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Bonnie Miksch received her B.M. in Composition from Syracuse University and her M.M. and D.M.A. in Composition with a cognate in Computer Music from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. She has studied composition with Mara Helmuth, Allen Sapp, John McCabe, Marta Ptaszynska, Sylvie Bodorova, and Andrew Waggoner. Her computer music has been performed at electroacoustic music festivals in Thessaloniki, Montreal, Beijing, and the University of Florida, and her acoustic music has been performed by the Columbus Women Composers' Orchestra, the University of Cincinnati's Women's Chorus, and the Choir of St. Peter in Chains Cathedral. She has received grants from Meet the Composer and Art Works to involve the community and public schools in her creative work. In 1998, she joined the faculty at Mercer University as Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Composition, and Computer Music.

Miriam Zach, Ph.D., organist amd musicologist, is Founding Director of the International Women Composers Library (IWCL), Visiting Assitant Professor in the Honors Program at the University of Florida, and plays organ for First Presbyterian Church in Gainesville, FL. She was named International Woman of the Year for 1992 & 1997 by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England for her distinguished service to music. She holds degrees from Northwestern univeristy and the University of Chicago. Her recently released CD Hidden Treasures: 300 Years of Organ Music by Women Composers available from the IWCL including music by Aleotti, Tailleferre, Beach, Szönyi, Falcinelli, Diemer, Schumann, Gubaidulina, Price & Moe was recorded October 1997 in Princeton University Chapel.