Kat Walsh is a bassoonist, violist, violinist, and composer based in Mountain View, CA. She has performed with groups including the Pan American Symphony Orchestra, Orlando Opera, Central Florida Lyric Opera, and Southern Winds, and currently plays with a variety of casual ensembles around the Bay Area. Walsh has a BA in music from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida and a JD from George Mason University in Arlington, VA, and when not behind a music stand is instead practicing law, in technology, IP, and internet policy.

Igor Stravinsky (June 17 [O.S. June 5] 1882 - April 6, 1971) was a Russian, and later French and American composer, pianist, and conductor. He is acknowledged by many as one of [and by some as] the most important and influential composer[s] of the 20th Century.

The multi-instrumentalist Michael Cooke is a composer of jazz and classical music. This two-time Emmy, ASCAPLUS Award and Louis Armstrong Jazz Award winner plays a variety of instruments: you can hear him on soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones, flute, soprano and bass clarinets, bassoon and percussion. A cum laude graduate with a music degree from the University of North Texas, he had many different areas of study; jazz, ethnomusicology, music history, theory and of course composition. In 1991 Michael began his professional orchestral career performing in many north Texas area symphonies. Michael has played in Europe, Mexico, and all over the United States. Cimarron Music Press began published many of Michael's compositions in 1994. After relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, he has been exploring new paths in improvised and composed music, mixing a variety of styles and techniques that draw upon the creative energy of a multicultural experience, both in and out of America. In 1999, Michael started a jazz label called Black Hat Records (blackhatrecords.com) and is currently on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. The San Francisco Beacon describes Michael's music as "flowing out color and tone with a feeling I haven't heard in quite a while. Michael plays with such dimension and flavor that it sets (his) sound apart from the rest." Uncompromising, fiery, complex, passionate, and cathartic is how the All Music Guide labeled Michael's playing on Searching by Cooke Quartet, Statements by Michael Cooke and The Is by CKW Trio. His latest release, An Indefinite Suspension of The Possible, is an unusual mixture of woodwinds, trombone, cello, koto and percussion, creating a distinct synergy in improvised music that has previously been untapped.

Michael Cox has been making music with his horn for 30+ years. At the Rice University Shepherd School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, his teachers included Mark Hughes, Michael Sachs, and David Bilger. A huge fan of musical theater, he previously played Fiddler on the Roof, Sister Act and West Side Story at the Berkeley Playhouse. Some of the many fine local groups he enjoys jamming with: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Lafayette Big Band, and Bay Area Classical Harmonies Orchestra. Besides music, Michael spent 17 years at Electronic Arts where he was a producer of SimCity and Sims games.

Crystal Pascucci is a cellist, composer and improviser. As a performer, she is most active in the contemporary and experimental music communities. Her compositions are generally scored for instrumental chamber ensembles and use standard and experimental notation. Emotionally charged, her music moves through traditional harmonies while employing sound and noise elements. A graduate of Mills College, she is an active performer of free improvisation. In these contexts, she often approaches her instrument in a non-traditional way using extended techniques for sound development. She performs regularly with Roscoe Mitchell, Pamela Z, Ellen Fullman, Gino Robair, Lisa Mezzacappa, David Behrman and the Paul Dresher Ensemble. She writes music for and plays in the band, Two Aerials, and is a member of the Dirty Snacks Ensemble.

Dr. Mark Alburger (1957-2023, Upper Darby, PA) was an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer with postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He was the Music Director of SF Composers Chamber Orchestra, SF Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and The Opus Project; Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music and New Music; Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College; and a Musicologist for Grove Online and Grove Dictionary of American Music. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti (Swarthmore College, B.A.); Jules Langert (Dominican University, M.A.); Christopher Yavelow (Claremont University, Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger had composed 399 major works, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue was available from New Music. (markalburgerworks.blogspot.com)

Charlie Sharzer has been composing for 20 years, and moved to the Bay Area from New York late last year. He studied at Yale University, and graduated with degrees in music composition and astrophysics. His music has been featured by organizations including the Atticus Brass Quintet, the Jack Quartet, and the Yale Symphony Orchestra. In addition to composing, Charlie has performed as a violist with the Yale Symphony, Chelsea Symphony in New York, and various other ensembles on each coast. He was the music director of Yale’s Davenport Pops Orchestra for the 2011-2012 season. Apart from music, Charlie conducted research detecting extrasolar planets and moons, was a member of the 2012 Teach for America corps in Newark, NJ, and now works for Palantir Technologies in Palo Alto.