Called "A soloist capable of anything on his instrument" by The Los Angeles Times, hornist Andrew Pelletier is a Grammy Award-winning soloist and chamber musician regularly performing across the United States. He was the first-prize winner of the 1997 and 2001 American Horn Competition; America’s only international competition for the horn, and has been in regular demand for artistic residencies and clinics at universities and conservatories. Mr. Pelletier appeared as a soloist and clinician at the International Horn Society Annual Symposia in 1997, 2003 and 2005. As a member of Southwest Chamber Music, he won a 2005 Grammy Award for Best Classical Recording (small ensemble category) for their recording of the chamber music of Mexican composer Carlos Chavez. His solo recital tours have taken him to 16 states, Quebec, Canada and Shropshire, England. Passionate about furthering the art of the horn through new music, Mr. Pelletier has commissioned and premiered numerous works for the horn from noted composers such as Meredith Brammeier, Carson Cooman, Randall Faust, Christina Laberge, Scott Vaillancourt and Howard Yermish. He spent more than seven years as an active freelance performer in Los Angeles and can be heard on film soundtracks like Lethal Weapon 4 and X-Men, as well as on various television movies for the Lifetime and Sci-Fi channels. He has recorded for Cambria Master Classics, Criterion, Delos and MSR Classics. A native of Lewiston, Maine, Mr. Pelletier holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Southern Maine and a Master’s Degree and Doctorate from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. His primary teachers are hornists John Boden and James Decker and trumpeter Roy Poper. Now residing in Ohio, he is the Assistant Professor of Horn at the Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts. He performs exclusively on horns by Gebr. Alexander, Mainz, and mouthpieces by Paxman.

Staff Accompanist and Coordinator of Accompanying at Western Illinois University, pianist Jason Aquila received his Master of Music Degree in Accompanying and Chamber Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with Anne Epperson and Anita Pontremoli. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. He also spent a summer in the Instrumental Accompanying program at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. He has served as a staff accompanist for the Quartet Program at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, and at the Missouri Fine Arts Academy. Mr. Aquila has participated in Master Classes given by Elly Ameling, Warren Jones, Zvi Zeitlin, Denis Brott, and William Preucil. He has also collaborated with flutist Donald Peck, trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins, cellist Bion Tsang, violinist Charles Castleman and mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart.

Harpsichordist Hyung-Ja Kim, Assistant Professor Emeritus of Music in Piano at Western Illinois University, received her Bachelor’s Degree in piano at Ewah Women's University, Seoul, Korea where she was selected as an outstanding musician in piano, receiving a Silver Medal for performance. She received her Master of Arts Degree from Western Illinois University and completed Post-graduate study at the University of Illinois. Previous teaching experience includes five years at the Lab School (Junior and Senior High) at Ewah Women's University, and private teaching of piano in Macomb, Illinois. Professor Kim studied piano with John Perry in Aspen, Colorado; piano and harpsichord with William Heiles and Kenneth Cooper; and accompanying with Eric Dalheim. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, MTNA and Mu Phi Epsilon.