Jens Larsen holds a bachelor of music degree from Old Dominion University and a master of music degree from Rice University. Larsen has also studied at the School of Music at Indiana University, and has performed in Europe as part of the North Carolina School for the Arts Summer Tour. His teachers include such master teachers as Charles Gorham, Dr. William Bartolata, and Armando Ghitalla. He is the third trumpet in the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, and is also the trumpet professor at North Greenville University. Past teaching positions include Georgia Perimeter College and Southern Polytechnic State University.

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Jason Sugata received his M.M. in horn performance at SUNY Stony Brook where he studied with William Purvis, and a B.M. from the Manhattan School of Music as a student of Jerome Ashby. He has performed with groups such as the Albany Symphony, the UBS Verbier Orchestra and the Lincoln Center Theater. Jason has participated in various festivals, such as the Music Academy of the West, Sarasota Music Festival, and Spoleto, Italy.

He currently resides and free-lances in New York City.

Anneka Zuehlke (french horn) was appointed as Principal Horn of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra in 2004 and was also recently named Principal Horn of the Spartanburg Philharmonic. Currently an Adjunct Horn Instructor at Converse College Petrie School of Music, she has attended festivals such as Tanglewood, Spoleto, Norfolk, Sarasota, Aspen and Verbier Academy Festival with Curtis Orchestra. Anneka earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the Curtis Institute of Music and her Master’s Degree at the Yale School of Music where she was awarded the John Swallow Prize for outstanding brass performance.

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Arthur Haecker received a master of music degree from the University of Michigan and a bachelor of music degree from the Eastman School of Music. He has served as low brass instructor at Hillsdale College, Millikin University, and Converse College. He has performed with such groups as Opera Illinois, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Pops, and the Greenville Symphony (SC). Haecker is currently pursuing his doctorate degree at the University of Iowa.

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Michael Parker is currently a member of the nationally known Monumental Brass Quintet. As a member of MBQ, he is on the artist rosters for Class Acts, and the Washington Performing Arts Society.

In 1999, he received a bachelor of music degree from Northwestern University where he studied with Rex Martin. A graduate student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Parker studied under the tutelage of Dr. David Kutz. He has performed with the Washington National Opera, Elmhurst Symphony, Kenosha Symphony, Missouri Brass Consortium, The University of Missouri Faculty Brass Quintet, and the Mount Vernon Brass Consort.

As a soloist, Michael has appeared on numerous recital series in the Metro-Washington, D.C. region, including performances at the Strathmore Mansion, The State Department, Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library and the University of Washington as a guest artist. He is also very active as a teacher and maintains a large studio in Howard and Montgomery Counties, Maryland.

Michael Nickens holds a doctor of musical arts degree in tuba performance at the University of Michigan. He has been a member of Michigan’s Creative Arts Orchestra as well as other local musical ensembles that focus on improvisation such as "Yours Truly," which blends jazz and hip-hop elements. Active as a free-lance tuba player in the Midwest, he also teaches in the Cranbrook (N.J.) Upper School Music Department.