About The Band
American Prize (2023), Anthem Award and Four-time Telly Award winners (Gold, Silver & Bronze, 2021 – 2024), composer Emil Adler, writer Julie Flanders and vocalist Marina Belica of October Project are award-winning, genre-defying recording artists and producers who collaborate in the creation of musical recordings and events.
Powered by Flanders’ words, Adler’s music, and the group’s trademark harmonies, their earlier work with SONY/Epic and subsequent recordings on their October Project Music label have been enjoyed by millions. Bridging the worlds of pop, classical, a cappella and choral, they continue to innovate the landscape of Independent Music.
Their 2024 full-length album, The Ghost of Childhood, up for the 2025 A2IM Libera Award for Self-Released Record of the Year, features lead vocalist Belica in close harmony with Flanders on an album of eleven songs. Co-producers Adler on keys and Julian Coryell (Alanis Morrissette) on guitars are joined by Mark Schulman (Pink) on drums, with brass, strings, choir and Flanders’ spoken word woven throughout.
The release of the album was preceded by five singles (“Changing Light of Love,” “This Is For You,” “Lost,” “Angels in the Garden,” “Rage of Days”).
Music videos for two of the album’s singles were created in collaboration with renowned Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova. “This Is For You,” an animation of Simonova’s color paintings, was an Official Selection at the 2024 American Documentary and Animation Festival and was up for a 2025 Music Video GRAMMY, marking the band’s 9th GRAMMY ballot appearance. “Angels in the Garden,” featuring Simonova’s sand art, won a Silver Telly. October Project also maintains an ongoing fundraiser, Angels For Ukraine, to support the International Rescue Committee’s aid efforts for women and children affected by the war.
2025 will mark the 7th Anniversary of the October Project Annual Poetry Contest. Poet/Lyricist Flanders is a three-time Amazon Best Seller for her poetry books Watermarked (2024), Shadow Breathing (2018), and Joyride (2015). Following the success of her animated poem Doubts (2018), an Official Selection at nearly 30 film festivals, an experimental short of her poem The Big Sadness (2023) was awarded a 2024 Bronze Telly.
October Project continues the trailblazing work it began in choral music with The Book of Rounds (2016, 2021), a new brand of ‘conscious rounds’ featuring positive messages. Their widely heralded Virtual Choir of Joy, produced during COVID, won a Telly and Anthem Award (2021). Their subsequent Worldwide Choir of Return To Me, featuring performers from 18 countries, was awarded both a Gold Telly and American Prize (2023).
Following upon a Genesis Prize and performances at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall (2023) for their first work together, Holding Our Breath, Flanders recently completed a new choral commission with Venezuelan composer Carlos Cordero, “Breaking Silence,” for the Yale Glee Club. Plans for a new Flanders/Adler choral work are underway.
