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Edgar Campos (trumpet), originally from Costa Rica, is a member of four Chicago Civic Orchestras. He also performs with the Chicago Symphony, the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Edgar has performed with a variety of orchestras in the area as well as the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica and the World Youth Symphony. Edgar received a Master of Music Degree from Roosevelt University and his Bachelors Degree from Conservatoire de Musique de Quebec. His trumpet teachers include Adolph Herseth of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Marc Ridenour of the CSO, Channing Philbrick of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Robert Platt from the Berlin Philharmonic. The Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation awarded him with a second prize in National Competition and third prize in the National Music Festival.
Sarah Dupuis (violin and viola) received her Masters in Musicology and Performance from the University of Oxford: Brasenose College in the United Kingdom, and her Bachelor of Arts in Music from North Park University. In addition to her private students and ensembles at Musical Chairs, Sarah serves as the After-School Program Director for KIPP Ascend Violin Team providing families a tuition-free music education, and she teaches at the American Music Institute in Chicago and for Smiling Strings.
Jeff Greene (bass) is one of the emerging young bassists and composers in the Chicago music scene. Since completing his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Indiana University in 2004, where he studied with David Baker, Bruce Bransby, Pat Harbison, Steve Houghton and David Murray, he has been active as a composer and a performer in Chicago and throughout the country. He has performed in such legendary venues as the Green Mill, the Velvet Lounge, the Hungry Brain, the Metro and the Park West, as well as at the Taste of Chicago, Millennium Music Conference 10 and the 2009 Chicago Jazz Festival. In June of 2004 he was invited to attend the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia where he studied closely with David Baker, Nathan Davis, James Moody, Rufus Reid, and Danilo Perez, in addition to fourteen of his peers. In April of 2006 he was selected to attend Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC where he studied with Curtis Fuller, George Cables, Winard Harper, and Billy Taylor. Jeff has recorded albums with the James Davis and Greg Duncan quintets, as well as the Nick Fryer and Doug Stone Quartet and Fitted Shards, performing the music of New York saxophonist Greg Ward.
As a composer he has written more than fifty pieces for various ensembles, recorded more than twenty of his own compositions as the leader of Human Motion and Blink, and in 2007 the Illinois Arts Council awarded Jeff an Artists Fellowship in Music Composition to support the creation of new, original works. In 2008 he was commissioned to write "Storylines," a large ensemble piece for the Ears and Eyes Festival in Chicago. Blink was signed to the world-renowned Thirsty Ear label in the spring of 2008 and is actively touring both nationally and internationally to support their new album, The Epidemic of Ideas. Recently, Jeff completed his Masters degree in Music Composition at DePaul University where he studied with Juan Campoverde and Kurt Westerberg. The Range of their Vision, a composition for solo acoustic bass and electronics, received the 2010 ISB/David Walter Composition Competition and was premiered at San Francisco State University during the 2011 International Society of Bassists' convention. In 2011 Organics, for two percussionists, received the 2011 Kleinmann Award and will receive its world premiere at DePaul University in May 2012. www.jeffgreenemusic.com
Edgar Campos (trumpet), originally from Costa Rica, is a member of four Chicago Civic Orchestras. He also performs with the Chicago Symphony, the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Edgar has performed with a variety of orchestras in the area as well as the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica and the World Youth Symphony. Edgar received a Master of Music Degree from Roosevelt University and his Bachelors Degree from Conservatoire de Musique de Quebec. His trumpet teachers include Adolph Herseth of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Marc Ridenour of the CSO, Channing Philbrick of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Robert Platt from the Berlin Philharmonic. The Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation awarded him with a second prize in National Competition and third prize in the National Music Festival.
Sarah Dupuis (violin and viola) received her Masters in Musicology and Performance from the University of Oxford: Brasenose College in the United Kingdom, and her Bachelor of Arts in Music from North Park University. In addition to her private students and ensembles at Musical Chairs, Sarah serves as the After-School Program Director for KIPP Ascend Violin Team providing families a tuition-free music education, and she teaches at the American Music Institute in Chicago and for Smiling Strings.
Jeff Greene (bass) is one of the emerging young bassists and composers in the Chicago music scene. Since completing his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Indiana University in 2004, where he studied with David Baker, Bruce Bransby, Pat Harbison, Steve Houghton and David Murray, he has been active as a composer and a performer in Chicago and throughout the country. He has performed in such legendary venues as the Green Mill, the Velvet Lounge, the Hungry Brain, the Metro and the Park West, as well as at the Taste of Chicago, Millennium Music Conference 10 and the 2009 Chicago Jazz Festival. In June of 2004 he was invited to attend the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia where he studied closely with David Baker, Nathan Davis, James Moody, Rufus Reid, and Danilo Perez, in addition to fourteen of his peers. In April of 2006 he was selected to attend Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC where he studied with Curtis Fuller, George Cables, Winard Harper, and Billy Taylor. Jeff has recorded albums with the James Davis and Greg Duncan quintets, as well as the Nick Fryer and Doug Stone Quartet and Fitted Shards, performing the music of New York saxophonist Greg Ward.
As a composer he has written more than fifty pieces for various ensembles, recorded more than twenty of his own compositions as the leader of Human Motion and Blink, and in 2007 the Illinois Arts Council awarded Jeff an Artists Fellowship in Music Composition to support the creation of new, original works. In 2008 he was commissioned to write "Storylines," a large ensemble piece for the Ears and Eyes Festival in Chicago. Blink was signed to the world-renowned Thirsty Ear label in the spring of 2008 and is actively touring both nationally and internationally to support their new album, The Epidemic of Ideas. Recently, Jeff completed his Masters degree in Music Composition at DePaul University where he studied with Juan Campoverde and Kurt Westerberg. The Range of their Vision, a composition for solo acoustic bass and electronics, received the 2010 ISB/David Walter Composition Competition and was premiered at San Francisco State University during the 2011 International Society of Bassists' convention. In 2011 Organics, for two percussionists, received the 2011 Kleinmann Award and will receive its world premiere at DePaul University in May 2012. www.jeffgreenemusic.com
Daniel Williams (clarinet, saxophone) obtained both a Bachelors and Masters degrees in performance for clarinet and saxophone and has been teaching both instruments for ten years. He attended Cleveland Institude of Music and then went on to University of Southern California in LA. His students have been as young as 7 and as old as 60+. He currently teaches both beginner group and private lessons at the Merit School of Music in Chicago. He also teaches in Oak Park at the high school and Fenwick High as well as Kagan and Gaines Music in Forest Park.
