Matthew Allison was raised in a musical family in Christchurch, New Zealand. After forays into violin, piano and guitar he began trombone at the age of eight. He worked his way through regional youth orchestras and the National Youth Orchestra before beginning studies at Victoria University. During this time he worked frequently with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony and the Wellington Sinfonia. After one year at Victoria University, Matthew transferred to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he received his Bachelor’s degree under the guidance of Mark Lawrence. Matthew has since worked with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. He has also worked with the symphony orchestras of California, Monterey, Santa Cruz and Berkeley in the Bay Area and holds the position of Second Trombone with the Napa Valley Symphony. In 2004, Matthew won the Robert Marstellar Competition at the International Trombone Festival held in Ithaca, New York. He has previously won the Bernadette Richardson Instrumental Competition also. He has also placed second in the Pacific Chamber Symphony Concerto Competition (San Francisco) as well as the Wellington Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition. In 2002, he toured Russia, Siberia, Armenia and the US as Principal Trombone of the Russian-American Young Artists’ Orchestra, a diplomatic initiative between the two countries. Matthew has appeared as a soloist with the Pacific Chamber Symphony, Christchurch Youth Orchestra and the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Symphony Orchestra and in 2003 was a recipient of an Arts Excellence Award from the Dame Malvina Major Foundation. His primary teachers include Mark Lawrence, Paul Welcomer, Marc Taddei, Karl Margevka and Paul Mayhew.

ANDREY ASTAIZA is currently a doctoral student in horn performance and wind conducting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his Master’s Degree from the University of Louisville and his Bachelor’s Degree from Arizona State University. He is active as a performer in the US and abroad. He has also performed in Germany, Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia. In December 2008, he presented a lecture/performance of new music for the French horn at the International Conference for Arts and Humanities in Hawaii. He is currently a conductor for the UCLA Symphonic Band is a Graduate Associate Conuctor of the UCLA Wind Ensemble.

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Marc Bolin has performed with such organizations as the Guy Lombardo Orchestra, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestras, Carla Bley, the Virginia Beach Pops, Sheila E, Pete Escovedo, and the Ink Spots. Marc can be heard performing with the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orch, Oakland Opera, Realistic Orchestra, Avance, Paradigm Brass, Dream Kitchen, Joseph's Bones, Low-End Theory and the Mitch Marcus Quintet +13.

In addition to playing music, Marc is an experienced teacher and youth advocate who has worked with multicultural youth from diverse backgrounds at the elementary and high school levels in workshops and residencies stretching from one day to 10 months. His work as an arts-educator has included appointments throughout the Bay Area. He is also co-founder of Toones, After- school Music Enrichment program

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Nick DePinna A San Francisco bay area native turned Los Angeles resident and enthusiast, composer and trombonist Nick DePinna is a graduate the UCLA Ethnomusicology and Music Departments, and is currently a graduate student in music composition. As a composer, Nick has been a part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Young Composers Program, as well as the SFJAZZ Young Composers Collective. Film and TV credits include "Chestnut" (2003), "King of Hearts" (2006), "Every Rose" (2007), "ChainSmoke" (2008), and "Escape" (2009), and has worked as an arranger and orchestrator for Kenny Burrell, Dave Bluefield, and others. As the co-founder and former student leader of the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Large Ensemble, he oversaw the premiere of thirty-eight pieces of music by fifteen living composers between 2006-2009. Current projects include the "Music for Spaceports" saga, the jazz-musical "Strange Fellowe" (with Hitomi Oba and Jerome Parker), and a self-produced solo album for release in 2010. Other projects include involvement with the Hitomi Oba Group (featured on the album "Negai"), the Elliot Deutsch Big Band, Groove Movement, the Eddie Reed Big Band, Brian Owen's Contemporarium, and folk rock group "Sharpless."
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Hall Goff, born and raised in NJ with three vital years in Wisconsin; B.A. from Oberlin college, studied with Thomas Cramer;  M.M. from Yale University school of music, studied with john swallow,  major music mentor was Otto Werner Meuller; S.F. ballet since 1977; S.F. contemporary music players since 1979; Paradigm Brass since 2003;  Prof. of trombone at Oberlin conservatory, 1982; some musical highlights include: Mexicali brass 1969-1970, New Haven Symphony, Wall St. brass quintet, Eastern Brass quintet, sub N.Y.C. ballet, Spoleto festival of two worlds 1974-1975, Macerata opera festival 1998, finalist New Orleans Symphony 1976, finalist Philadelphia Orchestra 1980. Performances with: John Lanchbery, Edo de Wart, Pierre Boulez, Kurt Masur, Lukas Foss, Thomas Schippers, Robert Shaw, Georg Solti, William Steinberg; performances behind:  Manhattan Transfer, Dihane Carroll, Vic Damone, Nelson Riddle, Frank Zappa, Ella Fitzgerald, John Pizzarelli (and more); occasionally recorded for film and T.V.   In his spare time Hall likes to spend time with his son, collect records, listen to jazz, tinker with things, make noise, teach, and spend time outdoors.
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Todd Martin is very active in the Winnipeg music scene, as a french Hornist, vocalist and teacher, he can be found onstage performing with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and various chamber ensembles. He is a member of both Camerata Nova and the Winnipeg Singers, the two premier choirs in Winnipeg. Todd is the horn instructor at Canadian Mennonite University, and is in demand as a clinician and private instructor. He has been a member of Paradigm Brass since 2006, and loves to rock your socks off!! Who says "CLASSICAL MUSICIANS" CAN'T ROCK?
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Originally from the Midwest, Doug Morton began playing trumpet at the age of 7. In his teens he attended the Interlochen Arts Academy, played with the World Youth Symphony, Michigan Youth Orchestra and was soloist with the Dun Scotus Bach Festivals. He received his bachelor's degree in trumpet (Phi Beta Kappa honorary) from the New England Conservatory, studying with Armando Ghitala, Gunther Schuller, and Daniel Pinkham. He founded and directed the Scholarship Brass Quintet, and was principal in many of Schuller's ensembles and Boston area groups.

