October Project

October Project
(From left) Flanders, Belica, Adler
Background information
Origin	New York City, New York, United States
Genres	Pop rock, adult alternative
Years active	1991–1996 2001–2006 2010–present
Labels	Epic
Associated acts	November Project decembergirl
Members	Julie Flanders Marina Belica Emil Adler
Past members	David Sabatino Mary Fahl

October Project is an American pop rock band based in New York City. The group reached critical and commercial success with their 1990s Epic Records releases October Project and Falling Farther In, and are currently in the process of recording a third full-length album. The group's piano-driven music is characterized by close vocal harmonies.

The band currently consists of lead vocalist Marina Belica, vocalist Julie Flanders, and keyboardist/vocalist Emil Adler. Flanders and Adler are the primary songwriters. Previous members include vocalist Mary Fahl and guitarist/vocalist David Sabatino. Sabatino occasionally still performs live with the band.

Flanders and Adler began writing songs together while still in their teens growing up in Montclair, NJ.

Flanders and Belica met as dormitory roommates at Yale University in New Haven, CT. In their senior year they collaborated with Adler to write the musical revue Measure By Measure. In 1981 they were accepted as a team into the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, studying first with Lehman Engel and then Maury Yeston. Other students in that class included Michael John LaChiusa and Gerard Alessandrini.

Adler and Sabatino met at a jam session in New York City. At the time Adler was finishing his Master’s thesis in music composition at Rutgers University. Together with their friend, Paul Byrne, they started a music production company, Tritone Productions. In 1985 they built a recording studio in a New Jersey garage, which Adler would eventually use to produce the first demo recordings of singer/songwriter Lee Feldman and Sufjan Stevens' college band, Marzuki. October Project would use the studio as its home base during its developmental phase.