Born in Izmir, Turkey, Berk Ägar began his classical music education with private lessons in the classical guitar studying throughout middle school and high school. Mr. Agar continued his collegiate music education in theory and composition at Del Mar college in 2005. After completing his studies at Del Mar college in 2008, he attended Texas A&M University where he earned his Bachelor’s of Music in classical guitar performance under the professorship of Philip Hii. As well as a classical guitar, Mr. Agar performed and led the band Mundowho released their first album, “A New Beginning” in 2009. The band also went on to release more music in 2011, their second album was called “Oyun”. In 2011 Mr. Agar was accepted into the graduate program at the University of Texas at San Antonio under the professorship of Matthew Dunne. After earning his Master’s in Guitar Performance in 2014, Mr. Agar went on to teach at Palo Alto College where he thought classical guitar until 2018. Mr. Agar also recorded with a Turkish band Insiyatifand recorded their “Hayat” album. In 2016, he released his single called “Serendipity” with bassist Jim Kalson and percussionist Joe Caploe. Mr. Agar was appointed as the director of Northside Music School in San Antonio and owns and directs the Institute of Musical Arts of San Antonio. During his free time, Mr. Agar performs in musical many styles in venues all around Texas collaborating with many artists such as Juan Ortiz, Armin Marmolejo, Jim Kalson, and Joe Caploe.

Andrew Bergmann grew up in Massachusetts and has lived and traveled across Europe and North America working as a bassist, composer, producer, and bandleader. Andrew holds a B.A. in music from Brown University, a Second Phase Degree (Dutch equivalent of master’s) in jazz double bass performance from the Amsterdam Conservatory, and PhD in music composition from the University of Minnesota.

At UTSA, he directs the music technology area and the music technology lab while also teaching jazz bass and playing in the Faculty Jazz Ensemble. Andrew also serves as faculty director for MuTe, UTSA's student music technology organization, and MuTeFest, UTSA's yearly music technology festival.

Andrew also remains active as a performer, composer and producer. His original jazz group Sued Nandayapa Bergmann Saunders recently released their first album on the record label Ropeadope Sur. Other ongoing projects that Andrew co-directs include Ghorar Deem Express , Troglodytes , and the San Antonio Ambient Orchestra. Andrew has also played acoustic bass on recent album releases by noted San Antonio artists Azul Barrientos, Aaron Prado, and Chris Guerrero and while producing and mixing the most recent release by Aaron Walker.

Peter Breithaupt is an ethnomusicologist, percussionist, and public folklorist based in San Antonio. A Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin, Pete studies local and global music cultures of Tanzania. His research has been supported by Fulbright-IIE and the Presser Foundation. Splitting his time between academic and applied work, Pete is a lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he teaches courses on world music and applied percussion, and he works for Texas Folklife, a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and presenting Texas's diverse cultures and living heritage. Pete also maintains an active professional life as a drummer and percussionist; he tours internationally with Msafiri Zawose, one of Tanzania’s foremost Gogo musicians.

Christina Trongone is an active solo and chamber musician in the San Antonio area performing with several ensembles including San Antonio's baroque orchestra, Sonido Barocco, and folk band, Filigree. Christina enjoys performing a vast range of music: classical, baroque, Peruvian, folk, gypsy jazz, mediterranean and pop. She studied closely under the guidance of Phyllis Kline (a member of the Corpus Christi Symphony),  Dan Zollars (former principal cellist of the San Antonio Symphony) and Christopher Parsons. Along with having her own private cello studio, she has taught string group classes for NISD, NEISD and Edgewood ISD to include Longs Creek Elementary, Steubing Ranch Elementary, Behlau Elementary, Glenoaks Elementary, Blattman Elementary, Carnighan Elementary,  Meadow Village Elementary, Brauchle  Elementary, McAndrew Elementary, Gardendale Elementary and Winston Elementary. She has also taught for the YOSA Más program in Edgewood ISD and for a homeschool orchestra. Christina is the founder and owner of Cello Vida, a string ensemble agency performing for 200+ weddings and corporate events each year. Some of her company's partnerships have included the Spurs Sports & Entertainment, The Pearl Brewery, The Riverwalk Society, San Antonio Botanical Garden, and San Antonio Museum of Arts. One of Christina’s favorite memories is shooting a Canadian commercial with her string ensemble performing in the middle of an ice rink alongside Brent Burns, a professional ice hockey defenseman of the NHL. 

Described as a "composer of facility and imagination, the kind to whom both performers and audiences respond" (The New York Times), the music of oudist and composer Ethan Wickman (b. 1973) has been performed by soloists and ensembles in venues in the U.S. and around the world. He has received grants and commissions from the Barlow Endowment, Meet the Composer, the American Composers Forum, the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association, the Utah Arts Festival, the San Antonio Opera Guild, and Chicago's Music In The Loft where he was the 2014-15 Composer-In-Residence. He was awarded the Jacob Druckman prize for his orchestral work Night Prayers Ascending at the Aspen Music Festival, the Harvey Phillips Award for his work Summit from the International Tuba Euphonium Association, first place in the Utah Arts Festival Chamber Commission Competition, and was a finalist in the 25th annual ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Orchestral Composition Competition. He has received fellowships from the Aspen Music Festival, the Norfolk Contemporary Music Workshop/Yale Summer School of Music, the Wellesley Composers Conference, the American Composers Orchestra/Earshot New Music Readings, and from the U.S. State Department as a Fulbright Fellow in Madrid, Spain. His recordings have garnered critical acclaim such as "the most attractive new string quartet I have heard in a long while" (Fanfare), "epic and dreamy" (The New York Times), "absorbing" (American Record Guide), and possessing "stunning breadth and poise" (Time Out Chicago).

Wickman holds a DMA in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, with additional degrees from Boston University (MM) and Brigham Young University (BM). In addition to his work as a composer, he has studied oud with an emphasis on the musics of Egypt and Iraq with Egyptian virtuoso Ramy Adly, and Turkish oud with Yurdal Tokcan in Istanbul.

Accomplished as a soloist and chamber musician, Rachel Woolf serves as Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Rachel is a member of the Dallas-based symphonic pop rock band The Polyphonic Spree and has toured with them all over North America. She has performed with Swedish-Argentinian indie folk singer José González, Iranian pop music legend Aref, multi-platinum operatic-pop superstars Il Divo, GLEE star and Emmy-winning Darren Criss, and has recorded with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton on experimental rock band Swans’ record, The Glowing Man (2016). Rachel has sought out an array of opportunities to improvise—from looping to freeform to Indian ragas. Notably, she was selected to perform traditional Hindustani North Indian flute during the Dalai Llama’s visit to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Rachel has performed at the National Flute Association Convention five times and has performed with the San Antonio Symphony, Dallas Winds, Abilene Philharmonic, East Texas Symphony Orchestra, among others. Beyond her performances across the United States, she has performed in Sweden, Finland, Russia, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, France, and England. She received her Bachelor of Music at the University of Michigan, her Master of Music at Bowling Green State University, where she was the flute Teaching Assistant, and completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of North Texas as a Teaching Fellow with a related field in Ethnomusicology. Her teachers include Amy Porter, Dr. Conor Nelson, Terri Sundberg, Dr. James Scott, Marianne Gedigian, and Karen Reynolds