Brynn Albanese Concert Maestra, began studying the violin at age four. She has been concertmaster for the Annapolis Symphony, the Boston Philharmonic, and the Tanglewood Festival Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concerts. She has played and toured with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Internationally, Brynn played with the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Currently, in California, she is co-concertmaster of the Symphony of the Vines and concertmaster of Opera San Luis Obispo and Orchestra Novo. Brynn is a member of Café Musique world music ensemble. She has a remote recording business for film score writers and singer-songwriters, offers online violin lessons internationally, and offers a mobile workshop, Brynn Albanese’s Violin Practice Technique Boot Camp.
Susan Gaeddert completed a doctorate in musical arts in collaborative piano at the UW-Madison School of Music and gave birth to her second child on the same day in 2007. That year, she was a winner in the Shain competition for piano and woodwind duos and premiered John Harbison’s Vocalism I and II at Pepperdine University. She studied harpsichord for several years and frequently plays continuo in local performances. Susan was the pianist for Mary Watkins’ The Initiate at NWMF in 2017 and Babe! An Olympian Musical in 2017. She is a freelance accompanist, teaches private piano lessons, and adjudicates youth piano competitions and festivals.