Mark Whitlock is Director of Bands at the University of Minnesota Duluth. His responsibilities include directing the Concert Band and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, teaching Instrumental Conducting, Instrumental Teaching Methods and supervision of Instrumental Student Teachers. Prior to his appointment at UMD, Mark was Assistant Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Trombone at Eastern Kentucky University, a position he held since 1986. While at Eastern Kentucky University, Mark was the Associate Director of the Stephen Collins Foster Music Camp and was the director of the junior high band portion of that camp. Dr. Whitlock has earned degrees from Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Dr. Whitlock is the founder and director of the North Shore Summer Music Experience.

Daniel Eaton was just recently appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth where he is responsible for conducting the Concert Band, Pep Band and Tuba Ensemble. He also teaches applied music for tuba and euphonium. Dan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Indian University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, and a Masters of Music degree in Tuba Performance and Wind Conducting from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. He is a frequent Marching Band clinician and judge having worked with bands in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.

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Ryan Frane is Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he teaches Jazz Ensemble I, Jazz Combo, Jazz Piano and Jazz Writing, among other courses. He also coordinates the Head of the Lakes Jazz Festival at UMD. Ryan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music with emphasis in Jazz Studies and Piano Performance from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay and a Masters of Music degree in Theory and composition from the University of Northern Colorado. He has been an active teacher and performer at several colleges across the country including the University of Northern Colorado, University of South Dakota, University of Wisconsin Green Bay and University of Southern Colorado.

Stanley R. Wold is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he has taught choral conducting, voice, and vocal music education since 1984. He has earned degrees from Concordia College (Moorhead, MN), the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. At UMD, he directs the University Singers and the Chamber Singers, both of which have toured Europe and East Africa. Assisting Dr. Wold will be Ms. Marcia VanCamp. Marcia is the high school choral director at Duluth Central High School.

Marcia VanCamp is the choral director at Duluth Central High School. She received her undergraduate Music Education degree at the University of Minnesota Duluth and is currently working on her Masters in Music Education also at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Jean (Rudy) Perrault is Director of Orchestras and assistant professor of violin/viola. At UMD, Rudy coaches chamber music and also teaches composition, orchestration, string technique and fundamentals of conducting. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he earned his Master's degree in performance from Temple University in Philadelphia. He moved to the New York area and became assistant conductor of the New York Symphonic Ensemble while maintaining his post as Principal Guest Conductor of the Holy Trinity Philharmonic Orchestra. He has participated in many prestigious music festivals including Aspen, Tanglewood, Chautauqua. Rudy keeps an active schedule and has performed with many different organizations including the New York Virtuosi, the New York Pops, the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Philadelphia Virtuosi, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Philly Pops and the Broadway show "Beauty and the Beast".

Betsy Husby earned her DMA, MM, and BA degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, L.I., N.Y. where she studied with Bernard Greenhouse, former student of Pablo Casals, and cellist of the internationally reknowned Beaux Arts Trio, and Timothy Eddy, cellist of the Orion String Quartet and faculty at Julliard School of Music. Highlights of her career have included performing in the 1986 Tchaikowsky Competition in Moscow, a live Minnesota Public Radio Broadcast of the technically demanding Prokofieff Sinfonie Concertante with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, and Minnesota State Arts Board grants to tour the United States and Russia. Dr. Husby began her extensive solo, chamber music, and orchestral experience in New York where she was winner of the DMA concerto competition, a member of the Poulenc Chamber Players on Long Island, and principal cello of the Stony Brook graduate orchestra.

Alexander Chernyshev earned his doctorate and masters degrees with honors in piano and chamber music from the prestigious St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Conservatory named after Rimsky-Korsakov in Russia. He has also received the American equivalent of the doctoral of musical arts since his move to the U.S. He taught piano and chamber music for eighteen years at the St. Peterburg Conservatory branch in Petrozavodsk, which is Duluth's Sister city. In Russia, he was a very active performer and collaborator with many Russian and International musicians. He has performed many times in such countries as Finland, Italy, France, Japan and Hong Kong. He was a founder and leader of the internationally-acclaimed trio Classic Retro, an ensemble that has recorded extensively and received many awards and honors in Russia, Europe and the United States.