Carrie Shaw; Erica Anderson; Barbara Drapcho; Jeremiah Frederick; Collin Anderson; MingHuan Xu; Theo Espy; Doyle Armbrust; Nick Photinos; Christian Dillingham; Ben Bolter - Bryan Doherty: The Orphans & Poe

A transformation: During the COVID-19 pandemic, when the world shut down and many lives were lost or changed forever, I experienced a serious transformation. A commitment to sobriety unleashed new creative forces. The world's new normal of quiet and introspection led me to return to a more formal branch of my musical upbringing: fully-inked acoustic music. Untethered from the backbeats and lead sheets of my career in jazz and pop music, I once again immersed myself in scores and music literature. An exciting new sense of freedom filled me with inspiration. I discovered a wellspring of patience and subsequent understanding and became obsessed with form. Hyper-focussed and pencil in hand, I wrote tirelessly from dawn until dusk. When I spoke about this newfound passion with one of the biggest supporters of my lifetime, my Dad, he told me it sounded like I had seen the light - a remarkable turn of events during an otherwise difficult time for us all. - Bryan Doherty