Leslie Jay has played in venues ranging from Grand Central Terminal and public libraries to Alice Tully, Merkin, Weill, and Town Halls. Her resume includes performances with the Amato Opera, Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, Concert Pops of Long Island, Dobbs Ferry Opera, New Rochelle Opera, New York Debut Orchestra, and Opera Northeast, among other ensembles, as well as a joint recital in Chengdu, China, with faculty at Sichuan University. Currently she is a member of the Richmond County Orchestra and its affiliate, the Riverside Opera Company, both in Staten Island. Leslie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale. She taught single-reed instruments at Bayside School of Music and Art for four years before accepting an editorial job at Queens College, where she writes about the performing arts. A novice gardener, Leslie is proud of the pesto she makes from homegrown basil and parsley.

Larry Seltzer holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Leon Russianoff and Charles Russo. Larry has performed in and around New York with such organizations as the Absolute Ensemble, Broadway Bach Ensemble, Camerata New York, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, and New England Symphonic Ensemble. In October 2008, he was a member of the chamber orchestra that provided taped and live music for NY.2022, a critically acclaimed Soylent Green-inspired installation at the Guggenheim Museum. Larry plays clarinet and bass clarinet in the Richmond County Orchestra and Riverside Opera Company. An accomplished a cappella vocalist, he has sung in Carnegie Hall and was part of a barbershop quartet that performed the national anthem in Shea Stadium during its last season.

Glenda Torres earned her Bachelor of Music in Instrumental Performance from Unearte (Experimental University of the Arts), Caracas, Venezuela. She played in the Banda Marcial Caracas—the oldest musical group in Venezuela—as well as the Miranda State Symphony Orchestra and the Academic Wind Octet of Caracas. As an educator, Glenda has extensive experience in organizing children’s and youth ensembles, especially bands. She taught and was a wind group facilitator for El Sistema. At the renowned Emil Friedman School, she oversaw all aspects of the clarinet orchestra, including serving as its director, arranger, librarian, manager, and coach, and taught at all levels from kindergarten to graduate study.

Alex Yu is a versatile musician who embraces a career as a clarinetist, recorder player, saxophonist, and conductor. Currently based in New York, Alex has been featured in the 92nd Street Y Concert Series, Lex54 Concerts Series, Shelter Island Friends of Music, Kayenta Center for the Arts, Long Island Composers’ Alliance Concerts, and the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival. He has served as principal clarinetist in the Long Island Festival Orchestra and Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, and in June 2025 performed as a soloist with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. Alex holds degrees in clarinet performance from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College. His major teachers include Charles Neidich, Andrew Simon, and Deborah Chodacki. Alex was twice awarded the Bernard van Zuiden Music Scholarship from the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, and won first prize inthe American Protégé International Romantic Music Competition. As a music educator, he has served as adjunct faculty in clarinet at Queens College and given masterclasses at Southern Utah University and Utah Tech University.