Mark Dannenbring is associate professor of flute and head of the wind division at Tunghai University, Taiwan. His background includes doctoral studies in music theory, dance theory as well as professional experience in dance, theatre, and conducting. Additional studies have been taken in Alexander Technique and Chi-Kung. He has given many classes on body awareness and musical expression. He plays on period instruments.  He holds a doctorate in flute performance from the Univeristy of Iowa.

Anthony Ferner returned to Christchurch in 1996 after 17 years based in Sydney. There he was a member of the Sydney Symphony orchestra and later then Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and established a reputation as a teacher soloist and conductor both sides of the Tasman. During this time he lived in Milan for some years where he taught studied and performed in Italy Europe and England.
He is a graduate of the University of Canterbury and winner of the 1972 National Concerto Competition. He received a Queen Elizabeth Arts Council grant to study at the Guildhall School of Music where he studied flute and conducting for three years. His flute teachers were Trevor Wye, William Bennett and Peter Lloyd, Principal flute of the London Symphony and attending summer classes of James Galway and Jean Pierre Rampal.
He has appeared frequently on both Radio NZ and the ABC recital programmes and since his return to NZ has appeared frequently as a soloist and conductor with the Christchurch Symphony. In 1992 he studied postgraduate conducting at the St Petersburg Conservatoire. This lead to engagements in the CIS in St Petersburg and Georgia.
In Christchurch he is on the staff at the University of Canterbury as Lecturer in flute, chamber  music and director of the University chamber Orchestra. He has been a Woodwind examiner for the Australian Music board since 1987.

Uwe Grodd has performed and recorded internationally since 1978 and is based in New Zealand.
In his native Germany Uwe Grodd studied flute with Werner Peschke and conducting with Manfred Schreier. After graduating from Mainz University the major influences on his career came from the guidance of two of Europe's finest musicians: Maestro Sergiu Celibidache and Flautist/ composer Robert Aitken. Success at international master classes and competitions such as in Lugano and Zlin was followed by a prestigious scholarship for further studies at the Banff Centre, Canada.
He has performed as soloist with most orchestras in New Zealand and toured extensively around the county with several chamber music ensembles as well as throughout North America and Europe. He has appeared as a soloist in "Symphony Under the stars" to an audience of 250,000 and given a recital for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
He is currently Associate Professor of Flute and Conducting at the University of Auckland School of Music. He has been Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival of New Zealand since 1998.
He records for the NAXOS label and in 2000 won the 'Best 18th Century Orchestral Recording' category at the prstigious Cannes Classical Awards for his CD of Symphonies by J B Vanhal (Naxos 8.554341) with the Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia.

Nancy Luther Jara is principal piccolo with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. She is orginally from New York. Her early musical training included many summers at the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan and studies at the Juilliard School's preparatory division. She recived a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and an ARCM from the Royal College of Music in London. Her flute teachers have included Frances Blaisdell Williams, Robert Willoughby and Douglas Whittaker. She joined the NZSO in 1973. Apart from orchestral work, Nancy has performed as a soloist with the NZSO and the NZ Chamber Orchestra, as a Concert Recording Artist for Radio NZ, and she tutored at the Wellington Polytechnic's Conservatorium of Music for 14 Years. In 1998 she received a Montana Study Award towards further piccolo studies with Kazuo Tokito, principal piccolo of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

James Kortum is currently Lecturer in Flute at the University of Newcastle. Originally from the United States, he came to Australia in 1977 to take up the position of Principal Flute with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Subsequently he has held positions in the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. James also teaches flute and classes in orchestral repertoire at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.  He has just completed the Yoga Teacher's Course with the Sydney Yoga Centre and gives workshops to musicians on posture/body awareness and breathing.

Richard Nunns is one of New Zealand's most respected performers and researchers of Maori music and instruments. Recent projects include writing a book about the traditional instruments, performing with Hirini Melbourne, Moana nd the Moahunters, Alexa Still, Deborah Wai Kapohe, Evan Parker, Marilyn Crispell and Urban Taniwha, and recording with Evan parker, Judy Bailey and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
International Interest in his work has taken him recently to the Czech republic, Germany, the United States and Italy, to perform and give presentations, lectures and workshops.
The unique and compelling voices of nga taonga puoro, the traditional instruments of the Maori, have attracted the interest of a number of New Zealand's distinguished composers inclubding Gareth Farr, Helen Fisher and particularly Gillian Whitehead. Richard had participated in a number of Gillian's projects including Ipu, a successful collaboration for a small ensemble, Outrageous Fortune, a bicultural opera and Hine Raukatauri, a weaving of two flute traditions in honour of the goddes of flute music. This piece was given it's world premiere in Atlanta in 1999 by Richard and Alexa Still.
In 2001 Richard was a research Associate at the University of Waikato.
He has been awarded an honorary life member of the New Zealand Flute Association, and was recently awarded the Composers Association of New Zealand citation for 'services to New Zealand music'.