Newfoundland native Andrée Martin (B.Mus Memorial University of Newfoundland, MM University of Ottawa, DMA State University of New York at Stony Brook) has performed at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Pierre Boulez, at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Warsaw Autumn and at the Prague Spring Festival as a member of the New York based Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble. She includes playing Elliott Carter’s Enchanted Preludes for the composer on a concert celebrating his 90th birthday and playing Le Marteau Sans Maître at Carnegie Hall with Pierre Boulez conducting among her most thrilling performing experiences. Andrée has performed and presented at the Seattle Flute Fair, Florida State University Flute Day, the International Clarinet Convention, the American Musicological Society Convention, the North American Saxophone Alliance and at the National Flute Association Convention.

Andrée is a Licensed Body Mapping Educator, and serves as President of the Board of the Association for Body Mapping Education (ABME). She has taught Body Mapping at universities throughout the U.S. and as a guest clinician for the Seattle Flute Club, the Atlanta Flute Club, and the Las Vegas Flute Society. In 2020, she began a three-year meditation teacher training course, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), at Brown University.

Andrée’s interest in new music has led to collaborations and premieres of works by, among others, Earle Brown, Alvin Lucier, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Ralph Shapey, J.M. David, Brian Cherney, David Lang, Daniel Koontz, Perry Goldstein, Daniel Weymouth, Roscoe Mitchell, Petr Kotik, and Jackson Mac Low.

Andrée has had various solo and ensemble performances recorded and broadcast for the CBC including a concerto with members of the National Arts Center Orchestra. She was chosen as the first recipient of the Samuel Baron Memorial Prize, was the only music finalist for the Thayer Fellowship and was a winner of the Stony Brook Concerto Competition. Funding for her studies in New York with Samuel Baron, Carol Wincenc, Tara Helen O'Connor and in Ottawa with Robert Cram came in part from a generous grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Andrée's research on French composer André Jolivet has been published in Flute Talk magazine (2004). She has also been published in the NFA publication Flutist Quarterly (2005, 2011). She is a founding member of The Furious Band, selected as the contemporary ensemble in residence at both the Aspen Summer Music Festival and at the Banff Center for the Arts Composers' Forum. The Furious Band performed throughout Japan, Canada, the United States, and at the Musica y Escena Festival at the Bellas Artes Theatre in Mexico City. They can be heard on CRI.

An advocate of international education, Andrée has taught in Oxford, London, Paris, and Florence. Her students have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall and other venues as winners of the Yamaha Young Artist Competition, the Alexander and Bueno Competition (2nd prize), Atlanta Flute Club Competition, MTNA State and Regional Competition, the Georgia Philharmonic Competition, the Mid South and Florida Flute Fair Masterclass Competitions, Grand Prize Virtuoso International "London" Competition, American Protégé International Competition, the Oklahoma Flute Society Young Artist Competition, the Golden Classical Music Award Competition, Great Composer International Music Competition, the Concurso de Instrumentos de Viento Madera y Metal ICA, and the Artist International Competition (NY).

Andrée blogs about her experiences with focal dystonia at www.observingfocaldystonia.wordpress.com

Clarinetist Lisa Oberlander has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Her compact disc Times Like These (Potenza) was released in 2014, and she is a soloist on the 2017 Summit Records disc Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs and Velocity (2005). Her International Clarinet Association conference performances include Ostend (Belgium), Tokyo, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Baton Rouge, and Reno (June 2022).

In addition to her debut solo compact disc, which includes the premiere recording of Fred Cohen’s Four Episodes, she also appears on recordings with clarinetist Robert Spring (Dry Heat, 2012, and Dragon's Tongue, 1994. Oberlander has performed with the Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Opera, and the Columbus (GA) Symphony, among others. She has been a featured soloist at Columbus State University, performing concertos by Unsuk Chin, Nielsen, Copland, Mozart, Scott McAllister, and Artie Shaw.

Dr. Oberlander is a guest clinician and performer at many high schools and universities every year, including a weeklong teaching residency at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Recent masterclasses include the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division, Arizona State University, the University of Southern Mississippi, Northwestern University, and Western University (London, Ontario, Canada). Her current and former students have won many competitions and have been featured as concerto soloists with the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Arizona State University Orchestra, the Georgia Philharmonic Orchestra, the LaGrange Symphony, the Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra, the Sewanee Summer Music Festival Orchestra, and the Columbus State University Philharmonic Orchestra. Additional student honors include a solo Carnegie Hall performance, first prize of the MTNA National Senior Woodwinds Division, and the $15,000 Marcus L. Urann Fellowship from Phi Kappa Phi. Dr. Oberlander's students have been accepted to some of the world's best graduate programs and regularly attend summer festivals in the US and abroad. Alumni from the studio are successful university professors, full-time orchestral and military band performers, teachers, conductors, arts administrators, and excel in many other fields.

