Prof. Anthony Paul De Ritis : Described as a “genuinely American composer” by Gramophone, Anthony Paul De Ritis is Professor and former Chair of the Music Department at Northeastern University in Boston, and is jointly appointed in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group in Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. His music has been called “groundbreaking,” “ultra-exotic,” and “really cool,” and has received performances nationally and internationally, including at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Harvard’s Sanders Theatre, Yale’s Woolsey Hall, Taipei’s Zhong Shan Hall, Beijing’s Yugong Yishan, Seoul’s KT Art Hall.