Composer 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.
Tubist Mark Nelson has performed and lectured in a variety of venues. He was a tuba recitalist for the 1992 International Tuba/Euphonium Conference in Lexington, Kentucky, a guest artist and clinician for the Hokkaido Euphonium/Tuba Camp in Sapporo, Japan in 1993, and a faculty member at the Summit Brass Institute. He has made a solo appearance with the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra and performed at the TubaMania Conference in Sydney, Australia as well as the the University of Regina, Canada, the University of Arizona, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Nelson has commissioned over two dozen new works for tuba, many featured on his two CD recordings, New England Reveries (Crystal Records CD691) and Aboriginal Voices, available from TAP Music, Bernel Music Ltd., and Walking Frog Records. Nelson has published a dozen tuba/euphonium ensemble arrangements through Cimarron Music and Tuba-Euphonium Press.
