Harvey J. Stokes is Professor of Music at Hampton University, where he also is the Founder and Director of the Computer Music Laboratory. He has taught also at Miami University, Christopher Newport University, and the College of William and Mary. His degrees are from Michigan State University (Ph. D.), The University of Georgia (M. M.), and East Carolina University (B. M.). His composition instructors include Drs. Brett Watson, Alan Leichtling, John Corina, Lewis Nielson, Jere Hutcheson, and Charles Ruggerio. Currently, he serves on the National Council of the Society of Composers, Inc. and as a past-President of the Southeastern Composers League. Additionally, several composer residencies have been completed at West Chester University, Chowan University, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is the author of two books on music as well as an award-winning composer of numerous works, and these works are available from Seesaw Music (c/o Subito Music Corporation), Ars Nova Music, Centaur Records, Albany Records, and Harkie Music. His works have been performed recently in Hong Kong, Argentina, France, Canada, and the United States.

Betty R. Wishart (B.Mus., Queens University; M.Mus., University of North Carolina) has taught at Campbell University, UNC, and Heritage Bible College. Her music has been performed throughout the United States, in Russia, Italy, Greece, Germany, France, and South Korea and is available on the Ravello, Navona, Sarton, and Phasma-Music labels. Piano compositions selected for the NFMC Junior Festival Bulletin are available from Conners Publications. She has been composer-in-residence at Weymouth Center for the Arts, received awards from the National League of American Pen Women, American College of Musicians, seventeen ASCAP Plus awards, three Regional Project Support Grants from the Arts Council of Fayetteville and Cumberland County, and been a composition winner in Neue Musik Frankfurt Happy New Sounds Concert Series.

Grace Joy Reid earned her Bachelor of Music Degree at Kansas State University, majoring in piano and minoring in violin, and studied piano with Dr. Robert Edwards, and studied piano performance with Lazlo Lak at Biola University in La Mirada, CA. She is a composer and arranger and has maintained a private piano studio for over twenty years. An active member of the National League of American Pen Women, National Federation of Music Clubs, Woodbridge Music Club, Women in Jazz South Florida, The Delian Society, American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers, The National Association of Composers, and ASCAP. She is a regular pianist at local churches in Northern VA. She has completed her "Advanced Professional General Music Studies Certificate" from Berklee School of Music in 2020. She was accepted into Veterans in Residence 2021A District of Columbia Cohort, which is a six-month entrepreneur incubator partnership.

John Winsor (B.Mus., Heidelberg University; M.A., Kent State University) has taught music theory at the Armed Forces School of Music and at the Virginia Governor's School for the Arts (GSA). He has also taught clarinet at GSA and Tidewater Community College (TCC). He is the Hardwick Chamber Ensemble's clarinetist and composer-in-residence and webmaster for NACUSA, the MusicLink Foundation, and the Virginia Music Teachers Association (VMTA), among others. He is a past chairman of NACUSA's board of directors. John's composition prizes include two Delius Awards, six VMTA Commissions, the Modern Music Festival 2000 Film Scoring prize, and others. He has received ASCAP "Plus" awards almost every year since 1994 and grants from the American Music Center and Meet the Composer. He is author of Breaking the Sound Barrier: An Argument for Mainstream Literary Music, which received the iUniverse Writer's Showcase, Editor's Choice, and Reader's Choice awards and a Bronze Medal in ForeWord Magazine's 2003 Book of the Year competition.