Dr. Oberlander is a graduate of Arizona State University and Indiana University where she studied with Robert Spring and Howard Klug. She performs exclusively on Buffet clarinets. For more information see www.lisaoberlander.com.

A native of the Chicagoland area, Dr. Sara Fruehe is a versatile artist with a varied career as chamber musician, orchestral performer, educator, and arts administrator.

An active and in demand collaborator, chamber music is a central part of Sara’s musical identity. During the six years she performed with Volante Winds, Sara has performed at premier festivals including Jeju International Wind Ensemble Festival, Juneau Jazz and Classics, Chamber Music Wilmington, American Music Festival, Mineral Point Chamber Music Festival, and many more. Volante Winds was named semi-finalists at the 2017 Plowman Chamber Music Competition, 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, 2021 NOLA Chamber Fest, and most recently as finalists for three American Prize awards including 2022 American Music (Bacon Award), 2022 Chamber Music, and 2021-2022 Virtual Performance categories. Sara currently performs with 10th Muse, an all-female reed trio that places emphasis on innovative programming, community engagement, and new musical commissions.

Sara has held the position of second bassoon with the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra in Indiana since 2017, and frequently performs with other orchestras and ensembles throughout the Midwest, including Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Battle Creek Symphony, Carmel (IN) Symphony, Danville (IL) Symphony, and Owensboro (KY) Symphony orchestras.

An advocate of new music, Sara actively commissions and premieres new works. Recent commissions include works by composers Brian Raphael Nabors (Until Dawn for Woodwind Quintet) and Kevin Wilt (Incantare for solo bassoon; Forest Bagatelles for Woodwind Quintet). With 10th Muse, she is in the process of commissioning reed trios from Leigha Amick and Don Freund. In February 2023, Sara premiered P.Q. Phan’s Fantasia Concertante for Bassoon with the IU New Music Ensemble.

As an educator, Sara has worked with students of all ages and levels. During the 2022-2023 school year, Sara served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music (bassoon) and Coordinator of Chamber Music at the IU Jacobs School of Music. She has also served as Adjunct Faculty of Bassoon and Chamber Music at James Madison University in 2016, and between 2011-2014, she maintained a robust private lesson studio in San Antonio and the south-central region of Texas. Sara is currently artist-faculty at the IU Summer Music Clinic.

An active clinician and presenter, Sara has presented masterclasses and clinics across the United States, including the University of Alabama, Middle Tennessee State University, University of Northern Iowa, Bowling Green State University, Auburn University, and Campbellsville University.. She has presented lectures at the 2021 Colorado State University BassoonaRAMa and multiple presentations at Indiana State University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Sara holds a Doctor of Music in Bassoon Performance and Literature from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, with minors in music history and literature, and arts administration. Her dissertation, “The Operatic Bassoon: A Pedagogical Excerpt Collection,” serves as the beginning of a new excerpt collection focused on a comprehensive review of opera excerpts for the bassoon that strives to provide a meeting point for conversation of bassoon study and performance infused with preliminary musicology and music theory concepts for the bassoonist-scholar. She also holds a Master of Music from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Music from the Jacobs School. Sara’s primary teachers include William Ludwig, Arthur Weisberg, William Buchman, and Robert Barris.

Dr. Aaron Jensen is the recently appointed Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University.

He previously taught at the University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley, Tarleton State University, the University of North Texas, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as privately in the Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex.

Dr. Jensen’s students have gone on to attend both graduate and undergraduate programs and be performers throughout the United States and Europe. His students have competed and performed multiple times at the National Trumpet Competition and International Trumpet Guild conferences and have won multiple university level awards including Outstanding Instrumentalist, Most Improved Instrumentalist, Outstanding Jazz Musician, Outstanding Music Business Student, as well as winning the Honor’s Competition. In addition to his university teaching his private students have been members of the TMEA All-State bands, auditioned into the National Youth Wind Ensemble, participated in DCI, were members of the Denton Youth Symphony, and were awarded Outstanding Soloist at the Texas State Solo and Ensemble Competition. Dr. Jensen is an active clinician, having taught masterclasses at the International Trumpet Guild conference in 2022 and multiple universities, including the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, Arkansas State University, Colorado State University, Brigham Young University, and the University of Central Arkansas.

