Edwin L. Basilio, Ed.D., serves as the chief administrator and artistic director of the elite Choral Scholars and the USD Concert Choir.

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Nathan Brock is a post-doctoral researcher in audio engineering at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), part of UC San Diego, and an adjunct professor in music theory and digital audio at the University of San Diego. His primary research area is developing networked audio environments for cinema post-production, pedagogy, and distributed performances. Other areas of inquiry include conductor tracking, adaptive score-following, and new recording techniques for emerging musical and sound-based art forms. Nathan Brock, PhD, is also a composer of chamber and orchestral works and an independent recording engineer. He can be found on the web at http://www.nathanbrock.org/.

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Therese Marie Bulat, in addition to serving as Adjunct Professor of Music at USD, maintains a private studio and serves as the Director of Music at San Rafael Catholic Church (San Diego).

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Violinist, Alyze Dreiling was born in Detroit, Michigan. She began her studies with Mischa Mischakoff .The Detroit Symphony and the Music Study Club of Metropolitan Detroit sponsored her education with Mischakoff. Ms. Dreiling graduated from Indiana University where she studied with Josef Gingold. She has attended Kneisel Hall, Blossom Music Festival and Academy of the West for chamber music and worked with Walter Trampler, Karen Tuttle, Janos Starker and Menahem Pressler. She has appeared as soloist with the Detroit Symphony, Philharmonica Hungarica at the Vienna Summer Festival, Florida Chamber Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony and Knoxville Chamber Orchestra and served as concertmaster of the Knoxville Symphony and Knoxville Chamber Orchestra before coming to San Diego. In the San Diego area, she has appeared as soloist with the International Orchestra, Grossmont Symphony Orchestra and the San Diego State Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Dreiling was founding Artistic Director and Conductor of Classics for Kids. Alyze was the Violinist/Conductor of the International Chamber Players at USIU. Adept with all musical styles, she has played concertmaster for Donna Summers, Smoky Robinson, Dionne Warwick and Tom Scott, to name a few. She has also served as concertmaster for shows at the Old Globe, Civic Auditorium, LaJolla Playhouse, Lawrence Welk Theater and Starlight Musical Theater and has also played with San Diego Symphony, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Hutchins Consort, Opera Pacific, and Orquestra de Baja California. Ms. Dreiling is also the Artisic Director/Conductor of the YPO, String Orchestra and Soloists Ensemble.

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Kay Etheridge is professionally a classical pianist, music educator, piano teacher and adjudicator who has lived in San Diego since 1982.  She maintains an active performing career and each year can be heard as both soloist and chamber musician on various concert series within the southern California region.  In addition to directing the Liberal Studies program at USD, she is a member of the music faculty and teaches music history, jazz history, music education, applied piano and class piano.

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Eric Foster, a California native, gave his debut solo recital thirty years ago in La Paz, Bolivia. He has since lived as a teacher, composer and “gigging” musician in both North and South America.  Eric’s childhood experiences include living in Taiwan, Liberia, Brazil, and Bolivia heavily influencing his varied interests in composition and musical performance.

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Via a diverse range of musical interests and an uncommon versatility, Colin McAllister maintains an active performance schedule throughout the United States, Mexico and Europe. His repertoire spans the gamut of historical periods and styles: from the late fourteenth-century polyphony of the ars subtilior to recent modernist works. He is especially active as an ensemble player and works regularly with many groups, including NOISE (a new music sextet), the SpeakEasy ragtime duo, Delenda Est Carthago, the Sonora Chamber Ensemble and Art of Élan. A compassionate advocate for the contemporary repertoire, he has premiered over fifty new works and has worked closely with many leading composers. He has recorded for the Innova, Albany, Old King Cole, Vienna Modern Masters, Carrier and Tzadik record labels, and his transcriptions and compositions are published by Les Productions d’Oz. Colin earned the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Originally from the small mountain town of Chipita Park, Colorado, he now divides his time between San Diego and Mexico City.

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Benjamin Sabey PhD, is a composer and music teacher. His music has been performed by many of the leading ensembles in new music, including the Arditti String Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the New York New Music Ensemble and the Antares Ensemble. Recent awards include the Royaumont Prize of Domaine Forget: an expenses paid residency at the Royaumont Abbey north of Paris and a 2009 Barlow Endowment Commission.

Benjamin Sabey holds a PhD from the University of California, San Diego where he studied primarily with Roger Reynolds. He has also studied composition with Chaya Czernowin, Philippe Manoury and Michael Hicks as well as computer music with Miller Puckette and psycho-acoustics with Richard Moore. Active as a conductor, keyboardist, vocalist and improviser, he has appeared in concert with such performers as Charles Curtis, Mark Dresser and John Fonville and with the San Diego Symphony.

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Ronald Shaheen serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the USD Music Department and has taught: Introduction to Music; Music in Society; History of Romantic Music; Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Music; Classical, Romantic, and Modern Music; History of Opera; Aural and Keyboard Skills; Fundamentals of Music; Class Voice; and individual voice lessons. He also serves as the department’s Concert Manager, and he coordinates the Applied Music Program.

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Stefani Walens has been active for many years as a collaborative artist and currently accompanies and coaches voice students at USD, and teaches piano and accompanies clarinet students at UCSD. She has collaborated with vocal and instrumental students and colleagues at both universities in numerous recital programs, accompanied master classes given by Dawn Upshaw, Paul Sperry, and Jane Manning, and coached, accompanied and performed in numerous operatic productions presented by the Department of Music at UCSD.

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