Nick Terry performs with Ensemble XII, Sharp Three, Inauthentica, Ensemble Green, Eighteen^2, and PARTCH, whose collective repertoire features many of the 20th and 21st centuries’ most exotic and demanding scores. In 2004-2008, Nick participated in the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, where he worked closely with Pierre Boulez, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Eötvös, Sofia Gubaidulina, and members of Ensemble Intercontemporian. During these years, Nick co-founded Ensemble XII, an international group of 12 percussion virtuosi that was recently hailed by Pierre Boulez as “representing the next generation in the evolution of modern percussion”. Recent performances include the Klangspuren Music Festival, Philharmonie Essen, Disney Hall, Ojai Music Festival, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Green Umbrella Concert Series, Monday Evening Concert Series, Music & Conversations, Jacaranda, Grand Performances, Stanford New Music Festival, and Los Angeles’ Microfest. In California he has worked with composers Chinary Ung, Gavin Bryars, Anne LeBaron, Morton Subotnick, James Tenney, and piano legend Roger Williams. Nick has performed/recorded with the venerated California E.A.R. Unit, and Steven Schick with red fish blue fish. He can be heard on recordings from Capstone, New World, Innova, and Onigawara records.

Eric Guinivan’s music has been performed across the United States as well as in France and Japan. His compositions have been performed by the University of Southern California Thornton Symphony, Young People’s Symphonic Orchestra of St. Louis, the Delaware Youth Symphony, Quey Percussion Duet, USC Contemporary Music Ensemble, New York Symphony Singers, ensembles at Indiana University and USC, and soloists such as flautist Lissie Okopny and cellist Rose Bellini. Eric’s music has received several awards and honors, including the 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and 2007 BMI Student Composer Awards. Eric has received commissions from the Cincinnati Symphony, New York Youth Symphony, and the Delaware Youth Symphony. Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, Eric received Bachelor of Music Degrees in Composition and Percussion Performance from Indiana University and a Master of Music Degree from the University of Southern California. He is currently the Principal Timpanist of the YMF Debut Orchestra and performs with orchestras and chamber ensembles across the country.

Matthew Cook is a Los Angeles based percussionist involved in a variety of projects from classical art music to Middle Eastern and popular music ensembles. A graduate of The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Matthew's primary teachers include Michael Rosen, Tom Sherwood, and Jamey Haddad. As a chamber musician Matthew has worked closely with such composers as Roger Reynolds, Philippe Manoury, Olga Neuwirth, Tristan Perich, and Lewis Nielson performing under the baton of Simon Rattle, Robert Spano, and Timothy Weiss. Recent engagements have featured Matthew with the California E.A.R. Unit, Sonic Generator, PARTCH Ensemble, and the Cabaza de Vaca Arkestra. Matthew has received awards from Zildjian, Oberlin Conservatory, Instrumentalist Magazine, and the Georgia Governor's Honors.

Originally from Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Richard Baughman moved to California to earn his doctorate in percussion performance at USC's Thornton School of Music. Having studied classical percussion throughout high school and undergraduate years at The Interlochen Arts Academy and The Juilliard School, he began to study world percussion with the amazing Glen Velez for his masters degree at The Mannes College of Music. After discovering the world of hand drumming, he was fortunate enough to perform with Valez and record with Grammy winner Paul Halley and The Nick Halley Band. With a natural affinity and passion for Scottish drumming, Richard has played with many accomplished grade 1 and 2 pipe bands, including Toronto Police Pipe Band, City of Detroit Pipe Band, North Coast Pipe Band, and Saffron United Pipe Band, where he was the lead drummer. In 2006, Richard played with House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band as a fly-in player under the leadership of the world-renowned Jim Kilpatrick. In 2007, Richard became the lead drummer for the Grade 1 Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band and led the drum corps to place first in drumming in the qualifying round and eleventh overall at the 2007 World Pipe Band Championships.