Brook Moes is a lecturer in string education and joined the faculty of the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific, Stockton in 2005. He holds a B.M. from University of the Pacific, M.M. from University of Maryland, and M.B.A. from Herriot-Watt University in Scotland. He has studied violin with James Stern, Ronda Cole, Arnold Steinhardt, John Dalley, and William Preucil, has had pedagogy studies with Ronda Cole and John Kendall, and chamber music studies with the Guarneri Quartet. Mr. Moes has performed as a recitalist in Scandinavia, Romania, and the United States. Under the auspices of the ABC radio network, he has also appeared as a recitalist in France, Greece, and South America. Mr. Moes has been a faculty member of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, at the Greater Washington Suzuki Institute at Catholic University, and of the University of Maryland’s Suzuki pedagogy department. Currently, he maintains private studios in Northern California and Washington, D.C.
Pat Anderson has received first prize in national and regional competitions (2003 Mid-America Guitar Chamber Competition; 2002 ASTA, Los Angeles) for solo and ensemble performing. He has toured throughout Mexico, in the United Kingdom and the Western United States, most notably, as guest artist at the La Capilla Gotica international guitar festival in Mexico City (2004), the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland and a soloist in the first annual Santa Barbara Guitar Festival (2007). He is currently pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Southern California where he has won numerous scholarships and awards for his studies. As an educator, Patrick is on the faculty of the Master's College (Valencia, CA) and Westmont College (Santa Barbara, CA). He is also trained in the Suzuki method, specializing in the education of young children and maintains a vigorous teaching schedule.
Esther Kemalyan Roche holds a Bachelor?s degree in piano performance from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music. She has studied with professors, Frank Wiens, Rex Cooper, Wolfgang Fetsch and Li-shan Hung. She participated in the Music Academy of the West where she studied under Anne Epperson and Jonathan Feldman. Esther is principal keyboardist with the Stockton Symphony, accompanist for the Stockton Chorale, and enjoys her position as organist at St Christopher's Catholic Church in Galt. She resides in Lodi with her husband, Matt, and two boys, John Paul and Joseph Benedict and is expecting a third child in June.