Marion Crombie comes from Oxford, England. She studied viola at the Robert Schumann Konservatorium in Dusseldorf and at the Royal College of Music in London. Since 1993 she has lived in Mendocino where she plays professionally in orchestras and a number of chamber ensembles. She also teaches violin and viola.

Marcia Lotter is a freelance musician. She received her undergraduate training from the University of Washington in Seattle and has studied with such noted teachers as Vilem Sokol, Andor Toth, and Leonard Austria. Marcia performs in orchestras, sometimes as soloist, and with chamber groups for concerts and special events. She has played in back-up groups for singers, such as Smokey Robinson, Judy Collins, and Andrea Marcovicci. She plays regularly in the Santa Rosa Symphony, as well as being a member of the Santa Rosa String Quintet, which presents school assemblies under the auspices of Young Audiences, Inc.

Mindy Rosenfeld plays flutes of all kinds. Encompassing several musical dialects, her performance career so far has spanned over 20 years and two coasts. A founding member of the highly respected Baltimore Consort, mainstays of the Dorian early music label, and since 1989, of San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the country's premier early music ensemble, and long-time Principal Flutist with the Mendocino Music Festival and Symphony of the Redwoods . The mother of five boys, she somehow also finds time to perform with Portland's Trinity Consort, American Bach Soloists, and several other Bay Area ensembles, all the while adding her personal touch to hundreds of weddings and other celebrations on the North Coast. With bicoastal credentials that include a BA in Flute Performance from Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore and an MA in Baroque Flute Performance from San Francisco Conservatory, she's even been known to play folk harp at an occasional wedding.

Marcia Sloane began playing cello at age nine in Honolulu, Hawaii. She studied cello with Margaret Rowell and received her B. A. in India Studies from Sonoma State University, singing north Indian classical with Laxmi G. Tewari. She is an orchestral and chamber player and has performed in a variety of musical genres including the Don Ho Show in Waikiki; Ancient Future in the San Francisco Bay Area; the Caravan Stage Company in Ontario, Canada; and collaborative projects involving composition and improvisation with visual art, theatre, and dance. Her works have been performed at the New Directions Cello Festival and Mendocino Music Festival, and she has produced two CDs available through Navarro River Music. Skyward, a CD of songs and instrumental compositions for cello and voice with marimba, accordion, clarinet, guitar, piano, and percussion, was featured on National Public Radio's online music program "Open Mic." Cello Drones for Tuning and Improvisation and Marcia's teaching approach using drones were the subject of an article in the December 2005 issue of Strings Magazine. Marcia is a Ta Ke Ti Na teacher, facilitating a group rhythm process using the body as a musical instrument. She maintains a cello studio in Ukiah, California.