Ebony magazine listed Mr. Williams as one of the “50 Leaders of Tomorrow.”

The Maine Sunday Telegram described Larry as “a phenomenally good horn player, with the brilliance for solo work and the ear to blend perfectly with a string quartet that has been playing together for years.”

Williams is currently an active soloist and is a member of The Lyric Brass Quintet, Rodney Mack Philadelphia Big Brass, Principal Horn of The Soulful Symphony, and member of The Sphinx Symphony Orchestra in Detroit.

Williams formerly served as Principal Horn of The New World Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, and has performed with the Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras. His wide range of musical styles includes solo, chamber, orchestral, contemporary, jazz, popular, gospel, film, and commercial music.

Williams has toured and performed with jazz and popular music greats Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Gloria Estefan, and Arturo Sandoval, and has performed on several international tours including the United Kingdom, Russia, and Japan.

In addition to his active career as a performer, Williams is equally passionate about music education. Currently, he serves on horn faculty of The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, and also is Director of the Adult & Continuing Education Program (ACE), and Chair of the Preparatory Brass & Winds Department. Mr. Williams also serves on the horn faculty of Morgan State University.

Larry Williams is an alumnus of The Peabody Conservatory of Music.

Brian Ganz was winner of one of two First Grand Prizes awarded in the 1989 Marguerite Long Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris, where he was also awarded special prizes for the best recital round of the competition and the best performance of the required work. That same year he won a Beethoven Fellowship awarded by the American Pianists Association, and in 1991 he was a silver medalist with third prize in the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competition. After his performance in the finals of the Brussels competition, the critic for La Libre Belgique wrote: “We don’t have the words to speak of this fabulous musician who lives music with a generous urgency and brings his public into a state of intense joy.”

Mr. Ganz has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the St. Louis Symphony, the St. Petersbug Philharmonic (of Russia), the Baltimore Symphony, the National Symphony, the National Philharmonic, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the City of London Sinfonia, L’Orchestre Lamoureux, and L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo. He has performed in such halls as the Beaux-Arts in Brussels, De Doelen in Rotterdam, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, L’Arena Theater in Verona, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

In 1992, Mr. Ganz made his recording debut for the Gailly label in Belgium, and his recordings of works of Chopin and Dutilleux have been released on the Accord label in Paris. In 2001, he began a project with Maestoso Records in which he will record the complete works of Frederic Chopin. Mr. Ganz was also recently engaged as artist/editor of various works of Chopin for the new Schirmer Performance Editions (published jointly by Hal Leonard and G. Schirmer). His first edition, the Chopin Preludes, was published in the summer of 2005, and the waltzes are scheduled for release in 2008.

Some of Mr. Ganz’s recent concert highlights include performances of Mozart concerti with the Memphis Symphony and the National Philharmonic and a performance with the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra at the Kennedy Center concert hall, under the baton of Yoel Levi. He has also performed with such conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Mstislav Rostropovich, Philippe Entremont, Pinchas Zukerman, Leon Fleisher and Jerzy Semkow.

Mr. Ganz is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Leon Fleisher. Earlier teachers include Ylda Novik and the late Claire Deene. Gifted as a teacher himself, Mr. Ganz is Artist-in-Residence at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he has been a member of the piano faculty since 1986, and in 2000 he joined the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory. In December 2001, he was honored to serve on the jury of the Long Thibaud competition in Paris.

Mr. Ganz says that he is “an active explorer of the many ways in which the study and performance of great music can remind us of the Spirit that unites all living things.” He has donated numerous performances in benefit concerts and was a founding member of the Washington Chapter of Artists to End Hunger.

Ms. Bickham has been seen on the operatic stage as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Musetta in La Bohéme, Arminda in La finta giardiniera, Constanza Piccolatura in Impresario, Frasquita in Carmen, Monica in The Medium, and Bessie in Mahagonny Songspiel. No stranger to the musical theatre stage, Ms. Bickham has also performed the roles of The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, Tess in Crazy for You, Nancy in Oliver, and Mrs. Macafee in Bye, Bye Birdie among others.

A native of Maryland, Ms. Bickham has been a frequent performer throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. Concert appearances include, Handel’s Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem, Vaughn Williams’ Serenade to Music, Bach’s Cantata 25 and Magnificat, and Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat. She has also been the winner of several competitions including: MD/DC National Association of Teacher’s of Singing, Henry Sanborn competition, Peggy Friedman-Gordon Competition, Houston’s Concerto Competition and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston’s annual competition.

Ms. Bickham earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Music degree from Towson University.

Mr. Cramer is a 6 time Helen Hayes award nominee. In 1994, he was honored with the Helen Hayes award for best actor in a musical for the role of Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance. Stephen has performed Oratorio and Opera as well as musical theatre. Roles include, Alfredo in La Traviata, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Paul Hill Chorale.

Steve is currently a member of The U.S. Army Chorus in Arlington VA. During his tenure there, he has performed for 5 Presidents as well as many other national leaders. He has been featured as a soloist on a national broadcast of NBC’s The Today Show, at The Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, and was chosen to represent the Army in a nationally televised commemoration of the 1 year anniversary of 9/11.

