A faculty-led new music initiative of the UD School of Music, New Music Delaware explores new works by modern, living composers. This event is part of the residency by Santiago Beis, composer and member of Onishi-Beis Duo, an electroacoustic improvisation duo of which Yoshiaki Onishi, Assistant Professor of Music Composition takes part. In this all-improvisation concert, Onishi-Beis Duo collaborates with Miles Brown, Assistant Professor of String Bass and Jazz.

Juan Santiago Beis (b. 1990) is an Uru-Brazilian composer, pianist, audio designer, arranger, and artistic researcher. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Composition from the Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná (UNESPAR), where he collaborated with diverse ensembles such as the Orquestra de Câmara da Cidade de Curitiba and the Orquestra à Base de Sopro de Curitiba. As a producer with Composteira Casa de Criação in Curitiba, he organized composer-in-residence workshops featuring prominent Brazilian artists like Marcos Balter, Paulo Rios Filho, Alex Buck, Alexandre Torres Porres, Mossa Bildner and Jorge Antunes.

Yoshiaki Onishi is a Japanese-American composer, conductor, and clarinetist. As a composer, he is interested in exploring a wide range of instrumental timbres and finding ways to incorporate them in musical syntaxes and forms that disrupt the sense of expectation. Noted by a New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini for its "varied, eerily alluring sounds," Onishi’s music has been performed worldwide by organizations such as New Japan Philharmonic, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, Nieuw Ensemble, Distractfold Ensemble, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Quatuor Diotima and JACK Quartet. With his 2010 work Départ dans..., Onishi became the laureate of the Gaudeamus Prize 2011. He is named a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Other recent honors include the Fromm Commission in 2018 and an artistic residency fellowship from Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbertide, Italy. His works are published by Edition Gravis in Berlin, Germany. Since fall of 2023, Onishi is Assistant Professor of Music Composition at the University of Delaware School of Music.

Bassist, composer, performer and teacher Miles Brown comes from a musical family and began playing the bass at an early age. He attended the Eastman School of Music for his undergraduate degree, earning a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Jazz and Contemporary Media. In 2003, he received a Master of Music in String Bass Performance from Mannes College of Music and earned a Doctorate in Jazz Performance from Eastman in 2012. In Fall 2018, Miles joined the University of Delaware's full-time faculty as assistant professor of string bass and jazz where he teaches applied string bass lessons, jazz history, jazz arranging, and global improvisation.​