TJ Sclafani

TJ Sclafani is an arts administrator and composer based in New York, NY. He currently works with Voices of Ascension as their communications and customer engagement associate, and also works as a public relations consultant for the Resonance Collective in Los Angeles. He has previously worked with the New York Philharmonic, See-A-Dot Music Publishing, and Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Before his career in arts administration, TJ taught music to K-5 students at West Creek Academy in Santa Clarita, CA, and also served as an AmeriCorps Scholar in 2018, where he taught beginning music and music production to students at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. 

As a composer, TJ’s work has been performed by gnarwhallaby, Flux Quartet, pianist Alison Brewster Franzetti, the Moravian Philharmonic, the Ensemble at CalArts, and C3LA: The Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles. He has sung with Tonality, C3LA, HEX, EMBER Choral Arts, and the New York Choral Society. He has an MFA in music composition from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In his spare time, TJ likes watching basketball, hiking, and dabbling in hip-hop production.