Flute: Laurel Tempas (630) 887-8399

Laurel Tempas is a private flute instructor in the western Chicago suburbs. She attended Northwestern Univeristy where she recieved her Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in Flute Performance degrees. Her flute professors include Emil Eck and Walfrid Kujala, both former players with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Laurel currently performs with the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest, as well as the Salt Creek Sinfonietta. When the West Suburban Symphony Orchestra went on a recent tour of England, she played principal flute. She is the former principal flute with the Wheaton Municipal Band and has also performed with the Wheaton Symphony Orchestra and the Wind Harmonies Woodwind Octet. In addition, Laurel is a member of the music faculty at Lewis University and an adjudicator for the Illinois Music Educator's Association district and state level band auditions.

Laurel comprises half of the flute/harp duo "Heather Harmonies", performing Celtic music in several local venues.

Oboe:

Bassoon: Matt Lano (410) 456-3760 or mjlano@hotmail.com

Clarinet: Andrea DiOrio (630) 881-8611 or andreadiorio@yahoo.com

Andrea is an active freelance clarinetist and private teacher in the Chicagoland area. Andrea has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, Grant Park Orchestra, Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, and Quad City Symphony. Andrea is also the clarinetist and Artistic Administrator for the MAVerick Ensemble, a contemporary music ensemble in Chicago. In addition to holding clarinet studios at both Lockport Township High School and Amos Alonzo Stagg High School, Andrea is on the music faculty at Benedictine University. Her responsibilities at Benedictine include: teach applied clarinet, coach chamber ensembles, coordinate the Summer Chamber Music Workshop, and coordinate the Concert at Noon Series (CANS). Andrea also teaches Music Appreciation for Benedictine's Moser College of Adult and Professional Studies.

Andrea has studied clarinet with Charlene Zimmerman, J. David Harris, Russell Dagon, and John Bruce Yeh. She earned her Master of Music degree in performance from Northwestern University, and her Bachelor of Music degree with honors, in performance, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Andrea feels very fortunate to have had such great teachers and mentors, and is delighted to have the opportunity to pass on what she has learned to all of her students.

Saxophone: David Babich (440) 670-1875 or d-babich@northwestern.edu

David Babich is in his first year as Master's student in Music Performance and Literature at Northwestern University where he studies saxophone with Dr. Frederick Hemke. David graduated Summa cum laude from Bowling Green State University where he studied with Dr. John Sampen and earned a Bachelor's degree in Music Education Music Education and Music Performance. While at BGSU, he won the 2004 Concerto Competition and soloed with the BGSU Philharmonia, his saxophone quartet placed 2nd in the graduate level Chamber Music Competition and performed extensively in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Conneticut. He also premiered and commisioned a variety of works for saxophone. In 2006, David received grants to perform in New York City and Faenza, Italy.

Outside of academia, David sat as principal saxophone in the 2006 Wind Ensemble with a performance at Carnegie Hall, appeared with the Black Tie Band live on Fox 8 News in the Morning as a featured band, and performed in numerous pit orchestras playing the four main saxophones, clarinet, and bass clarinet. In November 2008 David is scheduled to perform with the Pittsburgh Opera.

Trumpet: Paul Lowry (773) 412-7891 or Lowry229@hotmail.com

Horn: Mike Indykiewicz (815) 838-4467

Low Brass: Katheryn Aucremann (727) 709-7494

Katie Aucremann teaches euphonium, tuba, and trombone at Lockport High School. She is a 2005 graduate of Wheaton College with a Bachelor of Music Education degree and is currently studying for her Masters Degree in Euphonium Performance at Northwestern University. In addition to teaching at Lockport, Katie also has studios at Libertyville High School and Waubansie Valley High School. She is also on the marching band staff at Wheaton North High School where she teaches the drum majors and brass. Katie was the 2005 winner of the Wheaton College Concerto Competition, winds and percussion division, and a finalist in the 2007 Midwest Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference Excerpt Competition.

Katie is currently principal euphonium in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble at Northwestern as well as member and librarian of the Northshore Concert Band.

Percussion: Rick Urban (708) 539-5303

Rick Urban is currently the Pecussion instructor at Lockport Township High School. He also serves as the Percussion Ensemble Director at Amos Alonzo Stagg High School. He is currently on staff as the Pit instructor with the Stagg Marching Band. In addition to this he serves as Drum line instructor and private lesson teacher at Oak Lawn High School, Homewood Flossmoor High School, and Reavis High School. In 2005 he served as Percussion Ensemble Director at Timothy Christian School.

As a performer Mr. Urban is a percussionist with the West Shore Symphony. He serves as Associate Percussionist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Grand Rapids Symphony, and the New World Symphony in Miami. In 2004 he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2004 he performed with the Schlesvig-Holstein Festival Orchestra at Symphony Hall in Berlin, Germany. There he played under the direction of Christopher Eschenbach and Valerie Gergiev.

Mr. Urban received his Masters Degree in Music from the New England Conservatory in Boston, and has Bachelors Degrees in Music Performance and Music Composition from DePaul University in Chicago.