Born in Helsinki, Finland, MARJA KAISLA began piano studies at age three and made her public debut at five. As chamber musician, recitalist, and concerto soloist, Marja has performed throughout Europe, the former Soviet Union, Canada, and the United States. Miss Kaisla is Director of the Delaware Valley Conservatory of Music, and co-founder of the Philadelphia Foundation for World Music and Arts, advocating music education and social harmony. She has studied music in Helsinki, at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, in Switzerland and Philadelphia. She appears as a pianist in the M. Night Shyamalan film, The Village.

Pianist-conductor, NORMA MEYER has an active performing career in chamber music and accompanying. As a young performer, she won numerous competitions - one resulted in the premiere of Kabalevsky's Third Piano Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Recent performances include collaborations with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as with her son, Ranaan, a bassist (Time for Three). Norma has been a member of the Grand Piano Orchestra and has been featured in productions of "Grandissimo.” Her work with youth orchestras has been widely praised. She was named New Jersey's honoree for the national award, "50 Directors Who Make a Difference." Norma holds music performance degrees from the Philadelphia Music Academy and Temple University.

VITALIJ KUPRIJ, pianist and composer from the Ukraine, holds three degrees in music from around the world; the Kiev Mykola Lyssenko Music Academy, the Basel Conservatoire and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Vitalij made his orchestral debut at Carnegie Hall in 1999 and his solo recital debut in 2006. When he is not touring, Vitalij can be found teaching, giving master classes and working on his most challenging and demanding project to date; composing and finishing his own piano concerto that he plans to dedicate to the memory of his late father and mentor who was a professor of trombone and music theory at a conservatory in the Ukraine.

Born into a musical family in Bucks County, PA, RANDALL HARTMAN began taking piano lessons from his mother at age 6. Randall and his two brothers had weekly music lessons, and their father sang with the Trenton Opera Company. A church organist at fourteen, Randall went on to tour with the Hartman Brothers, a duo-piano team. He has also appeared with the Grand Piano Orchestra. Hartman maintains a private studio in Pipersville, PA, and has served on the faculty of Eastern University, in St. Davids, PA. Randall has degrees in piano performance from Houghton College and Temple University, and is Founder-President of a not-for- profit, Hartman Concert Artists, celebrating the Arts in Bucks County.

The founder of Piano4, JOHN KOZAR is the Music Director of the Grand Piano Orchestra, and producer of the multi-media production, Grandissimo. John Kozar, applauded on five continents as conductor and concerto soloist, has performed throughout the United States and Mexico, in Britain, Europe, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Australia, New Zealand, and China—from Adelaide to London, where he made his British concerto debut with the London Philharmonic in a Royal Gala.
Kozar has graduate degrees from Indiana University in piano performance and conducting, and is listed in the International Who's Who in Music, and American Keyboard Artists.