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Patricia Gray, Artistic Director, National Musical Arts & Director of the Biomusic program. Dr. Patricia Gray is the Artistic Director and Pianist of National Musical Arts, in Washington DC, and the founder and Director of the BioMusic Program. As pianist, she has performed at The White House, is the recipient of the prestigious Franz Liszt Commemorative Medal from the government of Hungary, appeared as soloist with leading orchestras, and has collaborated in performances with composers. 
     As Executive Producer, she has created and produced international concerts with 17 foreign Embassies, a companion concert which toured with the international exhibition, "MEXICO: Splendors of Thirty Centuries", and productions with the National Broadcasting Company, Inc., the Motion Picture Association, ASCAP,  among others. 
     In 1997, Dr. Gray was asked by the Getty Conservation Institute to produce a series of concerts which interface western music with music of other cultures. Researched in depth at the foreign sites, the series entitled "Music Becomes Us" focuses on the musical cultures of India, China, South Africa/Zimbabwe, and Latin America, and includes commissions for American composers, and multimedia by the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.  Two productions have been created to date and received rave reviews -  "India in the Air" and "Africa! Spirit Ascending", the latter a co-production with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 

Bernie Krause, Wild Sanctuary, Inc. For the past quarter century, Dr. Bernie Krause has traveled the world over capturing sound of creatures and environments large and small.  He has worked at the research sites of Jane Goodall (Gombe, Tanzania), Birute Galdikus (Camp Leakey, Borneo), and Dian Fossey (Darisoke, Rwanda), recording and evaluating the effects of ambient sound on the vocalizations of the great apes.  He was also Scientific Director of the operation that rescued Humphrey the humpback whale from the Sacramento Delta (1985/1989) using processed feeding sounds of the same species to lure him to the ocean.  Aside from his work in bio-acoustics, Dr. Krause also has a background in music having replaced Pete Seeger in The Weavers (1963), introduced the synthesizer to the fields of pop music and film, contributing performances to over 135 major feature films including Apocalypse Now and Rosemary's Baby, and over 250 recordings with major recording artists and acts.  Through his company, Wild Sanctuary, he has recorded over 50 environmental record albums and creates interactive environmental sound sculptures for museums, zoos, aquaria and other public spaces.