Musician profiles are in alphabetical order.

Noteworthy: Degrees from Youngstown State University and University of Michigan; performed throughout Japan with Keiko Abe and the Michigan Chamber Players; chamber music recordings on the Denon and Equilibrium labels.
Oddest practice quarters: Aboard a barge floating down the Mississippi.
Funniest concert experience: After dropping a mallet during a waterfront concert, I was forced to simply watch it roll off the stage and into the river. Somehow, the mallet seemed quite happy as it drifted down the river.
What your colleagues don't know about you: I'm a major Star Trek junkie (though I have never attended a Star Trek convention wearing alien garb).
Recurrent musical fantasy: To perform with Frank Zappa.

Noteworthy: B.M. Oberlin 1983; M.M. Juilliard 1986; Principal Timpanist, Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI (Torino, Italy) 1987-92; first call substitute for Jacksonville (FL) Symphony. Currently living in the Minneapolis area, working as a database administrator.
Oddest practice quarters: A beach along the Adriatic coast of Italy.
Funniest concert experience: During a 4th of July performance of Copland's A Lincoln Portrait in Denver, the then-governor of Colorado was concert narrator and committed a very bad "Freudian slip." The orchestra literally missed several beats because we were all doubled over laughing.
What your colleagues don't know about you: I was born in Anchorage, Alaska, entered college as a piano major, and speak-admittedly somewhat rusty-Italian.

Noteworthy: BS in Natural Resource Management from Ohio State University, minor in Music; I have my own marketing consulting firm and chair the MSO marketing committee.
Oddest practice quarters: Ohio State Percussion Ensemble rehearsed in the back of a moving van.
Funniest concert experience: At a university percussion ensemble performance, a piece ended with me shooting another player with a blank gun and dragging him off stage feet first.
Recurrent musical fantasy: Playing with my three sons in a stadium rock concert.

Noteable: I received a B.M. from UW-Madison and an M.M. from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Whle at Cincinatti, my wife and I spent six weeks with Opera Teatro di Lucca in Lucca, Italy. In addition to performing with the MSO, I also play throughout the Madison area with various musical groups and lead the handbell choir at my church.
Most unusual concert experience: I played a piece in three movements that relied on an elaborate recording system. The first movement was recorded and played during the second movement, while we played new music over the playback. The final movement layered the two recordings with new material again. Tricky but fun!