Dr. Lara Saville Dahl is currently Senior Lecturer of Oboe and Music Survey at Georgia State University. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from Arizona State University where she studied with Martin Schuring, and her Bachelor of Music degree from Brigham Young University, studying with Geralyn Giovannetti. In fall 2003, Dr. Dahl was the sabbatical replacement for oboe professors Geralyn Giovannetti at Brigham Young University and Stephen Caplan at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Prior to her appointment at Georgia State University, Dr. Dahl was the adjunct instructor of oboe at Utah State University. In addition to her university studies, during the summer of 2007, Dr. Dahl studied with Joseph Robinson, former principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic.

Dr. Dahl has performed with the Atlanta, Utah, and Phoenix Symphony Orchestras, the Arizona Opera Company and the Sunflower Music Festival Chamber Orchestra. She is a founding member of Atlanta Chamber Winds which published a CD entitledMusic from Paris on the Albany label. Dr. Dahl currently substitutes with the Atlanta Symphony, Atlanta Opera Orchestra, Atlanta Ballet Orchestra and Columbus Symphony. She frequently performs with Chamber Music Atlanta and is an active freelance musician throughout Atlanta, and is also in demand in the metro Atlanta area as an adjudicator, master class clinician, and sectional coach.

Dr. Dahl has presented several artist recitals at the International Double Reed Society Conferences and was a guest chamber coach at Tianjin Conservatory in Tianjin, China in the summer of 2011. In addition to conducting master classes at several universities, Dr. Dahl has organized master classes for the Georgia State oboe studio with guest artists including Joseph Robinson, John Dee, Martin Schuring, Pat McFarland, Elizabeth Koch-Tiscione, Mark Ostoich, Russ deLuna, Humbert Lucarelli, and Nancy Ambrose King.

John Grove is the Director of Bands at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School in Sandy Springs, Georgia, where he has taught for 20 years. He is an active freelance musician on bassoon and contrabassoon and is a member of the Johns Creek and Columbus Symphonies. He often performs with other regional groups including the Atlanta Symphony, Atlanta Opera, Atlanta Ballet, Atlanta Chamber Winds, Alabama Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia and the Greenville Symphony. As a woodwind doubler, he has performed for several Broadway shows at the Fox Theater. Mr. Grove received a Bachelor Music and a Bachelor of Music Education from Acadia University in Nova Scotia. His teachers include Ivor Rothwell and Dan Dowdakin.

In his spare time, he enjoys playing bassoon quartets with his wife, Debby and two sons, Chandler and Mark, all of whom play the bassoon. Additionally, he performs on Scottish side drum with the Atholl Highlanders Pipes and Drums USA, based out of Stone Mountain, Georgia.