Throughout his career, Tony Kadleck has been one of the most sought-after trumpet players in the New York area. While attending the New England Conservatory in Boston, he studied both classical and jazz music, and went on to perform and record with the Boston Pops Orchestra. In 1986, Tony was asked to join the trumpet section of the Buddy Rich Band, and later that year, decided to move to New York.

After graduating from the Manhattan School of Music in 1989, Toney toured with Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, and Blood, Sweat & Tears. He has since recorded with Luther Vandross, Michael Jackson, Elton John, and Celine Dion, and also performed live concerts with Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, Issac Hayes, and Steely Dan.

In addition to playing on numerous jingles and films scores, Tony is a proficient composer and arranger. His recent CD, "Around the Horn" features ten of his arrangements for big band, about which Tony says: "There is nothing more gratifying than hearing these spectacular musicians navigate through these challenging charts."

Tony is currently a member of several organizations including the New York Pops, John Pizzarelli's "Swing Seven", the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, John Fedchock's NY Big Band, and was a member of the Broadway orchestra for "Frozen".

Dr. Dominic Donato enjoys being a percussion soloist, chamber musician, composer, and teacher. He has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a soloist and member of the Talujon Percussion Group, DoublePlay Percussion Duo and the Newband/Harry Partch Ensemble. In 2007, Dr. Donato was selected by Meet the Composer as one of eight "Soloist Champions" in honor of his continuing commitment to new music and the solo percussion repertoire. Dr. Donato directs the percussion program and contemporary ensembles at the Conservatory of Music, Purchase College, SUNY.

Robert Fertitta received his education at the City University of New York, where he studied musicology with a specialization in music analysis. He was also a student of counterpoint, keyboard studies, solfège, and analysis with Nadia Boulanger. He retired from Purchase College in 2007 after 30 years on the faculty. He oversaw the musicianship curriculum and was director of the college choir. He remains active as a performer, lecturer, workshop presenter, adjudicator of competitions, and music reviewer, and is currently the music director at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Woodbury, Connecticut.

Fertitta has appeared as organ soloist with the Westchester Philharmonic in Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony, Poulenc's Organ Concerto, and Copland's Organ Symphony. During the 1988 inaugural season of PepsiCo's Summerfare at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, he performed on the world's largest movable organ, the 59-rank Flentrop pipe organ, in solo recitals as well as with the Frankfurt Opera Company in the John Cage production, Europeras, and with the Philharmonia Virtuosi in the silent film presentation of Ben-Hur. He has accompanied the Canticum Novum Singers, the Dessoff Choirs, and the Collegium Antiquum. As pianist, he has given solo recitals, chamber music programs, and master classes. Fertitta has also done some conducting—in the Messiah Sing-Ins at Avery Fisher Hall and at various commemorative Bach and Mozart festivals with students, faculty, and alumni.

Robert Fertitta is also a photographer of stained glass windows. His work is featured on hundreds of church websites and in many books, articles, and magazines.

A graduate of the Mannes College of Music, Frederic Hand was a Fulbright Scholar to England and a student of Julian Bream. His solo performances, both in North and South America and Europe, have received the highest critical acclaim. The New York Times wrote, "He played unerringly, with all the verve and spirit that one could ask."

Appointed the Metropolitan Opera's guitarist and lutenist in 1984, he has accompanied Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, and many other renowned singers.

His scores for television earned him an Emmy Award and his composition Prayer received a Grammy Award nomination. His arrangement and performance of the theme for the film Kramer vs. Kramer led to his own best-selling recording for Sony, Baroque and On the Street. He has also recorded for BMG and the Musical Heritage Society. His compositions have been published worldwide.

He has been an affiliate artist with the State Arts councils of New York, Colorado, Arizona, and Washington. Guest appearances include the New York Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Mostly Mozart Festival, Marlboro Music Festival, and the Caramoor Festival with the Orchestra of St. Lukes. For his recording and performances with flutist Paula Robison, he won the Classical Recording Foundation's Samuel Sanders Award.

Formerly head of classical guitar at Purchase College and Bennington College, he serves on the faculty of Mannes College–The New School for Music in New York City.

Marianna Khazanova-Salzman, a frequent competition winner in Moscow, has performed in many solo recitals and recordings. She has accompanied internationally known instrumental and vocal artists and the dancers of the Bolshoi Theatre and the Leningrad Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre, touring throughout the world.

