Anson Jones is a New York City-based singer and musician whose eclectic style takes influence from jazz, pop, rock, RnB, folk, and everything in between. She has won 6 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards through Junior High and High School in both Jazz and Pop/Rock Blues solo categories. This year, Anson is taking part in the Women in Jazz Organization mentorship program. Anson is Princeton class of 2022, majoring in music and minoring in architecture and computer science. Anson’s passion extends into many artistic disciplines—when not making music, she is pursuing her love of design and visual arts.

I've been playing steel pan since the age of four. I made a decision in my life twice to make a life and career out of steel pan in many ways. 30 years later I've done just that and I'm just getting started. I currently co-teach a steel pan class at Princeton while I finish up my Ph.D in music composition.

Noah K is a composer and saxophonist who lives and works in Brooklyn. He is completing his PhD this year in Music Composition at Princeton. In addition to leading his jazz quartet and performing with his band Dollshot (with vocalist/composer Rosie K), he is currently developing a new opera, “Salvation,” with writer Hampton Fancher, screenwriter of “Blade Runner” and “Blade Runner 2049.”

My name is Daniel, I'm a senior in the Spanish and Portuguese department and I'm also an aspiring actor, dancer, drag performer, and makeup artist. For my independent research, I am taking an interdisciplinary approach to investigating how language constructs gender and, further, how different languages could produce different gender performances. The video I am presenting was created for a course on Performance and Brazilian Culture. I am performing as my Drag persona, Richie Richport, and lip syncing in Portuguese to a song about Brazil's annual Carnaval celebrations. Special shoutout to my best friend and roommate, Giselle Uribe, class of 2020, for her constant support and for filming this project.