Dr. Stephanie Titus is a pianist and advocate for contemporary music and new music by living composers. As a sought-after collaborator, she has performed a wide variety of chamber ensemble works. Solo repertoire projects include the complete solo piano works of Takemitsu, Boulez’s Piano Sonata No. 2, and Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. Dr. Titus has earned masters degrees in Piano Performance (M.M.) and Pedagogy of Theory (M.A.) from the Eastman School of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Contemporary Music - Piano Performance at Bowling Green State University. She teaches privately in the Northwest Ohio region and is highly sought-after as a collaborative pianist, currently serving as the instrumental accompanist at the University of Findlay. Previous university teaching appointments include Simpson College (Indianola, IA), Bluffton University (Bluffton, OH) and BGSU. She currently serves as Adjunct Instructor of Music Education at Ohio Northern University. 

Yu-Fang Chen, violin
A native of Taiwan, Dr. Yu-Fang Chen is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Violin at Ball State University. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degrees on both violin and viola performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2013, under the tutelage of Benny Kim and Scott Lee. As a sought-after performer and pedagogue, Chen has been invited to teach and perform at various music institutions and festivals, including the Sunflower Music Festival and the Heartland Chamber Music Academy in U.S.A, the InterHarmony International Music Festival in Italy, and Thailand International Composition Festival in Salaya, Thailand, among others. Chen has won many awards and competitions and her career as a performing artist is extensive. Her international performing career has taken her to more than fifteen countries on five continents, and she continues to perform as a guest musician internationally with various concert artists, chamber ensembles, and orchestras. She has worked with renowned soloists and conductors such as Pinchas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, Christoph von Dohnanyi, and Seiji Ozawa. Chen served as an Assistant Professor of Violin and Viola at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas from 2015-2017 and was a member of the Indianapolis Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, and the Academy of Taiwan Strings. As an enthusiastic performer of contemporary music, Chen has commissioned, premiered, and recorded many compositions by living composers. Her recordings can be found on Albany Records, Ablaze Records, RMA Classical, Navora Records, New Focus Recordings, and Parma Recordings.

Peter Opie, Cello
Peter Opie is associate professor of cello at Ball State University. He has appeared as both a soloist and chamber musician in concerts and in festivals in Asia, Europe, and both North and South America. As a member of the American Piano Trio, he performed in South Korea, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and in many parts of the United States.

Also active as an orchestral player he has worked regularly with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and has served as guest principal for both the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. He spent a summer as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and was also offered a fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival.

Formerly on the faculty of Eastern Michigan University, he has given cello and chamber music master classes at many universities and conservatoires around the world, including Oberlin Conservatory, University of Michigan, University of Illinois, Taiwan National University of the Arts, Kyunghee University, the Universidad Nacional de Bogota, the Belarusian National Academy of Music, and the Indiana University String Academy. His students have won competitions, attended prominent festivals (Round Top, NRO, Aspen, Eastern) and have successfully auditioned to perform (either as a member or substitute) with numerous orchestras, including the St. Louis Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony (Miami), Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Columbus (OH) Symphony Orchestra, and Louisville Orchestra. He holds degrees from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London (BM), the Cleveland Institute of Music (MM), and the University of Michigan (DMA). His principal teachers have included Richard Aaron, Anthony Elliott, Oleg Kogan, and Raphael Sommer. Further studies were with Eleonore Schoenfeld and Marc Coppey