Her professional appearances have included a concert at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., WQXR. She has performed frequently with violinist Helen Armstrong and joined her for the Musical Heritage recording of the Walton Rawsthrone compositions and recital at Alice Tully Hall. She also has performed in many solo recitals and concerts with Roberta Peters, Martha Eggerth-Kiepura, and many other singers. 

Julia Lichten enjoys a varied career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher in the New York City area and beyond. She was a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra from 1995 to 2014, and has toured as soloist with Orpheus, Musicians from Marlboro, and American Chamber Players, and as artistic ambassador for the U.S. State Department.

Her festival engagements have included the Marlboro Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Taos Chamber Music Festival, Library of Congress, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Chesapeake Chamber Music, and Rencontres Musicales d'Évian. She has recorded for Marlboro Recording Society, Arabesque, Koch International Classics, Music Masters, Sony Classical, and Deutsche Grammophon.

Lichten is an annual guest artist with the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, and has served as artist/faculty at Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival, Mannes College Beethoven Institute and Perlman Music Program.

A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Lichten graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe (Phi Beta Kappa) and from the New England Conservatory (with honors and distinction). Her principal teachers and mentors included Mischa Nieland, Paul Tobias, Felix Galimir, David Soyer, and Leon Kirchner.

Steven Lubin, American pianist and fortepianist, has appeared as concerto soloist and recitalist in many of the great halls of the world and has made acclaimed recordings for Decca, Harmonia Mundi USA, Arabesque, and Classical Soundings.

Lubin was named Doris and Carl Kempner Distinguished Professor for 1998–2000, a Purchase College honor that accompanies a competitive two-year senior faculty research award. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard, for lifelong services to the liberal arts and sciences.

He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy at Harvard and his master's in piano at the Juilliard School. He earned a PhD in musicology at New York University, with an analytic dissertation on Beethoven. Lubin served as head of the Graduate Theory Department as a professor at Cornell University and has also taught at Vassar College and the Juilliard School.

Humbert Lucarelli, hailed as "America's leading oboe recitalist" by the New York Times, has performed extensively as soloist with internationally known orchestras and chamber music groups throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He has performed and recorded with some of the world's leading conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Fiedler, Kiril Kondrshin, Josef Krips, James Levine, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Artur Rodzinsky, Sir Georg Solti, Leopold Stokowski, and Igor Stravinsky.

Lucarelli  records for Koch International, Vox, BMG Classics, Well-Tempered, Stradivari, and Special Music. Among the many recordings to his credit is the Oboe Concerto written for him by John Corigliano. He is the recipient of a Solo Recitalist Fellowship, Consortium Commissioning and Music Recording Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Donald MacCourt, the bassoonist of the New York Woodwind Quintet (1973–2005) and a member of Speculum Musicae, played principal bassoon in the New York City Ballet Orchestra for more than four decades. Throughout his career, MacCourt has been heavily involved in the performance and recording of chamber music, especially contemporary chamber music. He can be heard on recordings with the Quintet, Speculum Musicae, the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and the Group for Contemporary Music.

Donald MacCourt served on the faculties of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College and the Juilliard School until his retirement. He was also on the faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center from 1985 to 1997.

Sandra Miller (flute) had an early fascination with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach that ultimately led her to the baroque flauto traverso, upon which she is widely regarded to be one of the finest performers of her generation. Trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Curtis Institute of Music in the conservatory curriculum traditional for woodwind players, she chose—instead of the path leading to membership in a symphony orchestra—to settle in New York City, where she leads an active musical life, appearing in a variety of chamber music performances, solo recitals, and orchestral concerts.

Miller was winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Erwin Bodky Competition for Early Music, and of a Solo Recitalist's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is frequently invited to perform and record with many well-known period instrument ensembles, including the American Bach Soloists, American Classical Orchestra, Clarion Society orchestra, Sinfonia New York, New York Collegium, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society, and Tafelmusik. As a founding member and Associate Director of the ensemble Concert Royal, she has toured throughout the United States and in Canada, England, Germany, Brazil, and Mexico.

