Constantly in search of a new composition or a new piece to adapt for the flute, he offers elegant and passionate programming, always communicating with his audiences in the most charismatic way, be it in major orchestra halls or chamber settings alike.

Susan Goodfellow is a professor of flute at the University of Utah. She holds degrees from Julliard School of Music and the university of Chicago, and studied with Julius Baker and William Kincaid. She has soloed with the Carmel (California) Bach Festival and the Mormon Tabernacle Choice and performed with the New York City Symphony and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra.

A specialist in 20th century and American music, Susan Neimoyer received her Ph.D. in Music History from the University of Washington, where she was a student of American music scholar Larry Starr. Her dissertation, "Rhapsody in Blue: A Culmination of George Gershwin's Early Musical Education" was a finalist for the Society for American Music's H. Wiley Hitchcock Dissertation Prize for 2003.

Gary Merrell began playing the clarinet at age 10 as part of a deal with his parents in which he was allowed to stop taking piano lessons. In elementary school, band class offered several advantages, such as an airtight excuse to miss half of geography class and the chance to go on bus trips with the band. These factors served as strong incentives to become a better clarinetist.

Bill Newton graduated from the University of Utah in 1978 with a degree in Music. His most influential teachers were Utah Symphony members Jim Hough and Doug Craig. In 1984, Bill earned a degree in Computer Programming. Since then, programming has been his profession and playing the bassoon his avocation.

By the fifth grade, Jim knew he wanted to play French horn, but he had to put his plans on hold for a year. The school in Denver had only one horn, which was being used by a sixth-grader, so Jim started on cornet. Later that year, a horn recitalist told him that it never works to switch from trumpet to horn, which sealed his fate in an engineering career.

Hilary Coon has been playing with the Salt Lake Symphony since arriving in town in 1991. She started playing the oboe ages ago (at least 3,000 hand-made reeds, by the oboist’s reckoning of time). All these reeds met their demise first at various summer music camps and the Aspen Music Festival, then at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in music, and also in math.

Distinguished for the musical color, brilliance and excitement of his performances, the talented young Armenian pianist and composer Karen Hakobyan (b. 1985) has been acclaimed for his individual style. He graduated from the Tchaikowsky Special Music School in Yerevan, Armenia in 2000 and briefly attended the Komitas State Conservatory before moving to the United States. He attends the University of Utah School of Music as a "Dorothy Rich" Presidential Scholarship recipient, studying piano performance with Dr. Susan Duehlmeier and composition with Dr. Morris Rosenzweig.

David Park started playing the violin at the age of five in Seoul, Korea. Since coming to the United States in 1976 at the age of seven, Park has studied with some of the most distinguished artists and teachers, such as Jascha Heifetz, Josef Gingold, Dorothy Delay, and Yuval Yaron. He received his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Indiana and Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School.

Park maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with orchestras throughout the world and his recital and chamber music activities. He has appeared as soloist with the Utah Symphony, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Harmonic Orchestra, the Korean Chamber Orchestra, Music Academy of the West Festival Orchestra, the Daegu Symphony, the Inchon Symphony, and the Santa Ana Symphony. Park has given recitals in many of the world’s great concert halls includ- ing Carnegie Weill Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, Salle de Pleyel in Paris, and Sejong Music Center in Seoul. He has also performed on national television and radio broadcasts in the United States, France, and Korea. Furthermore, he has participated as both soloist and chamber musician in summer festivals such as the Music Festivals of Aspen, Vienna, Music Academy of the West, Grand Teton, and Aix-en Provence, France.

Elliott Cheney holds Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees in cello performance from the University of Texas, where he studied with Phyllis Young. He has been the Principal Cellist of the National Symphony of Costa Rica, and The Savannah Symphony, and has been on the faculties of the University of Costa Rica, Southwestern University, Armstrong College, and the University of Tennessee. He currently is a faculty member in the Music School at University of Utah.

