Wendell Rider was Principal Horn with the San Jose Symphony from 1970 until its demise in 2002. He has also been Principal Horn with the Midsummer Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Bear Valley Music Festival, the Monterey County Symphony and the Monterey Bay Symphony.

Pianist Inara Morgenstern teaches basic piano to music majors as well as keyboard theory to non-majors. She also teaches piano to adults in her San Francisco private studio. In addition, Ms. Morgenstern is a distinguished Bay Area performer of solo piano, duo piano and piano vocal repertoire.

Ms. Lukas is currently Second Flute with the San Francisco Symphony and has performed extensively throughout the world as a soloist and ensemble musician. Before coming to San Francisco, Ms. Lukas was a member of the faculty at San Diego State University.

Christopher Jones is a composer of intricately designed music that explores issues of identity, narrative and form in distinctive, unconventional ways. His music has been performed in North America and Europe at venues such as the Darmstadt Ferienkurse in Germany, the Ictus International Composition Seminar in Brussels, Merkin Hall in New York and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Zakarias Grafilo is the First Violinist of the world-renowned Alexander String Quartet. Prior to joining the ASQ, he served as Principal Second Violinist of the Pacific Symphony, and Concertmaster of the Stockton Symphony.

Distinguished as a teacher and performer, Lawrence Ferrara is the first guitarist to receive a master's degree from the Conservatory. A committed educator, Mr. Ferrara is also on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and City College of San Francisco.

Double-bassist Shinji Eshima is Associate Principal Bass of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and a member of the San Francisco Opera and Skywalker Ranch Orchestras.

Trombonist Tony Collins is in demand as one of the top freelance artists in the San Francisco Bay area. He frequently performs with many of the professional symphony orchestras in the area including The San Francisco Opera, Symphony Silicon Valley, Opera San Jose, Ballet San Jose of Silicon Valley, The Fresno Philharmonic, The Monterey County Symphony, The Napa County Symphony, The Modesto Symphony, The California Symphony and the Santa Cruz County Symphony.

John Calloway is a multi-instrumentalist performer, composer, arranger, and educator specializing in Afro-Cuban, Afro-Latin and Latin Jazz music. For over twenty-five years, in the San Francisco Bay Area and the West Coast, throughout the US, the Caribbean and Latin America, he has worked with such renowned artists as Israel "Cachao" Lopez, Max Roach, Omar Sosa, John Santos and Manny Oquendo y Libre.

Allen Biggs is the principal percussionist with the Santa Rosa Symphony, and also performs with the California, Marin and Napa Symphony Orchestras. Allen has been featured on-stage with the San Francisco Opera, and has recently worked on the Broadway shows: The Color Purple, Legally Blonde, Mathew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands and Swan Lake.