Michael Zuraw founded Aperio–Music of the Americas in 2006 to promote contemporary and new music by composers from the New World. Over the course of Aperio’s first decade, Zuraw curated more than 50 unique programs of solo and chamber music. A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy, University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon University, Zuraw earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He is currently on the faculty of St. John’s School and teaches for the American Festival for the Arts. (Spring 2018)