Katie Greenwell Worsham is a flutist based in Austin, with roots in Missouri, Utah, and Texas. Dedicated to creating beautiful music, Dr. Greenwell Worsham is equally committed to helping her students find joy in their musical journey. In her teaching, she employs research-backed methods to foster a growth mindset, enhancing her students' learning, enthusiasm, and resilience. Through effective study of fundamentals and exploration of their unique artistic expression, her private students have achieved top chairs in state and regional bands and orchestras, including the Amarillo Youth Symphony and the WTAMU Youth Band Camp. She coached The Wild West Flutes flute choir in 2022, leading them to win Outstanding Undergraduate Ensemble at the Texas Flute Society Festival.

On stage, Dr. Worsham has performed with The Dallas Opera, The Amarillo Virtuosi, Amarillo Opera, Agarita, Josh Groban, and the UT Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall. Since starting her teaching career in 2010, she has served as adjunct faculty at Amarillo College, guest instructor/artist at West Texas A&M University, and athletic bands teaching assistant at the University of Texas at Austin.

Katie holds degrees in flute performance from the University of Texas at Austin (DMA), West Texas A&M University (MM), and Brigham Young University (BM). Her primary teachers include Ebonee Thomas, Helen Blackburn, April Clayton, Katie Tolbert, and RaNae Inghram. She is grateful to her wonderful teachers and is passionate about passing on her knowledge to her students.

Outside of music, Katie loves hiking and spending quality time with her family and friends. 

Julianne Webner is principal oboe with the Austin Symphony, and is also associate principal oboe and English horn with the Austin Opera, both since 2016.

A native of Portland, Oregon, Ms. Webner is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where she studied with Liang Wang, Robert Botti, and Joseph Robinson. She has also studied with musicians in the Chicago Symphony as a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. While living in Chicago, Ms. Webner was a soloist on WMFT radio, a founding member of the chamber ensemble Tempest Winds, and was principal oboe with the Dubuque Symphony, the Battle Creek Symphony and the Heartland Festival Orchestra.

In 2019 Ms. Webner performed the Vivaldi oboe concerto in C and Gabriel's oboe with the Austin Youth Symphony, and in 2020 performed as a soloist on Haydn's sinfonia concertante with the Austin Symphony.

Ms. Webner has performed in concert with popular artists such as Gloria Estefan, Dennis DeYoung, Yo-Yo Ma, and Kenny G. Her musical travels have taken her across the United States, Europe, and Mexico, including appearances with the Castleton, AIMS Graz, and Bellingham festival orchestras.

Ms. Webner lives in Austin, Texas and loves traveling and camping with her husband and baby.

Daniel Chrisman attained the contrabassoon position for the Austin Symphony in 2007 and he has delighted in making music with fabulous orchestras and chamber music ensembles in Texas ever since. He’s held the positions of Assistant Principal in the Austin Opera orchestra since 2017 and 2nd bassoon in the ROCO Chamber Orchestra since 2008. Professor Chrisman has been on the music faculty of Southwestern University since 2014 and he’s also been a private lesson instructor on staff for several school districts in the area since 2008. His primary bassoon instructors were Peter Simpson at the University of Kentucky, Matthew Karr at the University of Louisville and Danny Matsukawa at Temple University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from the University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) in 2003 and his Master’s degree in Performance from Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) in 2007.

       Dan Bechdolt is an award-winning musician, composer/arranger and educator who has lived in Austin, TX for the past 25 years. Mr. Bechdolt grew up in Southern California but relocated to Denton, TX to study, on full scholarship, at the world-renowned University of North Texas School of Music where he received his Bachelor’s of Music in Jazz Studies – Performance in 2000. While at UNT, Bechdolt was a member of the 3 O’Clock Lab Band and studied under Woody Witt, Dr. Eric Nestler, Will Campbell, Jay Miglia, Jim Riggs, Dan Haerle, Mike Steinel, Keith Javors, and Alan Baylock. 

While in Denton, Bechdolt co-founded the soul-funk band Mingo Fishtrap. For over 30 years, the band performed in more than 40 U.S. states, The Caribbean and Europe alongside greats such as Sting, Snarky Puppy, Delbert McClinton, Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Blues Traveler, Earth Wind & Fire, Trombone Shorty, & Parliament Funkadelic, among many others. Currently, Mr. Bechdolt is recording and performing with the Grammy Award-winning Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, Spoon, Jimmie Vaughan, Fastball, the NOW Jazz Orchestra & Red Young, among many others. Mr. Bechdolt is also an in-demand studio musician who has recorded for countless projects, including for film soundtracks and television. 

For the past 21 years, Mr. Bechdolt has taught saxophone with an emphasis on saxophone pedagogy in the classical & jazz traditions in Round Rock ISD, Eanes ISD and the surrounding Austin area. Every year, Mr. Bechdolt’s students receive recognition at the state and national level for their excellence. In 2021, Mr. Bechdolt was a Foundation For Music Education Honoree. In 2024, Mr. Bechdolt’s student-lead quartet from McNeil H.S. was invited to perform at the prestigious Midwest Band Clinic in Chicago. In addition, he serves as the Director of the McNeil H.S. Jazz Orchestra, and has increasingly been sought after as a clinician and masterclass instructor.

Mrs. Glover has taught band in Texas for thirty-eight years. A graduate of the University of Texas, she has taught at Westlake High School, Bedichek Middle School and a few years ago retired as the band director at West Ridge MS in Eanes ISD. A resident of the Dripping Springs area, she began teaching private lessons for Dripping Springs ISD in January 2018.

Throughout her career, Mrs. Glover’s ensembles have been consistent Texas UIL Sweepstakes recipients as well as named Best in Class at various festivals across the state of Texas. Under her direction, the West Ridge MS Wind Ensemble was invited to perform for the National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis, the Western International Band Conference in Seattle, and the prestigious Midwest Clinic in Chicago. The West Ridge Band program is also a recipient of the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s Sudler Silver Cup for Excellence in Middle School Band Performance.

Her students are successful in individual competitions as well, placing large numbers of students in district and regional honor groups each year. She has helped numerous students achieve membership in the Texas All-State Bands & Orchestras. Former students of Mrs. Glover are now studying at the Eastman and Julliard Conservatories of Music, many are band directors, and some are professional performers.

Mrs. Glover is a member of the Texas Music Educators’ Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, and the honorary music fraternity, Phi Beta Mu.

Mrs. Glover & her husband, a retired City of Austin firefighter, live in the Dripping Springs area where she teaches from her home studio in the summers. The Glover’s have three daughters. Their oldest daughter, Meghan, is also a horn player & currently serves as the Assistant Band Director at West Ridge MS. Middle daughter, Alyson, lives in the Dripping Springs area and works as a Civil Engineering. Youngest daughter, Katelyn, is a student at Texas Tech University studying secondary math education. And plans to graduate this spring.

Nicholas Scruggs is a full-time lesson teacher and freelance musician in the Austin area. A Houston native, he attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his Bachelor of Music in Tuba Performance in 2024. Throughout his undergraduate degree, Nicholas was a finalist and semi-finalist in solo, orchestral, and chamber competitions every year in the South-Central Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference and International Tuba-Euphonium Conference. Nicholas hopes to continue inspiring his students in their musical efforts while working towards his career goal of being the tubist in a major symphony orchestra.

Nicholas began his private studio in 2022 and his students have advanced in TMEA All-Region and All-Area competitions, received many Division 1 ratings in the UIL Solo & Ensemble Contest, and competed in the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival.