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Margaret Herlehy (oboe) received her training at the University of Michigan and Sarah Lawrence College where she remained as Artist in Residence for five-year tenure. Her principal teachers include Lois Wann and Arno Mariotti. As a chamber musician, she performs with Sospiri ensemble and premiered works for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano at the 2003 International Double Reed Conference in Greensboro, NC. She also performs with Infinities chamber ensemble as a member of Massachusetts' Young Audiences presenting Young People's Concerts throughout New England. She has performed on WGBH Morning Pro Musica, recorded commercial soundtracks for radio, television and major motion picture soundtracks and can be heard on numerous New Age recordings. Ms. Herlehy currently performs as principal oboist of the Hanover Chamber Orchestra and the Granite State Symphony. In addition, she has performed with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, as soloist with the New England String Ensemble, the Berkshire Opera among other orchestras throughout the Northeast. In addition to performing, Ms. Herlehy maintains an active teaching schedule. She is lecturer of oboe at the University of New Hampshire and founder and Artistic Director of Music da Camera Chamber Music Workshops since 1992. An avid speed skater, she lives in Strafford, NH.

Sandi-Jo Malmon (cello) is an active chamber music and orchestral performer. She made her Lincoln Center debut in 1991 with the Boston Quartet, of which she was a founding member. A founding member also of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Music Ensemble, she has performed as an Artist in Residence at the Mill Pond Center for the Arts in Durham, NH, and has appeared in concert at various venues around New England, in the Midwest, on the eastern seaboard, and in Europe. She is currently a member of the Eleva Chamber Players (Vermont) Lake George Opera Festival (New York). She has performed with the New Hampshire Symphony, Opera Boston (formerly the Boston Academy of Music), Cantata Singers, the Boston Secession, and the Handel Society Orchestra at Dartmouth College. Ms. Malmon has recorded for Blue Hill Records, North Star Records, Lakewest Records, and Pamet River Recordings.

Sandi-Jo Malmon is currently on the adjunct cello faculty of Northeastern University. She has served on the faculties of the International composers' conference at Wellesley College, the International string conference in Pennsylvania, Powers Music School, and the Brookline Music School. Sandi-Jo Malmon received degrees in cello performance from The New England Conservatory of Music, the Longy School of Music, and Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. She was a student of Richard Kapuscinski and Paul Tobias. Ms. Malmon is the Librarian for Collection Development at the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University.

Dan Perkins (piano) is the Stevens-Bristow Distinguished Professor of Music and director of choral activities at Plymouth State University. He holds DMA and MM degrees from the University of Southern California, and a BMu from Brigham Young University. As a Fulbright Scholar in Finland, he worked as the associate conductor of the Savonlinna Opera Festival Chorus and the Finnish Chamber Choir. Dr. Perkins is music director of the New Hampshire Master Chorale, the Manchester Choral Society, and has served as the principal guest conductor of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet in Hanoi, and as the music director of the Hanover Chamber Orchestra. Perkins' choirs have received high praise for their performances in Canada, England, Peru, Vietnam, South Africa, the American southwest, Italy, and throughout New England.

He is active as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and abroad. He has been a guest conductor of the Dartmouth Concertato Singers and Dartmouth Handel Society, and he conducted the New Hampshire Friendship Chorus on their tours to Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, Brazil, and Croatia/Slovenia/Bosnia/Montenegro. He will conduct that choir's spring 2010 tour in Morocco.