Felicia Sandler, composer and theorist, is on faculty at the New England Conservatory. Her recent commissions include In the Other World Which No-one Ownsfor the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco, Lord Randal for chamber winds commissioned for the Strathmore High School band, Pulling Radishes for the NEC percussion ensemble directed by Frank Epstein released on a Naxos CD Fall 2010, Hysteria in Salem Village for the Big East Conference Band Director's Association, Frozen Shadow-Quiet Light for saxophone and percussion commissioned by Eliot Gattegno, and The Waking, for SATB split chorus for the Dale Warland Singers. As a scholar, Sandler continues to explore the use of musics from indigenous societies by Western composers. Her essay "In Search of a Cross-Cultural Legal Framework: Indigenous Music as a Worldwide Commodity" was published last Fall in a volume entitled "Music and Cultural Rights" with enthusiastic reviews. Sandler has received awards from Meet the Composer, the Presser Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the American Composers Orchestra, among others. Her choral music is published with E.C. Schirmer and Mark Foster Music Co.