Composer and conductor, Jonathan D. Green, is provost and dean of the faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. As a composer, he has received awards from ASCAP, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His works include numerous songs, choral works, three piano concertos, and seven symphonies. Dr. Green is the author of six other books of music reference on the choral-orchestral tradition. He is a member of ASCAP, the Conductors Guild, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. David William Oertel is the Music Director and Conductor of the Starlight Symphony Orchestra (TX) and the Austin Philharmonic. He has also appeared as a guest conductor in venues from Houston, TX to St. Petersburg, Russia and Zlin, Czech Republic. Oertel has taught music in the public schools in Houston and has been on the faculty of High Point University (NC) and North Carolina A&T University. He has worked with youth orchestras, musical theatre and opera pit orchestras, concert orchestras as well as wind ensembles, jazz ensembles and silent film orchestras. Oertel holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as well as a Masters degree in Applied Performance from the University of Houston. His undergraduate degree is from the University of North Texas. His notable conducting mentors include Robert Linder, David Daniels, Max Rudolf, Kirk Trevor, Hans Graf, Niklaus Wyss, Adrian Gnam and Franz Krager.