“Here I am, crisscrossing the country in new work, with new collaborators, making new friends,” Daniel Bernard Roumain writes in a November newsletter. He has composed the original score for a unique storytelling experience, produced by NPR Presents, named Water±.

In addition he’s been named co-chair of the 2015 APAP conference, and he’s joined the board of Directors of Creative Capital. DBR shows, according to the Washington Post, “what it means to push boundaries of musical genres to new heights.” An artist with a multitude of ideas who accomplishes them, he’s remarkably generous in sharing his strategies for turning thought into creative action.