JOHN S. ARNOLD, guitarist, is presently the classical guitar instructor at Moravian College, Bethlehem PA, and taught previously at Vermont’s Bennington College. In addition to his numerous solo performances, he has performed as guest artist with both the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra’s Valley Vivaldi series and the Sage City Symphony. As a chamber musician, Mr. Arnold has performed at the Guitar Foundation of America, Guitar Ensemble Festival, Kennedy Center Festival of the Human Voice, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Virginia’s Bach-Handel Festival, and on National Public Radio. He is the winner of the T. Edgar Shields Prize for distinguished studio instruction at Moravian College, where 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, as well as Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Guitar Performance and Guitar Pedagogy from Shenandoah University.

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 Emerald City, a Celtic fusion band, and is studying shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese flute.