Alan Sorvall is a performer, teacher, composer and studio muscian. He has studied guitar with Phillip DeFremery, Oscar Ghiglia, and the flamenco master Mario Escudero. He studiedlute iwth Douglas Freunlich, and Indonesian music and dance with Nugrah Sudiredja at the Center for World Music in Berkeley, California. Diverse interests have involved Mr. Sorval in Renaissance ensembles, traditional folk music, blues and rock gruops and Javanese gamelan. Also extremely interested in recording and music technology, he now runs Soundward Studios in Wesport, Connecticut, which he designed and built in 1998.

Mr. Sorvall has served on the faculties of Goddard College, Upsala College and the American Institute of Guitar in New York City. In 1987 he played a successful New York solo debut at Carnegie Recital Hall and has concretized extensively in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

From his 2003 Gina Bachauer Int'l Amateur Piano Competition bio:

Born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Thomas Maurice resides in Baltimore and works as a network administrator for the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care. Previously, Mr. Maurice worked as a vocal coach/ accompanist/ conductor for numerous opera companies and maintained a private studio in New York, as well as created The Opera Company. He received his B.S. degree in piano performance from Towson University, Maryland, and a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the University of Maryland, College Park, as well as a licentiate diploma from the Royal Schools of Music in England and an associate diploma from the Royal Schools of Music in Toronto. He has competed in numerous piano competitions, receiving fifth prize at the New Orleans International Piano Competition, the Mozart Prize at the San Antonio International Piano Competition, and named a semi-finalist in the prestigious Busoni and William Kappell International Piano Competitions.

From their website:

The Balance of Excellence, Dance and Health
The dance program at Ballet Society of Colorado Springs offers a balanced, intensive and challenging dance education in a supportive and stimulating environment. We strongly believe in educating the whole person. We emphasize training healthy dancers who have both the self esteem to enter a challenging field and the physical understanding that leads to professional longevity. Our students receive the necessary tools to enable them to actively participate in their own training while encouraging them to develop as young artists and individuals.

As a result of exceptional training, students of BSCS have annually been awarded scholarships with several major company schools; and former students are currently performing with professional companies, including the San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet and American Ballet Theatre.

Judeth Shay Burns, "Baby Doe", earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Mannes College of Music in New York City, and since that time has worked in both opera and music theater. Most recently Judeth appeared as Christine in the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Repertory Theatre's production of Phantom. This past year she also joined the three person cast of Side by Side by Sondheim for Aspen Theatre in the Park, and sang Valencienne in Opera Theatre of the Rockies' debut production of The Merry Widow. Judeth has also studied at the Circle Music Festival, where she was a scholarship recipient and a member of their Opera Theater Center, and now feels privileged to be a member of Martile Rowland's voice studio. Other favorite roles include Lauretta in Gianni Schicci with the Colorado Lyric Theatre Festival, Cinderella in Into the Woods with Four Rivers Music Theatre, and Tuptim in The King and I with Theatre West. Upcoming engagements include Mozart's Mass in C Minor with the Aspen Choral Society and a series of concerts with Debra Ayres and the Center for Excellence in the Arts at Colorado Mountain College.

Paul Nagem has been principal flute for the Colorado Springs Symphony and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic since 1994. A native of San Diego, he studied flute there with Damian Bursill-Hall, then principal flute of the San Diego Symphony and now with the Pittsburgh Symphony. He received his Bachelors Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Lois Schaefer of the Boston Symphony. Mr. Nagem is the instructor of flute at Colorado College. He has performed with the San Diego Symphony, the Colorado Symphony and the Singapore Symphony. Mr. Nagem plays Straubinger flutes.

From a writeup at the Colorado State website: "Sara McDaniel, pianist, is known throughout the western region as a performer, teacher, clinician, and adjudicator. Her performance specialty is chamber music, and she works with both instrumentalists and vocalists. She collaborates regularly with musicians of the Colorado Springs' Philharmonic, the United States Air Force Band of the Rockies, and faculty of Colorado Springs' colleges. She has been a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and the Colorado Springs Community Orchestra.