As a performer, Aaron performs and tours with the Session Brass Quintet, and was a founding member of the Eastside Brass Octet and the 956 Brass. As an orchestral performer, he frequently performs as a substitute musician with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the Valley Symphony Orchestra, Monroe Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Arlington, the Fort Smith Symphony, Motown legends “The Four Tops”, the Denver Pops Orchestra, and the Red River Lyric Opera Festival. Aaron has performed and recorded with Grammy award winning “The Indigo Girls” as well as the University of North Texas Wind Symphony in addition to many other projects.

Dr. Jensen has served in various roles with the International Trumpet guild including conference reporter and recently completed his two-and-a-half-year tenure as Video Coordinator. He also served as Assistant Host to the 2017 National Trumpet Competition. A lover of music technology, Aaron has produced and engineered albums and video projects for numerous artists and institutions including Caleb Hudson of the Canadian Brass, Jason Bergman, and Ryan Gardner. Dr. Jensen earned a doctorate from The University of North Texas and holds degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder (MM), Oklahoma State University (BM), and Snow College (AS). Aaron is greatly indebted to his primary mentors as well as his previous trumpet colleagues: Ryan Gardner, Caleb Hudson, Jason Bergman, Justin Bartels, Terry Sawchuk, Brian Walker, Jared Broussard, David Blackinton, Scott Wilson, and Steve Meredith.

Anne-Marie Cherry is a versatile performer and educator enjoying a varied career as a soloist, chamber/orchestral musician, clinician, and recording artist. She performs with orchestras nationwide, including recent engagements with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Cherry spends her summers performing with the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra as Associate Principal Horn, and a member of Breckenridge Brass Quintet.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Iowa Center for New Music, the Bainbridge Symphony, Texas Chamber Group, USC Wind Ensemble, UT New Music Ensemble, and the UT Jazz Orchestra. Additionally, she is the featured solo horn on the soundtrack of the upcoming film The Last Full Measure. Anne-Marie can also be heard on City People by Greg Johnson, the UT Wind Ensemble recording of John Corigliano’s Circus Maximus, and a soon to be released album of the chamber works of Zack Stanton.

A strong advocate of performer/composer collaboration, Anne-Marie frequently commissions new works for the horn in diverse contexts. She has collaborated with composers such as Zack Stanton, Hermes Camacho, Dennis Llinas, and Gabriel Santiago—and was the dedicatee of the ASCAP winning “Northern Impressions Suite,” which she recorded in the fall of 2009 with the University of Texas Jazz Orchestra. Another commission, Stanton’s Trio for Horn, Harp and Viola was recorded this summer and for an upcoming album of the composer’s chamber works.

Previously, Dr. Cherry has been on the faculties of The University of Texas at Austin, Spokane Falls Community College and Pasadena City College. An active guest artist & clinician, she explores mindfulness in music performance and practice with students and teachers around the country.

Dr. Cherry completed her D.M.A at the University of Southern California, crafting a unique course of study in horn performance, music education, arts leadership, and contemporary music studies. A proud longhorn alum, she received her M.M. and B.M. from The University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music.

Dr. Bradley Palmer is Professor of Trombone at Columbus State University's Schwob School of Music, where he has led and developed the trombone studio since 1999. He earned his bachelor's degree in music from Millikin University, his master's degree from the University of Iowa, and he completed his doctoral work at Florida State University.

An S.E. Shires Performing Artist, Dr. Palmer has appeared as a soloist in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Hong Kong. He has also performed many times in Europe and the UK. Dr. Palmer performs regularly with a number of orchestras in the Southeast and has held the principal trombone chair with the LaGrange Symphony since 2003. He has performed with many other orchestras including the Alabama Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Macon Symphony, and the Savannah Philharmonic. He has performed at seven International Trombone Festivals and served as the host for the 2013 and 2021 Festivals at the Schwob School of Music at CSU. He can be heard as a soloist on Summit Records and has appeared on St. Louis Symphony bass trombonist Gerry Pagano’s CD entitled “Ubiquity” (2014) and on Pagano's 2016 release "Horizons" performing music for two trombones and piano.

