Scott Andrews, clarinet, is an active chamber musician and recitalist, critically acclaimed in performances from coast to coast. Appointed Principal Clarinet of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in 2005, Mr. Andrews has performed throughout the country with many of today’s leading instrumentalists and has also appeared at numerous summer festivals and with ensembles such as the Ying String Quartet and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Mr. Andrews has lectured and given classes around the United States as well as in Europe and Japan. He is a faculty member at the Tanglewood Music Center and was for many years the Woodwind Department Chair at Boston Conservatory. Prior to his appointment in St. Louis, he was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 10 years and has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Andrews is a graduate of the New England Conservatory where he studied clarinet with Harold Wright.

Amadi Azikiwe, viola, has been heard in recital throughout the U.S. Israel, Canada, South America, Central America, India, Japan, Hong Kong, and the Caribbean.  He has been a guest of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and performed on the Kennedy Center and La Jolla “Discovery” series. Mr. Hummings has appeared as soloist with the Virginia, North Carolina, Roanoke, Winston-Salem, and Salisbury Symphonies. He has performed at the Marlboro, Tanglewood, Aspen, and Norfolk Festivals, and his performances have been broadcast on radio and television in the U.S., England, Israel and South America. Among his awards are those from the New York Philharmonic, Concert Artists Guild, North Carolina Symphony. Mr. Hummings is on the faculty of James Madison University, and has taught at Brevard Music Center. He is also the Director of Program Development for the Gateways Music Festival. He attended the NC School of the Arts, New England Conservatory and Indiana University.

The Calyx Piano Trio features Nina Ferrigno, piano, Catherine French, violin, and Jennifer Lucht, cello. The members of the Calyx Trio have given chamber music concerts throughout the United States and abroad, exciting audiences with their expressive ensemble playing and brilliant virtuosity. As individuals, they have performed with leading national ensembles including the Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops, and the Metamorphosen Chamber Ensemble, and have been heard in chamber music performances at major festivals including Marlboro, the Banff Centre, Ravinia and Tanglewood. The Calyx Trio presents innovative programs juxtaposing master works of the piano trio repertoire with fresh pieces by living composers, and has worked with organizations including the Barlow Foundation to commission and premiere new works.

Melvin Chen, piano and violin, has received acclaim for performances on both violin and piano throughout the United States and abroad.  As a soloist and chamber musician Mr. Chen has performed at major venues in the United States, Canada and Asia, and at U.S. festivals including Bravo! Vail Valley, Chautauqua, Norfolk, Chamber Music Northwest, Bard, and Music from Angel Fire.  An enthusiastic chamber musician, Mr. Chen was selected to be a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Chamber Music Two.  He has collaborated with such artists as Ida Kavafian, David Shifrin, Pamela Frank, and members of the St. Lawrence, Mendelssohn, Miami, Orion, Borromeo, and Arditti quartets. Mr. Chen is Associate Director of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Paul Crabtree, Composer In Residence, combines in his music the seriousness of the British choral tradition with the restlessness of the American spirit, producing perceptive and challenging works that are relevant to the 21st century experience. His work has been the recipient of an AMC Composer’s Assistance Program Award (2007), three ASCAPLUS awards (2004, 2007, 2008) and a Subito award from the American Composers Forum (2005). Four recent commissions received their premiere performances in the months of April, May and June 2008; Midas at Sunset for the Tucson Chamber Artists, Dive! a Water Music for Cantori New York, Lullaby near the Railroad Tracks for the Piedmont Choirs’ Ecco Ensemble, and Vegas! an American Nightscape for the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra. His first CD was released in February 2009 on the Arsis label, featuring the two ballet-cantatas An American Persephone and Dive! a Water Music.

Catherine French, violin, is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a position she has held since 1994. A native of Victoria, British Columbia, Ms. French has appeared with orchestras throughout Canada and the United States, and made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1992. She has been a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival, and holds degrees with distinction from Indiana University and the Julliard School. Ms. French is also a member of Collage New Music, the Boston Artists Ensemble, the Calyx Trio, and is the concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Boston.

