Billy Childs
As a Grammy Award winning pianist and composer, Billy Childs has been stretching the boundaries of jazz by combining jazz with classical style string groups. Critics have called Childs “consistently innovative” and “fresh.” Of a recent album, the Wall Street Journal said, “It's impossible to tell where the jazz ends and the classical music begins.”

Mr. Childs has a degree in composition from the University of Southern California and has performed with notables such as, Freddie Hubbard, J.J. Johnson, Joe Henderson, Alan Holdsworth, Eddie Daniels, Dianne Reeves, Yo Yo Ma, Sting, and Chris Botti, among others.

Steve Wilson
As a saxophonist, Steve Wilson has toured and/or recorded with Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Michael Brecker, Dianne Reeves, George Duke, Lionel Hampton, the Mingus Big Band, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and many others. He has recorded seven CDs and is regularly cited in Downbeat Magazine’s Critics and Readers Polls.

Mr. Wilson is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.