Jan Fillmore Scott teaches clarinet, oboe and bassoon at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She is also in charge of woodwind pedagogy and chamber music. Jan holds degrees from the University of North Texas, the University of Louisville and has doctorate work in progress at Louisiana State University. She has studied with Lee Gibson, James Gillespie, John Scott and Steve Cohen. Jan has been on the teaching faculties of McMurry University, Abilene Christian University, University of Louisville, Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne and the Sewanee Summer Music Center. She currently is principal clarinet with the Lake Charles Symphony and the Rapides Symphony Orchestra in Alexandria, Louisiana, and has performed with the Louisville Orchestra, the Louisville Ballet, the Indiana Chamber Orchestra, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the Midland-Odessa Symphony. She is an active soloist and adjudicator throughout the South.

David Scott teaches trumpet at McNeese State University and has held the Alexander Endowed Professorship in Music. He has studied with Leon Rapier, Raymond Crisara, Robert Grocock and Roger Voisin and is a graduate of the University of Louisville and DePauw University. Scott has served on the faculties of the University of Idaho, Kentucky State University and the Sewanee Summer Music Center. He has performed as a recitalist throughout the United States and with numerous orchestras including the Louisville Orchestra, Kentucky Bach Society, Palm Beach Opera, Lake Charles Symphony, Rapides Symphony and the Midland-Odessa Symphony Orchestra. Scott is the founding director of the annual Louisiana Trumpet Competition and has performed with Susan Slaughter, Dave Bilger, Joyce Davis and Vince Dimartino. He is an active ITG member and was the ITG Solo Competition chair in 1994 and 1998. Scott has performed at several ITG conventions and served as a judge for the 1997 ITG Composition Contest.

LONNY BENOIT

Lonny Benoit teaches percussion at McNeese State University. He is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he studied with Dr. Dean Gronemeier and Mr. John R. Beck. His professional experience includes performing with the Lake Charles Symphony, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, the Rapides Symphony Orchestra, and the TAD Wind Symphony from Tokyo, Japan. An active member of the Percussive Arts Society, he is the former Vice President of the Nevada Chapter. Mr. Benoit is an in demand clinician throughout the United States and Japan. He has worked with several bands and drum & bugle corps throughout the United States including the Phantom Regiment and Blue Knights. Lonny Benoit is an Innovative Percussion, Pearl Drums/Adams Musical Instruments, Zildjian Cymbals, and Evans Drumheads Artist.
 

FRED SAHLMANN

Fred Sahlmann is on the faculty of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he is Professor of Piano, Organ and Theory. He has appeared regularly in solo and chamber music recitals and has soloed with a number of area orchestras in Louisiana and Texas. He is active in church music, currently holding the post of organist-choirmaster at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Lake Charles. He has two undergraduate degrees from Elon College, North Carolina, with majors in piano and organ. He received the Master of Music degree from Teacher's College, Columbia University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree with Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. At Eastman he was a student of Jose Echaniz. On a Fulbright Grant, he studied for a year at the Academy of Music in Vienna, Austria, before beginning his teaching career at his alma mater, Elon College.
 

LINA MORITA

Lina Morita, a Brazilian-Japanese pianist, is a native of São Paulo, Brazil. Ms. Morita has performed in various solo and chamber music performances across the US and abroad. Select performances include Tulane University (New Orleans), Church of the Epiphany, Atlas Performing Arts Center, National City Christian Church (Washington DC), Washington Square Concert Series (NY), The Music Center at Strathmore (Maryland), George Eastman House Holiday Musicale Series (NY), Sala Xochipilli, UNAM (Mexico), Bertramka Hall (Czech Republic), Académie Internationale Musicale d’Été de Nice (France), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Cultura Japonesa (Brazil). Ms. Morita has received the D.M.A. degree from the Eastman School of Music in Piano Performance and Literature; the M.M. from Rice University; and the B.M. from Indiana University. Her primary studies have been with renowned professor Nelita True, Robert Roux, Edmund Battersby, and Michel Block. Ms. Morita is currently the Assistant Professor of Piano at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA.