Lara Bruckmann has been dubbed "excellent, emotionally and vocally" (Contra Costa Times), "a singer with real potential" (Denver Post) and credited with "vibrant, on the money performance" (SF Weekly), "a real flair for comedy" (Castro Valley Forum) and characters that "steal the show… should win an Oscar for this" (Oakland Tribune). She has sung and acted on many Bay Area stages, including the Plush Room, Palace of Fine Arts, New Conservatory Theatre Center, The Legion of Honor, Scottish Rite Temple, EXIT, ODC, Venue Nine, New Langton Arts, Jazz House, and Ruby Skye. Her many acting and musical theatre credits include Aldonza/Dulcinea (Man of LaMancha), the Witch (Into the Woods), Sonia Walsk (They're Playing Our Song), Rose (The Lights), Suzette (Don't Dress for Dinner), and Rosie (Bye Bye Birdie), and she has won several Best Actress awards. Lara keeps one foot in the opera world, where she has played roles such as Dido (Pforzheimer Opera), Arsena (Colorado Lyric Theatre Festival), and has placed in competitions hosted by West Bay Opera, East Bay Opera League, and National Association of Teachers of Singing. She is also a frequent classical recitalist, including recent concerts at Chapel of the Chimes and the Bellevue Club, and frequent performances with Oakland Lyric Opera. Current projects include her original one-woman show "divagation: an internal cabaret", premiering this fall at the San Francisco Fringe Festival, and Girlkulture, a saucy cabaret trio that performs regularly in the Bay Area and has plans to begin touring next year. Lara trained in opera at Rice University (BM) and The New England Conservatory (MM). She is founder and director emeritus of Arts First Oakland, where she is still on the Board of Directors. Lara teaches private voice lessons out of her home in San Francisco.

Pianist Miles Graber received his musical training at the Juilliard School. He has lived in the Bay Area since 1971, where he has developed a wide reputation as an accompanist and collaborative pianist for instrumentalists and singers. He has been associated with numerous solo artists, including Itzhak Perlman and Camilla Wicks, as well as with such ensembles as the San Francisco Chamber Soloists, Midsummer Mozart, the Oakland-East Bay Symphony, Oakland Lyric Opera, and the San Francisco Camerata. He has been a frequent performance accompanist and chamber player with members of the San Francisco Symphony, the San Jose Symphony, The Berkeley Symphony, the California Symphony, the Santa Rosa Symphony, and the UC Berkeley Symphony. He is principal pianist for the Bay Area chapter of the National Association of Composers USA. An active teacher and chamber music coach, Miles is on the faculties of the Crowden School, San Domenico Conservatory, and Summer Music Berkeley, and he is a member of the accompanying staff at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

David Arend, bass, also studied at the Juilliard School, after receiving his Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory. He currently plays with the Oakland-East Bay and Sacramento Symphonies, and is founder of ensembleMars, which focuses on new chamber music. Other projects include his jazz group Telepathy and music/dance collaboration Octagon. Some past highlights include collaboration with Ornette Coleman and playing a duet in concert with Bobby McFerrin. David is Treasurer and a member of the Board of Arts First Oakland, and he also teaches privately.

Accordionist Kyle Bruckmann is a newcomer to San Francisco, but since his arrival in November has played oboe and English horn with the Berkeley Symphony, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Santa Cruz Symphony, and the Oakland Chamber Ensemble. In his past home of Chicago, he played double reeds, accordion, keyboards, and electronics in projects ranging from performance events with Red Moon Theater to new music with Ensemble Noamnesia to post-punk rock with his band Lozenge. Bruckmann has over a dozen recordings on the market, including "Entymology", a solo improvised album and "Wrack", his compositions for chamber ensemble. Kyle studied at Rice University (BM) and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (MM).