Simon Fink (b. 1980) composes chamber music, orchestral music, and electronic music. Drawing on both old and new sound worlds and compositional techniques, his work explores time, space, and emotion through harmonic tension and dramatic forms. His music has recently been played by ensembles such as the Pacifica Quartet, eighth blackbird, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and sung by singers such as Ian Howell, Tony Arnold, and David Newman. Simon has won awards, grants, and honorable recognition from organizations such as the New York Youth Symphony, the American Composers Forum, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2009 he won an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award for his piece Electric Pastoral for string quartet and electronics. The acoustic version of the piece, titled Pastorals for String Quartet, won first prize in the Con Vivo Jersey City’s Quartet Competition. He has been awarded fellowships to the Aspen Music Festival, the I-Park Artists’ Enclave, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Excerpts from The Commons Berlin, Simon’s multimedia collaboration with the Brooklyn arts collective, Uniondocs, were recently presented at the MoMA’s (NY) Documentary Fortnight Festival. Simon’s pop music project, Still Lost Bird Music, released its first album in 2008 on the DashGo Records label. The single, “Chocolate Heart,” was featured on the popular iPhone game, Tap Tap Revenge. He holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts and Rice University and, working under a fellowship from the Mellon Foundation, recently completed his Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of Chicago. This summer Simon was featured as an Emerging Composer at the Staunton Music Festival.