the Musicians

Saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger Jonathan Doyle lives in Port Townsend WA in the Pacific Northwest. He still spends time in Chicago, Austin TX, and on the road (full bio).

jonathandoylemusic.com

Saxophonist/vocalist, composer, conductor, educator, and audiovisual editor Stephanie M. Neumann obtained her MA in Music Composition (Mills College), BA in Music (Miami University), and Certificate (The Recording Workshop). She’s an active musician as a member of Sleight Ensemble and PTSQ, teaches private music lessons, and coaches woodwinds for the Chimacum band program. She has performed music for wind ensemble, orchestra, chamber group, jazz ensemble, marching band, theatre/dance, multimedia collaboration, and vocal ensemble, played with the Oak Wind Sax Quartet, Voci Women’s Vocal Ensemble, Mills Performing Group, and Lauren Baines Dance/Theatre, and studied with internationally known artists Zeena Parkins, Maggi Payne, Fred Frith, and Alvin Curran. Her recent A/V projects include the For Good Measure podcast, Ensemble for These Times’ visuals, and Bahlest Eeble Readings premieres. Additionally, she has worked as an administrator for the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music and the Mills College Music Department.

stephaniemneumann.com

Saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger Vincent Oneppo is comfortable in many styles and genres of music, having performed with orchestras, big bands, and dance combos of all sorts since the 1960s. A graduate of New York University, he earned his M.M. degree in clarinet at the Yale School of Music, where he later served in various administrative roles over the course of four decades, including director of the Chamber Music Society at Yale series which was renamed in his honor upon his retirement in 2011. He often performed as guest saxophonist with the Yale Philharmonia, and was clarinet soloist in several concerts of music from the Benny Goodman Archives in Sprague Hall, at the Norfolk Music Festival, and in Carnegie Hall. Since moving to Washington in 2017, he has performed with several orchestras, bands, and chamber groups including the Port Townsend and Port Angeles Symphony Orchestras, the Sequim City Band, and the Stardust Big Band.

https://vinandmaroneppo.bandcamp.com/

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Being a proud member of PTSQ, Al Thompson's musical history goes way back to singing duets with his sister in church in the 50s. He is a graduate of UW-Lacrosse ('69) with a Bch Music Ed. degree in instrumental music, then UW-Milwaukee with an Ms degree in Ed. Psych, ('81). Retirement after 38 years in public education, mostly as a band director, has brought him to the PNW where he has pursued singing and playing his woodwinds in various groups including PT summer band (clar./alto/tenor/bari), Rainshadow Chorus (vocal), Olympic Express big band (2nd alto/baritone), Stardust dance band (baritone), Unexpected Brass Band (tenor/clarinet), Copy Cats R/R trio (vocal/baritone), two different church choirs (vocal) and Wild Rose Chorale (vocal). In his spare time he was certified as a F.I. for MUFON investigating more than 100 UFO cases and is a member of the C.G.Jung Depth Psychology reading group. While pursuing music, he met his college sweetheart JoEllen in Band, now married for 58 years.