Mobile since her birth in Singapore, composer, saxophonist, and educator Caroline Davis now lives in Brooklyn, New York. After making her mark on the Chicago jazz community during her 8-year stint, she moved to New York in 2013, and has proven to be an active leader and sidewoman in the national jazz scene.
 
She has shared musical moments with a diverse group of musicians, from jazz to mainstream, including Matt Wilson, Lee Konitz://1 , Ellis Marsalis, Matt Mitchell, Randy Brecker://2 , Victor Goines, Bobby Broom://3 , Greg Saunier, Ron Miles://4 , Dennis Carroll, Erin McKeown://5 , Allison Miller, Jenny Owen Youngs://6 , and Billy Kaye. Aside from her own quintet, she collaborates regularly with R&B indie band, Maitri, and has been a regular member of many outfits including Whirlpool, Fatbook, Deep Fayed, Matt Mitchell’s Sprees, Billy Kaye Quintet, Paul Bedal Quintet, Orso://7 , Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Caili O’Doherty Group, Dion Kerr Group, Elliot Ross, and Materials and Their Destiny.
 
Her debut album, Live Work & Play, was featured on All About Jazz’s best releases, and she was named one of JazzTimes’ Best New Artists in the 2012 Expanded Critics’ Poll. Her second album, Doors: Chicago Storylines, was just released as an audio documentary that uniquely sets stories from Chicago's jazz scene from the 80s and 90s alongside her original music. In 2017, she was named one of Downbeat’s “rising stars” in the alto saxophone category. Caroline’s third album, Heart Tonic, written and recorded in New York, will be released in March of 2018 on Sunnyside Records.
 
As an educator, Caroline brings her unique knowledge of music and psychology to her teaching, as she acquired a Ph.D. in Music Cognition at Northwestern University in 2010. She has been on the faculty at Litchfield Jazz Camp for the past 10 years, and has been a guest educator at Northwestern University, University of Colorado at Boulder, St. Xavier University, Columbia College, DePaul University, University of Texas at Arlington, Loyola University, Texas Tech, New Trier High School, Evanston Township High School, Denver School of the Arts, Newman Smith High School, and Jazz at Lincoln Center://9 . She has also participated in several jazz mentorship programs, including IAJE’s Sisters in Jazz and the Kennedy Center’s Betty Carter://10  Jazz Ahead Program.

In response to his recent New York solo debut, the Examiner opined that saxophonist Andrew J. Allen had “performed brilliantly,” and he has been praised by the Wichita Falls Times-Record News for his "savory warmth."   In demand as a soloist and chamber musician, Allen has performed throughout the United States, Great Britain, and France.  Twenty works have been commissioned and premiered by him from such composers as Francois Rosse, Jesse Jones, Greg Simon, and Jay Batzner and current projects include new pieces from world-renowned composers Robert Lemay and Fang Man.  His first album, recorded with percussionist Gordon Hicken, is now available through Equilibrium Recordings.
Allen has received accolades as a quarter-finalist of both the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the International Saxophone Symposium and Competition.  As an ensemble musician, he has performed with the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, the Bryan Symphony Orchestra, the Midland Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra Augusta, and the South Carolina Philharmonic. He currently serves as principal saxophonist of the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra, and present chamber ensemble activities include the percussion and saxophone group Rogue Two, the flute and saxophone ensemble The Allen Duo, and SAGA Quartet. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Midwestern State University Wind Ensemble, the Midwestern State University Percussion Ensemble, and the Oklahoma State University Chamber Orchestra.  Equally adept as a jazz saxophonist, Allen has served as a sideman with Gary Foster, Byron Stripling, Jeff Coffin, R&B luminaries The Temptations, and country music legend Ronnie Milsap.
 Allen is one of the most active researchers and public pedagogues of the saxophone today.  His articles have appeared in The Instrumentalist, Teaching Music, The Saxophone Symposium, Saxophone Today, The NACWPI Journal, JazzEd, and School Band and Orchestra , among many other publications.  Allen has lectured throughout the United States and abroad, and has presented clinics at music education conferences throughout the country.  He is editor of the NACWPI Journal and serves on the editorial board of The Saxophone Symposium.
 Andrew J. Allen is an assistant professor of music at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.  He has previously served on the faculties of Claflin University and Valley City State University, and he holds degrees from Tennessee Technological University, Central Michigan University, and the University of South Carolina.  His primary teachers include Phil Barham, John Nichol, and Clifford Leaman, and he has received additional instruction from Joseph Lulloff at the Brevard Music Center, and Claude Delangle, Vincent David, and Arno Bornkamp at the European University of Saxophone.  Allen is a Vandoren Artist and an Artist-Clinician for Conn-Selmer, Inc. and performs exclusively on Vandoren mouthpieces, reeds.

David Rowden was born in Sydney and studied clarinet from a young age. He was later awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he won the Geoffrey Hawkes Prize for clarinet performance in 2004. Whilst overseas, David studied in Italy with Anthony Pay at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, in France at the Academie de Villecroze with French clarinetist Paul Meyer, and also at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan.
Since returning to Sydney David has performed as a freelance orchestral musician with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, The Queensland Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and as Guest Principal clarinet with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2011 he was a finalist in the ABC Young Performer of the Year Awards performing Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. As a freelance chamber musician, David has performed as a guest artist with the Australia Ensemble and Sydney Soloists. During 2013 and 2014 David curated the House Music series at Government House, Sydney, one of the most popular and acclaimed music series in Sydney.
In 2005 David founded the Omega Ensemble, one of Australia’s premiere and unique chamber music groups. As Artistic Director, David has overseen the growth of the organisation during the last ten years, from early performances in church halls and private homes to Ensemble in Residence at City Recital Hall (2014 - 2016). Omega Ensemble has collaborated with many International and Australian artists including Emma Matthews (soprano), Paul Meyer (conductor/clarinet), Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet) and Timo-Veikko Valve (cello) and during this time has initiated the commissioning and performance of over twenty new Australian works. For their first performance in 2016, David gave the Australian premiere of Bernard Herrmann’s Souvenirs De Voyage (Clarinet Quintet) at the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House. Other career highlights with Omega Ensemble include a performance of John Adam’s Chamber Symphony with the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) conducted by Paul Meyer in 2014.
In March 2016 David was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM). This honour is awarded to former students who have made a significant contribution to the music profession. Most recently David appeared on the 50th Anniversary DVD of Australia’s most iconic children’s program, Play School, where he performed with Justine Clarke and (of course) Big Ted.
David recently recorded his debut album with Omega Ensemble on the ABC Classics label. This album was a collaboration between Omega Ensemble and Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinetist), with a performance of George Palmer’s Clarinet Concerto It Takes Two. The album also features a performance of Ian Munro’s beautiful Clarinet Quintet "Songs from the Bush" alongside Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. 

In March 2017 David joined the staff at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music as part of the University of Newcastle. In November 2017 David toured to China with Omega Ensemble giving performances and masterclasses at the Beijing Central Conservatory, Chang Chun’s JiLin College of Arts and Dalian University.  

David is featured on Omega Ensemble's latest ABC Classics album: MOZART - MUNRO - PALMER