Jesse Ayers (b.1951, Knoxville, TN, USA) has had his music performed in Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, and over 85 U.S. cities, and has twice had his music selected by the International Society of Contemporary Music to represent the United States at the prestigious World Music Days festival (Slovenia 2003 and Warsaw 1992). His more important works dwell in the intersection of the spiritual and natural worlds and explore the redemptive intervention of God in the affairs of the human race. But there is also a fun-loving side to Ayers' music with pieces such as the Waldstein Express, Piano Man, The Dancing King, and Caribbean Fantasy on Joy to the World, music filled with energy, rhythmic syncopations, and bright, cheerful harmonies.
Dale Warren maintains an active performing schedule. As a performer he has soloed twice with the Boston Pops Orchestra (as winner of a Boston Pops Concerto Competition) and performed as Principal Trombonist with the National Orchestra of South Africa (Pretoria, Johannesburg). Mr. Warren has also been a member of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Fellowship Orchestra. As a free-lance artist he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Empire Brass Quintet, the Denver Symphony, and numerous name artists. In chamber music Mr. Warren toured nationally and recorded for ten years as a member of the Top Brass Quintet. He also performed and taught on the faculty of the Empire Brass Quintet Seminar in Tanglewood, Massachusetts. Mr. Warren was a featured soloist with the U.S. Army Brass Band in the 1999 Eastern Trombone Workshop. He further stays active as a solo recitalist/clinician for Bach Trombones, a division of the Selmer Corporation.
