Susan Gardner (b. 1957) received her degree in composition and piano from the University of Texas at Austin. Her arrangements have been performed by numerous university and high school choirs, by All-State choirs and churches nationwide and at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. She has collaborated in concerts with the 5th Avenue Presbyterian Gospel Singers in New York City.

California composer Paul Gibson (b. 1952) received degrees in composition from Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, and California State University, Northridge. He has studied with Matt Doran, Frank Campo, Aurelio de la Vega, Ian Krouse, and John Harbison. In 1987 he was commissioned to arrange hymns for the Los Angeles papal visit. In 1993, G.I.A. released A Mass of Life, a critically acclaimed CD collection of his sacred music. In 1996, he took part in the Composers Symposium of the Oregon Bach Festival, where three of his works were performed. For its 15th anniversary in 2001, the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus commissioned him to compose Suite: Alice Through a Looking-Glass (Catalog No. 5870), which was included in Sing!, the Academy Award-nominated documentary about the group.

Gibson was twice selected in the Pacific Composers Forum Commissioning Circle Program and was a winner in the Fifth Annual PCF Competition for New Music. He has received the Owen Award from Oregon Catholic Press for outstanding achievement in the field of liturgical music, and CREATOR magazine named his Veni Sancte Spiritus (Catalog No. 5179) one of the ten best sacred works of 2001. Gibson’s choral works have been broadcast on hundreds of radio stations across North America. His music has been performed by Paul Salamunovich, the Debussy Trio, Richard Proulx, Zephyr, and the Los Angeles Chamber Singers, among others.

Gibson works in classical music marketing, sings with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and is cantor for Holy Family Cathedral, in Orange, California. He lives with his wife and dogs in Downey, California.
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A native of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Joseph Gregorio (b. 1979) began his study of composition as an undergraduate at Cornell University with composer Steven Stucky. Gregorio’s music has been performed in the United States and abroad by numerous soloists and ensembles including Chor Leoni; the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus; the Yale University Camerata and Pro Musica; the Rutgers Glee Club; the Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus; the San Francisco Bach Choir and Period Consort; and the San Francisco Conservatory’s Orchestra, New Music Ensemble, and Chorus. He was a Category I participant in the 2005 Oregon Bach Festival’s Composers’ Symposium, and has presented his work in an art song master class with William Bolcom and Joan Morris. His Five Whitman Songs were selected for workshop presentation at the 2007 San Francisco Song Festival; his In the Presence of Redwoods won the San Francisco Conservatory's 2007 Jim Highsmith prize for orchestral composition; his Dona nobis pacem (Catalog Nos. 6511 [TTBBB] and 6575 [SSATTBB]) won top honors in the 2002 Waging Peace Through Singing Project; and his As Adam, Early in the Morning tied for first place in the San Francisco Conservatory’s 2005 Art Song Composition Competition and took third place in the 2006 Diana Barnhart American Song Competition. Gregorio was named the 2005-2006 composer-in-residence of the Sonoma County Chamber Singers. His choral music is published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company and Treble Clef Music Press, and has been recorded by the Rutgers University Glee Club and the Cornell University Glee Club.

Also active as a conductor, Gregorio has co-conducted the Yale Recital Chorus and the Yale Repertory Chorus, and has guest-conducted the Cornell University Glee Club. He served from 2004-2006 as the assistant conductor of the San Francisco Conservatory Chorus, and was assistant conductor of the San Francisco Bach Choir from September 2005-May 2007.

Gregorio holds a M.M. in composition with departmental honors from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied with David Conte. He also received a B.A. magna cum laude in music from Cornell University, and a M.M. in choral conducting from Yale University, where he studied with Marguerite Brooks and Simon Carrington. While at Cornell, he was the recipient of the Ellen Gussman Adelson scholarship in music and the Thomas Sokol award, and while at Yale, he received the Richard French and Hugh Giles prizes in choral conducting. Gregorio is a professor of musicianship and music theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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