Since moving to the Bay Area, Morton has performed with the Sacramento, Berkeley, Monterey, and California symphonies, among others, including being featured with the Santa Rosa, Monterey, Bay Area Concerto and Concord Pavilion orchestras as soloist, and has been invited to perform at many summer music festivals. He has been principal trumpet in Santa Rosa Symphony since 1992. Morton continues to pursue his interests in music of all kinds, performing with such diverse groups as the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, CARMA, Mental Floss, The Grateful Dudes, the Clubfoot Orchestra, SF Mime Troupe, Beach Blanket Babylon, and the Bohemian Club Jinks Band. Morton also composes and arranges. His works have been commissioned and performed by the California Shakespeare Festival, ACT, SF Chamber Singers, Napa Valley Chorale, Santa Rosa Chamber Players and KQED. He currently performs with Paradigm Brass, Orient Express, a world-music group, CJQ, a cross-over jazz combo and the Epiphoné Brass ensemble.

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Born and raised in Santa Monica, Chris Parise has been playing drums ever since the age of 12. Studying with teachers such as Aaron Smith, Jeff Bowders, and Mitchell Peters, Parise has played with such various groups as Parchment Farm (rock), The Quadlebet Quartet (Jazz), and The UCLA Philharmonia (Classical). Chris currently resides in Los Angeles.

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Trumpeter Jason Park, a native of Oahu, started in music while studying the ukulele. His trumpet career began in the mid nineties working as a freelance musician with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, Hawaii Opera Theater, and Royal Hawaiian Band. He studied at the University of Hawaii majoring in music performance and education. He has numerous credits performing with musical stage productions and experimental contemporary ensembles in Hawaii and San Francisco. He has appeared as soloist with the San Jose Wind Symphony, Other Minds, University of Hawaii Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, King-Castle Alumni Band, and has been featured on Hawaii Public Radio performing music for solo trumpet during a live broadcast promoting contemporary music. Additional musical studies include participation at the Banff Centre Summer Arts Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Rafael Mendez Brass Institute, Pacific Music Institute, and Hawaii International Jazz Festival.

Now a San Franciscan, Jason is an active freelance musician performing and recording with numerous orchestras, chamber groups, and alternative music ensembles in the Bay area, some include; Paradigm Brass, Brass Act Quintet, sfSound group, Pocket Opera, Lamplighters Theater Company, Collaborata, Luminous Family Trust, and Return to Mono. He teaches trumpet to a wide range of students in San Francisco and Marin. In addition to music, Jason is a fine artist specializing in thermoplastic mixed media and cooks for a residential AIDS Hospice.

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Daniel Aaron Rosenboom(b. 5/7/1982) is a trumpet virtuoso, improviser, composer, producer, and creative artist who seeks break musical boundaries by fusing styles in new and inventive ways. ?Rosenboom is a phenomenon,? says Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times. ?His speed and zinging high notes are amazing. He is a cool customer onstage, but what comes out of the mouthpiece is red hot.? By combining the sounds of creative improvised, contemporary classical music, rock, metal, hip-hop, jazz, experimental electronic, and traditional folk music from the Balkans, North India, and Middle East, he has created a brand of indefinable and hair-raising music. For his compositions, he has been recognized with grants from the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, the American Composers Forum, and the Meet the Composer foundation. As a free-lance artist in Los Angeles, he has played with such groups as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie der Nationen, the New Century Players, Wadada Leo Smith?s Silver Orchestra, Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, the Los Angeles Trumpet Quartet (with John Fumo, Jeff Kaiser, and Kris Tiner), VR with guitarist David Veslocki, Irmin Schmidt from CAN, the Grande Mothers of Invention, Kai Kurosawa, Brad Dutz, Harris Eisenstadt, Markus Stockhausen, Sandeep Bagwhati, Pavel Novak, Matt Mayhall, Antony DiGennaro, Björkestra, and many others. In 2006, Rosenboom released his debut solo CD, Bloodier, Mean Son, which features world-premiere recordings of new works for solo trumpet and electronics, on Nine Winds Records. Daniel holds a Master of Music degree from UCLA where he studied with international trumpet virtuoso, Jens Lindemann, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts where he studied with Edward Carroll, Vinny Golia, John Fumo, Wadada Leo Smith, Miroslav Tadic, and Larry Koonse. Other mentors have included Rosalina Sackstein, Roy Poper, Mark Gould, Markus Stockhausen, Thomas Sevens, Stephen Burns, and Gabrielle Cassone. www.danielrosenboom.com

Erin Vang holds degrees in horn performance from St. Olaf College and Northwestern University and has studied with Boris Rybka, Kendall Betts, and Dale Clevenger. She freelanced in the Chicago area for seven years, including performances with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Symphony II, and Symphony of the Shores, and tours of Korea and Germany with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, she has been appearing with the Oakland East Bay, San Jose, Marin, Monterey, Berkeley, Napa Valley, and Santa Rosa Symphonies; Symphony Silicon Valley, Sacramento and Women's Philharmonics, Festival and Pocket Opera companies, and the Foghorn Quartet. Erin and various beasts from the brass family have also been known to show up at Bay Area English country dance events and for several years perpetrated tuba for Bufflehead Northwest Morris.