In addition to his position as music department head, Daniel Baldwin is director of orchestras at Luther College (Decorah, Iowa), where he has taught since 1997. Baldwin earned the bachelor of music (cello) from Furman University and master of music (cello) and doctor of musical arts (orchestral conducting) from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his arrival at Luther, Baldwin served as director of orchestras at Central Washington University (Ellensburg).

Baldwin received his formal training in string pedagogy as a teacher in the University of Texas String Project, perhaps the most comprehensive program of its kind in North America. Phyllis Young, director of the String Project for 35 years, was Baldwin's cello teacher during his studies at the University of Texas. He studied conducting with Henry Charles Smith, Cornelius Eberhardt, Sung Kwak, Walter Ducloux, and Fiora Contino. As a young man Baldwin performed in conducting master classes led by Elizabeth Green, Daniel Lewis, Gustav Meier, and Harold Farberman.

Baldwin has served as music director of the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra and the Transylvania Youth Orchestra of the Brevard (North Carolina) Music Center, the largest summer music festival in the South. A 1991 conducting fellow of the Conductor's Institute of the University of South Carolina and formerly a cellist with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Baldwin maintains an active schedule as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor. Since 2007 he has served as musical and artistic director for the Lake Chelan Bachfest.

Since 1997 Baldwin has taken the Luther College Symphony Orchestra six times to Europe, enjoying month-long residencies in Vienna, Austria, performing in venues such as the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and the Wiener Konzerthaus. Most recently the orchestra returned to Europe in January 2019, performing at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, Slovakia, the Kultur Kongress Zentrum in Eisenstadt, and on February 2, 2019 at the Wiener Musikverein. Baldwin and the Luther Orchestra will return to Vienna in January 2023. The Luther College Symphony Orchestra tours annually in the United States. Since 1997, Baldwin and the Luther Symphony have completed sixteen major American tours, performing in at least twenty states.

Soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine is acclaimed for her vibrant vocal beauty, charming stage presence, and accomplished musicianship. Of her portrayal of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Opera News described her as "a natural object of attraction for the men in the play," her voice as "light, flexible and vibrant — well suited to the part of a scheming maid and romantic ingénue."

In the 2011-12 season, Jamie-Rose sang the role of Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann with Wolf Trap Opera Company, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte with Austin Lyric Opera, Maria Celeste in Galileo Galilei with Madison Opera, Cis in Albert Herring with Los Angeles Opera, and Xanthe/Aphrodite in Lysistrata with Fort Worth Opera. She was a featured soloist in the 2011 Christmas Spectacular with Madison Symphony Orchestra, and Brahms' Requiem with the Santa Fe Orchestra. In the 2012-2013 season she reprises her Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro for both Florentine Opera and Austin Lyric Opera. Additional engagements for the upcoming season include Papagena with Opera Omaha and her debut with Memphis Opera as Judy Atkins in Lee Hoiby's This is the Rill Speaking.

In the summer of 2008, Ms. Guarrine made her debut with Santa Fe Opera as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro. The following season, Ms. Guarrine sang Mabel inThe Pirates of Penzance with Kentucky Opera, Susanna in Utah Opera's Le nozze di Figaro, Nella in Gianni Schicchi and the roles of Fire, Nightingale and Princess inL'Enfant et les Sortileges with Opera Company of Philadelphia, and appeared in concert with the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra. Most recently she sang with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica as the soprano soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana, and returned to Santa Fe Opera as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and Cis in Albert Herring, as well as an appearance as a guest soloist with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Engagements for the 2010-2011 season included Adina in L'elisir d'amore with Opera Fairbanks and a return to the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica for Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, her Chicago Opera Theater debut as Cleonte in Medee.

Ms. Guarrine returned to the San Francisco Opera's prestigious Merola Program in 2007 where she sang the role of Veronique in the world premiere of Hotel Casablanca by Thomas Pasatieri, "... Bringing a winning vulnerability to the role of the aspiring actress." (San Francisco Chronicle) During her tenure as a Resident Artist with The Minnesota Opera, Ms. Guarrine sang Zerlina in Don Giovanni, which was hailed by Opera News as "feminine and fresh voiced," and "a scene-stealing surprise" by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. She also performed Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and La Coloratura in Joseph Merrick: The Elephant Man. Ms. Guarrine returned to The Minnesota Opera stage as a Guest Artist in 2008, for the American premiere of The Fortunes of King Croesus under the baton of Harry Bicket with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, of which the Wall Street Journal stated, "Guarrine displayed sparkling coloratura clarity."

Ms Guarrine is the recipient of numerous awards, notably the Santa Fe Opera, Central City Opera, Jensen Foundation, as a 2007 Sullivan Foundation Award Winner, and a first place winner at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the Wisconsin and Minnesota Districts.

Julie Cross (mezzo-soprano) is a singer and music director in the Vancouver Washington area. She serves as Music Director at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and also teaches voice and serves as Principal Accompanist at Linfield University in McMinnville, OR.

 Dr. Cross lived in the Seattle area from 2013-2016, where she was music director and organist at St. Hilda & St. Patrick Episcopal Parish and taught at Seattle Conservatory of Music.  She has been a private voice teacher during her entire career, and was formerly a tenured voice professor at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. A past two-term Treasurer for the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM), she has sung at national and international IAWM events and the Festival of Women Composers International.  Julie and pianist Susan McDaniel recorded a CD entitled Songs of Forgotten Women with Madison, WI organization Audio for the Arts. She has performed solo and chamber recitals throughout the United States and has taught master classes nationally as well.

 Julie’s performance of Aunt Hannah in William Mayer’s A Death in the Family was recorded on the Albany Records label and received a positive review in the New York Times. She performed with Pauline Oliveros in her production Lunar Opera at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival in New York City; the production also received acclaim in the New York Times. She has degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Michigan, and has studied additionally at the Centro Studi Italiani in Italy. Her primary teachers were Daune Mahy, Marlena Malas, and Shirley Verrett.  This is her second year as Choir Director for the Lake Chelan Bach Festival and her sixth year as alto soloist.