At Columbus State University, Dr. Palmer is the brass area coordinator. His former students include national and international solo competition winners, college, high school, middle school and elementary school teachers, music ministers and a number of others performing professionally. He is the conductor of the Schwob Trombone Ensemble at CSU, including performances in Hawaii, Hong Kong, Germany, the American Trombone Workshop in Washington D.C., and numerous International Trombone Festivals. In 2013 the Ensemble finished a multi-year recording project featuring some of the finest trombonists in the US as guest soloists: Joseph Alessi, George Curran, James Markey, Denson Paul Pollard, Bill Thomas, Charlie Vernon and Ko-ichiro Yamamoto. The “A Beautiful Noise” CD was released by Summit Records to critical acclaim and has received airtime on NPR stations in the US and in Europe. The CSU Schwob Trombone Ensemble was featured at the 2013, 2017 and 2021 International Trombone Festivals. 2017 marked the release of the CSU Trombone Ensemble's newest CD "Full Tilt" which followed performances at the Southeast Trombone Symposium and the International Trombone Festival. The CSU Schwob Trombone Ensemble performed on James Markey's solo CD "Psychedelia" released in 2014, performed on George Curran's 2017 CD "Vital Signs", and on Colin Williams' 2019 CD "Ash". YouTube videos of the CSU Trombone Choir and other trombone-related performances at CSU have been viewed over six million times worldwide. The Schwob Trombone Ensemble performed numerous times as they hosted the 2021 International Trombone Festival in Columbus, Georgia.

Along with members of the Atlanta Symphony and New York Philharmonic trombone sections, Palmer serves on the faculty of the Southeast Trombone Symposium and conducts the STS Professors Choir. In addition to a busy performance schedule, he enjoys presenting master classes, clinics and serving as an adjudicator from solo and ensemble competitions to marching band competitions. He has guest conducted performances with trombone ensembles at many schools in the US including Juilliard, in addition to groups in Canada, China and Brazil. He has served as a member of the brass staff of the Phantom Regiment, Pioneer, and Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps. His arrangements for trombone ensemble are published by Cherry Classics.

As a recording engineer and producer, Dr. Palmer has recorded some of today's leading brass players from the Atlanta Symphony, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Seattle Symphony. Dr. Palmer serves as the Chair of the International Trombone Association Executive Board, and also serves as the Vice President of the International Trombone Festival Board.

Dr. Alex Avila is an avid performer, educator, and advocate of art music. Although he began his musical studies on euphonium, doubling on tuba has become a signature of his professional career. Dr. Avila distinguished himself by placing in several regional, national, and international music competitions, notably earning first prize in the prestigious Leonard Falcone Festival Competition. He has also been a finalist in professional auditions on both instruments with Pershing’s Own and The Austin Symphony Orchestra.

As a soloist, Dr. Avila has been featured with The University of Georgia Wind Ensemble, The Austin Symphonic Band, The Chesapeake Bay Wind Ensemble, and has performed recitals across the U.S. His recitals use theme, narrative, and multimedia elements to explore a balance between tradition and modernity, appealing to a broad artistic spectrum. His latest performance, “Music for Two Big Instruments,” pairs 21st century music with prose, poetry, and visual art.

Chamber music is an essential component of Dr. Avila’s musical identity. He has performed with a variety of small ensembles in settings ranging from the concert hall to a viking boat sailing across a lagoon. His most active chamber group is the genre- bending quartet, FivE, that has garnered national attention for their creativity and ability to entertain audiences of all types. With FivE, Dr. Avila is constantly challenged to integrate outstanding musicianship with design and theater elements and to think about the future of classical music in society.

Dr. Avila currently serves as Lecturer of Tuba and Euphonium for The Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. Prior to this appointment he had a similar role at Texas A&M University - Kingsville and freelanced in the Austin metropolitan area. Dr. Avila received his bachelors degree in music education from The University of Georgia and graduate performance degrees in both euphonium and tuba from The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Avila is a Buffet-Crampon performing artist.

Dr. Paul Vaillancourt, Professor of Percussion at Columbus State University's Schwob School of Music, performs regularly with the Columbus and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. Solo and concerto performances include the premiere of Brian Cherney's "In Gottes Garten schweigen die Engel" for solo voice, solo percussion and percussion ensemble at McGill University, Jan Jarvlepp's "Garbage Concerto" with UP/DOWN Percussion (CSU alumni) with the Columbus Symphony, Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto with the Thailand Symphony Orchestra in Bangkok, the Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra and the Guadalajara Symphony Orchestras. He has also been a featured soloist with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Center Orchestra, at the Aspen Music Festival, the Banff Center for the Arts, the McGill Chamber Winds, the St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra (St. Petersburg, Russia) and the CSU Wind Ensemble and Schwob Philharmonic.

