Christian Li is a jazz pianist based in New York City. He studied with renowned pianist Danilo Perez and has played with the likes of Greg Osby, Joe Lovano, Dayna Stephens, Dave Liebman, Chris Cheek, Rich Perry, and Jack Dejohnette. Christian has performed around the world, including at such notable venues as the Newport Jazz Festival, the Panama Jazz Festival, Jazz En Comminges, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Blue Note, Birdland, and the Detroit Jazz Festival. Christian is also active as a teacher and is on faculty at the Berklee College of Music and the Calhoun School.

Kevin Sun (b. 1991) is a saxophonist, improvisor-composer, and blogger. Currently based out of New York City, he performs most frequently with Great On Paper (GOP), a quartet with pianist Isaac Wilson, bassist Simón Willson, and drummer Robin Baytas, which finished its first East Coast tour in August 2015 and plans to release its début album in early 2016 on Hot Tone Records. Winner of the 2013 Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition and 2012 Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition, Sun has performed internationally at venues in New York City (The Jazz Gallery, Smalls Jazz Club, Shape Shifter Lab), Beijing (East Shore), Paris (Sun side Jazz Club), Panama City (Danilo’s Jazz Club), and Kolkata, India. Sun is an active contributor to Jazz Speaks, the official blog of The Jazz Gallery, a not-for-profit jazz cultural center in New York City. He served as the blog’s editor-in-chief from July 2013 to December 2014 and has conducted interviews with artists such as Herbie Hancock and Joshua Redman. Sun’s own blog on jazz and miscellanea, A Horizontal Search, has received recognition from National Public Radio’s A Blog Supreme and Ethan Iverson’s Do the Math. It can be accessed at: www.thekevinsun.com. Sun holds an M.M. in Jazz Performance from The New England Conservatory of Music and an A.B. from Harvard College, where he graduated summa cum laude. He is the first-ever jazz saxophone performance major to graduate from the five-year Harvard-NEC Dual Degree program, where he studied principally with Miguel Zenón