Eve Gigliotti, Mezzo-soprano, is a classical vocal artist that shines in both the traditional and modern operatic mediums.  Ms. Gigliotti has recently performed the roles of Carmen with Bronx Opera, Mother Marie in Dialogues of the Carmelites with The Mannes Opera Studio, where she is currently studying.  This past spring she was featured in the George London Masterclass Series with Frederica Von Stade and Richard Stilwell.  Ms. Gigliotti was selected to sing for the Marylin Horne Foundation Festival, “The Song Continues... 2009” on a Master Class with Martin Katz in Weill Hall. As a singing actress, she received critical acclaim for her hilarious and heart-wrenching turn as Angelina Rinucci, the ghost of opera-divas-past in world premiere of The Second Tosca, a play written by Tom Rowan and directed by Kevin Newbury at the 45th Street Theater in New York City.  Ms. Gigliotti originated the title role in Encompass New Opera Theatre’s premiere of Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On, where she received accolades in the New York Times, which described her performance as “earnest” and “endearing”. Eve Gigliotti has been a winner of The Mario Lanza Competition, The Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition and the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation. 

Jennifer Lucht, cello and Artistic Director, was raised in Greenville North Carolina.  She began her musical training at the age of three on violin as a student of Joanne Bath and switched to cello at age eleven under the tutelage of North Carolina Symphony cellist Leonid Zilper.  A performer with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra on tours throughout the US, Canada, and Japan, she has been heard in chamber music performances at the Kennedy Center, Weill Recital Hall, Tanglewood, the Ravinia and Bravo! Vail Festivals, and on the Greater Philadelphia Performing Artists Series and NPR’s live broadcast “Performance Today”.  She has performed as concerto soloist with the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and Vermont Symphony and is currently a member of the Calyx Piano Trio and guest faculty at the Longy School of Music.  Ms. Lucht received her Bachelor and Masters degrees from Indiana University, continuing with post-graduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music.

Chris Nappi, percussion, has performed and recorded with Steve Reich and Musicians, the SEM Ensemble, Newband, and Ben E. King. As a composer he has created music for dance, theatrical and multi-media installations and has recorded for the BIS, Dog w/a Bone, Ear-Rational, Mode, New Tone, New World Records, Renè Block Editions, Tzadìk, and Wergo, labels. In addition to East Carolina University, he serves on the faculties of Adelphi University, The Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division, and the Ostrava Center for New Music, Czech Republic.

Anna Reinersman, harp and Artistic Director, praised by The New York Times as "an elegant harpist", was the harpist for the full run of the Broadway smash hit “The Producers”.   Anna has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Boston Pops, and is an active chamber musician and solo recitalist.  A graduate of Yale University and the Manhattan School of Music,  Anna has also performed with such popular artists as Joni Mitchell, Diana Krall and Alicia Keyes.

Shea Scruggs, oboe, is an up and coming voice in the oboe world. He graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2004 where he was a student of Richard Woodhams, the esteemed and longtime principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The following year, Shea completed a degree in English Literature from Swarthmore College where he attended concurrently for two years. Since then, Shea has performed widely with American orchestras, holding positions as Acting Principal of the Cincinnati Symphony and Principal Oboe of the San Francisco Opera. He has also performed in the sections of the Chicago Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra, and as guest principal with the Atlanta Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony, where he was recently offered a position as Assistant Principal Oboe. Shea has also taught masterclasses at Oberlin University, the University of New Mexico, the San Francisco Conservatory and to the oboe students of El Sistema in Caracas, Venezuela. 

Finley Woolston, Faure After Work host, became the Music Director of the Crystal Coast Choral Society in 1992.  The Choral Society is a community chorus of over 70 singers acknowledged to be one of the best in Eastern North Carolina.  He has conducted numerous performances of Handel's Messiah, as well as Vivaldi's Gloria, J. S. Bach’s Magnificat and Faure's Requiem, to name just a few of the major choral works presented by the Choral Society.  He is also the Music Director of Richlands United Methodist Church, Richlands, NC.  In 2004 he formed The Sine Nomine Singers, a 20-voice chamber choir of professional and professional quality amateur singers.  He both conducts and sings in the group.  His voice is familiar to listeners to 89.3 FM, Public Radio East in New Bern, as a classical music announcer weekdays 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.   He is also the producer and host of The Choral Tradition heard each Sunday at 3:00 p.m. on Public Radio East.