He has performed all over the world with many contemporary music ensembles including Bent Frequency, Sonic Generator, Furious Band, The Fountain City Ensemble and the piano/percussion duo, STRIKE with pianist Jeff Meyer. STRIKE tours of China, Russia and Thailand included performances at the Beijing Modern Music Festival at the Central Conservatory, Tianjin Conservatory, SoundWays New Music Festival in St. Petersburg, at the Thailand International Composers Festival and at universities in the greater Bangkok area.

As a founding member of the new music ensemble The Zohn Collective, he participated in several recording projects of chamber music by composers Matthew Schreibeis and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (2018). He also gave several performances of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's chamber opera COMALA in Guadalajara, Mexico (2018) as part of the International Arts Festival. The ensemble was recently in residence at Notre Dame University premiering and recording works by ND faculty composer John Liberatore (2019). The ensemble has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation and Research.

As a conductor, Vaillancourt has given the U.S. and world premieres of chamber works by Brian Cherney, David Lang, Steven Gellman, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Eric Moe, John Parcell, Sidney Hodkinson, Jack Beeson, R. Murray Schaeffer, Wayne Peterson, Sergio Assad, Fred Cohen, Jefferson Freidman, Nico Muhly, Dan Trueman, as well as the opera Comala, by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Vaillancourt contributed to the commercial recording of the Comala (Bridge Records) as a performer, which earned the composer a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2010. As pit orchestra conductor for the Springer Opera House in Columbus, GA, he has led productions of Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Elf The Musical, West Side Story, Newsies, Avenue Q, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, Shrek The Musical, Les Misérables and Sweeney Todd.

Equally passionate about the jazz, Paul has performed at the International Trumpet Guild and International Trombone Festival with such artists as Fred Wesley, Alex Iles, Michael Dease, Wycliffe Gordon, John Fedchock, Dominick Farinacci, Mike Vax and TPRTS, Clay Jenkins, and Tyrone Jackson. He performs regularly with the Jazz Faculty combo, has recorded with the Robert Orr Trio and the hammond organ trio Be3 with whom he performed at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival.

He can be heard on four recently released CDs: Uncanny Affable Machines, featuring the solo work Cross Chop for solo drum set by composer Eric Moe (New Focus), SONGTREE, featuring chamber works by composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (Oberlin Music), Stars Stories Song, featuring chamber works by Eastman School of Music faculty composers David Liptak and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (Ravello) and The Favrile Opalescence for solo Scottish bagpipes and percussion ensemble by Matthew Welch (Kotekan Records).

While completing his D.M.A. at the State University of New York in Stony Brook studying with legendary pedagogue Raymond DesRoches, he performed regularly with Pulse, the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and the Orchestra of the S.E.M Ensemble.

Reba Wissner is Assistant Professor of Musicology and coordinator of the Public Musicology Undergraduate Certificate. She received a BA in Music and Italian from Hunter College of the City University of New York, an MFA and PhD in musicology from Brandeis University, a graduate certificate in Higher Education Administration from Northeastern University, and a graduate certificate in Instructional Design from the University of Wisconsin - Stout.

Dr. Wissner is the author of articles on seventeenth-century Venetian opera, Italian immigrant theater in New York City, music in 1950s and 1960s television, and music history pedagogy and has presented her research on these topics at conferences throughout the United States and Europe. She is the author of A Dimension of Sound: Music in The Twilight Zone (Pendragon Press, 2013), We Will Control All That You Hear: The Outer Limits and the Aural Imagination (Pendragon Press, 2016), and Music and the Atomic Bomb in American Television, 1950-1969 (Peter Lang, 2020). Her fourth monograph, David Lynch: Sonic Style, is under contract with Routledge. With Katherine Reed, she co-edited Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds (Routledge, 2021). She is currently working on a collaborative book and database project with Jessica Getman called Cues and Contracts: Music and the American Television Industry that examines music cues and their reuses, as well as administrative documents related to American television music production.

Dr. Wissner is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including a research travel grant from the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, a research fellowship from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Sight and Sound Subvention from the Society for American Music, a James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Fellowship from University of California Los Angeles Libraries, a Wallis Annenberg Research Grant from University of Southern California Libraries, and a Theodore C. Sorensen Fellowship from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. She was the recipient of Columbus State University’s 2022 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award and was appointed as a summer 2022 recipient of the Governor's Teaching Fellowship.

Before coming to Columbus State University, Dr. Wissner taught at Brandeis University, Berkeley College, Montclair State University, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Seton Hall University, and New York University.