Karen Entzi is a veteran orchestra performer and teacher with thirty years' experience. She has performed with such notables as The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, The South Carolina Philharmonic, South Carolina Chamber Orchestra, The St. Joseph Symphony, Mannheim Steamroller, The Who, and most recently, Clay Aiken. Karen has a BM in Education from UNC-G, and a MS in teaching from Northwest Missouri State.

Dr. John Entzi is currently the director of University Bands at UNC-Asheville. He is a veteran of the big bands, symphony orchestras, has taught all levels of public school instrumental music, and is the Director of the Smoky Mountain Brass Band. Hei received his B.M.E. degree in 1974 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, his M.A. in 1978 from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC and his D.M.A. in 1998 in trumpet performance from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.

Dr. Entzi has toured and performed extensively throughout the Southeast, where he performed with Holiday on Ice, Disney on Parade, the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus, the Henry Busse Orchestra, The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Guy Lombardo, Vaughn Monroe, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Atlantic Jazz Orchestra, When Swing Was King, Nelson Riddle Orchestra and the U.S. Air Jazz Orchestra. He has performed with such luminaries as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Nancy Wilson, The Four Tops, The Spinners, The Temptations, Anita Bryant, Martha Raye, Bernadette Peters, Johnnie Ray and the Gladys Knight and the Pips. Dr. Entzi has also performed with the Saint Joseph Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Western Piedmont Symphony, the Greensboro Symphony and the South Carolina Philharmonic, and is a charter member of the Charlotte Repertory Orchestra.