Louis Karchin, conductor and composer, is a co-founder of the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, which he organized in 1983 with conductor Robert Black and composer/conductor Morris Rosenzweig. With the Chamber Players, he has conducted works of Stravinsky (Soldier’s Tale), Pierre Boulez (Dérive), and Charles Wuorinen (On Alligators), along with those of younger composers Barbara Jazwinski, Jeffrey Stadelman, and Matthew Fields. As conductor of the Washington Square Ensemble, his recent performances have included Charles Wuorinen’s Iridule, with soloist Jackie Leclair, Brian Fennelly’s Tropes and Echoes, with clarinetist Jean Kopperud, Elliott Carter’s A Mirror on Which to Dwell, with soprano Lucy Shelton, and works by Wayne Peterson, Milton Babbitt, and Morton Feldman, among others. As a composer, Mr. Karchin is the winner of both the Goddard Lieberson and Walter N. Hinrichsen Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and well as Koussevitzky, Fromm, and Barlow Commissions. His comic opera, Romulus, will be recorded for Naxos Records in September. His music appears on New World, CRI, and Albany labels, and is published by C. F Peters Corporation. Mr. Karchin is Professor of Music at New York University.