Dubbed by Gramophone as "...a superb, confident technician and an intelligent stylist, who doesn’t have to prove anything...", American pianist Chad R. Bowles has performed hundreds of solo recitals across the United States, in Canada, and Europe. Commanding an unusually vast repertoire and an effortless technique, his performances of the standard as well as forgotten repertoire have brought him great respect and admiration from both critics and the public alike. A New England native, Mr. Bowles holds a bachelor's degree in Piano Performance from the University of New Hampshire and both a master's degree and the Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. His primary teachers include Arlene Kies, Frederick Moyer, Alexander Shtarkman, and legendary American pianist Earl Wild. He makes his home with his wife and young children near Baltimore, Maryland, where he is full-time artist faculty and Chair of Piano at Peabody Preparatory and the Co-Director of the Peabody Piano Academy. In October, 2019, Chad R. Bowles was inducted into the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame.

Marian Hahn has taught piano and chamber music at the Peabody Institute since 1987. She has performed in 48 of the United States and internationally as a soloist, and as a member of the Amabile Piano Quartet and Amadeus Trio. She was a prizewinner in the Leventritt and Busoni competitions and gave New York recitals as a Concert Artists Guild winner. She has served as a judge in competitions such as the Geneva International, Hilton Head, Concert Artists Guild and Fischoff, and has given guest master classes across the U.S and in Asia. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College with a major in Comparative Religion, Hahn received her Master of Music degree the Juilliard School. Her teachers included John Perry, Ilona Kabos, Leon Fleisher, and Benjamin Kaplan.

Derek Hartman is an award-winning pianist and a dedicated educator. He received the First Prize in the Seventeenth International Beethoven Competition Vienna in 2025; he is the only American-born musician to win top honors in the event’s sixty-year history. He has appeared as a soloist with the Vienna and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, and he has performed on such stages as the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. Since 2024, Mr. Hartman has served as Lecturer of Piano at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. He is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the Yale School of Music as a student of Boris Slutsky. His teachers have included Wei-Yi Yang, James Giles, and Paul Wirth. Mr. Hartman is a Bösendorfer Artist.