"In the fall of 2016, Kelsey was a recipient of the Holland Scholarship, granting her the opportunity to study contrabass with Sorin Orcinschi at the Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen, The Netherlands. Currently, Kelsey resides in Seattle, Washington, performing and teaching throughout the Greater Seattle Area, while touring nationally and internationally with groups including ings, NYGASP, and the Hollywood Concert Orchestra. Kelsey currently works for the Yakima Symphony, Symphony Tacoma and the Paramount Orchestra, while freelancing in numerous settings reaching from chamber music to Latin jazz. She released her debut album in 2018 February of entirely original music and currently co-leads the bands EarthToneSkyTone and Here to Play. She can be found teaching at Bellevue College, Seattle JazzED, Lakeside School and elsewhere. Kelsey also runs a private studio for students of all ages, teaching electric and upright bass, music theory, and more. Kelsey was the recipient of Earshot Jazz's Emerging Artist Award in 2019 and continually creates inspired work as a solo artist and collaborator. You can support her work directly on Patreon.

In May of 2016, Kelsey completed her Master's Degree in Double Bass Performance at Arizona State University under the direction of professor Catalin Rotaru. At ASU, Kelsey's musical involvement included the ASU Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera Theatre, the ASU jazz combos, the ASU Latin Ensemble, and the Visiting Quartet Residency Program. Beyond her degree, Kelsey freelanced in and around the Phoenix area, performing in settings that range from jazz, to classical chamber music, to musical theatre. She also taught group and private lessons to the students of Arcadia High School in Phoenix.

Kelsey received her Bachelor of Music Degree at the University of Washington in Seattle under professor Barry Lieberman in 2014."

"Based in New York City, Erin Rogers is a Canadian-American composer, saxophonist, and performance artist dedicated to new and experimental music. Named a "rising star" (Broadway World), her music has been described as "whimsical, theatrical" (Brooklyn Vegan), "a wild ride" (An Earful), and "so complex, it's primitive." (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Her work explores the intersection of chamber music, sound alchemy, and theatre, moving freely between acoustic and electronic worlds, with performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Roulette, The Knockdown Center, MATA Festival,Ecstatic Festival, Prototype Festival, Nief-Norf Summer Festival, wasteLAnd, and internationally, at the Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City), Resonanzraum (Hamburg), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid); NyMusikk Bergen (Norway), Edmonton Fringe Festival (Canada), Splendor (Amsterdam), and the World Saxophone Congress in St. Andrews, Scotland. Crossing genres, from theatre-to-installation-to-silence, through collaborations with Orange Theatre, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Harvestworks, Experiments in Opera, Decoder, and Music for Contemplation, Rogers' music has been featured on the French Quarter Festival (New Orleans), Continuum Music Festival (Memphis), Charlotte New Music Festival, SPLICE Festival (Kalamazoo), Bowling Green New Music Festival, Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva Manuel Enriquez (Mexico City) and the mise-en Festival (NYC). She has performed with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea, Copland House, and wildUp, and is co-artistic director of the experimental performance ensembles: thingNY, New Thread Saxophone Quartet, Hypercube, and Popebama."