Anna Martin has been involved in orchestra performance, teaching, and conducting for over 40 years. In that time, she has taught extensively in public schools, in a private studio, and performed with several semi-professional orchestras including South Bend, Indiana; Asheville, North Carolina, and Prince William County, Virginia.

She earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Wichita State University, and a Master of Arts in music at Ball State University.

In the course of teaching all levels of orchestra, she has become involved in, and formed several orchestras, from a youth orchestra in North Carolina which continues as the Little Symphony of Rutherford County, to the NOVA Manassas Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she conducted the Reston Chamber Orchestra for several seasons, and has been invited to conduct Handel's Messiah a number of times with community groups.

She has taught orchestra at Stonewall Jackson High School for nineteen years. Under her direction the orchestra program has grown to three orchestras from the original one, and the number of students involved in the program has more than doubled. In addition, the orchestra has participated in a cultural exchange with a school in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for three years, and has also made trips to Maastricht, The Netherlands (twice); Scotland (twice), and London.

Ken is a professional director and actor with both local and national credits. His work as a director includes directing his own translation of Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, the Off-Broadway productions of The Adjustment (as assistant director to Pam Berlin) and A Vow of Silence (both at Playhouse 91), several university and regional productions, and work with new scripts and original work. Regionally Ken serves as a fight director and movement coach. Recent movement coaching has included Bartleby for Journeyman Theatre, Le Bourgeois Avant Garde at Catholic University, An American Song, for Spotlight on the Spirit Productions, and Children of Eden and The Civil War for the Prince William Little Theater. His direction of For Alejandra won honors at the Source Theatre in DC and the 2002 Dubrovnik Theatre Festival.

As an actor Ken has worked on stage, television and in film. Some of those credits include productions of Rashoman, Romeo and Juliet, The Country Wife, Dangerous Corner, and The Cherry Orchard. Ken has appeared in Woody Allen’s Celebrity, Patrick Wright’s Minivan, Albert Pyun’s Brain Smasher, and in such television shows as The Sopranos, Dellaventura, and Unsolved Mysteries.

Ken has trained with both Marcel Marceau, and Jacques Lecoq, and he has worked with many master teachers of stage combat. He holds an MFA from the Ohio State University, studying there with Reid Gilbert and Jeanine Thompson.

Ken is a member of the Actor’s Equity Association, Association of Film, Television, and Radio Artists, the Screen Actor’s Guild, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. He is on the board of The Oberon Theatre Ensemble in New York, is a board member of the Mount Zion Church Preservation Association, is the past president of the Illinois Theatre Association, and serves as treasurer of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators.

Rev. C. Milton Rodgers III is the Minister of Music and Organist at Grace United Methodist Church, where he administers 16 choirs and a monthly concert series. He is also the Choral Assistant at Osbourn High School and teaches 15 piano, voice and organ students.

Having received his Masters and Bachelors of Music from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, Mr. Rodgers was invited to do post-graduate work at the Westfälische Landeskirchenmusikschule in Germany. He concertized as an organist widely in former East and West Germany and in Switzerland. He sits on the board of the NOVA Manassas Symphony and the Prince William Symphony and has performed with both orchestras. He is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and a voter for the Grammy Awards.

While in Germany, Mr. Rodgers led handbell workshops throughout former East and West Germany and co-directed the First German National Handbell Festival. Mr. Rodgers loves Broadway theatre and has been the musical director for combined Prince William Little Theatre/ Grace United Methodist Church productions of Godspell, Nunsence, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music, Children of Eden, and The Cottonpatch Gospel.

David Mathers is the Director of Sacred Music at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In addition to being the principal organist he directs the Adult, Youth and Children's Choirs. Mr. Mathers has also been director of music at All Saints Catholic Church in Manassas. For nine years, Mr. Mathers was Conductor of the NOVA Manassas Symphony Orchestra, nurturing the ensemble as it grew to be capable of larger symphonic repertoire and laying the groundwork for its present excellence.

Prior to his appointments in Virginia, Mr. Mathers was choir director at St. Hugh Catholic Church in Greenbelt, Maryland and the Assistant Conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra leading them in a variety of children's, pops and classical concerts. Mr. Mathers has also conducted performances of the Harrisburg Opera and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and he has worked extensively with several Washington, D.C. area youth orchestras.

Mr. Mathers is currently pursuing coursework for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Sacred Music at the Catholic University of America's Institute for Sacred Music in an intensive program of musicology, performance and liturgical theology. Mr. Mathers earned the Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Piano Performance from Catholic University where he studied with Marilyn Neeley and Antoinette Melignani. His conducting studies have included work with Leo Nestor, Michael Morgan, Gunther Schuller and Murry Sidlin.

Carl Long is the Concertmaster of the United States Air Force Concert Band and Principal Clarinet of the United States Air Force Orchestra, a position he has held since March 2003. His playing has charmed audiences in the Washington DC area, 49 of the 50 US States, Great Britain, France , Belgium , Germany , Austria , and Russia.