Beth Craig – Cello: Beth Craig has been an active teacher and performer in the Berkshires area since 2001.  She currently teaches cello at the Berkshire Music School, Miss Halls School, Great Barrington Rudolph Steiner School, and Indian Mountain School in Connecticut.  Pursuing an interest in composing during this time, she has collaborated with local artists to produce music for Walking the Dog Theater, the Robin Becker Dance Company, the Documentary Film Festival at Spencertown Academy and Columbia County Composers Coalition, among others.

Previously, she was a member of various orchestras in the United States and Brazil.

Besides maintaining her cello studio for private students, Beth has been deeply interested in facilitating students’ access to their own expressive and creative potential.  As well as developing her own ability to improvise freely and in a variety of styles, she has offered many workshops and classes in improvisation.

Her major cello teachers were Claus Adam and Yehunda Hanani, among others.  Composition studies have been with Robert Suderberg at Williams College, and Joan Tower at Bard College.

Ronald Gorevic – Violin/Viola: Ronald Gorevic has had a long and distinguished career as both a teacher and performer, on both the violin and viola. As a violinist, Mr. Gorevic has given many recitals to critical acclaim, throughout the US and Europe, including such major cities as London, New York, Cleveland, Chicago and Atlanta.  As a violist, he has been a member of several well know string quartets, spanning over twenty years, and covering most of the quartet repertoire. He has performed the Beethoven cycle twice, and has toured throughout the US,
Germany, Japan, Korea and Australia.  He has been heard on radio stations across the US, and has also been broadcast on S. German and S.W. German radio, and on the Australian Broadcast Network.  Mr. Gorevic’s teaching career began when, at the age of twenty-five, he was invited by David Cerone to join the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Subsequently, he taught at the University of Akron, Indiana University at South Bend, Sarah Lawrence College, Williams College, and currently at Smith College.

Jon Suters – Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Percussion: Jon grew up in a musical family and began studying the violin and piano at the age of nine. He gravitated towards playing the string bass when he was eleven and the classical guitar at thirteen. He studied with renowned teacher Ed Flower of Ithaca College for five years and Richard Provost of the Hartt School of Music for a year at which point he joined a German rock band and toured the U.S. and Germany for two years. Jon settled in the Berkshires in his early twenties and has made a living as both a performer and music educator. Jon has continued to study informally with Ben Verdery of the Yale School of Music, working on baroque and Balkan musical styles and his own compositions. He has appeared on numerous albums as a sideman, played for various productions of Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals, and toured with several different groups.

Charles Tokarz – Woodwinds: Charlie Tokarz plays saxophone, flute, and clarinet. Through an association with David Grover, he has played at the White House, the Today Show, and recorded Grover’s music for HBO. He has recorded soundtracks for two documentary films for John Pritchard and VyzMusic. Recent work includes performing for modern dance at the Cambridge Dance Center, Skidmore College, and Earth Dance. He has done tap accompaniment for A Jazz Tap Odyssey and Brenda Bufalino. As a member of the pit band, he has worked at Arena Stage, Barrington Stage, and various schools. As part of the Sister City cultural exchange program, he has played in Ireland and Italy and done school clinics there and in the U.S. In addition to playing jazz with the Fran Curley Quartet, he has done experimental music with drummer Bob Weiner, kora master John Hughes, and Ed Mann from Frank Zappa’s band. He currently teaches at Hotchkiss School, Steiner School, and privately.

Ellen Dilthey-Piano: Ellen Dilthey received her Master of Music degree in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from Northwestern University. She has been teaching piano students of all ages and levels for thirty years. She was owner and director of two successful piano studios in eastern Massachusetts and New York, as well as Educational Director of the Marymount Preparatory Music Program, Marymount College, NY.

Currently, Ellen is an adjunct professor of music at MCLA , teaches piano at Sonatina Enterprises in Bennington, Vt., and also maintains a private piano studio. In addition, she is a certified yoga instructor at Frog Lotus Yoga. She resides in North Adams with her husband and 4 sons.