Louis J. Goldford (b.1983), has studied music from age eight. His music has been heard in Poland, throughout the Saint Louis area and at Webster University, where his pieces have been featured on a number of scholarship, faculty, and new music recitals. In 2007 Mr. Goldford conducted the premiere of his first large-scale vocal work, Of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, a cantata depicting censorship for chorus, soloists, chamber orchestra, electronics and video. His saxophone quartet The Fields at Abacoa took first place in the 2005 Arden and Harry Fisher Young Composers Competition. In July 2003 Louis participated as a student assistant at the International Summer Jazz Academy [ISJA] in Krakow, Poland, whereupon he was invited to attend the following year. In 2004 the ISJA Big Band premiered his No Baby Ruminations, a memorial piece for saxophonist Steve Lacy. His Concavity II: Real Big Business can be found in Tonality and Design in Music Theory by Earl Henry [Prentice Hall, 2005]. He has also been heard as part of the ongoing Sounds from the Underground program, where contemporary music is presented as a series of installations in the Delmar Loop. Mr. Goldford recently graduated from Webster University, where he studied piano, saxophone, composition, and economics. He's played in Saint Louis with such bands as the Zydeco Crawdaddys and the Deborah Sharn Group, currently sings with the Saint Louis Symphony Chorus, and teaches privately.