Bob Stewart was born in Sioux Falls, S.Dak., and over the last 40 years has established himself as both an innovative tuba player and equally creative jazz educator.
Violinist Naoko Tanaka, born in Tokyo, Japan, has given concert tours as a soloist and chamber musician in the U.S., South America, Europe, Asia, and Canada. She made her N.Y. solo debut in 1976.
Ira Taxin was born in New York City in 1950. His early theory and composition studies were with Ludmila Ulehla, and jazz improvisation lessons were with John Mehegan.
Andrew William Thomas, born in upstate New York, studied with Karel Husa at Cornell University, with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in composition from Juill
Henning Rübsam is artistic director of Sensedance, a resident choreographer for Hartford City Ballet, has been a Juilliard faculty member since 2006, and is a visiting guest artist at Texas Academy