Christ).