, violin, resides as concertmaster of the Bozeman Symphony. She received her bachelor's in violin performance from Carnegie Mellon University under Andres Cardenes where she was a Theodore Pressor Scholar, a member of Phi Kappa Lambda, and a recipient of the Carnegie Mellon Stradivarius violin on loan for two years. Carrie completed her master's degree in violin performance and Suzuki Pedagogy at the Cleveland Institute of Music under David Updegraff. She has attended summer programs at Madeleine Island, Encore, Meadowmount, the Banff Centre, AIMS in Graz, and with the National Repertory Orchestra. She has soloed with the Fairbanks Symphony, National Repetory Orchestra, and Bozeman Symphony, performed with the Muir String Quartet, served as concertmaster of the CIM Opera Orchestra and CMU Chamber Orchestra, and will appear as guest concertmaster of the Helena Symphony in January. Carrie is also an active baroque violinist, serving as concertmaster of New Trinity Baroque in Atlanta and as frequent soloist with Seattle Baroque Orchetra and Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. She has also appeared with Portland Baroque, Chatham Baroque, New York Early Music Society, Early Music New York, as concertmaster of the Case/CIM Baroque Orchestra, and will serve as concertmaster for the Pacific Baroque Orchestra this fall. She attended the Oberlin, Longy, and Tafelmusik summer programs, and her principal baroque violin teachers include Julie Andrijeski, Cynthia Roberts, David Douglas, Elizabeth Blumenstock, and Marilyn McDonald. Carrie has led baroque workshops for the Bozeman Symphony and the Fairbanks Suzuki Institute. Carrie currently teaches thirty students at her home in Bozeman.

, violin, currently serves as concertmaster of the Helena Symphony and associate concertmaster of the Bozeman Symphony. He began his violin studies at the age of four under Daniel Reinker. His instuctors include Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio, Greg Mulligan, Julius Schulman, and with Andrzej Grabiec as part of the Performance and Continuing studies program at the University of Houston. Stephen has attended music festivals around the United States including Madeline Island Chamber Music Camp and the Eastern and Texas Festival where he studied with Joel Krosnik, Laslo Varga, Mitchell Stern, Vagram Sarajiam, Lucy Robert, and members of the Brentano string quartet. Stephen was a prize winner in the Marjory Powell concerto competion and winner of the Colburn-Pledge and Moores scholarships. He is also a member of the National Honor Society Phi Thetta Kappa. In the 2007-08 season he will be appearing as soloist with the Helena Symphony playing the Sibelius violin concerto and as guest concertmaster of the Bozeman Symphony perfoming Sheherazade. Stephen also maintains active teaching studios in Bozeman and Helena.

, viola, received her Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Washington where she studied under Helen Callus. She received her Master of Music Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and studied with Jodi Levitz. Ms. Carson has worked with the Billings Symphony, Helena Symphony, Modesto Symphony, Fremont Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, Stockton Symphony, and the Sacramento Chorale Society Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has performed with Music for Life, Montgomery Quartet, Lozzo Atestino Pro Musica, and the San Francisco Punk Rock Orchestra. Her chamber music teachers include Mark Sokol, Ian Swensen, Paul Hersh, Robert Mann, and the Muir Quartet. Ms. Carson is currently the principal violist of the Bozeman Symphony, Intermountain Opera, and the Montana Ballet Orchestra, and is on faculty at the Red Lodge Music Festival. She also teaches violin and viola in the Bozeman area.

, cello, began his studies at the age of four. His formal education was earned in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music where he was educated under some of the great master cellists of the 20th century including Carter Brey (NY Philharmonic), British cellist Colin Carr, Laurence Lesser (protoge of Gregor Piatigorsky), and the late great Eva Heinitz (foremost Viola da gambist in the world). Peter has been the recipient of the Montana Arts Council's Artist in Residency grant and has been an active teacher throughout Montana including Montana State University in Bozeman and Montana Music Institute in Billings.