For many years a professor (now emerita) of music at the Purchase College Conservatory of Music, Miller has also taught at the Mannes College of Music, in CUNY's doctoral program, at the New England Conservatory of Music, and as Kulas Visiting Artist at Case Western Reserve University. She is currently on the faculty of the historical performance program at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. Her solo recordings include the complete Bach flute sonatas and, on six- and eight-keyed classical flutes, the three Mozart concertos.

Described by Wynton Marsalis as "the high priest of Bach" and by Time Magazine as "the high priest of the harpsichord," Anthony Newman continues his 50-year career as America's leading organist, harpsichordist, and Bach specialist.

His prodigious recording output includes more than 170 CDs on such labels as CBS, SONY, Deutsche Grammaphon, and Vox Masterworks. In 1989, Stereo Review voted his original instrument recording of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto as "Record of the Year." His collaboration with Wynton Marsalis on Sony's In Gabriel's Garden was the best-selling classical CD in 1997.

As keyboardist, he has performed more than 60 times at Lincoln Center in New York City and has collaborated with many of the greats of music, including Kathleen Battle, Itzhak Perlman, Eugenia Zukerman, John Nelson, Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Levine, Lorin Mazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Seji Osawa, and Leonard Bernstein.

As conductor, he has worked with the greats of chamber music orchestras: St. Paul Chamber, L.A. Chamber, Budapest Chamber, Scottish Chamber, and the 92nd St. Y Chamber Orchestras. Larger symphonic groups include Seattle (more than 40 appearances), Los Angeles, San Diego, Calgary, Denver, and New York Philharmonic Orchestras.

No less prodigious a composer, his works have been heard in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw, New York, and London. His output includes four symphonies, four concerti, three large choral works, two operas (Nicole, and Massacre, in collaboration with Charles Flowers), three CDs of piano music, and a large assortment of chamber, organ, and guitar works. Complete works are published by Ellis Press. Newman has received 30 consecutive composer's awards from ASCAP.

Newman is music director of "Bach Works," New York's all Bach association, and Bedford Chamber Concerts; is on the visiting committee for the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and on the board of the Musical Quarterly Magazine. Newman is also music director of St. Matthews Episcopal Church in Bedford, N.Y.

Newman is a Yamaha artist and a proud alumnus of Young Concert Artists.

Paul Ostrovsky, the founding member of the Moscow Conservatory Trio, was born in Moscow and earned his master's degree at the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with the pre-eminent Yakov Flier and Emil Gilels.

Highly regarded as a chamber music performer and soloist, Ostrovsky was hailed by the The New York Times as "a bedrock of cultivation and control." He has appeared on the world's most prestigious concert stages, including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), La Scala (Milan), Bunka Kaikan and Santori Hall (Tokyo), and the Sydney Opera House. He also performed at many great international festivals: Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Schleswig-Holstein (Hamburg), Salzburg Festival, Louvre Festival (Paris), St. Moritz Festival, to name a few.

He has collaborated with several famous artists, namely Isaac Stern, Shlomo Mintz, James Galway, and Vladimir Feltsman. After a performance with Isaac Stern, the Los Angeles Times called him a "fiery keyboard partner" and went on to comment "His keyboard skill is of virtuosic ease and scope, he has an instant command and extensive range of tone color, and each phrase is shaped with irresistible rhythmic vitality." In chamber music, he performed with members of the Tokyo String Quartet, Shanghai String Quartet, Australian Quartet, and St. Petersburg Quartet. He soloed with the Chicago Sinfonietta, Richmond Symphony, and New Jersey Symphony.

Ostrovsky has a long and distinguished teaching career. In addition to his present position at SUNY Purchase, he has been teaching at the Piano Summer Festival at SUNY New Paltz for many years and gives master classes throughout the world. Some of the institutions he taught at are Moscow Conservatory (pre-college division), Catholic University of America (D.C.), and Aspen Music Festival.

The pianist has recorded for Melodiya, and Vox. In addition, his recording for Deutsche Grammophon of the Mendelssohn Sonatas for Violin and Piano (with Shlomo Mintz) won the Grammophon award for chamber music in 1988. His Moscow Conservatory Trio recordings for CMH were highly acclaimed as well.

