Ted Christensen is the coordinator of music for the Northshore School District and director of bands at Inglemoor Senior High School in the Northshore School District, (Kenmore, Washington), where he has taught for thirty two years. Prior to his teaching position at Inglemoor, Mr. Christensen taught instrumental music at Naches High and Middle Schools in Naches, Washington Instrumental groups from Inglemoor are generally in the top places at various contests and consistently receive superior ratings.  
In February of 2000 the Inglemoor Wind Symphony was selected to perform at the Washington Music Educators Association Biennial Conference as the only high school band selected to perform at that conference.  In 2003 the Inglemoor Wind Symphony performed for the Northwest Division Music Educators Conference in Bellevue, Washington.
Mr. Christensen graduated from Seattle Pacific University in 1981 with a Bachelors of Arts degree in secondary music education.  In 1987 he completed his fifth year at the University of Washington. 1993 marked the completion of a Master of Education degree. 
In 2006 Mr. Christensen was inducted into the Washington Music Educators Hall of Fame and received the Inglemoor High  School PTSA Golden Acorn Award in 2010. 2011 marked his induction into the Northwest Band Masters Association. The Washington Interschool Activities Association Hall inducted him into their hall of fame in 2012.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Ted Christensen served as Washington Music Educators Association collegiate president at Seattle Pacific University and was local chairman (1989) and organization chairman (1990) for the Washington All-State Band.  Mr. Christensen has served 12 years on the board of directors for the Washington Music Educators Association. In 1998 he was elected president of WMEA. Mr. Christensen is frequently invited to guest conduct at festivals and adjudicate competitions throughout the Northwest. 

ANTHONY GILES is Director of HS Choirs and HS Fine and Performing Arts Chair at International School Bangkok where he has served since 2010. Since moving to ISB his ensembles have been featured at regional events including BICF, IASAS CC, EARCOS, and most recently the 2013 Thai Ministry of Education Conference. For eighteen years before teaching at ISB Anthony was the Director of Choirs at Kentridge High School and Director of Music Ministries at First Evangelical Presbyterian Church both SE of Seattle.  His award winning choirs at Kentridge performed at the Washington State and NW Regional NAfME conferences as well as with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (the Orpheum), the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra (the Pantages), and the New England Chamber Orchestra (Carnegie Hall).  For over a decade he co-directed the Northwest Choir Camp Senior Choir at Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp on Flathead Lake, Montana, and served as the founder and director of Southlake Choir Camp (now a Musical Theatre Camp through the Kent Civic and Performing Arts). In addition to his current post in Bangkok, Anthony is active as a guest conductor, singer, and clinician. He and his wife, Jackie, and children, Zachary 12, and Cruz 5, love living in Thailand. Their daughters, Amanda 19, and Mackenzie 21, attend Colorado School of Mines, and recently graduated from Washington State University, respectively. Mr. Giles is excited to be presenting music of SE Asia in this his Lincoln Center conducting debut.

Mark Morris High School is one of two schools in a small industrial town in Southwest Washington. There are four choirs at Mark Morris High School, and the choristers singing are members of Vivace Treble Choir and Advanced Mixed Ensemble.  Mark Morris High School has had a fifty plus year tradition of consistently producing quality musical ensembles that perform musically and expressively. Annually they perform across the state and region. There is a strong tradition of students and ensembles performing in state and regional honor choirs, the state solo and ensemble contest, and continuing on to participate at the collegiate level.

During his college years Nicholas developed a keen interest in choral and instrumental music and studied music education with an emphasis in conducting. For the past twenty-five years he has taught music in Canada, Eastern Europe, Middle East and South-East Asia. In 2004 Nicholas earned a Master in Education from University of Victoria, BC, Canada. As music coordinator at NIST International School in Thailand Nicholas teaches MYP and DP music and is actively involved with the instrumental, string and vocal co-curricular music programs. Nicholas and his choir are excited about coming to New York to join this talented ensemble of directors and choral groups to celebrate music at Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts.