Nicole holds a Bachelor of Music degree in cello performance. She has participated in prestigious masterclasses under the guidance of artists such as Clive Greensmith from the Tokyo String Quartet and soloist Amit Peled, among others. Nicole has experience performing in Italy, states throughout the Midwest, and in NY. She is a recipient of a German cello from the Carlsen Cello Foundation and a first place prizewinner of the James and Katherine Andrews Young Artist Competition. Nicole is following her passion for music through teaching fulltime and playing gigs with her trio for the past 10 years. Recorder is the first instrument Nicole ever learned to play. A few years after trying out the recorder, she had the amazing opportunity to take lessons from a professional recorder player who specialized in baroque music. She has been playing recorder ever since.

Tyler is a classically trained musician, music educator and composer. He taught beginning orchestra, piano and guitar in Alaska before focusing on private teaching. Tyler began playing recorder in the mid 1990s when a friend of his needed a duet partner, and he's been hooked on recorder ever since! He began creating applications for music education and performance in 2009 and has spent over a decade building the pieces found in the music collaboration tool used in this class.