Tara Helen O'Connor is a charismatic performer noted for her artistic depth, brilliant technique and colorful tone spanning every musical era. Recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a two-time Grammy nominee, she was the first wind player to participate in the CMS Two program and is now a Season Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. A Wm. S. Haynes flute artist, Tara is a regular participant in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass, Spoleto Festival USA, Chamber Music Northwest, Mainly Mozart Festival, Music from Angel Fire, the Banff Centre, the Great Mountains Music Festival, Chesapeake Music Festival and the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.

A much sought-after chamber musician and soloist, she has premiered hundreds of new works and has collaborated with the Orion String Quartet, St. Lawrence Quartet, Emerson String Quartet, Jaime Laredo, Dawn Upshaw, Eliot Fisk, Jeremy Denk, Ida Kavafian, Peter Serkin and David Shifrin. Tara is a member of the woodwind quintet Windscape, the legendary Bach Aria Group and is a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning New Millennium Ensemble. A passionate advocate of new music, she is a member of the Talea and Cygnus Ensembles. Tara has appeared on A&E's Breakfast with the Arts and PBS' Live from Lincoln Center. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI Classics, Koch International, CMS Studio Recordings with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Bridge Records. She has just released a solo CD of American flute works entitled The Way Things Go on Bridge Records with pianist Margaret Kampmeier.

Tara holds a DMA from Stony Brook University where she studied with the late Samuel Baron. Her other teachers include Julius Levine, Thomas Nyfenger, Robert Dick and Keith Underwood. Her yearly summer flute master class at the Banff Centre in Canada was legendary.   Additionally, Tara is on the faculty of Bard College Conservatory of Music, the Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music and is a visiting artist, teacher and coach at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.  She lives with her husband, violinist Daniel Phillips on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.  

Peter Reit began his studies at the University of Vermont and finished at the Manhattan School of Music. His teachers were William Karstens, Joel Winter, and Paul Ingraham, and in turn he was greatly influenced by the New York Brass Quintet members, who were then in residence at the MSM.

Since his graduation in 1983, Reit has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York City Opera, and the American Ballet Theater. He has toured the U.S. extensively with the American Symphony and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestras, with whom he played five seasons as assistant principal horn under Maestro James Levine. Reit is now one of Manhattan's most in-demand freelance principal horn players. He also plays principal horn with the Westchester Philharmonic, Greenwich Symphony, and Scandia Symphony Orchestras; associate principal horn with the Stamford Symphony; and is in his 22nd year with the Broadway hit Phantom of the Opera.

He is featured on numerous CD recordings across all musical genres and also in radio jingles and television and movie soundtracks. His jazz experience includes performing as a member of the Mel Lewis Big Band at the Village Vanguard, together with recordings and worldwide tours with the Bob Belden Ensemble.

Peter Reit lives in Westchester with his wife Alyssa,  a harpist, composer, and director of the Singing Harp theater company.

Carmit Zori 

Violinist Carmit Zori is the recipient of a Leventritt Foundation Award, a Pro Musicis International Award, and the top prize in the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. She has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others, and has given solo recitals at Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Tel Aviv Museum and the Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts. Her performances have taken her throughout Latin America and Europe, as well as Israel, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, where she premiered the Violin Concerto by Marc Neikrug.

Ms. Zori enjoys a prolific career as a chamber musician. After ten years as artistic director at Bargemusic, she founded the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society in 2002. In addition to her own series, she has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has been a guest at chamber music festivals and concert series around the world, including the Chamber Music at the Y series in New York City; Festival Casals in Puerto Rico; Chesapeake Bay Music Festival; Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival; Bard Music Festival; Chamber Music Northwest; Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; La Jolla Chamber Music Festival; Seattle Chamber Music Festival; Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival; Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society in Wisconsin; Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival; Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival in the UK; Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Sarasota Music Festival; and is a regular participant at the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival in Vermont.

Ms. Zori has played for Music for Food, a concert series that helps relieve food insecurity in cities all over the United States. She has also participated in Project: Music Heals Us, a nonprofit organization that aims to educate and heal marginalized communities through music. Carmit is also a member of the Israeli Chamber Project, an ensemble that performs chamber music and conducts educational outreach in the US, Israel, and various other countries throughout the world. Carmit also serves on the faculty of Rutgers University Mason Gross school of music and Bard conservatory of music at Bard college NY.

At the behest of violinists Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern, Ms. Zori came to the United States from her native Israel at the age of fifteen to study at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo and Arnold Steinhardt.