Robert Spring, equally at home on the concert stage, the teaching studio or the recital stage, performs over 100 recital/concert performances a year, and has presented classes in over 150 universities, conservatories and colleges throughout the United States, and over 20 countries.

Spring attended the University of Michigan where he was awarded three degrees, including the Doctor of Musical Arts degree, and has received the Citation of Merit award from the Alumni Association of that institution. His teachers included John Mohler, David Shifrin and Paul Shaller.

Spring has performed as a recitalist or soloist with symphony orchestras and wind bands in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America, and has been heard in the United States on National Public Radio's, Performance Today and in Canada on CBC. He frequently serves as clinician and adjudicator and teaches on the faculties of several summer music festivals. He has published numerous articles on multiple articulation and other contemporary clarinet techniques.

Spring was President of the International Clarinet Association from 1998-2000 and has performed for the 1988, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2003 International Clarinet Association conventions. He hosted the 1995 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest at Arizona State University where he is presently Professor of Clarinet. Dr. Spring is also principal clarinet of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, OH. He is a Buffet Artist, and plays the Buffet Greenline Clarinet exclusively.

Jeffrey Lyman has established himself as one of the premier performers, teachers, and historians of the bassoon in the U.S. He has been Associate Professor of Bassoon at the University of Michigan since 2006, and, prior to that, held positions at Arizona State University and Bowling Green State University. His principal teachers include Bernard Garld of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Richard Beene and Hugh Cooper of the University of Michigan. He holds an undergraduate degree from Temple University and his MM and DMA from the University of Michigan. He has been a member of numerous orchestras across the country and has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Savannah Symphony, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, the Grand rapids Symphony, and the Michigan Opera Theatre, among others. He has appeared as soloist and in the orchestras of the Moscow Autumn Festival, the Festival dei Due Mondi (Spoleto, Italy), Académie Européene d’Été de Musique (Tournon, France), Colorado Music festival, Vermont Mozart Festival, Bellingham Music festival, Saint Bart’s Music Festival (French West indies) and the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East at Bennington College.

In addition to his varied career as a performer, he is also well known as an author and has published several articles, recordings and web pages on compositions for bassoon from the former Soviet Union, Mexico, France and the United States. His studies on the great woodwind pedagogues of the 19th century have culminated in several releases collected as the Jeffrey Lyman Edition from TrevCo Music Publishing, including the first complete English translation of the Nouvelle Méthode de Basson by Etienne Ozi and a forthcoming translation of The Art of Bassoon Playing by Carl Almenräder. Recent projects include video recordings of trios and duos for oboe, bassoon and piano with Nancy Ambrose King and Martin Katz, articles on textual issues in the music of Stravinsky and Canteloube, as well as premier performances of recent works by the French bassoonist/composer Alexandre Ouzounoff.