Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votinsk, Russia, and was initially trained in music by a French governess. He briefly held a career as a government, but in 1961 entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory to study composition.

George Bruns burst onto Disney’s musical scene in 1953 when he was personally hired by Walt Disney to score the animated featureSleeping Beauty.

Lyricist Tom Adair (1913 – 1988) and composer Matt Dennis (1914 - 2004) teamed up to write Let’s Get Away From It All, Everything Happens to Me and The Night We Called It a Day, three of the most memorable songs recorded by Frank Sinatra during his stint

Winston Hibler is probably best known as the friendly voice that narrated Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures films. The veteran producer, however, contributed in many other ways during his nearly 35 years with The Walt Disney Studios.

KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ is part of the Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy winning songwriting team behind the Disney animated films, Frozen and Frozen 2, with her husband ROBERT LOPEZ.

Will Van Dyke is a New York-based composer/lyricist and music director. Will is the composer of Pages (CAP 21), Winnie the Pooh KIDS (Disney), and The Girls I ve Like Liked (Ars Nova). His songs have been performed at venues all over the country from Joe s Pub to Lincoln Center.

Cheryl L. Davis is a co-recipient of the Kleban Award for her work as a librettist, and her musicalBarnstormer, written with award-winning composer Douglas J. Cohen, received a Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award, under the auspices of the Lark Play Development Center.

Composer and Lyricist for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Love's Labour's Lost; The Fortress of Solitude; Here's Hoover; Saved, The Brand New Kid, The Blue Demon, and, with The Civilians, for Canard Canard Goose, Gone Missing,N

Alex Timbers is a writer and director.