Arun Chandra is a composition professor and director of the Evergreen Experimental Ensemble. Chandra’s works challenge the social and political contexts of music creation and performance. He was most recently commissioned by Seattle Modern Orchestra for his new piece, Ways of Resisting, which explores contradictions of individual identity versus collaboration. In his own words “Every phrase in this composition is an attempt to be a verbal utterance, in the guise of a musical gesture, made by an individual, within a context of others also asserting themselves. Each person (each instrument) is attempting to articulate what they think is going on, and should be done.”