She has given piano pedagogy workshops and master classes throughout Colorado and many other states. In 2002, she was a major presenter at the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy. Teaching comprises a major part of her career, both in an independent studio and on the facility at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak Community College. In 2001, she was Colorado's first nominee for Music Teachers National Association's Teacher of the Year."

The Colorado Springs Conservatory is a preparatory school for the performing arts for students ages three through nineteen. The school was formally established in 1994 by founder/director Linda Leise and offers curriculum similar to that which she had personally experienced at such institutions as the Julliard School, Oberlin Conservatory, Chautauqua Institution, and the Aspen Music Festival. Students engage in instrumental, vocal, theatrical, dance, and humanities classes and workshops. The music programs offered at CSC include classical, jazz, composition, and pop studies. Movement and dance studies cover the gamut from Bartenhieff/Laban to modern, while theatre students are exposed to everything from Chekov to Mamet. Graduating high school students completing studies at CSC have gained entrance to some of the most esteemed higher learning institutions such as Manhattan School of Music, Eastman School of Music, Oberlin, New England Conservatory, Berklee School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Cincinnati Conservatory to name but a few. CSC has become the primary teaching establishment for some of the city's preeminent performing artists and educators. The summer session plays host to nationally renowned visiting instructors as well.

The Colorado Springs Conservatory believes that by engaging young performing artists in a comprehensive arts agenda, a person may better understand and fulfill his or her own goals and abilities. Apart from one on one studies and classes, each and every studentparticipates in a wealth of performance opportunities to include outreach recitals and performance projects. This aspect of the curriculum serves to develop a sense of the power of the arts and the integral part that they play in society and their own community.

Some past productions and performances that the Conservatory has produced include Kurt Weill's "Down in the Valley", the original Broadway musical "Gypsy", and adaptation of E. Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel", Hans Krasa's "Brundibar", "noyes Fludde" by Benjamin Britten, and an adaptation of Mozart's "Magic Flute" and "Bastien un Bastienna". Community organizations such as the Young Concert Artists, the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony, the Colorado Springs Children's Chorale, Colorado College, The Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration, the Pikes Peak Jazz and Swing Society, Colorado Music Educators Association, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and now the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs have collaborated with the students of CSC to make some of these projects possible. The above mentioned projects are not only presented to the public, but have toured to schools city and statewide and have served as initial and accessible exposure to the arts for literally tens of thousands of school age children.

The mission and goal of the Conservatory is to challenge all students to aspire to their highest potential not only as artists but as human beings. CSC seeks to promote a respect for music, drama, and dance as a discipline of the mind and the spirit, a joyful affirmation of life, and a passionate commitment to an idea.

For more information about the Conservatory visit the CSC website at www.FatLady.org or call (719) 577-4556. The Colorado Springs Conservatory is located at 1430 N. Hancock Ave.

Carol Wilson is currently organist at First Christian Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in organ and piano performance at Colorado State University in 1973. Her Master of Music degree, also in organ and piano perforamnce, was earned at the University of Kansas in 1989. She has served as church organist and given concerts in Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Missouri and Kansas. While in Kansas, she taught organ and piano and was university organist at Ottawa University. In addition to playing at First Christian Church, Carol teaches piano and organ, accompanies in the community, manages a concert series on the church's new pipe organ and is an active performer on organ and piano. She is a member of the American Guild of Organists, both Pikes Peak and Front Range Music Teachers Associations (q.v.).

From a 1993 Illinois State Univ webpage bio:

James Boitos holds the Bachelor of Music Degree from Colorado State University, and a Master's from Northwestern University, where he studied with the legendary Dr. Frederick Hemke. Mr. Boitos is Professor of Music at Illinois State University, where he teaches Saxophone. For more than two and a half decades, his jazz groups won individual and group awards at college jazz festivals throughout the country. Boitos was a featured soloist at the 5th World Saxophone Congress, London, the 6th World Saxophone Congress, Evanston, and the 7th World Saxophone Congress, Nuremburg. Mr. Boitos has also free-lanced with Pearl Bailey, Billy Eckstine, Joe Williams, Cab Calloway, Nancy Wilson, Louie Bellson, and many others.