Bruce Christian Bennett is currently a lecturer in music at San Francisco State University, teaching courses in 18th century counterpoint, 20th century music theory, and orchestration. In fall 2005 and spring 2006, he was a visiting scholar at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he lectured on contemporary composition techniques, electronic and computer music, and produced concerts of electroacoustic music.

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.

Undergraduate Piano Major, Bachelor of Music

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.

Ronald Caltabiano’s music has been hailed as having achieved “a remarkable synthesis of modernism and romanticism, of violence and lyricism, of integrity and accessibility.” He first came to international attention in the early 1980s with his String Quartet No. 1, premiered in Great Britain by the Arditti Quartet and in the United States by the Juilliard Quartet. A series of virtuoso solo pieces (double bass, cello, English Horn, trombone, and violin) solidified his position among the leading American composers of his generation, and a series of prominent orchestral commissions soon followed.

Born in Hong Kong, Florence Chi-Suen Cheng received her Master of Music in Choral Conducting at San Francisco State University, where she studied choral conducting with Dr. Joshua Habermann while taking voice lessons with Catherine Cook at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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.

Pianist William Corbett-Jones has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Singapore as recitalist, soloist with Orchestra, and in collaboration with internationally renowned colleagues. His concertizing in Europe has included recitals in most of the major capitals, including the Lausanne and Winterthur Orchestras in Switzerland, and under the direction of Kurt Masur with the Florentine Orchestra del Maggio Musicale.