JOHN S. ARNOLD, guitarist, is presently the guitar instructor at Moravian College, and prior to this position taught guitar at Vermont's Bennington College. In addition to numerous solo performances, he is an active chamber musician, performing with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia and Allentown Symphony Orchestras, SATORI, the Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and Two Part Invention. He is also the founder and director of the annual Bethlehem Guitar Festival. Mr. Arnold holds an Artist Diploma degree from the Hartt School, University of Hartford, where he studied with Richard Provost; and Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Guitar Performance and Guitar Pedagogy from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University, where his major teacher was Glenn Caluda. Mr. Arnold has published arrangements for guitar with Clear Note Publications and Guitar Chamber Music Press.

NORA SUGGS, flutist, is a graduate of Houston’s Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine, with extensive private education in music and degrees in biology, English literature, medicine, and surgery. She has performed in England, Canada, Japan, and throughout the United States, and is a founding member of the Lehigh Valley’s classical chamber music ensemble SATORI, where she is a regular performer of both traditional and contemporary chamber works. In addition to numerous solo appearances and studio work, Dr. Suggs teaches flute at Bethlehem’s Moravian College Music Institute and coaches flute ensembles at the Community Music School of the Lehigh Valley, plays flute and pennywhistles with area Celtic bands, and studies and performs on shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute.