George Lewis – composer/trombonist/dean at Columbia University

Marilyn Crispell – pianist

Ig Henneman - violist and composer

Old Trout Puppet Workshop  - puppeteers

Anne La Berge - flautist and composer

Lori Freedman - clarinetist and composer

Mind of a Snail - shadow puppeteeers

Barry Guy – London Jazz Composers Orchestra

Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet/composer/professor at California Institute of the Arts

René Lussier – Montréal guitarist/composer

Butch Morris – trumpet/ “conduction” pioneer Butch Morris

Roscoe Mitchell – reeds/flutes – Art Ensemble of Chicago

Fred Anderson – reeds/AACM pioneer

John Oswald – composer of Plunderphonics fame

Diane Labrosse – electronics/founding member of Justine

Pierre Tanguay – percussionist/composer/inveterate inventor of music ancient to future

Koch, Schutz, Studer - sax+cello+drums/creators of “hardcore chamber music”

Oliver Lake – saxophonist / leader of Oliver Lake Big Band

Martin Tetreault

Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra

Paul Smoker and Phil Haynes

Vinny Golia

Paul Cram

Lisle Ellis

Peter Bingham

Susan Elliot - Anatomica