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Biography

Sequoia Sellinger is a Brooklyn based composer, performer, teacher, music director, and curator. Sequoia is currently a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Sequoia is a graduate of SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music (BM Composition), studied under Laura Kaminsky, Du Yun, and Suzanne Farrin. Her recent musical theater works include an all female identifying cast and crew Recipe for a Sellout (music) that has been workshopped at South Oxford Space in August 2018, Shetler Studios in March 2019 and will be produced for a workshop presentation at The Wild Project in September 2019 , a sci-fi inspired folk musical Gravity of Me Gone (music) that premiered in June 2017 at Ars Nova’s All New Talent Festival, Imogen (music & lyrics) that premiered at SUNY Purchase April 2017, as well as I'll Change Maybe (music) as a part of the Great Room's Cabaret at The Sheen Center in 2017. Her chamber music has been performed at the Fontainebleau Conservatoire in 2014, Seal Bay Festival in 2015, at The Stone in 2015, as well as Imani Winds Festival in 2015. Sequoia is the artistic director of the NYC Emerging Composers Collective.