Etsuko NITAMI
  - Vocal

Started to study playing the piano at the age of 3, Etsuko Nitami continued studying singing and musical grammars. While in Meiji University in Tokyo, Etsuko played live shows at clubs in Tokyo area and performed as a vocalist and a keyboard player. After moving into Niigata City in 1994, Etsuko opened up her piano class and still give lessons to students. Etsuko studied basics of jazz singing under Kyomaro and now is a teacher at his music school. Last year, Etsuko had her first private exhibition collaborating with her jazz performance and oil artworks.

Kyomaro
  - Guitar

Kyomaro was born and raised in Niigata. Studied in the AN Music School in Tokyo as a scholarship student, he started his career as an instructor of the jazz guitar. After teaching the jazz guitar to many musicians such as Tak Matsumoto (a member of the Japanese rock duo B'z) at the Muse Academy of Music in Tokyo, Kyomaro opened his guitar school in Shibuya, and at the same time he had been writing about techniques of playing the guitar for weekly columns in the Guitar Magazine. Moving back to Niigata in 1986, Kyomaro opened the Dream Music School, the first comprehensive school of jazz music in Niigata. Kyomaro has been collaborating with various genres of musicians – not only jazz but classic, flamenco, bossa nova, tango and Japanese music as well, and also has joined into making movie musics, especially for films by a documentary filmmaker Makoto Sato. Kyomaro has been on a jury at the Niigata Jazz Contest since 2012.