Kate Walter began playing violin in Austin, Texas at the age of five. She continued her studies with Andrzej Grabiec at the University of Houston and Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University. After playing with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago for a year, Ms. Walter joined the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007. She is currently the Lead String Teacher at the Homer Plessy Community School, a public charter school where students receive instruction on a string instrument in the classroom as early as first grade.

Increasingly recognized as a versatile and passionate performer, Brazilian-born violinist Moises Bonella Cunha has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Brazil, Italy, Russia, and the United States. Moises has been featured as a soloist with major Brazilian symphonic and chamber orchestras, including Bahia Symphony Orchestra, Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, and Theatro Sao Pedro Chamber Orchestra. He was also a soloist with Camerata Florianópolis, UNICAMP Symphony Orchestra, and SESI Chamber Orchestra. In the United States, he was a soloist with the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, ARCO Chamber Orchestra, and the Northern Neck Orchestra. Moises has also performed on Brazilian television such as TV Educativa and TV Senado as a soloist of the Projeto SESI Catedrais. Passionate about chamber music, Moises is Artistic Director of the Northern Neck Chamberfest, and a frequent artist at the Northern Neck Chamber Music Series in Virginia. He has also been a Festival Artist with the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival in New Orleans, collaborating with members of the Manhattan Chamber Players. At the invitation of renowned pianist Arnaldo Cohen, Moises Cunha performed a solo recital for a full audience at the prestigious Sala São Paulo in Brazil. Moises is a founding member of the Delachaise Ensemble, an innovative and genre-defying ensemble presenting concerts and educational outreach throughout the Gulf region. He has served as the Concertmaster of the Indiana University Symphony Orchestra during the Indiana University Summer Music Festival. Since 2018, Moises has served as Concertmaster and Artist-in-Residence of the Northern Neck Orchestra in Virginia. He also performs regularly with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans. A devoted and passionate educator, Moises Cunha has given numerous masterclasses in the United States and Brazil, including Loyola University New Orleans, Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra, Xavier University of Louisiana, FUNDARTE, and Pelotas Federal University, and currently directs and teaches at the Crescent City String Academy and the Crescent City String Camp & Festival in New Orleans. He is a frequent Artist-in-Residence with Recanto Maestro Youth Orchestra in his native Brazil, where he presents masterclasses, and coaches chamber music and orchestra sectionals. In 2020, Moises was a guest artist at the Goiás Federal University International Music Festival, in its virtual format. Moises Cunha holds a B.M. and a M.M. from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he was a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, Conrado Wessel Foundation Scholarship, The Scott C. and Kathrin Schutz Latin American Scholarship, and the Artistic Excellence Award. Moises Bonella Cunha completed the D.M.A. at University of Georgia in the spring of 2018. His primary mentors include Mauricio Fuks, Kevork Mardirossian, and Levon Ambartsumian.

Sixto is a music and performing arts enthusiast, composer, teacher and founding member of the Quijote Duo and became a member of the Lousiana Philharmonic in September of 2022. He is enjoying an active career in the musical arts, having concertized in Europe, United States, Mexico and Uruguay. Sixto Franco is passionate about chamber music and has had the honor to perform with Eighth Black Bird, International Chamber Artists, Symbiosis Ensemble in L.A., Music of the Americas Project, the Chicago Ensemble, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Music Festival and the Gesher Music Festival in St. Louis, MO. Recently, Sixto has made an appearance in “Broadcast from home”, an highly collaborative project created and developed by composer and community-maker Lisa Bielawa. Soloist appearances include the Camerata Musicalis, Chamber Orchestra of Salamanca, the Lira Castellonera Symphonic Band, Spain and the Thornton Music School Chamber Orchestra, He has also performed in the Santa Barbara Chamber orchestra, the Barcelona Symphony, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Elgin Symphony, and the Chicago Philharmonic, in addition to having performed with artists such as Paquito D ́Rivera, Fareed Haque, Ernie Adams, Robert McDuffy, Mike Mills, Steve Larson and Austin Wintory. The creative side of Sixto Franco has pushed him to venture into composition. He has written music for different mediums such as chamber music, theater and dance. He made his debut on February 2011 premiering his work “Blanco y Negro” in a Cancer Benefit Concert promoted by the Spanish Consulate in Los Angeles. The “malArte Association” of Valencia, Spain, premiered his piece Five “O’clock Tabu” as the soundtrack for the interdisciplinary work with the same title. On November of 2022 Sixto will make his theater debut as a composer/performer in the premier of the play “The Jane Project” at Tulane University. Sixto was also the co-curator of the Mu Live concert series, a performance series that strived to highlight local artists by pairing music, sculptures and visual art. Sixto and his wife Rachel, an amazing lighting designer, enjoy taking their two kids, Odessa and Otis, to music, theater and dance shows all over New Orleans.

Jack Craft enjoys a diverse musical career as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music producer in his native New Orleans. He currently serves as music director and composer for Real Presence, a meditative service at Christ Church Cathedral New Orleans. Craft’s musical compositions have been commissioned by the WWE film Legendary, BMW in a collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum, and on the theatre stage with the NOLA Project and Broken Habit Productions. Originally a cellist, he also produces Virtuosa, an all-girl electric disco string quartet. Jack can most often be seen playing synthesizer with award-winning indie band Sweet Crude. Craft received his Bachelor of Arts in Music from Loyola University under Allen Nisbet, in addition to studies with Dennis Parker and Paul York. He was awarded the top classical honors at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and received the Overture to the Cultural Season Award.

Paul Weber is a performer, conductor and composer based in New Orleans, where he is Organist & Choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church and director of the early-music vocal ensemble, Krewe de Voix. A founding member of the Yale Schola Cantorum and Lawrence Conservatory Collegium Musicum, Paul has been a featured soloist at the Naumburg (Germany) early music festival and the national conventions of the Organ Historical Society and American Guild of Organists. As director of Krewe de Voix, founded in 2016, Paul has collaborated with the Historic New Orleans Collection, Marigny Opera Ballet, New Resonance Orchestra, Opus Opera, and they were the featured ensemble for the winter conference of the Church Music Association of America. An active concert organist, Paul has won prizes at the Arthur Poister National Competition in Organ Performance, the Erfurt (Germany) International Competition in Organ Performance, and has recently performed on concert series at St. Paul's Cathedral, Birmingham, AL, the Shrine of St. Martin, Louisville, and St. Jude's Cathedral, Pheonix, AZ. A harpsichord student of Miriam Clapp Duncan and Richard Rephann, Dr. Weber holds degrees in music from Lawrence University and Yale University.