Julien Monick (b. 1994) is a composer of emotionally rich works for a wide variety of acoustic ensembles and fixed media. His goal is to provide genuine, personal responses to the social and natural world around him, each work containing its own portrait of personalities. He has had performances in America and Europe by the CCM Wind Symphony, Unheard-Of//Ensemble, Zodiac Trio, Robert Hoyle, Matthew Russo, UConn Wind Ensemble, and others. Monick and his colleague Michael Denis O’Callaghan were the recipients of an IDEA Grant to record a 60-minute album titled Granted with the alternative rock group Freighthopper while conducting a case study on the social characteristics of the creative process through collaborative musical performance and composition. Monick has also had the opportunity to work with Caroline Shaw and the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, during which he arranged the third movement of Shaw’s Partita for 8 voices for wind ensemble and voice octet. This arrangement saw a performance with Roomful of Teeth and the UConn Wind Ensemble under Dr. Jefferey Renshaw. He holds degrees from the University of Connecticut and Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where his principal teachers included Kenneth Fuchs, Michael Fiday, Douglas Knehans, Mara Helmuth and Robert Hoyle.