Since 2011, Casey Cangelosi has performed solo recitals in Italy, Germany, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, Croatia, Sweden, Taiwan, Portugal, and widely across the U.S. at events including: The Midwest Clinic, several PASIC Showcase Concerts, and over 40 universities. Casey is the creator of the @Percussion Podcast, and is the Director of Percussion Studies at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.  

Sam Suggs was named New Artist of the Month by Musical America, soon after receiving 1st prize at the 2015 International Society of Bassists Solo Competition. He was named Concert Artists Guild’s New Music/New Places Fellow at the 2016 CAG International Competition. At the 2017 Bradetich Foundation International Double Bass Solo Competition, the jury invented and awarded him a prize for "Extraordinary Creativity." Emre Kartari is an Adjunct Instructor of Jazz at VCU, JMU and Longwood University, where he teaches Small Jazz Ensemble, Jazz History, and Drum-set. Acclaimed soprano and bandleader Melissa Wimbish is a genre-defying artist known for her ability to move between opera, art song, Renaissance polyphony, and pop music with ease. The Washington Post has called her work“...vocally stunning, and theatrically riveting.” 

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