Pennsylvania native Mina Fisher joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 1979 after serving as associate principal cello with the New Orleans Philharmonic and principal cello with both the New Orleans Opera Orchestra and the National Symphony of Costa Rica.

Fisher currently manages and curates programs for the Bakken Trio, a chamber group in residence at MacPhail Center for Music. She was a founding member of Ensemble Capriccio and with that ensemble commissioned and premiered more than a dozen string trios by composers including Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Stephen Paulus, Judith Lang Zaimont and John Tartaglia. Fisher also performed on five international tours with Ensemble Capriccio. She can be heard on the CRI, Paulus, Innova and Titanic labels.

An active teacher and coach, Fisher studied under Janos Starker and Fritz Magg at Indiana University and with André Navarra at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna.

Dr. Lourin Plant holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Wittenberg University, Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Choral Conducting from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. He has served as the Assistant Director of the Chicago Children's Choir (formally the nation's largest children's choir organization), and has been on the voice faculties of Sinclair College and Humboldt State University of California. Now in the eighth year of his appointment at Rowan University, he is an Assistant Professor of Voice. He is a member of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Marian Anderson Guild, the American Choral Directors Association, and New Jersey Music Educators Association.

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