Michele L. Fiala is Professor of Oboe at Ohio University. She has performed throughout the United States, Italy, England, Germany, France, Spain, Canada, and Japan. She served for four years as the Secretary of the International Double Reed Society. She released two solo CDs of contemporary oboe music, Overheard and The Light Wraps You, and is the author of the Performer's Guide to Nineteenth Century Italian Music for Oboe and English Horn.
Martin Schuring is Professor of Music at Arizona State University and performed as a member of orchestras across the world. He is the author of Oboe: Art & Method (OUP, 2009) and a former president of the International Double Reed Society.