Flutist Ransom Wilson was educated at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Juilliard School. His flute teachers include Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alain Marion, Sandra Taylor, Lawrence Morgan, Philip Dunigan, Julius Baker, Arthur Lora, Christian Larde and Sereverindo Gazzelloni. Wilson is second as conductor of Solisti New York Orchestra. He has recorded 30 albums and was three times nominated for the "Grammy" award. He is an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is professor of flute at Yale University, as well as music director of the orchestra at the Idyllwild Arts Academy and artistic director of Oklahoma's OK MOZART International Festival.

Roxie Persi received a bachelor’s degree in music and has played and taught violin professionally for 20 years. She earned a second bachelor’s degree from CSUF in psychology followed by a masters and doctorate in clinical psychology from California School of Professional Psychology. Her research project was a study of performance anxiety in professional musicians. Roxie was licensed as a clinical psychologist in California in 1998 and obtained a post-graduate certificate to provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She has a private practice in Brea where she specializes in working with adolescents and performance anxiety.

Cynthia Ellis is a member of the Music Department faculty at Cal State Fullerton where she received both her bachelor’s and masters of music degrees with honors. She is solo piccolo with the Pacific Symphony, principal flutist for the Opera Pacific Orchestra, and has also performed with the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Pasadena Chamber Orchestra and the Cabrillo Music Festival. She has recorded on several motion picture, television and cartoon soundtracks, and is editor of “Let’s Talk Picc” a column for Flute Talk Magazine.

Her many honors include being named as one of “Ten Women Making a Difference in Orange County” for her work in the field of music education in 2003.