Currently, she serves as President of the Colleges and Universities division of the Maryland Music Educators Association and was the Maryland/DC Repertoire and Standards Chair for Ethnic and Multicultural Music for the American Choral Directors Association MD/DC Chapter for several years. A frequent clinician and conductor throughout the region, Dr. Boudreaux has performed with her choirs at conferences and for special presentations at the Kennedy Center, the Discovery Channel, and other major Baltimore-Washington venues. In 2005, she conducted a choir at the Festival 500, “Sharing the Voices” International Choral Festival in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Her publishing company, Voices of Training, carries a number of scores combining a variety of voice levels and styles. Voices of Training will soon release Lorraine Whittlesey’s new choral work, Einstein’s Dreams (it’s about time . . .) based on the Alan Lightman novel Einstein’s Dreams, which Dr. Boudreaux conducted in its 2006 premiere. She studied conducting with Helmuth Rilling and Donald Neuen. She holds degrees in music from the Universities of Arizona in Tucson, Oregon in Eugene, and Colorado in Boulder.

For the last 19 years, with the exception of her sabbatical years, the choir has been directed by Dr. Margaret Boudreaux. The choir has grown in size and has explored a great variety of repertoire. During her first sabbatical, Dr. Boudreaux had the chance to visit a number of international choral festivals and has brought back scores from Argentina, Ireland, Latvia, China, and Uganda, as well as a variety of other nations, which the choir has performed in the past several years. They like to incorporate at least one “sing-a-long” type song in their concerts, from the full singing of seasonal music in the winter to traditional pieces involving alumni such as The Lord Bless You and Keep You. They have also distinguished themselves in large works performances with orchestra, such as Beethoven’s Choral Fantasie, and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. They have premieres works by composers Garth Baxter and Rebecca Oswald, several of which were collaboratively performed with the Children’s Chorus of Carroll County and Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County. In recent years they have performed for the Mormon Temple Visitor’s Center Festival of Lights, and twice at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

In concert and on stage, Ms. Hultgren has been praised by the Baltimore Sun as a young dramatic soprano whose “interpretive ardor is contagious.” She has performed roles with St. Louis Opera, Nashville Opera, Chattanooga Opera, Annapolis Opera, Opera Vivente, Baltimore Opera, Britten-Pears, Peabody Conservatory, and Indiana University. Ms. Hultgren has also been a featured soloist and recitalist with the Indianapolis Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Peabody Symphony, Pueblo Symphony, Richmond Philharmonic Orchestra, Marquette Symphony, Johns Hopkins Symphony, Columbia Orchestra, Britten-Pears Orchestra, Wigmore Hall, Music in the Great Hall, and the Greenwich Music Festival. Career highlights have included a debut recital with pianist Graham Johnson at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in London, singing the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos under the direction of Maestro Oliver von Dohnani and Colin Graham with the Britten-Pears program, and signing the soprano solo in Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem conducted by Simone Young in Aldeburgh, England. Ms. Hultgren’s awards include semi-finalist in the New England Regional Metropolitan Opera National Council Competition, second place winner of the Annapolis Opera Competition, and the first place winner of the Sylvia Green Competition.

This season and future performances include: Mahler’s 4th Symphony and Kindertotenlieder with the Marquette Symphony, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Johns Hopkins Symphony and with the Columbia Orchestra, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Pueblo Symphony, the role of Edna in Opera Vivente’s production Tobias and the Angel, and Wagner’s “Wesendonck Lieder” and “Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde with Johns Hopkins Symphony.

Ms. Engler has been an Apprentice Artist with the Lake George Opera Festival and the Sarasota Opera Festival. She has toured and performed throughout Europe with the Ravel Trio and The Pennsylvania Academy of Music.

She has been featured with several orchestras throughout North America performing works such as Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Elgar’s Sea Pictures, Berlioz’s Les Nuit d’Été, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. She has also performed with longtime collaborator Daniel Lau in solo recitals at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

An advocate of contemporary works and an active chamber musician, audiences have enjoyed Ms. Engler in performances of Berio’s Circles and Folksongs, the United States premier of Ann Boyd’s My Name is Tian, Crumb’s Night of the Four Moons and Federico’s Little Songs for Children, and John Harbison’s Mirabai Songs.

Ms. Engler is a member of the Morpheus Trio along with pianist Daniel Lau and hornist Larry Williams. Ms. Engler is the Director of Vocal Studies at McDaniel College and a member of the voice faculty at Towson University.

Career highlights include performances with New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Atlanta Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Tulsa Opera, Opera Colorado, Lake George Opera, Syracuse Opera and the Annapolis Opera.

Also an accomplished orchestral soloist, Mr. Crawley has performed Handel's Messiah with the New Japan Philharmonic and the Tokyo Oratorio Society, as well as at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. He has sung Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and the Greater Bridgeport Symphony; Mendelssohn's Paulus with the New Japan Philharmonic; the Evangelist/Tenor in Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica; Haydn's Harmonie Messe with the Syracuse Symphony; Haydn's The Creation with Baltimore Choral Arts Society; Bach's B minor Mass with Handel Choir of Baltimore; the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Concert Artists of Baltimore; and the Mozart Requiem with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and also at Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Burner has performed numerous lead operatic roles, including Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Silvio in I Pagliacci, Marcello in La Boheme, Enrico in Lucia di Lamermoor, Mr. Ford in Falstaff, and the title role of Rigoletto. Recently, Mr. Burner has been quite in demand as the baritone soloist for Orff=s Carmina Burana, having been well-received in concert performances of this work at the University of Maryland, The Oratorio Society of Charlottesville/Albemarle, and The Laurel Oratorio Society (now the Central Maryland Chorale). In May 2008, he will be returning to perform Durufle’s Requiem and Bach’s Cantata 106 with the Central Maryland Chorale.

As a member of the world-renowned United States Army Chorus, Staff Sergeant Burner frequently solos before our nation's highest-ranking military and government officials, as well as visiting dignitaries and heads of state from around the globe. He resides in Montclair, Virginia, with his wife Karen and their daughters, Sarah and Madeleine.