Celeste Delgado-Pelton is the Director of the Department of Music and Recording at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling, Colorado. At NJC, she directs both the Concert Choir and Jazz Choir. Celeste is a Downbeat Magazine award-winning performer and director and can be heard on numerous compact disc recordings. She is a founding faculty member for the Rocky Mountain Vocal Jazz Camp and has performed with many notable jazz musicians such as Nancy Wilson, Arturo Sandoval, and Joe Williams. She is a published arranger of vocal jazz music and has both Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Northern Colorado.

Janice Vlachos is currently in her seventeenth year as a choral director at Fairview High School, where her group Age of Guinevere has won the coveted Downbeat Jazz Vocal Ensemble Award. Ms. Vlachos is currently serving as the Southwest Regional ACDA R & S High School Chair for women’s repertoire and standards, and her choral groups have been specially chosen to perform at the CMEA conference for 11 years straight. Janice has been a member of premier groups such as Soltane Voce and vocal ensemble Kantorei under the direction of Dick Larsen. She is currently a member of the Colorado Conductors Chorus and received her B.M. at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

John Harbaugh is the Associate Professor of trumpet at Central Washington University. He has over 25 years of college teaching experience. In 2009 and 2008 his student won the Music Fest Competition and performed as a soloist with the Spokane Symphony. His trumpet students have been in the semi final rounds of the National Trumpet Competition in either the ensemble, undergraduate, and graduate divisions each year he has been at CWU. In 2002, his trumpet ensemble placed third at that event.In 2004, the CWU trumpet ensemble was invited to perform at the International Trumpet Guild Convention in Denver.

His professional experience includes international tours with Tom Jones, Paul Anka, and Buddy Rich. He appears on three Grammy nominated albums and has recorded as a jazz soloist with the London Symphony. He performed as a jazz soloist with the CWU Jazz Band at the 2009 Western International Band Clinic, again in 2005 as both a clinician and soloist and in 2004 . He is principal trumpet in the Yakima Symphony and has been a member of regional orchestras in Iowa, Washington, and Alaska.

He continues to be a working musician recently having worked in bands behind Charo, Bob Newhart, Manheim Steamroller,the Disney touring company of "High School Musical" and "The Color Purple" He was director and executive producer of "A New and Different Way of Getting More Music Out of Trumpet" which was re-released on DVD in 2007 This 3 DVD series documents Professor William Adam's pedagogical concepts for playing and teaching trumpet.

He is currently a board member of the National Trumpet Competition and continues to work as a soloist/ clinician for C.G. Conn/Selmer Corporation and has appeared in the U.S. Canada, and Taiwan.

Be sure to catch Harbaugh's Jazz Improv on Trumpet: Learning to Use What You Already Have clinic at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 7 in the Life Science building, room 209!

Dr. Peter Ellingson is an instructor of music performance at the University of Colorado Denver, where he directs the Latin Ensemble, instructs jazz piano students, and teaches a number of piano, ear training, music theory, and jazz improvisation classes. Before coming to Denver, he worked as a freelance pianist and percussionist in Chicago, Phoenix, and Virginia Beach, performing with the Virginia Symphony, Williamsburg Classic Swing Orchestra, and Jerry Vale. Since moving to Denver, he has performed with Conjunto Colores, DKO, La Candela, Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra, Señor Gato, and Moments Notice Entertainment. His other teaching experiences come from Colorado Christian University, Red Rocks Community College and Arapahoe Community College.He has degrees Northern Illinois University, Arizona State University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Dr. Ellingson will lead Changing Up the Fell in the Rhythm Section clinic on Tuesday, February 7 at 10 a.m. in the Life Science building, room 209.

Art Bouton, Associate Professor of Saxophone and Chair of the Woodwind Department at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music, is first call saxophonist and woodwind performer throughout the Western U.S. He has extensive performance experience on all saxophones, flutes, clarinets, and bassoon, as well as the Akai Electronic Wind Instrument. Art is a founding member of the Lamont Jazz Faculty group The Climb and is featured on many of their recordings. He plays lead alto and flute for the Ninth and Lincoln Orchestra and the Wil Swindler Elevenet, contemporary ensembles specializing in new music for jazz ensembles. For the last several years, Art has performed in recitals on soprano saxophone with the Lamont Sax Quartet. Mr. Bouton regularly performs with the Colorado Symphony, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and is a member of the pit orchestra at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Mr. Bouton has studied saxophone with Douglas Masek, Roger Greenberg, and Vince Gnojek. Art performs as guest soloist and clinician at high schools and colleges throughout the U.S. and has served on the faculty of the Yellowstone Jazz Camp, Mile High Jazz Camp, the Telluride Jazz Camp, and Clark Terry Great Plains Jazz Camp. Art can be heard playing lead alto on recordings of New Music for Jazz Ensemble by Kendor Music.

Kirk Marcy brought honors to himself and his programs at Lake Washington High School with the 1985 downBeat Magazine award of “Best High School Vocal Jazz Ensemble in the U.S. and Canada.”  In 1987, he joined the prestigious Four Freshmen, and performed with the Count Basie Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with Buddy Morrow.  In 1988, Kirk Marcy returned to the Pacific Northwest to become the Director of Soundsation, the internationally acclaimed vocal jazz ensemble at Edmonds Community College. Soundsation was honored by downBeatMagazine as one of its “Outstanding College Performing Groups” for 2001. Soundsation has the distinction of being the only choral group to ever be invited to sing with the Count Basie Orchestra.  A passionate conductor of all styles of choral music, Kirk directs the Edmonds Community College Symphonic Choir, a choral ensemble dedicated to the beauty of singing great literature.  An active writer and arranger of vocal jazz music, Kirk has music published through UNC Jazz Press and Sound Music Publications.  A professional performer, Kirk sings with Just 4 Kicks, a zany A Cappella vocal jazz quartet based on the West Coast.  Additionally, he sings with Male Ensemble Northwest, a 14-voice ensemble comprised of choral conductors from throughout the Pacific Northwest.  He has guest conducted All-State Concert Choirs and Jazz Choirs in Alaska, Arizona, Iowa, Oregon, Illinois, Oklahoma, New York and North Dakota and is in great demand as a clinician/adjudicator at choral and jazz festivals throughout the United States and Canada.  Kirk is a member of MENC and ACDA.  Currently, he serves as ACDA National Repertoire & Standards Chair for Vocal Jazz.  In 2008, he was inducted into the Washington Music Educators Association Hall of Fame for his 25 years of service to music education.  Kirk is a 1983 Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Northern Colorado where he received a Bachelor of Music Education degree.