Composer and cinematographer J.E. Hernández (b.1993) is a Mexican-born, Houston-based composer focusing on elevating personal and cultural narrative through his work. J.E.’s music has been featured by distinguished ensembles and organizations such as the Kennedy Center for the Arts, Houston Grand Opera, American Opera Project, Apollo Chamber Players, Foundation for Modern Music, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, American Composers Forum, the Brazil National Orchestra, and in a wide variety of films, both in the United States and abroad. He holds a degree from the University of Houston. Past teachers include Marcus Maroney and Gregory Spears.

J.E.’s work focuses on both traditional and multi-disciplinary mediums, and he has collaborated with directors, choreographers, and playwrights. His process cultivates creativity through stewarding tangible life experiences through an intensive, multi-narrative process that is mathematical, philosophical, and historical; these include environmental displacement, anthropologic self-assessments, and non-artistic life narratives.

Recent and upcoming projects include helah, a chamber work focusing on the transformative aspect of trauma, commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera. Voces Fantasmas, a multi-disciplinary work dedicated to people in immigrant facilities, to be premiered by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, excerpts of which were streamed by the Kennedy Center for the Arts, a McKnight Visiting Composer Residency with American Composers Forum, and a fellowship with American Opera Project’s Composers & the Voice program, where he will workshop a wide variety of operatic works with world class singers, culminating in a premiere.

Ashton Prince, a Houston based percussionist, is a young professional in the Music non-profit community. He completed his undergraduate studies with Blake Wilkins and Alec Warren as a member of the percussion studio for the Moores School of Music — University of Houston. Ashton’s professional endeavors span several channels of work. He works as a freelance percussionist throughout varying Houston performing ensembles and artists. While collaborating as a musician, Ashton is also making his footprint in the non-profit community. He is working on the staff for the DACAMERA Society of Texas, a jazz and chamber performance organization, and is board member, and Director of Communications, for Through the Staff (music accessibility organization).

Alfonso Mendoza is one of the founding members of ConcertiaHTX.

A graduate of the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, Alfonso has worked in the accounting field for 10+ years. His top to bottom experience enables him to provide relevant and timely advice on a multitude of accounting and finance related topics such as internal accounting, periodic reporting, forecasting, risk, best practices and forward planning.

Outside of ConcertiaHTX he is one of several owners of a Houston based creative agency and also performs accounting work under his individual practice where he focuses on helping small businesses with financial literacy and having accounting practices in place to keep them on par with larger entities.