Robert Baldwin is Music Director for the Salt Lake Symphony and Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Utah.  His tenure with the Salt Lake Symphony has resulted in increased audiences, repertoire expansion and community visibility.  He is also the conductor for “It’s a Grand Night for Singing,” in Lexington, Kentucky, and has held conducting positions with the University of Kentucky, Lexington Philharmonic, New American Symphony, Northern Arizona University, and Flagstaff Symphony orchestras.  Also an accomplished violist, he has held several positions, including professor of viola at Northern Arizona University and principal viola with the Arkansas Symphony, Flagstaff Symphony, and Arizona Opera Orchestras.

Trumpeter Jens Lindemann is hailed as one of the most celebrated soloists in his instrument's history. Jens has played in every major concert venue in the world; from the Philharmonics of New York, Los Angeles, London, Manchester, Munich, Hamburg, Lucerne and Berlin to Tokyo's Suntory Hall and even the Great Wall of China. His career has ranged from appearing internationally as an orchestral soloist, recording with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, being heralded as an official trumpeter for the N.H.L. Stanley Cup finals to playing lead trumpet with the renowned Canadian Brass. Jens has also won major awards ranging from Grammy and Juno nominations to winning the prestigious Echo Klassik in Germany as well as receiving an honorary doctorate. He has won first prizes in the most important classical trumpet competitions in the world, made numerous television and film appearances and performed at London's 'Last Night of the Proms' for over 40,000 people. In addition to his concertizing, Jens has also performed in football and baseball stadiums in the United States for over 70,000 fans!

Todd Fiegel lives in Draper and has been professor of conducting at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, University of Montana, Idaho State University and Muskingum College, and he is the founding conductor of Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra.

He is active as guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and Canada, in which country he has conducted from westernmost Vancouver Island to the eastern coast of Newfoundland.

Juan Carlos Lomónaco, Music Director of the Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra, graduated from The Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied conducting with Otto Werner Muller. He has also studied conducting with Charles Bruck at The Pierre Monteux School, as well as Enrique Diemecke and Marc David.

Since the age of 17 he has formed and conducted various music ensembles and at the age of 23 he made his debut with The National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, where he remained as Assistant Conductor for two years. Lomonaco was Assistan Conductor at the Domaine Forget Academy of Music in 1994 nad Music Director of the National Conservatory Symphony and the Ollin Yoliztli Symphony.

Violinist Elizabeth Palmer is the concertmaster of the Salt Lake Symphony and a charter member of the Orchestra at Temple Square. She is a graduate of the University of Utah and has been featured as a soloist with the University of Utah Symphony, Mormon Youth Symphony, Delaware County Pennsylvania Symphony and the Salt Lake Symphony. She has also performed with the Utah Symphony.

Ms. Brandt Hample’s career began in Salt Lake and has since taken her around the world, performing and teaching opera, musical theater, theater, oratorio, concert, movement and dance. She has lived and studied in SLC, NYC, Boston, and Italy.

Her stage performances include Barena in Jenufa with the Utah Symphony and Opera, Sacerdotessa in Aida with the Utah Symphony and Opera, Hesione in Triumph of Love with Utah Musical Theater, Gladys Fritts in Radio Gals at the Grand Theater, Ida in Die Fledermaus with the Utah Symphony and Opera, the title role in Astor Piazolla’s tango opera. Maria de Buenos Aires with Opus Chamber Orchestra.

Dr. Michael Huff resides in Bountiful, Utah where he divides time between his wife, six young children, and a varied and engaging musical career.

While a teenager, he studied piano at the Hochschüle fur Musik in Frankfurt, Germany, and holds music degrees from the University of Utah and Arizona State University. He is Artistic Director of The Festival of Gold Series, operated by Heritage Festivals, and was with Heritage Festivals' sister company for eleven years, producing live shows for major sporting and celebratory events across the country.

Dickran Atamian has enjoyed a career that has spanned a quarter-century and covered four continents. He has established himself as a pianist of dazzling style, meaningful and exquisite musical insights, incomparable mercurial gifts, and an unmatched visceral excitement. In the year 2000, he celebrated his 25th season as First Prize winner of the 50th Anniversary Naumburg International Piano Competition held at Carnegie Hall. Additional award distinctions include First Prize in the International Recording Competition, a Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music Prize and Prize-Winner in the William Kapell International Piano Competition.

