Lukas Foss, composer/pianist/conductor, was educated in Paris and the United States with Guggenheim Fellowships and a Fulbright Scholarship, has been Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, as well as conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. He was Professor of Composition at UCLA, and composer-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, Yale University, Manhattan School of Music, and Boston University. In addition to earning more than 20 honorary degrees, he is a winner of a New York Music Critics Circle Award and was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Letters. His oeuvre includes works for chamber ensembles, orchestras, solo instruments, chorus, voice, operas, cantatas, ballet, and the stage.

 The Choral Society of the Hamptons, was founded in 1946 by Charlotte Rogers Smith, a local choir director, for the purpose of allowing residents of Bridgehampton and East Hampton to sing together and to hear the great oratorios and light operas of the times.  Over the years, the chorus has performed works by major American composers, joined by instrumentalists and vocalists such as Dave Brubeck, Norman Dello Joio, Clamma Dale from Broadway, Marianna Christos and Gene Boucher of the Metropolitan Opera. These artists performed with the Chorus under numerous conductors of equal renown, such as Dr. Hugh Ross, Ifor Jones, Richard Vogt, Mitchell Krieger, Jon de Revere, John Daly Goodwin, Dr. Timothy Mount, Mark Mangini, and Gilbert Kaplan and Walter Klauss.  The singing members come from all areas of the East End, from Montauk to the Moriches as well as the North Fork, and the group has expanded its musical repertoire to include all great choral composers.  The Choral Society has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall and in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and for the annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Rockefeller Center.  The Society has hosted choral groups from abroad and has joined with other choruses for concerts at Southampton College of Long Island University, State University of New York at Stony Brook and in New York City.

  The Greenwich Village Singers (GVS) is currently in its 31st season performing secular and sacred choral music of the 17th through the 21st centuries. The 50-voice mixed chorus, based in Greenwich Village, attracts members throughout the greater New York metropolitan area. Led by Mark Mangini, Music Director and Principal Conductor, The Greenwich Village Singers is a recognized creative force in the New York  music community. The Greenwich Village Singers is a vibrant choral ensemble. The chorus is known for their sociability and inclusiveness, in addition to the intimacy of their performances. The group has a strong commitment to support the community which it resides, often performing for charity and with other community groups. About to complete its third decade, the chorus has performed a wide variety of works, including the Handel oratories Israel in Egypt, Judas Maccabaeus, Messiah, and Solomon . Baroque compositions include Charpentier, Bach, Schütz, Monteverdi, and Vivaldi; settings of the Mass by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Dvoràk, Kodály, Stravinsky, and Rossini; a capella works by Bach, Poulenc, Duruflé, Monteverdi, and Bruckner; and twentieth-century works by Respighi, Barber, Britten, Honegger, Copland, Ives, Rutter, Bernstein, Hoiby, Rorem, and Earnest.  The Greenwich Village Singers is committed to the presentation of new works by contemporary composers. This has included two newly-commissioned world premieres in 2005 by Walter Hilse and Jonathan David. The Greenwich Village Singers has produced two live-concert CD's: In Dulci Jubilo, and Natale in Venezia.

Brooklyn Philharmonic, one of the nation's premier music ensembles, continues to celebrate its vital presence in the cultural life of the New York metropolitan area. The Philharmonic is devoted to serving Brooklyn's cultural and educational communities through partnerships with New York City's Department of Education, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Academy of Music, among other organizations. For the past five decades, the Brooklyn Philharmonic has played a leading role in presenting innovative and thematic programming, receiving 21 ASCAP Awards over the last 25 years for "Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music." Since its 1954 inception, audiences have embraced the Brooklyn Philharmonic's commitment to the concept of the orchestra as a contemporary performance ensemble, emphasizing important present-day music, as in the decades of Beethoven and Brahms. The Philharmonic has premiered over 350 works, including 61 commissions.