David Wegehaupt is a saxophonist passionate about the promotion and development of contemporary music. As a soloist and chamber musician, David has been active in commissioning and performing new music for saxophone. His world premiere performances include pieces by Aaron Einbond, Gael Tissot, Mikel Kuehn, and Claudio Gabriele and his regional premieres include works by Bruno Mantovani, Thierry Alla, Ivan Fedele, and Vincent Bouchot. He has played recitals as a soloist and a chamber musician around the United States, in Belgium, Greece, Germany, France, Canada, and Thailand. He has been invited to perform at festivals worldwide, including Synthermeia Music Festival in Thessoloniki, Greece, MANCA New Music Festival in Nice, France, and Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften in Berlin, Germany. In April 2010, David organized and performed the North American premiere of Bruno Mantovani’s saxophone concerto Troisième Round with the Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble. David was the only American to reach the semi-final round of the 4th International Adolphe Sax Competition in Dinant, Belgium in November 2006. In May 2007 David graduated from Bowling Green State University with a BM in Music Performance and a minor in recording technology. While there, he studied with Dr. John Sampen. He was a Fulbright grant recipient in 2007-2008 during which he studied at Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt with Jean-Michel Goury. In May 2010 he completed a MM in Music Performance at Arizona State University where he studied with Tim McAllister. He is currently based in Chicago. David is a founding member of the Anubis Quartet, a new generation modular saxophone ensemble committed to the creation, progression and performance of new music. Musicians of Anubis Quartet regularly perform on all members of the saxophone family, resulting in engaging and varied performances which exponentially increase the possibilities of expression through sound. The current season includes a performance at the Festival Internacional Chihuahua in Mexica and as a guest artist for the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music's "Music At The Forefront" Concert Series and the first performance of RYOT PROJECT, a collaboration between composers and performers in an attempt to investigate boundaries between improvised and composed music, including new music by Thierry Alla, Marcos Balter, Daniel Biro, Aaron Einbond, Lee Hyla, Urs Leimgruber, Robert Lemay, Philippe Leroux, and David Reminick.

Stan Muncy currently lives and freelances in the San Francisco area playing with many of the local orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony. During the 2009-2010 season, he was a member and performed with the Honolulu Symphony as percussionist and associate-principal timpanist. A native Californian, Stan also lived in the Los Angeles area where he played with the local orchestras and was a regular in the studio scene, recording numerous film scores at Warner Brothers Studios, Capitol Records, and Firehouse Studios. As a chamber musician, he has performed on the SFS's Chamber Music Series, recorded marimba on the NAXOS Classical Label, and played with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed with renowned contemporary sextet *eighth blackbird* and will be joining them for their 2011 tour this coming spring. Stan received a Professional Studies Certificate from the Colburn School in Los Angeles and a Masters of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory.

Liza White writes music that combines influences from all over the musical spectrum, exploring concepts of expressive beauty, rhythmic drive, and meditative order. Her work has been performed by leading ensembles such as ALEA III under the direction of Gunther Schuller, the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble under the direction of Craig Kirchoff, the Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble under the direction of Eric Hewitt, and the Charlestown Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet. Liza has won numerous awards and honors including the Craig and Janet Swan Prize, the Margaret Blackburn Biennial Composition Competition, and an Emil and Ruth Beyer Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs. She has been invited to attend the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, California Summer Music, the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, and the Composers’ Conference at Wellesley College, and has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. Liza received her Master of Music degree in Composition from the New England Conservatory of Music and her Bachelor of Music degree in Composition and Trombone Performance from Boston University. She has also studied at the Royal College of Music in London, England. Her principal teachers have included Edmund Campion, Ken Ueno, Franck Bedrossian, Michael Gandolfi, Lee Hyla, Ketty Nez, Theodore Antoniou, Martin Amlin, Huw Watkins, and Samuel Headrick. Liza co-founded and co-directed Embryonic NOISE!, a Boston area concert series featuring works by emerging composers, in 2008-2009. She is currently working toward a PhD in Composition at the University of California at Berkeley.

Heather Frasch is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. She also performs frequently as an improviser/experimental flutist, and creates sound installations. Her music has been performed at various festivals such as, The Moscow Autumn Festival, SICMF in Korea, 60x60 project, NYCEMF, SEAMUS, among others. She has attended the Cursus at IRCAM, Acanthes Music Festival, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Wellesely Composer Conference, and Aspen Music Festival. She has collaborated with and had her music performed by the Surplus Ensemble, Ensemble Sound Gear, and sfSound Group.
Heather is currently a Phd candidate at University of California Berkeley/CNMAT.

Bruno Ruviaro, composer and pianist from São Paulo, Brazil, was born in 1976, and has lived in 21 different places: Rua Theodureto Souto, Rua Cajati, Casa do Seu Demétrio, Rua São Borja, Rua James Adam, Alameda dos Uirapurus, Avenida Modesto Fernandes, Avenida Santa Izabel, Rua Nuno Álvares Pereira, Rua Prof. Djalma Bento, Rua Dr. Nestor Esteves Natividade, Rua Major Diogo, North Park Street, Jericho Street, Olmsted Road, Thoburn Court, Comstock Circle, Via Parma, Rue de l’Hôtel de Ville, Greenoaks Drive, Miramar Street.