TIM THOMPSON is an educator, composer and performer. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Music from Temple University and his Master’s degree from the University of Valley Forge. Thompson actively plays trumpet in the central Pennsylvania area, as well as serving as worship director at Jerusalem Church in Manheim. He currently teaches general and instrumental music in the Warwick School District in Lititz, and resides in Lancaster with his wife and three kids.

KIRK REESE began his formal musical training at the age of five. He has studied with pianists Cedar Walton and former John Cage protege Ron Thomas, jazz guitarists and theorists Pat Martino and Steve Giordano. Reese attended Elizabethtown College and Global University/Berean School of the Bible. He has served on the faculty at Elizabethtown College and has performed clinics and seminars at Swarthmore College, Albright College, Gettysburg, York and Elizabethtown Colleges, to name a few. His involvement in Arts in Education earned him national recognition in 1996, through the Leonard Bernstein Center, as an innovator in arts infusion education.

One of the most acclaimed musicians to ever come out of Central Pennsylvania, Lebanon, PA native STEVE MEASHEY is the on-call acoustic bassist for jazz groups and venues in the region and in the Mid Atlantic area. Having played and recorded for a "who’s who" of local and regional groups and musicians, this sought-after bassist and educator continues to dominate the acoustic jazz bass in the area.

JEFF STABLEY is a composer, studio jazz drummer, and percussionist. He is currently a professor and director of the Jazz and Percussion ensembles at York College of Pennsylvania, and is the music director of the annual Jazz Vespers concert that honors Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Stabley has directed this concert for close to 20 years.

Stabley was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1961. He got his B.A. in Percussion at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and went on to teach in the York City School District until 1986. In 2013 Stabley was featured in a book titled Leg Up: The Courage to Dream. He lectured at Messiah College from 1997 until 2002, and became the Director of Contemporary Music at Zion Lutheran Church from 2002 until 2016.

Stabley has played with such notable musicians as Greg Kihn, Donnie and Marie Osmond, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Eddie Money, Arturo Sandoval, Tim Warfield, Kirk Reese, Steve Meashey, Skip Heller, Don Collins, Paul Carr, John Swana, Chris Bacas, Jimmy Wood, Don Carn, Steve Rudolph, Ronnie Waters and many others, including Stefon Harris, Terell Stafford, and Cyrus Chestnut. Locally, he plays with Kirk Reese, Tim Warfield, and Jim Wood.