Cory Barnfield has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to being featured as soloist with numerous bands and orchestras throughout Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, he has served as a principal saxophonist with the World Association of Symphonic Bands and has won awards at various Music Teachers National Association competitions as a soloist and chamber musician.

Mr. Barnfield has also performed at several regional, national, and international conferences including the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival, North American Saxophone Alliance conferences across the country, the World Saxophone Congress, and the United States Navy Band Symposium in Fairfax, Virginia. As a recording artist, he can be heard on labels such as Mark Custom Recordings, Amos Recordings in Switzerland and New Dynamic Records. Mr. Barnfield has studied under saxophonists John Moore, Paul Bro, and Scott Erikson. He is currently on the faculty at Indiana University Southeast.

Krista Wallace-Boaz currently serves as Assistant Professor of Piano and Pedagogy for the University Of Louisville School Of Music, where she teaches class piano, piano pedagogy, keyboard literature classes, and applied piano. In 2003 she became the pianist in the Trio Bel Canto, an alto saxophone/tenor saxophone/piano trio dedicated to the creation of new music for this genre. A new music reviewer for Clavier-Companion magazine (formerly Clavier) since 1999, she has also been published in Keyboard Companion, and has served as the President of the Kentucky Music Teachers Association and chair of the Music Teachers National Association State Presidents Advisory Council.

Wallace-Boaz is active as an adjudicator and collaborator, performing with nationally and internationally renowned artists including Oystein Baadsvik, Fabio Brum, Aaron Boaz, Delfeayo Marsalis, and Donald Peck, and is a pianist in the newly founded Grawemeyer Chamber Players. In March 2010 she made her Carnegie Hall debut with the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Players, performing works by Lutoslawski and Currier, receiving accolades from the NY Times for her “...warm-toned and picturesque performance.”

Wallace-Boaz holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of Louisville, a Masters of Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Northwestern University, and a Doctor of Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Northwestern University. Wallace-Boaz also holds three certificates from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia and has been heard on the national radio broadcast of the Dame Myra Hess Concert series. She has had the privilege of performing a series of concerts in Belgium as the guest of the Belgian Grand Consulate, and has appeared in concerts across the United States as well as England and the Netherlands. Wallace-Boaz currently serves on the Chamber Music Society of Louisville Board, and in 2008 became the Competition Director for the Macauley Chamber Music Competition.

OTHER GUESTS

Cory Barnfield and Krista Wallace-Boaz were also joined by clarinetist JJ Koh and bassoonist Scott Erickson. The quartet recorded Perry Goldstein's Kaleidoscope, which will represent the premiere recording of this exciting work.