Dr. Christopher Raymond is a music educator, performer and arranger based out of Decatur, Illinois. He works as the adjunct instructor of bassoon at University of Illinois – Springfield and Lincoln Land Community College. He is also the music teacher at Jefferson Middle School in Springfield. As a performer, he is second bassoon with Sinfonia da Camera and actively freelances all around Central Illinois. Christopher earned his DMA and MM from The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and BM from Millikin University.
Alexandre Ouzounoff is a French composer who studied bassoon with Maurice Allard at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. After an extensive career as a performer and commissioning many new bassoon works thanks to a large grant provided by the French Ministry of Culture, Ouzounoff turned to composing music himself. Since 1995, he has composed over sixty works, many of them are for the bassoon!