Kayo Jane Miki is a violinist. Born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, she began her violin studies at age nine. As a high school student she earned her diploma from the Interlochen Arts Academy and then completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Violin Performance from the Eastman School of Music. She has participated in the Salzburg Music Festival, Holtzhauser Musiktage Festspiele, Heidelberger Schlossfestspiele, Sapporo Pacific Music Festival, Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival and Banff Festival of the Arts.

Dr. Lin has orchestral experience with Milwaukee Symphony, Madison Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Modesto Symphony, Fresno Symphony, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, I Musici de Montreal. Orchestral, solo and chamber performances have taken him throughout the North America and Europe. His performances have ranged widely from performing with members of the Emerson String Quartet to sharing stage with Jazz legend Arturo Sandoval to international concerts and recordings with The Yale Cellos. Dr. Lin has held fellowships at Banff, Orford, Musicorda, Spoleto, and Norfolk festivals. His major mentors were Uri Vardi, Janos Starker, Aldo Parisot and Colin Carr.

Amie Jan is a Bay Area freelance violinist and violist, and has been honored to play in the pit orchestra for several productions at Broadway By the Bay. She is a resident Musical Director at the Children’s Musical Theater of San Jose, and the Orchestra and Mariachi Director at Lincoln High School in San Jose. She is also a certified Suzuki Violin Instructor, and maintains a small private studio of young students.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, his primary focus is his highly successful private studio. Pasha Sabouri is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College. He has also had the privilege to serve as Adjunct Professor at Concordia College as well as Artistic Director at the Concordia College Music Academy in Austin, Texas.

Dr. Sabouri is a graduate of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and the University of Texas Butler School of Music, studying with Won-Bin Yim, Naoko Tanaka and Brian Lewis. He has attended such festivals as IMS Prussia Cove, International Holland Music Sessions, International Sommer Akademie in Semmering, Austria, Aspen Music Festival and London Master Classes, and considers Miriam Fried to have major influence in his development as violinist and pedagogue.

Ed Wharton is an active freelance violist and educator who is a member of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Reno Philharmonic, and maintains private studios in Oakland and San Jose, in addition to serving as a coach for the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, Young People's Symphony Orchestra, and Berkeley High School. Mr. Wharton is an alumnus of the San Francisco Academy Orchestra program and The Boston Conservatory.

Dr. Barraza's orchestral and chamber experiences encompass the United States, Chile, Israel, Spain, and Colombia, including with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra in Michigan, the World Orchestra, and the Colombia National Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Barraza is also an orchestra conductor and has served as the Mason Youth Philharmonic Conductor in the mid-Michigan area as well as the orchestra conductor of the New Horizons chapter in East Lansing, Michigan. In past summers, Dr. Barraza has been a violin faculty and orchestra conductor at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.

Daniel Murguia has played in settings ranging from rock, jukebox, and concept style musicals, classical and contemporary composed music, as well as symphonic works and chamber music. While inexperienced with the genre, he enjoys jazz standards and afro cuban music with San Jose State ensembles. As a PACO alum and frequent coach and performer, he strives to bring the message of plays well with others to every ensemble he is in. He doubles on both acoustic bass as well as four and six string electric bass. Daniel teaches private lessons for Double Bass and has been involved teaching sectionals for double bass and cello at various high school and middle schools in the area as well as with the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra summer workshops and the San Jose State Summer in the City summer camp. In addition, he also freelances as a performer in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

Silvio Rocha has been playing viola for over a decade and only recently has taken up the violin. He received his Bachelor of Music from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was the violist for the Resident String Quartet. As well as playing in various orchestras across the bay, Silvio is currently the head music librarian for San Jose Youth Symphony and South Valley Symphony.

Thomas Alexander started the violin at the age of four after he was captivated by the magic and splendor of The Nutcracker. He studied violin performance at UCSD, then moved to San Francisco, and played with many community and professional orchestras near and around San Francisco. He spent 15 years working with the San Francisco Civic Symphony Association, serving on the board, playing concertmaster in multiple groups, and starting numerous ensembles including "Mozart to Mendelssohn,” "Civic Strings," and "Civic Pops." It was through this organization that he started conducting in earnest, leading Civic Strings and Mozart to Mendelssohn, and guest conducting the San Francisco Civic Symphony. Thomas also founded impromptuSF as Music Director.