Euphonium - Mary Ann Craig is Director of Bands at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where she also teaches applied low brass. She is currently Secretary for the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Women's Brass Conference. She appears frequently as euphonium soloist and clinician at national and state conferences, and at colleges/universities. She was a clinician and teacher at Keystone Brass Institute of the Summit Brass in Colorado for two years. In 1987 she recorded a solo album Mary Ann Craig, Euphonium. Dr. Craig is also active as a music educator, holding offices in national and state organizations. She received a Doctor of Music Education degree and a Performers Certificate on the euphonium from Indiana University.
Euphonium - Jay Hildebrandt, D.M. Indiana University, is a Professor of Music at the University of Delaware, where he teaches low brass and directs the University Jazz Ensemble and student brass ensembles. A member of the Delaware Brass and the Faculty Jazz Ensemble, Dr. Hildebrandt also performs with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. Proficient on the euphonium, tenor and bass trombones and tuba, he has performed as a soloist, clinician, and conductor throughout the eastern U.S. He has also performed as soloist in Luxembourg and France.
Tuba - Gary Bird is Professor of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches tuba, euphonium, Jazz Ensemble, and Jazz Perspectives. He has performed as guest soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He is principal tubist of the Johnstown and Westmoreland Symphony Orchestras and has performed with the River City Brass Band and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. He holds the Bachelor of Music Education Degree from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Master of Music in Tuba Performance from North Texas State University and Doctor of Music in Performance and Brass Literature from Indiana University.
Tuba - Gregory Fritze is Assistant Chair of Composition at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches composition and tuba. Winner of many composition awards including the 1998 IBLA Grand Prize in Composition, Sicily, a 1997 Grant from the Massachusetts Arts Council and the 1996 Composition Award from the Accademica Constantiniana, Rome, ten ASCAP awards and others, he won First Prize in the 1991 TUBA Composition Competition. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Boston Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music in Composition from Indiana University. He is principal tubist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra. and has been recorded, both as a composer and a performer.