Leigh Pilzer (baritone saxophone) is a native of the Washington, DC metropolitan area. She began her musical studies on piano and cello, switching to saxophone after hearing the Count Basie Orchestra. She attended Berklee College of Music where she majored in Jazz Composition and Arranging. At Berklee she studied with a number of great musicians including Greg Hopkins, Herb Pomeroy, Joe Viola, and Jimmy Mosher.
 
After graduating from Berklee Leigh returned to Washington, where she has been working as a freelance performer since. Her performing experience includes backing such artists as Mel Torme, Nancy Wilson, Harry Connick, Natalie Cole, Maureen McGovern, The Temptations, and the Four Tops.
 
She performs regularly with the National Symphony Orchestra, appearing at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Wolf Trap Farm Park, Carter Barron Amphitheater, and on the televised programs "The National Memorial Day Concert" and "A Capitol Fourth". She has traveled with the orchestra to Austria, Germany, Holland, and France, and to cities across the United States.
 
Other experiences in Washington include performances at Blues Alley, the Kennedy Center Opera House, the Barns at Wolf Trap, the Millennium Stage, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She is a member of the DIVA Jazz Orchestra and has played with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. She has recorded with DIVA, Bruce Gates Jazz Consortium Big Band, Chuck Brown, Eva Cassidy, and Lynn Roberts, among others.
 
Her arrangements have been played by the Commodores, the Army Blues Jazz Ensemble, the United States Marine Band, and by two United States Army Field Band units: the Jazz Ambassadors and the Embassy Brass Quintet. In June, 2003 Leigh was the featured arranger and soloist with the UFRJazz Ensemble in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
 
Leigh holds Masters degrees in Jazz Studies and Saxophone Performance, both earned at the University of Maryland in College Park. She is a member of the Jazz Studies faculty at UM, teaching Jazz Theory and Jazz Arranging.
 
 
Dave Rybczynski (alto saxophone), a native Baltimorean, began playing saxophone at the age of eight. After studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, he toured extensively through the Americas and Japan with such acts as The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Gary Crosby, and others. Dave also performed in New York with the New York Pops and with Kathy Lee Gifford.
 
Since his return to Baltimore, Dave has continued his professional music career working with Tony Bennett, Martin Short, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Dave can be found playing around town with other local jazz artists, and his arrangements are performed by professional and student groups. Dave teaches music at Howard Community College.
 
 
Adam Grimm (soprano saxophone), a Maryland native, attended Towson University where he studied saxophone and clarinet with Joseph Briscuso and David Stambler.  Adam has premiered works by Scott Leake,  Alex Abele and Brian Comotto.  An active freelance musician in the Washington/Baltimore region, Adam has played with Claudio Roditi, Gabrielle Goodman, Patti LaBelle, Allen Youngblood, Jessye Norman, Earnest Borgnine, Tony Curtis, Moon, Rockola, the O’Jays, Ricky Skaggs and others.  In addition, Adam is a former faculty member of the Towson University Preparatory Division and the Friends School of Baltimore.
 
In 2005, Adam founded the Old Line Saxophone Quartet, specializing in performing jazz literature in a chamber music setting.  They made their debut at the 28th International Saxophone Symposium.
 
As a saxophonist with the United States Navy Band, Adam has performed for presidents and royalty, as well as audiences all over the country.  Highlights have included performances at the State Funerals for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, the dedications of the National World War II Memorial, the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 Memorial Service at the National Cathedral, and the Norwegian Military Tattoo in Oslo, Norway.
 
Ben Bokor (tenor saxophone) is a Washington, D.C. based saxophonist. He can be heard playing throughout the capitol region with his quartet which performs standards and original material. The group's primary mission is to swing as hard as humanly possible, such as the tradition of the music dictates.
 
Originally from Chicago, IL, Bokor attended Northwestern University where he studied clarinet, flute and saxophone. He spent three years teaching and freelancing in the New York City and Chicago metropolitan areas. As an accomplished doubler, Bokor has found himself performing in a variety of professional situations. From musical theatre to symphonic orchestral and experimental funk, he has developed proficiency as a versitale performer.
 
In April 2003, Bokor moved to Washington, D.C. to accept a job with the U.S. Army Field Band, where he currently plays clarinet and saxophone. He is also currently a student at the University of Maryland, where he is pursuing a master's degree in jazz studies.