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.
With a mission to bring harmony to a dissonant world, the group is re-releasing the original studio recording of their trailblazing choral work, The Book of Rounds: A Capella this October, on its 10th Anniversary. A precursor to the Book of Rounds: Choral Edition (2021) and the widely heralded Virtual Choir of Joy (2020), which was produced during COVID and won a Telly and Anthem Award, this recording conveys the work’s messages of hope, comfort, healing and belonging within the close-up, intimate ethos of a cappella singing. Sung by thousands of singers since its initial release, the music and the message resonate with more urgency today than ever before.
The Ghost of Childhood (2024) generated five singles (“Changing Light of Love,” “This Is For You,” “Lost,”“Angels in the Garden,” “Rage of Days”), with music videos for two featuring the work of renowned Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova. “This Is For You,” an animation of Simonova’s color paintings, was an Official Selection at the American Documentary and Animation Festival 2024 and 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 marked the 7th Anniversary of the October Project Annual Poetry Contest, the largest ever, with over one thousand submissions from around the world. 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.
In the world of choir, from the Gold Telly (2023) and American Prize awarded to their Worldwide Choir of Return to Me (2022), to performances at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall of Flanders’ Genesis Prize-winning work with Carlos Cordero, Holding Our Breath, plans to fund a new Flanders/Adler choral work are underway. With the song “Turn” a viral hit online this year on Daily Choirs, The Book of Rounds continues to move beyond classrooms and concert halls to spiritual and healing communities in music therapy, in hospice (The Threshold Choir), with dementia patients (Canada’s nationwide Voices in Motion organization) and in refugee camps around the world.
