Beth Rosbach is the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Fort Collins Symphony. She has also played with the Boulder Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and Fort Smith (AK) Symphony Orchestras. She has attended the Aspen Music Festival, the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar in San Francisco, and the Brevard Music Festival. Ms. Rosbach’s teachers have included Judith Glyde, Greg Sauer, Alan Harris, and Mark Schroeder, and she has performed in master classes for Lynn Harrell, David Geber, and Colin Carr. Currently, Ms. Rosbach maintains a private studio in Boulder.

Beth began playing the cello when she was 12, and quickly became involved in music groups such as the Oklahoma Youth Philharmonic and Oklahoma Youth Symphony. She attended college at the University of Oklahoma, where she completed her Bachelor of Music Performance in 2001. She moved to Colorado and attended the University of Colorado, obtaining a Master's degree in Music Performance in 2004.

Kristin Sommer is the Second Flutist of the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra. She received her Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and studied at the graduate level at the Yale University School of Music in New Haven, CT. Her primary teachers have included Ransom Wilson, Karen Yonovitz, Maralyn Prestia, and Alexa Still.

Kristin has also served as Principal Flutist for Opera Fort Collins, Piccoloist of the Longmont Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with numerous other ensembles including the Colorado Mahlerfest Orchestra and New Music New Haven. An active clinician and adjudicator, Ms. Sommer has maintained private teaching studios in Boulder, Longmont, and in Fort Collins, where she currently resides.

April Johannesen is the 2nd Clarinetist and the Audition Coordinator for the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra. She has also been an active free-lance clarinetist playing with such ensembles as the Tulsa Symphony and Ballet, Austin Lyric Opera, Cheyenne Symphony, Wyoming Symphony, Opera Fort Collins, Canyon Concert Ballet, and others.

April spent several years in New York City as an active free-lance musician playing with such groups as the School of American Ballet Orchestra, the Greenwich Village Orchestra, the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, the New York Repertory Orchestra and the Long Island Pops Orchestra. While in New York City, April studied extensively with Mark Nuccio, associate principal and Eb clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic. During this time she also owned and operated The Johannesen Music Studio, a private teaching studio in Long Island employing eight teachers of various instruments teaching over 120 students.

April received her Masters Degree from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. There she served as assistant conductor to Dr. Paul Shelden for the Brooklyn College Wind Ensemble and as a Director of Chamber Ensembles. Her principal teachers have included Mark Nuccio, Bil Jackson, Paul Garner and David Weber.

April currently resides in Longmont, Colorado with her husband, composer and saxophonist, Wil Swindler. Together they operate Single Reed Consultants, a woodwind company. When not in Colorado to play with the Fort Collins Symphony, the Auroria Trio or Wil Swindler's Elevenet, April is traveling the country performing with other symphony orchestras and giving lectures and clinics on clarinet performance.

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