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.

The oboe has given Marilyn Coyne the treat of living on both the east coast and west coast of the Untied States. Marilyn is a member of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and is a native of the Bay Area. She divides her time living in San Francisco, performing for the Ballet, and Leonia New Jersey, where she has a home with her partner Cenovia Cummins. While in the New York area Marilyn freelances, playing for orchestras and Broadway shows. She also maintains an active touring schedule and in 2007 toured Japan with the New York Symphonic Ensemble. She began the study of the oboe at San Francisco State University with Ray Duste, and received her Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University, where she studied with Ray Still. Marilyn continued at the Juilliard School of Music, studying with Robert Bloom on a full scholarship.

Cenovia Cummins, violin, grew up in a musical family and began her improvising and musical studies at an early age.  She is currently concertmaster of N.Y.C.s’  Riverside Symphony and has served as concertmaster and appeared as a soloist in orchestras in the United States and Europe. Her chamber music experience includes performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Seacliff Chamber Players, Bach Berklshire Society, Moab and Grand Canyon Music Festivals and Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in New Hampshire. Outside the classical realm, she has appeared at the Blue Note Jazz Club in NYC with Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts and On VH1 with Sheryl Crow, Stone Temple Pilots and the Goo Goo Dolls.  She has appeared and recorded with Tony Bennett, Madonna, the Indigo Girls, James Taylor, Rod Stewart, Puff Daddy and the Smashing Pumpkins. In 2006 she toured the U.S. and Europe with Barbara Streisand. She has also appeared on the Dave Letterman, Rosie O’Donnell and Conan O’Brian shows. Also a composer, Cenovia’s duo for cello and violin “small suite” has now  been performed to critical acclaim. As an improviser she  can  be heard on CD releases by the Ned Farr Band and “Needles” as well as a solo album slated for upcoming release.  Her solo violin improvising is featured  in the recently released major motion picture “Lovely and Amazing.” Cenovia is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Mannes College of Music.  She plays on a 1716 Giovanni Grancino violin made in Milan.

Deborah Gilwood has appeared as a soloist and with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Long Island Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonia, and Solisti New York. An active chamber musician, Ms. Gilwood has performed across the United States and abroad with such groups as Musical Elements, Infusion, the Alliance for American Song, and the Eckert/Gilwood Piano Duo in performances at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Mannes College of Music, Queens College, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College. She has performed at summer festivals in Sarasota, Aspen, and Siena, Italy, and at Tanglewood and the Rutgers Summerfest. Ms. Gilwood received her performance degrees from SUNY Purchase and SUNY Stony Brook where her principal teachers included Richard Goode, Gilbert Kalish and Lucy Greene. She has been on the piano faculty at Smith College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Seton Hall University.

As a violinist and violist, Karl Kawahara enjoys a varied career as a freelance musician. He is a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Broadway credits include: Showboat(1981), The Rink, Teddy And Alice, Carrie, City Of Angels, Victor/Victoria, Seussical The Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Little Women, and The Light In The Piazza. Summer music festivals include Caramoor, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Blossom, and OK Mozart (Bartlesville, OK). As chamber musician Karl has played on the Second Helpings series at the Dia Museum. In addition to Broadway cast albums, Karl has been a part of many classical and pop recordings for Sony Classical, Telarc, Musical Heritage Society, and the L'oiseau Lyre labels. Karl was born in Seattle and received his education at the University of Washington and the Manhattan School of Music.

Amy Kimball is a busy and versatile violinist at home in both classical and inprov mediums. She is active in numerous chamber and orchestral ensembles including the S.E.M. Ensemble, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, SONOS Orchestra, the New Philharmonic of New Jersey, the Key West (FL) Symphony and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. She can be heard on Blue Note Records, for Sony with They Might Be Giants, and most recently on HBO’s series in David Byrne’s score for Big Love. She is a member of the Crème Tangerine Strings who perform with the star-studded Beatles tribute band, the Fab Faux. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory where she studied with Marilyn McDonald and Greg Fulkerson and attended graduate school at Boston University. She has also studied with Syoko Aki, Lewis Kaplan, and Yuri Mazurkevich.