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Nikki Bengal – oboist; performs Sephardic, Klezmer, Near Eastern music; visual artist

Tim Bolling – drummer/percussionist/composer; styles include jazz, Middle Eastern, rock. Co-founder of Walking Maqsoom (belly dance band); CDs: Legumanity, 3 Bean Salad

Dan Cantrell – accordionist ranging from Balkan folk music to experimental jazz; film composer

(Huzur) Steve Coughlin – Turkish ney for the Mevlevi Order of America, with Turkish Sufi ensembles in Turkey and with Musica Divina at the Grace Cathedral labyrinth

India Cooke – violinist, composer, educator; member of New World Trio, Living on the Edge, with trombonist Angela Wellman; Circle Trio with Pauline Oliveros and Karolyn van Putten

Eric Crystal – saxophonist; CD: Dark Matter

Mary Ellen Donald – nationally acclaimed author, instructor and performer in Middle Eastern percussion. CDs: Gems of the Middle East, Vols. 1, 2 ,3

Peter Frentzel – Shakuhachi studies with Master Masayuki of the Japanese Music Institute

Shirley Wong Frentzel – Harpsichordist with M.M.; Pi Kappa Lambda from New England Conservatory; director of Community Music Center Near Eastern Ensemble; Collegium Musicum

Wilhelm High – Double bass; member of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra

Terry Holgate – riqq (Arabic tambourine); performs with Mary Ellen Donald and Mimi Spencer; performs dumbek with the Tarab Ensemble

Wang Hong – Xiao (chinese end-blown flute), kuantze (Chinese double reed); founder of Melody of China ensemble, multi-instrumentalist in Chinese instruments

Harvey Ingham – guitarist, transcriber of Central Asian, and Middle Eastern music

Elizabeth Kelley – performs with Ballet Afsaneh, a Persian and Central Asian dance company

Hafez Modirzadeh – Iranian ney, saxophone; San Francisco State University faculty and Director of World Music program, Ph.D. from UCLA. CD: Mystery of Sema

Mariah Parker – dulcimer, keyboards; composer/arranger; graphic designer

John-Carlos Perea – American Indian cedar flute; award-winning composer; co-leads the Sweetwater Singers, a northern-style American Indian pow-wow drum. CD: First Dance

Scott Railsback – plays yirdaki (Australian didjeridu) with Slow Gong, Goddess Frequency Band, www.didjeridu.com, partner of Wicked Sticks. CD: All About You

Ken Rosen – Soprano saxophone; Director, Community Music Center Jazz Band

Valerie Samson – zhongwu, Ph.D from UCLA, translated Yaxiong Du’s article on the music of Northwest China and traveled the Silk Road in 1997

Dave Scott – trumpet; toured with New Glenn Miller Orchestra; tours with singer Rosemary Clooney

Mimi Spencer – Kanun (turkish zither), 30 years performing Middle Eastern music, president of Near Eastern Music West, member, Vince Delgado Quartet (world jazz); Jazayer Ensemble CD: Right Where I Want to Be

Samsun Van Loon – cello; studies with Jean-Michel Fonteneau at San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Beth Warren – European recorder; member of Community Music Center Collegium Musicum

Betty A. Siu Junn Wong – composer, performer, arranger, educator, founder-director of Phoenix Spring Ensemble, CD: In Xinjiang Time; 1988 Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award for original music in the theater (1988)