2nd nature

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Megan Conley

Megan Conley grew up in Austin, Texas, and began playing harp when she was five. By age 15 she had performed on the Grammy Award-winning album Los Super Seven. She was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study music in Paris, and in 2012 won First Place in the International Ima Hogg Concerto Competition, performing to a sold-out crowd of over 2,000. Megan served as Principal Harpist of the Houston Symphony from 2015–2022, and since 2019 as harpist of the NYC-based orchestra The Knights. She has performed with New York City Ballet, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, and the Bang On a Can All-Stars. In 2021 she founded Ocean Music Action, a nonprofit using music to promote ocean conservation; in 2023 she was awarded a New Music USA Creator grant. She lives in Honolulu with her husband, bassist Shawn Conley, and their young son.

Shawn Conley

Hawaiian-born bassist and composer Shawn Conley grew up loving all types of music. He is a member of the Silkroad Ensemble and The Knights orchestra, and recently released his first solo album, Uncharted. Other projects include Silkroad's Grammy Award-winning album Sing Me Home, an album with Gil Shaham and The Knights, the world premiere tour of Osvaldo Golijov's Falling Out of Time, and an international tour of William Kentridge's The Head and the Load. As a studio musician he has performed on soundtracks including True Grit, Moonrise Kingdom, Ken Burns' The Vietnam War, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Shawn joined the Hawaii Symphony as Principal Bass in 2022.

Clara Kim

Clara Kim is a creative who believes in fostering curiosity, empathy and expressive freedom through music. The art of listening to others — and of being heard — fuels her work as a collaborative violinist. A champion for the voices of our generation, she has commissioned and premiered countless works by established, emerging, and student composers alike. Her engagements include performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and Jordan Hall, supported by Chamber Music America, The Koussevitzky Foundation, and Caramoor. A recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Artist Award and first prize winner of the Cremona Solo Violin Competition, she is also a first prize winner at the MPrize Chamber Arts and Concert Artists Guild Competitions as a former member of the Argus Quartet.

Christopher Stark

Christopher Stark, whose music The New York Times has called "fetching and colorful," has been awarded prizes from the American Academy in Rome, the Guggenheim Foundation, Chamber Music America, the Barlow Endowment, and the Fromm Foundation at Harvard. Named a "Rising Star" by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, his works have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Alarm Will Sound, Mivos Quartet, and Detroit Symphony. He has created orchestral arrangements for producers Nineteen85 and Luis Resto, and is a Creative Partner of the St. Louis Symphony, curating their contemporary chamber series at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. His film score for Novitiate premiered at Sundance and was released internationally by Sony Pictures Classics. His most recent album, Fire Ecologies, was released on New Focus Recordings in 2025.

Nāwāhine Lanzilotti

Nawahineokalaʻi Lanzilotti is a musician and director from Mānoa, Oʻahu whose performances and collaborations feature cello, voice, sound objects, electronics, and movement. Her work explores energy shifting through land, sky, ocean, and the body. Nawahine founded and runs the nonprofit Pulse Oceania, an indigenous performance incubator dedicated to advancing health equity and economic independence in Hawaiʻi through experimental creative practice rooted in aloha ʻāina, focusing on Pacific Island collaboration. She is a 2026 First Peoples Fund Native Performing Arts Fellow and a 2026 Wehiwehi Fellow for Kānaka Maoli artists at the intersection of indigenous identity and contemporary performance.