Conor Grace is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore, MD. His works have been performed throughout the United States, in Germany, and Croatia as part of the 2010 Uzmah Music Festival. He has had performances and readings of his work by groups such as the Milna Ensemble, the Ohio University Faculty Pierrot Ensemble, Splank(bang), the Ohio University Symphony Orchestra, the Mythocracy Collective, Jargon, the Itch Ensemble, and the BMCO. One of his recent works “(nagual/tonal)” for video and fixed format audio was featured at the World Electroacoustic Listening Room Project at the Grand Central Arts Theater in Santa Ana, California, part of Cal State Fullerton. As a violinist he has performed in the Ohio University Symphony Orchestra, the MYSO, CiCLOP, the Brevard Sinfonia, the Milna Ensemble, the Itch Ensemble, and the BMC Orchestra with soloists including Yo-Yo Ma and Leila Jocefowicz. He has studied composition with Mark Phillips, Robert Aldridge, David Dzubay, Michael Fiday, and with Joel Hoffman at the 2010 Uzmah Festival; and violin with Marjorie Bagley, Byron Tauchi, Ron Smith, and Stephen Miahky. Conor earned his Bachelor of Music degree in composition at Ohio University and his Masters in composition at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He also studied violin at the Brevard Music Center in 2008, and returned as a composition fellow in 2011. Conor recently completed writing the full score for the film “Decapitated Chicken” by filmmaker Damiano Cinque. In September 2012 he joined CiCLOP, the Cincinnati Composers Laptop Orchestra Project (ciclop.org).