TRUMPET

Ian Carey is an East Bay-based trumpeter, slide whistler, composer, and educator. When he's not circus-izing, he can be found performing with his groups the Ian Carey Quintet+1 and Wood/Metal/Plastic, with bands like the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, the Morchestra, and Anthony Brown's Asian-American Orchestra, or teaching at places like CA Jazz Conservatory and Sonoma State. He is also a graphic designer. www.iancareyjazz.com

SAXOPHONE

Kasey Knudsen is a SF-based saxophonist, composer & educator. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music in 2002. She has been dubbed "one of the region's most esteemed saxophonists" (Andrew Gilbert, SF Classical Voice, 2018) and was included in a list of "10 Female Instrumentalists Who Redefine Jazz" by Alexa Peters of Paste Magazine (2016). As a composer, Knudsen has been commissioned by the San Jose Jazz 'New Works Festival'; InterMusic SF's Small Chamber Music Grant; Intersection For the Arts; the De Young Museum; and the CA Jazz Conservatory's Emerging Artist Series. In addition to leading a number of her own projects, as a co-leader, she is involved in several groups including the Schimscheimer Family Trio, the Holly Martins, and the Klaxon Mutant Allstars.

Knudsen collaborates frequently with many of the most unique musical voices in the Bay Area including multiple performances across the USA and Europe with TuneYards; a myriad of shows and festivals across the world with Fred Frith and the Gravity Band; a tour of the Pacific Northwest with the Charlie Hunter Quartet and a wide variety of performances with Erik Jekabson, Circus Bella, the Ian Carey Quintet + 1, Ben Goldberg, the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, Beth Schenck, and many more. www.kaseyknudsenmusic.com

PERCUSSION

Michael Pinkham has been a working Bay Area drummer since the early 90's (1st gig at Berkeley Square). He has played, recorded and toured nationally and internationally with many artists including: Peter Rowan's Big Twang Theory, Linda Tillery, Joan Baez, the Oakland Symphony, Oakland Interfaith gospel Choir, Matt Montgomery & the Petty Troubles Orchestra, The SF Mime Troupe, Samba do Coracao, Diego's Umbrella, Albino!, New Monsoon and many others. Michael currently holds the drum Chair with the Circus Bella All-Star Band (since 2008), the Bay Area's old-world soul group, Kugelplex, Physical Suicide Deterrent System Project (PSDSP), Milk For The Angry, Jesse Ray Smith Band and is a founding and current member of the Lost at Home Drumline.

TUBA

Over the past 10 years, Jonathan Seiberlich has become a prominent member of the SF Bay Area’s vibrant music scene. On any given night you may hear him perform with the SF Symphony, the Nomad Session Wind Octet, Jazz Mafia Collective, Grateful Brass, Honor Brass Band, Circus Bella, Kyle Athayde Dance Party, or playing solo at MacArthur BART Station. Jonathan has also performed alongside internationally renowned acts such as Sigur Ros, Veronica Swift, Peter Apfelbaum, Josh Jones, and The California Honeydrops.

In addition to his work as a tuba player, Jonathan is an accomplished producer, composer, arranger, and songwriter. Since 2015 he has been producing albums of music under the name Jensen Engineering. These albums include a variety of original songs and collaborations with other renowned Bay Area instrumentalists, singers, and rappers. More recently, Jonathan has formed the Jonathan Seiberlich Quintet, which performs original instrumental music featuring a blend of New Orleans “brass band” instrumentation, classical composition, and improvisation.

Jonathan was born and raised in Concord, CA. He began his musical studies at Los Medanos College, then went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Tuba Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory and a Masters degree in Tuba Performance from USC. Over the course of his career, he has studied with Peter Wahrhaftig, Ron Bishop, Jim Self, Norm Pearson, Doug Tornquist, Roger Bobo, and Zachariah Spellman. He is currently the Tuba Faculty at Sonoma State University and has been teaching students of all ages for over 15 years.

KEYBOARD

As a pianist and vocalist, Katy Stephan is known for crossing uncharted territory between classical, jazz, and pop. Her voice has been featured in film and television soundtracks (XMen: Dark Phoenix, Catwoman, The Time Machine), and she’s been a soloist with the Oakland East Bay Symphony for their concert versions of Candide, Follies and Leonard Bernstein's Mass.  She has composed and performed original music for theatre (Word For Word, Upon These Boards, Porchlight), dance (Project Agora, Requisite Dance, Copious Dance Theatre), and circus (Vau de Vire). Katy has been the resident singing pianist at San Francisco’s Comstock Saloon since 2011.

VIOLIN

Christina Walton is a violinist and actor based in the East Bay. She performs most frequently as a pit musician in musical theater. Highlights include Matchbox Magic Flute, Paradise Square and Ain't Too Proud at Berkeley Repertory Theater, and American Conservatory Theater’s production of Nobody Loves You. She loves performing onstage in actor/musician roles, with favorites including the Park Ranger in Z Space's immersive concert-play, Wildfire, and Ex-Girlfriend in 42nd Street Moon's Theater Bay Area award-winning production of Once. She also serves as concertmaster for the Oakland Civic Orchestra and leader of The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol's string quartet. Hailing from Greenville, SC, Christina began studying the violin at age ten, participating in her county's youth orchestra, the South Carolina Allstate Orchestra and Charleston's Piccolo Spoleto Festival before getting bitten by the acting bug and acting, singing and dancing her way to a BFA in Musical Theater from Brenau University and an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater.