Anthony Brackett has performed with the New York City Ballet Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York Pops, Martha Graham Dance Company, Dance Theater of Harlem, American Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Guild Orchestra, Opera at Caramoor, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, New Orleans Symphony, Singapore Symphony, and Key West Symphony. Chamber music appearances include concerts with the Emerson and Shanghai String Quartets, as well as the Dorian Wind Quintet, Columbia Composers, and Blue Door. Mr. Brackett can be heard in both Classical and Broadway recordings for the Sony, Varese Sarabande, QRecords, and Telarc labels. Music festival credits include the Yale Summer School of Music at Norfolk, Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra, Waterloo Festival, and The Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestral Musicians. In addition to a busy performing schedule, Mr. Brackett is on the faculty of the Juilliard School's Pre-College and Music Advancement Programs, participates in community outreach music programs in New York, and maintains a large studio of private clarinet students at Greenwich, CT High School where he is also director of the Clarinet Choir. Mr. Brackett has written and published a series of transcriptions for clarinet ensemble. Broadway credits include The King and I, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, Meredith Willson's The Music Man, the City Center Encores! production of Cancan and currently the smash Broadway hit Beauty and the Beast.

Arthur Cook has appeared as a chamber musician and soloist in summer festivals at Sandpoint, Meadowmount, Taos,Yale at Norfolk, Rutgers and Apple Hill. He has served as artistic director for Lyrica and Artists in the Hall as well as principal cellist and soloist for the Wayne Chamber Orchestra, the New Philharmonic and the New York Symphonic Ensemble on its Japan tour. Mr. Cook won First Prize in the New York Studio Club Awards as well as in competitions at the Metropolitan YMHA (NJ) and the Wayne YMHA (NJ), and he has appeared as soloist with orchestras at Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall. He holds degrees from Texas Tech University and the Mannes College of Music, where he was a recipient of the George Szell Award and the Graduate Performance Award. His teachers included Arthur Follows, David Geber, Felix Galimir, and Louis Krasner. He has been on the music faculties of both Seton Hall University and Smith College. Mr. Cook plays on a 1798 Josef Gagliano cello presented to him by the Gandolph Foundation.

Deborah Gilwood has appeared as a soloist, as well as a collaborator with orchestras and ensembles, including the Long Island Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonia, and Solisti New York. An active chamber musician, Ms. Gilwood has performed with Musical Elements, Infusion, the Eckert/Gilwood Piano Duo, Alliance for American Song, and Blue Door with cellist Arthur Cook. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Miller Theater in New York. Ms. Gilwood is the co-founder, Artistic Director and pianist of the Blue Door Chamber Music series at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in MA, now entering its 10th season. Her recording with Arthur Cook, entitled Censored by Hitler, was released in October 2002 on the Centaur label, garnering favorable reviews both here and abroad. Currently she is a member of the music faculty at Westfield State College, and has also been on the piano faculties at Smith College, The University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Seton Hall University. Ms. Gilwood studied at Mannes College of Music, and received degrees in Piano Performance from SUNY Purchase and SUNY Stony Brook. Her principal teachers include Richard Goode, Gilbert Kalish and Lucy Greene. She lives in Amherst, MA.

Amy Kimball is based in New York City and enjoys a varied and busy freelance career. On Broadway, her credits include 9 to 5, two productions of Gypsy, A Tale of Two Cities, Fiddler on the Roof, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot and Phantom of the Opera. She has appeared in concert with numerous pop and jazz artists, such as Ray LaMontagne, Diana Krall, Hall & Oates, Josh Groban, Michael Buble and Rachael Yamagata. As a member of the Crème Tangerine Strings, she has performed with the star-studded Beatles tribute band, The Fab Faux, for the past 8 years, including their recent sold-out 10th anniversary show at Radio City Music Hall. Her television experience includes Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America, VH-1 Classics, The Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony and The Howard Stern Show. In the studio, Amy has recorded for the Turkish jazz artist Fahir Atakoglu, LCD Soundsystem, Hem, Flight of the Conchords and David Byrne's score for the HBO show Big Love, among others. She is a regular performer with the Princeton, Albany and Key West Symphony orchestras and has played with many new music groups in New York, including S.E.M. Ensemble, North/South Consonance and SONOS Chamber Orchestra. Amy grew up in New Hampshire and Maine and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory. She has studied with Valerie Vilker, Marilyn McDonald, Diane Monroe, Syoko Aki, Yuri Mazurkevich and Lewis Kaplan.