Hailed for his “trademark brilliance, penetrating sound, and rich character” (New York Times), Anthony enjoys a dynamic international solo and chamber music career and is principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic — the first African-American principal player in the organization’s history. He is the recipient of the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize, one of classical music’s most significant awards. Anthony appears as a soloist with top orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Baltim ore Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Kansas City Symphony. He performed alongside Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gabriela Montero at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, premiering a piece by John Williams. As a chamber musician, Anthony is a collaborator of the Brentano, Daedalus, Guarneri, JACK, Miró, Pacifica, Shanghai, Takács, and Tokyo Quartets, as well as Emanuel Ax, Inon Barnatan, Gloria Chien, Yefim Bronfman, Gil Shaham, Midori, Mitsuko Uchida, and Lang Lang. He serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School and is the Artistic Director for Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program. He holds the William R. and Hyunah Yu Brody Distinguished Chair at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 2020, Anthony’s #TakeTwoKnees campaign protesting the death of George Floyd and historic racial injustice went viral. For more information, please visit anthonymcgill.com.

Nick lights up concert halls across the U.S. three continents as a solo performer and a member of the Emmy Award-winning Time For Three (TF3) and the artist collective East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO).

As a soloist and with TF3 and ECCO, Nick has performed at Carnegie Hall, New York City’s  Lincoln Center, on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center,  Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Schleswig Holstein Festival outside Hamburg, the Hollywood Bowl, BBC Proms, Ravinia Festival, Melbourne’s Hamer Hall, Wiener Musikverein, Marlboro Music Festival, Sydney Opera House, Hyogo Performing Arts Center outside Osaka, Dvořák Hall at Prague’s Rudolfinum, Hong Kong Cultural Center, and at an array of sports arenas across Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Luxembourg as one of the featured artists on the touring super-show “Night of the Proms.”

He has shared the stage with Joshua Bell, Branford Marsalis, Christoph Eschenbach, Joshua Radin, Keith Lockhart, Alisa Weilerstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jake Shimabukuro, Aoife O’Donovan, Marin Alsop, Chris Thile, James Gaffigan, Krzysztof Urbański, Chris Brubeck – who composed a jazz-inspired improvised violin concerto for Nick, Swiss pop/soul star Stefanie Heinzmann, and the legendary Irish rock band Simple Minds.

Nick’s special projects include original film scoring, recording new music by living composers,  co-writing, producing, and performing on pop albums. Besides the Land soundtrack and recording sessions with the Philadelphia Orchestra of new compositions by Jennifer Hidgon and Kevin Puts, Nick also plays on the latest release of R&B superstar Summer Walker’s hit record, “Still Over It” (Interscope, 2021).

Joshua is a music educator and performer based out of Moab, Utah. An alumnus of Snow College’s Horne School of Music, he holds a Bachelor of Music with an emphasis in Commercial Music. His journey as a performer began in northern Utah as a percussionist in grade school. Since then he has performed in various collegiate and independent ensembles on Percussion, Tuba, and Trombone. Joshua is the current band director for Grand County High School and Margaret L. Hopkin Middle school in Moab, Utah. In his spare time, he serves as the visual caption head for The Battalion Drum and Bugle Corps.

Susan came to Moab 37 years ago with her husband and dogs, and remains in love with the
land, river and light. She worked and played with Moab Community Theatre for many years
directing, acting, laughing and doing whatever else was needed. She participated in the first
group dedicated to preserving Star Hall as a public space.

Susan holds a MFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah. As a dancer she studied,
performed, taught and choreographed primarily in New York and the Washington, D.C. area.

Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman, violin; John Pickford Richards, viola; Jay Campbell, cello

Hailed by The New York Times as “our leading new-music foursome”, the JACK Quartet is one of the most acclaimed, renowned, and respected groups performing today. JACK has maintained an unwavering commitment to their mission of performing and commissioning new works, giving voice to underheard composers, and cultivating an ever-greater sense of openness toward contemporary classical music. The quartet was selected as Musical America’s 2018 “Ensemble of the Year”, nominated for GRAMMY Awards for recordings in 2018 & 2022, named to WQXR’s “19 for 19 Artists to Watch”, and awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Through intimate relationships with today’s most creative voices, JACK embraces close collaboration with the composers they perform, leading to a radical embodiment of the technical, musical, and emotional aspects of their work. The quartet has worked with artists such as Julia Wolfe, George Lewis, Chaya Czernowin, Helmut Lachenmann, Caroline Shaw, and Simon Steen-Andersen. JACK’s all-access initiative, JACK Studio, commissions a selection of artists each year, who will receive money, workshop time, mentorship, and resources to develop new work to be performed and recorded by the quartet. JACK operates as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the performance, commissioning, and appreciation of new string quartet music. jackquartet.com

Theo’s operatic highlights include Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at Los Angeles Opera and Israeli Opera, Count in Le nozze di Figaro at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Israeli Opera, Schaunard in La Bohème at Seattle Opera and Atlanta Opera, Escamillo in Carmen at Atlanta Opera, the world premiere of Denis & Katya at Opera Philadelphia, Flight at Des Moines Metro Opera, Candide at LA Opera, Carmen at LA Opera, and Lakmé with Washington Concert Opera. A frequent performer of Philip Glass, he performed in Satyagraha at LA Opera, Les Enfants Terribles at Opera Omaha, and the US premiere of The Trial at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Theo has concertized with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vocal Arts DC, Castleton Festival, Salzburg Mozartwoche, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, Israel Philharmonic, Marlboro Music, Bard Music Festival, Portland Symphony, and New York Festival of Song. He was a 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finalist and a recipient of a 2018 Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. Future seasons see him at Hamburgische Staatsoper as Prosdocimo in Il Turco in Italia, and at Opernhaus Zürich.