Marcia Henry Liebenow is concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra and teaches at Bradley University. She leads an active career as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist across the United States and abroad. She has appeared as soloist with the Samara Philharmonic Symphony in Russia, played with orchestras in Germany, Ireland and Wales, and served as Primo Violino at the Orvieto Musica in Italy. In October 2007, Centaur Records released the CD she recorded with pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi of the three Grieg Violin Sonatas. She is a founding member of the Concordia String Trio, the River City String Quartet, and the jazz quartet Marcia Henry + 3. The Concordia String Trio often premieres modern works written especially for them, juxtaposing pieces from the standard string trio repertoire with new compositions and lesser-known works of great composers. A CD recording of their first premiere was released on the Capstone label, and another will be released in the coming year. In the summer, Marcia performs and teaches at the Peoria Bach Festival, and is a faculty artist at the Red Lodge Music Festival in Montana, the Birch Creek Music Festival in Wisconsin, and the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Vermont. She has also taught at the Aria International Summer Academy. In 2006, the ArtsPartners of Central Illinois honored her for her creative contribution to the community. On the Peoria Bach Festival 2008 she will perform one of Bach's solo violin suites at the Wednesday noon concert.

Moises Molina has appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout the United States and his native Honduras. He also plays solo and chamber music recitals in the United States, Europe, Central and South America. Molina studied cello with Martha Gerschefski, Andrew Luchanski, Lubomir Georgiev, and Alan Harris, he has been successful in several concerto, solo and chamber music competitions. Holding a bachelor degree from Columbus State University and graduate degrees from Florida State University, he has taught widely and currently, he is Associate Professor of Cello and Assistant Director of the School of Music at Western Illinois University. Serving as principal cellist in the Quincy Symphony Orchestra and Associate Principal in the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, he also performs regularly with his wife in the Molina Duo and is the cellist for the Julstrom String Quartet.  He is the featured cellist in the recent Centaur Records release String Chamber Music of Rebecca Clarke (CRC 2487).  For the Peoria Bach Festival 2006 he played one of Bach's cello suites. He returns this year for the Wednesday noon concert to play another.

Keith Williams is the Service Department Director and an Associate in Marketing and Sales with Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, LLC, since 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Organ Performance and is an active church organist and recitalist. By virtue of his wealth of understanding of historical instruments, and his performing experience he is a valuable member of the Buzard Project Team during their in-house discussions of how to best restore portions of existing instruments which may be retained in new work from time to time, and how our style embraces the literature and the Liturgical uses to which our instruments will be put.  He is a member of the American Institute of Organbuilders, the American Guild of Organists, and the Organ Historical Society.  He has previous experience with Carey Organ Company, Emma Willard School, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the College of St. Rose, and St. John Lutheran Church. Mr. Williams directs our staff of technicians in all aspects of maintenance, tuning, restoration and rebuilding of extant organs. On the Peoria Bach Festival 2008 he will perform on Friday's Bach at Noon concert.

Kerry Walters, soprano, has been a featured soloist on the Peoria Bach Festival since its founding. She is a professor at Bradley University where her duties include coordinating voice studies, directing the Bradley University Women's Choir and Opera Workshop, and teaching courses in diction, vocal literature, and music education. She is an active recitalist and oratorio singer in the region and has also made guest appearances in New York, Atlanta, Minneapolis, West Virginia, and Louisiana. She is Past-President of the Central Illinois Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and has served on the faculty of the Lutheran Summer Music Program. While studying at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, she was a champion of new music and a founding member of the Conservatory's Renaissance Consort directed by Dr. Earl Rivers. She spent summers singing with Robert Shaw in south-central France and with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale in New Mexico. Locally she sang for ten seasons with the Nova Singers, a professional choral ensemble based in Illinois. She is a regular performer on the Trinity Concert Series having appeared with the Zephyr Recorder Quartet and the Peoria Early Music Ensemble and on trinity's popular candlelight concerts. On the Peoria Bach Festival 2008 she will sing the wedding cantata, Cantata 202 "Weichet nur, betruebte Schatten," on the Friday evening Coffee Concert.

S. Blake Duncan, oboe, has been a featured performed on the Peoria Bach Festival since its founding having been featured both on oboe, oboe d'amore, and recorder. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Bradley University where he teaches double reeds, music technology, and music appreciation. Having had extensive orchestral appointments, he is the Solo English Horn chair with the Peoria Symphony Orchestras and performs with the Prairie Ensemble Chamber Orchestra as principal oboe. An ordained ELCA pastor, he is also the Minister of Music, organist and choirmaster at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Bloomington, the chorusmaster for Opera Illinois, and oboe instructor and chair of the woodwind faculty with the Lutheran Summer Music Program. His interests and experience span a broad spectrum from synthesis and MIDI technology to church music, opera, and roses. He has been a regular performer on the Trinity Concert Series and recently he founded the Peoria Early Music Ensemble which played their inaugural concert in January 2006 on the Trinity Concert Series. On this year's Bach festival he will be featured in several cantatas as well as on the Saturday evening 2008 Festival Concert in the wedding cantata that will be sung by Kerry Walters.

Bruce Atwell is currently Principal Horn with the Fox Valley Symphony, the Green Bay Symphony, and the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra having held similar positions with the Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra, the Florida Symphony Orchestra, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.  He was acting Fourth Horn with the Philadelphia Orchestra for their 1997 European Tour and in concerts at Carnegie Hall and in Philadelphia. He also performed on an all Wagner CD for Deutsche Grammaphone with Christian Thielemann conducting. He has also performed with the Cincinnati Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, and Cincinnati Chamber orchestra. He has had solo appearances with the Orlando Philharmonic, the Winter Park Bach Festival, the Ensemble for Eighteenth Century Music, the Oshkosh Symphony, and the Fox Valley Symphony, and performs regularly as a recitalist and chamber musician. Recently he has performed recitals at the Historic Brass Society Conference, the International Horn Society Midwest Workshop, the College Music Society conference, and the Society of Composers conference. In the summer he performs with the Movere Wind Quintet and Praetorius Brass and is a faculty member at Lutheran Summer Music. He has taught at the University of Florida and currently holds a position at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. On this year's Bach Festival he will be featured on Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 on the Friday evening Coffee Concert.