Marjorie Janove is an active soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has soloed with the Utah Symphony as pianist and harpsichordist. She appears frequently with the Opus Orchestra, Nova Chamber Music series, Vivaldi Candlelight Series, Marice Abravanel Distiguished Composer Series and Madeleine Festival of the Arts and Humanities. Her performance of Bach's Art of the Fugue for the Bach Tricentennial Celebration was broadcast on National Public Radio. She has performed on the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago and the Shadyside Chamber Concert series in Pittsburgh.

Flutist Laurel Ann Maurer has been lauded by The New York Times as "...a secure technician and an assured, communicative interpreter." Fanfare Magazine stated that ". . . she is technically superb in every way. Her tone is consistently attractive even in the most treacherous passages, and she plays with great rhythmic drive and impeccable phrasing." American Record Guide said that "...Maurer has a strong, colorful, full sound and a sure technique..."

Geoff worked as a freelance trumpet player and teacher for many years, playing regularly in the UK, and occasionally in Europe, primarily with the Northern Sinfonia of England, and guest performing with many regional and national groups (often as they sojourned in the wild and untamed north of England), including: Scottish Opera; Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Royal Ballet, London Festival Ballet; Royal Opera Company, English National Opera North, Royal Shakespeare Company, Oxford Pro Musica and others.

Violinist Zina Schiff has been described by The New York Times as an instrumentalist of "Luscious high voltage … vintage Heifetz." The comparison to the legendary Jascha Heifetz is apt, as Ms. Schiff is a Heifetz protégé. With a special blend of virtuosity, musical integrity, and communicative power, she has dazzled audiences and critics throughout the United States, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and the former Soviet Union.

Erin Elizabeth Palmer received her first musical instruction at an early age from her mother and father, learning piano, violin and voice. For five years, Erin studied piano with Solveig Lunde Madsen and won second place in the 1996 Utah State Fair Competition.

During the past three years, Erin has performed with the Eastman Opera Theatre as Flora in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and Vaughan Williams' Riders to the Sea. She is an active participant of the Eastman Collegium Musicum directed by Paul O'Dette, having recently performed two operas of Purcell, as well as the title role in Luigi Rossi's Orfeo.

A recent recipient of a commission from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University to compose a concerto for flute and orchestra to be premiered by the Salt Lake Symphony, Jeff Manookian has garnered numerous accolades for his original works. The Frederick Delius Competition conferred its Grand Prize on Manookian's Fantasy and Toccata for Violin and Piano and the chamber music first prize for his Sonata for Flute and Piano. His compositions have figured numerous times on the Frederick Delius Music Festival in Jacksonville, Florida. Other top prizes have been awarded to Manookian's works, including the Grand Prize and multiple first places in the Composers Guild International Composition Competition.

Acclaimed for the color, nuance, excitement and drama of their performances, the Duehlmeier/Gritton Duo has been heard in concerts across the United States, Europe and Israel. Most recently engagements have taken them to Austria for a recital in Vienna, Poland for a performance on the Autumn Warsaw Festival, Boston, as guest artists on the Boston/Prague Music Festival, Washington D.C. for a concert in honor of the Ambassador from Mongolia, Connecticut for an appearance on the Friends of Music Chamber Series, Germany for the Lake Konstanz International Chamber Music Festival, Scotland for the International Piano Festival, and Israel for a featured concert at the Jerusalem Center.

Marie Barker Nelson has a Ph.D degree from the University of Utah and has also graduated from the Yale School of Music where she studied with Paul Hindemith. She currently works with Bruce Reich.

Her first symphony, "The Medead" was premiered bu the Utah Symphony and has been recorded by the Slovak Radio Symphony. Her second symphony, "Hodeeyaada" was premiered and recorded by the Manhattan Sinfornia in New York City and has subsequently been performed in Gainesville, Florida and also by the Utah Symphony.