Laura Steiner is a member of the New Mexico Philharmonic and a teacher of violin, viola, and music theory. She plays occasionally with the Santa Fe Symphony, Performance Santa Fe, Chatter, and other New Mexican performing arts organizations, and previously held a position with the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. She has performed solo works with the New Mexico Philharmonic, the Albuquerque Youth Symphony, the Masterworks Festival Philharmonic Orchestra, and the University of Alabama Huxford Symphony Orchestra. Laura enjoys chamber music and new music, playing both violin and viola in groups with strings, winds, and piano. She is currently pursuing a M.M. in viola performance, string pedagogy, and music theory at the University of New Mexico, where she is a member of New Music New Mexico. She has taught violin and viola students for more than 10 years and music theory courses at UNM for seven semesters. Her principal teachers include Kimberly Fredenburgh, Wendy Richman, Daniel Sweaney, Gabriel Gordon, and Derek Reeves, and she received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Alabama (summa cum laude)

Originally from Albuquerque, violinist Megan Holland has performed throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands. Reviewers have characterized her performances as "poised" and "powerful." Holland has received degrees in music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Southern California. She has previously held principal positions in the Charleston Symphony, Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra, and Opera Southwest. She performs regularly around the Southwest with groups including Chatter and Albuquerque Chamber Soloists. Holland is currently the principal second violin of Santa Fe Pro Musica. She has also been a recurring guest lecturer for the University of New Mexico Pedagogy Department, specializing in the Mozart Violin Concerti and how to teach them.

Cellist James Holland is a native of Pensacola, Florida. He holds degrees in cello performance from the University of Alabama and the Eastman School of Music. For two years, James was a member of the New World Symphony, a Miami-based training orchestra under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In 1996, Holland was appointed principal cellist of the Charleston (South Carolina) Symphony Orchestra, a position he held until his relocation to Albuquerque in 2007 with his wife, violinist Megan Julyan Holland. He performs frequently with most of New Mexico’s musical organizations, including Albuquerque Chamber Soloists, Chatter, The Figueroa Project, the Placitas Artists Series, Santa Fe Symphony, and Santa Fe Pro Musica. He spends his summers in Breckenridge, Colorado as principal cellist of the Breckenridge Music Festival orchestra, a position he has held since 1998. He can also be heard performing the music of Duke Ellington with jazz legends Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway on the 2013 IPO Recording release, Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe, which was recently named Best Jazz Album of the Year by L’Académie du Jazz in Paris, France. Holland was invited by Daniels and Kellaway to perform with them again at the 2013 Detroit Jazz Festival. He maintains a large, active private teaching studio.

David Felberg, instructor of violin and director of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, is currently the associate concertmaster of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. A native of Albuquerque, he performs regularly throughout the Southwest as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He has appeared as a soloist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, Noisy Neighbors Chamber Orchestra, Tucson Symphony and the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra. David has performed solo recitals in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Clovis, Portales, and most recently on the Outstanding Artists Recital Series for the Emerald City Opera in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. In June of 2005, he made his New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall. As a chamber musician, David has been a faculty member and performer with the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, and from 1993 to 1997 was a member of the Helios String Quartet. He is a regular on many chamber music series throughout New Mexico, including The Albuquerque Chamber Soloists, Noisy Neighbors, Taos Chamber Music Group, Serenata of Santa Fe, Los Alamos Coffee Concerts and the Placitas Artists Series, and performed the Mendelssohn Octet with the Takacs Quartet in Boulder, Colorado, in April of 1998.