JOAN KRUEGER was named "2004 Coach of the year" by Classical Singer magazine. She has accompanied such artists as Cecilia Bartoli, Sumi Jo, and Vinson Cole through her association with New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, and was seen on A&E's Breakfast With The Arts, accompanying soprano Carol Vaness. Ms. Krueger has performed collaborative recitals in Avery Fisher Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The United Nations, Weill Recital Hall, the Donnell Library and numerous other venues in the New York City area where she maintains an active coaching studio. She has been an Assistant Conductor for the Sarasota Opera, Music Director for NYU's Opera Workshop, and on the faculty of the Intermezzo Opera Festival.

Ms. Krueger is the pianist for many prestigious vocal competitions including the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Competition, and the Chester Ludgin Verdi Baritone Competition. She was recently a judge for the Classical Singer Vocal Competition. Ms. Krueger is on the faculty of Martina Arroyo's Prelude to Performance and the Westchester Summer Vocal Institute. She has been a guest artist at many U.S. Universities and Conservatories. Currently on the faculty of State University of New York at Purchase, Ms. Krueger teaches French and Italian Diction, Operatic Styles and coaches. She received her Bachelor of Music Degree from Michigan State University and her Master's Degree from the University of Michigan.

FIONA PATERSON began studying flute with Sheena Gordon at the Junior Royal Scottish Academy of Music and later at the Music School of Douglas Academy. Last year she graduated with a 1st class BMus Honours degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has recently completed a post-graduate year at the school, studying with Sarah Newbold, Philippa Davies, Ian Clarke and Sharon Williams. Fiona regularly plays with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Brandenburg Sinfonia and is principal flute with Camerata Scotland, Nyos Futures, the Joint Guildhall and Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and piccolo with the Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra. In NYOS Futures last October, she played in a recording for BBC 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Fiona recently was part of the London Symphony Orchestra Ensemble and the LSO Wind Academy.

Solo performances include recitals around the UK, most notably in St Martin in the Fields, London, the Stratford upon Avon Music Festival, Chipping Camden Music Festival and the Hampstead and Highgate Festival. Concerto performances include the Nielsen Flute Concerto and the Mozart Flute Concerto in G, both with the Marion Chamber Ensemble in Hamilton.

Competition and scholarship successes include the coveted 'Needlemakers Wind Prize' at the Guildhall, the 2008 NYOS Staffa Award see Herald article, the Albert Cooper Flute Competition 2007, British Flute Society's Needham Piccolo Prize, Gold Medal - Marlow Music Festival, overall prize at the Glasgow Music Festival, Concerto Prize- Sutton Music Festival, Ian Fleming Award- administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, The Countess of Munster Musical Trust Award, Sir James Caird's Trust Scholarship and for her final recital, the Laurie Kennedy Memorial Scholarship.