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Pianist Rosemary O’Connor lives in Coquitlam BC and collaborates regularly with Vancouver Symphony and Vancouver Opera musicians.  Rosemary also co-produces and performs at the Evergreen Cultural Centre’s Chamber Music Series as a member of the Quiring Chamber Players with her husband Reg Quiring.  Other concerts include chamber music at Music By The Sea Festival (Victoria BC), VSO Chamber Players, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York,  Music at the Vineyards in Napa Valley,  Pender Harbor Festival BC,  Chintimini Chamber Music Festival  in Oregon, Sundays at 4 from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has also performed solo, concerto and and chamber music concerts throughout Europe and North America.  She has recorded a CD on the Austrian ORF Label with the music of Richard Stohr, as well as a CD compilation of music for Viola and Piano with Reg Quiring.

Rosemary is on faculty at the VSO School of Music and also teaches at her home studio in Coquitlam.  For the past 10 years she has served as Director of the Quiring Chamber Music Camp. Her love for teaching is inspired by her wonderfully varied mentors who include John Perry, Nelita True, Robert Levin, Tibor Szasz, and Vitaly Margulis

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 For cellist Heather Hay, chamber music is one of the most enjoyable ways to make music. In 1989, it was chamber music that brought Heather to Vancouver to join the Purcell String Quartet. With the Quartet, Heather recorded and performed for Radio France in Paris, and toured in Europe, and throughout B.C.

Since moving to Vancouver, Heather has been an active part of Vancouver's music scene. She is Assistant Principal Cellist with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, and performed with the CBC Radio Orchestra. She has also been an invited guest with the West Coast Chamber Music Concerts, Turning Point Ensemble, and for Vancouver New Music. Heather has also been frequently heard on CBC Radio Two's regional programme, Westcoast Performance.

A faculty member at Capilano University for the past 25 years, Heather also maintains a private studio of young and not so young students! She is a regular teacher/coach at the West Coast Amateur Musicians' Society Summer Music Camp, championing music education for all ages.  Heather has a keen interest in encouraging music making for everyone and leads workshops internationally on the importance of music in the world.

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Michelle Anderson is a professional clarinetist in Vancouver BC who has performed regularly with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Lionsgate Sinfonia, the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble and West Coast Chamber Music. She is a clarinet instructor at the University of British Columbia School of Music. She enjoys coaching student groups and regularly leads clarinet workshops in local schools and with local youth orchestras. Michelle is the founder of Clarinet Mentors (www.clarinetmastery.com), an online-based educational company that helps thousands of clarinetists worldwide to play the clarinet more easily. She is the co-author, along with Debbie Andrus of the upcoming publication from Hal Leonard, DIY Clarinet. Her YouTube channel has several educational videos to help student clarinetists worldwide (www.Youtube.com/clarinetmentors).

Michelle will be a featured guest artist at the Brandon University Clarinet Festival in March of 2024, the University of Alabama Clarinet Symposium in March of 2024 and the Xacobeo Clarinet Festival in Spain in July 2024. She loves playing chamber music with Rosemary and Heather! Michelle is a Clarinet Artist for Backun Musical Services, Légère Reeds and Silverstein Works.