Anthony Brackett has had an exciting performing and teaching career in the music industry. Formerly the bass clarinetist with the New Orleans Symphony, Mr. Brackett has performed with the New York City Opera, American Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Martha Graham Dance Company, Dance Theater of Harlem, the Singapore Symphony, and chamber music appearances with the Emerson String Quartet, Shanghai String Quartet, Borealis Wind Quintet, Dorian Quintet and Blue Door. Music Festival appearances include the National Repertory Orchestra in Keystone Colorado, Waterloo Festival, Yale's Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Pierre Monteux School in Hancock, Maine for conductors and orchestral musicians. In addition to having taught a large private studio of clarinetists CT, he is on the faculty of Juilliard's Pre-College Program, participated in educational outreach programs in New York, participated in Young Audiences of New York and New Jersey and has been consultant to the Morgan Library's family concert programs. He has been an adjudicator and clinician for the Connecticut Music Educators Association, an active member in the New England Music Festival Association and has published many arrangements and transcriptions for clarinet choir under the name AMBClarinet. He has accompanied many legends in entertainment including Mel Torme, Ray Charles, Phil Collins, Patti Lupone, Donny and Marie Osmond, Andrea Bocelli, Bob McGrath, the Three Irish Tenors, Maureen McGovern and Bugs Bunny. He has recorded on the Sony, Sarabande, QRecords and Telarc labels as well as for television and radio commercials and films. Anthony's Broadway credits include Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King & I, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, Meredith Willson's The Music Man, Cole Porter's Cancan and Disney's 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. She is a regular performer with the Symphony Orchestras of Princeton, NJ, Albany, NY and Key West, FL, and has played with many new music groups in New York, including S.E.M. Ensemble, North/South Consonance, SONOS Chamber Orchestra and the contemporary dance troupe, dre.dance. Amy and cellist Arthur Cook are members of The Beehive, an ensemble that performed new music by composer Debra Kaye this year at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY, St. Peter’s Church in New York City, and on the TV show “Minding Your Business.” Amy has appeared in concert with numerous pop, rock and jazz artists such as Michael Buble, Diana Krall, Hall & Oates, Ray LaMontagne, Josh Groban, The Killers, and Rachael Yamagata. In May she played in a string quartet with Pearl Jam at Madison Square Garden.  As one of the Creme Tangerine Strings, she has performed throughout the U.S. for the past 9 years with the star-studded Beatles tribute band, The Fab Faux. Amy can be heard on the recent release by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, “Here Lies Love” as well as on Byrne’s score for the HBO show “Big Love.”  Other recent studio work includes Turkish jazz artist Fahir Atakoglu, LCD Soundsystem, Hem, and Flight of the Conchords. She has served in the orchestras for multiple Broadway shows in addition to national and European touring musical theater productions. Television experience includes Saturday Night Live, The Late Show With David Letterman, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and Rachael Ray. Originally from New Hampshire, Amy attended the New England Conservatory Prep and graduated from Oberlin Conservatory. She has studied violin with Valerie Vilker, Marilyn McDonald, Diane Monroe, Syoko Aki, Yuri Mazurkevich and Lewis Kaplan.