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Azalea Twining (age 18) is a soprano and composer. Recent projects include “Echo” for solo flute commissioned by Intersection, The Red House for saxophone quartet commissioned by Second Stage and Composers Now, and Evelyn: Four Bodies One Life, a dance opera created and performed by her family. Azalea studied voice with Eileen Clark from 2014-2023 and attended the WNO Opera Institute, Eastman Summer Classical Studies program, and NYU MPAP Summer Classical Voice Intensive. Azalea is a music major at Columbia University where she studies voice with Josephine Mongiardo-Cooper and is a member of the early-music choral ensemble, Collegium Musicum. She has premiered works by Elizabeth Hoffman and Cecilia Olszewski and performed at The Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, SEAMUS Festival, and MATA Festival. Azalea hopes to foster a career as a composer/performer.