Felisha Jones is a native of Iowa. She studied at the University of Northern Iowa from 2008-2013. She then received a prestigious Collins Fellowships and a teaching assistantship on bassoon to attend UW-Madison where she finished her masters degree in Multiple Woodwind Performance in 2015. In 2017 she started her DMA in Double Reed Performance at the University of Georgia where she will graduate in 2020.
While at UNI she won the Presser Scholar Award performing the first movement of the Mozart Oboe Concerto. She also subbed often on oboe in the Cedar Falls-Waterloo Symphony and the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band.
While in her undergrad she was selected as one of five to perform a flute solo on the Northern Iowa Wind Symphony Tour in Italy. In the summer of 2016 she was the flute advisor for the Iowa Ambassadors of Music European Tour, which she had participated in as the principal flute and piccolo player in 2008.
Felisha has enjoyed performing in numerous pit orchestras on all five woodwind instruments, along with numerous chamber groups. She has built up her own woodwind studio in the Athens, Lawrenceville and Johns Creek areas, and also makes and sells her oboe and bassoon reeds to numerous students in the area. She is in high demand to teach oboe, bassoon and flute masterclasses across east and central Georgia.
A native of Iowa, William Jones began his oboe studies at age ten. After graduating from the University of Northern Iowa, he pursued graduate studies at the University of Georgia with Reid Messich, receiving his Doctor of Musical Arts in 2019. He has participated in the Brevard Music Festival, recently attending as the Studio Teaching Assistant, and he has performed with orchestras across the southeast. Since 2016, he has been a member of the Southern Winds Quintet, the graduate woodwind quintet at UGA. In the Southern Winds, he was a winner of the state level chamber music division of the MTNA competition, and has performed recitals across Georgia with this ensemble. Other major teachers include Eric Ohlsson and Tom Barry.