Guest Conductor Brooks Whitehouse is a cello professor at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He received his B.A. from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from SUNY Stony Brook. Whitehouse has performed and taught chamber music throughout the U.S. and abroad, holding artists-in-residence positions at SUNY Stony Brook, the Guild Hall in East Hampton (NY), the University of Virginia as a member of the Guild Trio and The Tanglewood Music Center. As a member of the Guild Trio, the ensemble won the USIA Artistic Ambassador and Chamber Music of Yellow Springs competitions, and through winning performed and held master classes from United States to Australia. As a soloist, Whitehouse has appeared with the New England Chamber Orchestra, Nashua, New Brunswick, Billings and Owensboro symphonies, and has appeared in recital across the northeastern United States. His performances have been broadcast on WQXR's "McGraw-Hill Young Artist Showcase," WNYC's "Around New York," and the Australian and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation networks.

The California State University, Fullerton Cello Choir, under the baton of Bongshin Ko, has been in existence since spring 2001. Its purpose is to promote and introduce music student to the vast array of performance literature for cello ensemble and advance the performance practice of the cello choir. The group’s activities offer a combination of rehearsals, sectionals, workshops/master classes and concerts with guest artists and conductors.