Patricia is an adjunct professor of saxophone at Kent State University-Stark Campus and Mt.UnionCollege. She holds a bachelor's degree in music education and a master's degree in saxophone performance from YoungstownStateUniversity's Dana School of Music where her teacher was Joseph Edwards.Other teachers include Paul Cohen and Robert Lyon.Ms. Olsson is a featured soloist with the Sounds of Sousa Band and has performed solos with the Canton Concert Band; Kent State University-Stark Campus Concert Band; and solo recitals at KSU-Stark, Mt.UnionCollege, MaloneCollege, MuskingumCollege and HiramCollege.She has conducted the Canton Concert Band, Kent State University-Stark Campus Concert Band, Hiram College Concert Band and various saxophone ensembles.She has also performed with the Lakewood Hometown Band, Wheeling Symphony, Youngstown State All-Star Concert Band, Dominic Greco Memorial Band; the Tuscarawas Philharmonic; the YSU-Dana School of Music Alumni Jazz Ensemble; the Allegheny Summer Music Festival Jazz Ensemble; for the Canton Players Guild, Youngstown Playhouse and Canton Lyric Opera; at the North American Saxophone Alliance Region V Conference. An Adjudicator for the Ohio Music Education Association, she is a also member of Music Educator's National Conference, the Ohio Music Education Association, the North American Saxophone Alliance, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society and is a life member of Sigma Alpha Iota, International Music Fraternity for Women.  She has been with SOS since 1995.

Amy Giauque is a 1996 graduate of Cloverleaf High School. While in high school she was an active member of her school music program including concert band and marching band as well as participating yearly in solo and ensemble and the Medina County honors band. She was also a member of the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony, Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra, Medina Community Band and Medina Community Orchestra. Amy attended Capital University where she received a bachelor's degree in music performance. While there she performed in many university ensembles including the Symphonic Band, Chamber Winds, Community Orchestra, Woodwind and Brass Quintet.  A recent graduate from The University of Akron, Amy played principal horn in the Symphonic Band and Symphony Orchestra as well as being a member of the Graduate Brass and Woodwind Quintet. She is currently playing with Medina Community Band and the Marcus Neiman Sounds of Sousa Band and looking for an instrumental music teaching position.

Christopher Burdick is a band director with the North Royalton City Schools.He directs the North Royalton High School Symphonic Band, the Seventh & Eighth Grade Bands, and the Musical Pit Orchestra.He assists with the 6th Grade Band and the North Royalton High School Marching Band, which participated in the 2003 Tournament of Roses Parade.Christopher is a member of the Ohio Music Education and is the Local Chairman for the District IV Junior High Large Group Adjudicated Event.He served as a director on the American Music Abroad Honors Band & Choir Tour of Western Europe in 1999.Christopher is originally from Boston, NY, a suburb of Buffalo.He received his Bachelor's in 1992 at the Crane School of Music at Potsdam College where he received the Julia Crane Award; voted on by the faculty as most likely to succeed as a music educator.In 1993, he co-founded and directed the Boston Town Community Band which continues to this day.He was a graduate assistant at Kent State and was a member of the Kent Faculty Brass Quintet for two years while earning his Master's in 1994.He has performed with the Potsdam Brass Quintet, the Chamber Orchestra of Northern NY, and the Kent-Blossom Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin.Christopher is currently a member of Marcus Neiman and the Sounds of Sousa Band and the Akron Federation of Musicians Local 24.He and his wife Beth, a member of the flute section, reside in Brunswick with their sons, Ryan and Brendan.