Currently on the faculty of The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Alison Shaw previously taught at Michigan State University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Eastern New Mexico University, and The Interlochen Center for the Arts. Her solo CD, Signs of Intelligent Life, is released on the Eroica Classics label, and her second CD, Cadenza, Fugue and Boogie, is currently in production, with an expected release in March 2012. As Co-Founder and Percussionist of Quorum Chamber Arts Collective, she recorded an award-winning compact disc, Cold Water, Dry Stone-The works of Evan Chambers on the Albany label. Shaw performs with the percussion/tuba duo, Balance, the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, and The Brass Band of Battle Creek. For PAS, she served on the Board of Directors, as Chairperson of the College Pedagogy Committee, and as an Associate Editor for Percussive Notes. Shaw is a performer/endorser for Encore Mallets, and is a clinician and endorser for Sabian Cymbals and Black Swamp Percussion.

Ed Martin is an award-winning composer whose music has been performed in Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America at events such as the ISCM World New Music Days 2010 in Sydney, the World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok, the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, and Confluences – Art and Technology at the Edge of the Millennium in Spain.  His music is recorded on the Mark, Centaur, Parma, and SEAMUS labels, and has received first prize awards from PAS, the Electro-Acoustic Miniatures International Contest, the Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize for orchestral music, and the Tampa Bay Composers’ Forum Prize.  Martin holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (DMA), University of Texas at Austin (MM), and the University of Florida (BM), and his teachers include Stephen Andrew Taylor, Scott Wyatt, Guy Garnette, Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, Russell Pinkston, James Paul Sain, and Budd Udell.  He is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

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