A four-season member of the Miami-based New World Symphony, under the
direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, Suzanne has also participated in such
festivals as the Music Academy of the West, the Festival-Institute at Round
Top (TX) and the Conservatoire-Americaine at Fontainbleau, France. She has performed with the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony and at the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival.

Her teaching positions have included Associate Instructor at Indiana
University, Teaching Assistant at SUNY-Stony Brook, and Visiting Faculty at
Indiana State University, Terre Haute. She has also performed with The Chieftains.

Linda L. Holland, Ph.D. is a freelance flutist-composer based in Santa Barbara, California. She received her Ph.D. in composition and M.M. in flute performance from the University of California at Santa Barbara, her M.M. in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and B.M. in flute performance from California State University in Sacramento. Her work includes teaching music at Santa Barbara City College, adjudicating competitions and coaching chamber music workshops, maintaining a private teaching studio, performing and recording music of many styles, and fulfilling composition commissions. Dr. Holland performs regularly with the Arcangelo Flute Quartet, the Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, the Santa Barbara Choral Society, the Channel Islands Symphony, the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance, the Santa Barbara Studio of Music, and in solo performances. She is a co-founder of Current Sounds, a chamber group that performs twentieth century music. The Santa Barbara Independent has described Dr. Holland as "a performer with a luscious tone and sure-fire technique." Dr. Holland's compositions have been performed in concerts and new music festivals across the United States and in Great Britain. Her piece Blessed Vocation for solo flute was a prize-winner at the International Festival of Women in Music in 1998, and was given its international premiere by flutist Jill Felber at London's Wigmore Hall. Dr. Holland's primary flute teachers were Laurel Zucker and Jill Felber. Her primary composition teachers were William Kraft and Elinor Armer.

Emily is a freelance flute player based in Los Angeles. Emily has a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from the University of Louisville where she studied with Kathy Karr. She earned her Master of Music degree in flute performance from the University of California in Santa Barbara where she studied with Jill Felber. She won concerto competitions and performed as a soloist with the orchestras at both schools. She has maintained a private flute studio for the past ten years in Kentucky and California, as well as teaching master classes and flute classes in elementary and high schools. Her professional credits include releasing a CD with the Irish group Dannsair, performing in pit orchestras for Oliver!, The Pirates of Penzance, La Cantarina by Haydn, and a carzuela entitled Gigantes y Cabazudos, and performing chamber music with her soprano and flute duo called KIVA. In 2009 she performed a flute duo recital in England. She also plays various new music ensembles, weddings, and miscellaneous musical events. Creating beautiful music with great colleagues is Emily’s ideal vision for her work.

Sten holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. She has studied with Sharon Perschke, Mary Nelson, Beatrice Rentsch, George Pope, Alberto Almarza, and Jill Felber.

Abigail Sten currently resides in Santa Barbara, California, where she is the second flutist of the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra and the YMF Debut Orchestra. She is in the Flute Masters Program at UCSB, studying with Jill Felber.