Leslie Shank leads an active musical life as a soloist and chamber musician. She was a member of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for 30 years, 24 years as assistant. concertmaster, and is a founding member of the Minneapolis based chamber music group, The Isles Ensemble.

Shank gave her New York recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall as a winner of the Artists International Competition, and was twice re-engaged to perform on its Special Presentation Series. She was appointed Visiting Assistant Violin Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison, for the year 2014-15.

Shank served as concertmaster of the Music in the Mountains Festival in Colorado for 11 years, and has performed at numerous other festivals including the Aspen, Grand Teton, Mainly Mozart, Marlboro, and the Britt Festival, where she served as concertmaster of the festival orchestra. As a member of the prestigious Musicians from Marlboro, she toured the East Coast.

In addition to her musical activities on violin, she frequently plays viola in chamber music and is an avid photographer.

A native of Japan, Satoko Hayami (she/her), DMA, is an active pianist and educator/teaching artist, whose works explore music as an act of empowerment and empathy. Satoko regularly collaborates with diverse partners including vocalists and instrumentalists, composers, interdisciplinary artists, and community organizations. A versatile pianist, also performing on harpsichord and toy piano, Satoko has performed and taught solo and chamber music all over the world, most notably, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and Canada. In the United States, Satoko has performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in D.C.; Millers Outdoor Theater in Houston, TX; Harris Hall in Aspen, CO; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; Shannon Hall of Memorial Union in Madison, WI. A passionate performer of new music, she co-founded Sound Out Loud Collective, a contemporary chamber ensemble, which won the first prize in Chamber Music Performance, American Prize in 2018.

She serves as a Lecturer in Collaborative Piano at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is on the piano faculty at Beloit College. Satoko is also an interdisciplinary artist-teacher at Madison Japanese Language School, and Community Engagement Coordinator at LunART Inc. in Madison, Wisconsin.

She received her master's degrees in Collaborative Piano from Cleveland Institute of Music and Rice University, and Doctorate of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano from University of Wisconsin-Madison as a recipient of the Paul Collins Distinguished Wisconsin Fellowship.

Jennifer Olson, soprano, holds her masters and doctorate degrees in voice from the University of Michigan with Dr. Caroline Helton, and the University of Minnesota with Dr. Adriana Zabala. She also received training in Orford, Québec as well as in Milan, Italy with Patrizia Zanardi.

Performing and touring throughout the US as a soloist and recitalist, she specializes in French repertoire, chamber music, and oratorio. She has most recently appeared as soloist with the Rochester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale (MN), with the University of Minnesota's Wind Ensemble under Craig Kirchhoff, with VocalEssence under Philip Brunelle, with the Fargo-Moorhead Opera Company, and with the Oratorio Society of Minnesota.

She is an assistant professor of voice at Bemidji State University and the director and creator of BSU Sings!; an online educational video series for middle and high school choral students reaching over 35,000 students across 16 states.