Brian Shank is a composer, percussionist, and musicologist. A winner of the prestigious Cone Composition institute in 2018, his work has been performed internationally by ensembles such as the Rome Opera Choir and New Jersey Symphony, as well as permanently featured at the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome. As a percussionist, Shank specializes in performing electroacoustic works. Steeped in the French harmonic and contrapuntal tradition of Nadia Boulanger, his teachers include Philip Lasser, David Conte, Daniel Druckman, Gordon Gottlieb, and Richard Albagli. He holds degrees from The Juilliard School (B.M. Percussion) and San Francisco Conservatory (M.M. Composition). He is currently a PhD candidate in History and Theory of Music at UC Irvine, where he teaches, develops curriculum, and researches the interrelationship of the arts in the music of Henri Dutilleux. A member of the Caroga Arts Collective since 2018, he helps facilitate the orchestra’s collaborations with visiting artists as an arranger and versatile percussionist.