Isabelle was born and raised in Luxembourg, Europe. She earned three First Prizes in solfège, piano performance and chamber music from the Conservatoire de Musique in Luxembourg, then continued her studies in the US at the University of Iowa under pianist Kenneth Amada. She has taught music privately and at several conservatories in Luxembourg, and has performed with the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Her work is published by Transcontinental Music Publications in New York and distributed by Hal Leonard. As a singer-songwriter, Jane has recorded and co-produced four albums, working with top musicians in the fields of jazz and country in Detroit and Nashville. Her latest CD, “Midnight Lullaby,” has been awarded the Parent’s Choice award for 2011.

Jane was also awarded an honorary Ph.D. for her work in helping to establish the Quiet Time Program, which through the David Lynch Foundation has taught Transcendental Meditation to over 100,000 at-risk school children all over the world.

She has taught voice, trumpet, and Native American flute lessons in her private studio for many years. Kaeli is a member of the American Choral Directors Association and has conducted both children's and adult choirs. She is also a songwriter and composer, and is currently serving as music director and composer for an independent documentary.

Professor Sarath is active as a performer on the flugelhorn, recording artist, composer, author and guest clinician. His latest CD Last Day in May (Konnex Records, Berlin) features internationally-acclaimed artists Dave Liebman, Mick Goodrick, Harvie Swartz and Marvin "Smitty" Smith. His prior recording, Voice of the Wind (Owl Records, Paris) features Liebman, Joanne Brackeen, Cecil McBee and Billy Hart.

He has performed at the Montreux, North Sea, Antibes, Le Mans, London and Montreux-Detroit jazz festivals. Sarath performs regularly with the French-based ensemble Cache Cache, winner of the 1992 Radio France Jazz Competition. He has given master classes at major conservatories throughout the U.S., Europe and Brazil. Recent projects include a commissioned composition for the Cologne Jazz Orchestra with guest soloists David Liebman and seven-time Grammy award winner Michael Brecker. He recently led the School's Creative Arts Orchestra, an eclectic improvising ensemble, on an East Coast tour. He is U.S. coordinator and a member of the board of directors of the International Association of Schools of Jazz.

Her group work "Dolorosa" reflects her interest in the relationship between black Catholic icons of the Virgin Mary of Europe with Yoruba deities in the Atlantic African Diaspora. Her most recent large work “Bouki Calls” utilizes the metaphor of the legendary hyena Bouki of the Senegambia area to make a powerful anti-war statement.

Prof Melrose has been a perennial advocate of African dance and music on the Madison campus for the past 15 years. Ms. Melrose's affinity for African-derived dance forms evolved from the profound influence guest artist Pearl Primus had on her when she was a young dance student and was later rekindled when, as a teacher in the UW-Madison Dance Program in the 1980s, she collaborated with another of Madison's visiting artists, Clyde Morgan, a specialist in Afro-Brazilian dance.

She studied dance at the University of Ghana-Legon in the summer of 1993, returning in 1994 as a Fulbright Fellow. There she visited regions throughout Ghana rich in traditional dance and ritual, observing these forms in full cultural context. During this time she not only taught but also participated in some of the many regional performances she recorded. At the Ghanaian National Theater's dance ensemble in Accra, she taught modern dance and creative work in conjunction with the Ghanaian dancers and musicians; and together they created a 20-minute original work.

She shared her experiences and passion for West African dance with her colleagues and students in Madison by bringing in the exciting Ghanaian dance and drummer, Habib Idrissu, as guest artist in the fall of 1995, and by continuing to teach her popular elective class in West African Dance and Music. Prof. Melrose spearheaded and implemented the yearlong African/African-American Dance Festival in 1997-98 on the UW-Madison campus. In addition to being a charter member of the African performance ensemble "Kweku Ananse and the Sweet Vibrations", Prof. Melrose with the sponsorship of the Wisconsin Center for the Humanities, conceived of and directed an evening concert called "Aseye! From Hi life to Hip Hop" featuring expert Ghanaian and Wisconsin musicians and dancers, (April 2003). A new African performance group was born out of that creative project which now performs in schools and community functions throughout the area.

Other African based dance/music forms are of great interest to Professor Melrose. She traveled to Cuba in1996 and 2000 to study Afro-Cuban dance and culture in Havana and in Santiago, Oriente Province in addition to attending the respected Afro-Cuban Dance/Music workshop (2002) at Humboldt College, California. With her instigation, the UW Dance Program and the Center for Latin American Caribbean and Iberian Studies, have consequently co- sponsored UW campus-community workshops and performances by Richard Gonzalez from New York/Puerto Rico, Jose Barroso and Danis Perez Prades from Cuba, and Chris Walker from Jamaica.

Prof Melrose designed a new upper level course open to all university students and cross listed with Afro-American Studies and the School of Music entitled "Cross Cultural Forms: West African Music/Dance in the Americas". This 3-credit course is open to all university upper level students and satisfies the university's ethnic studies requirement. In addition she continues to teach a very popular African based dance class and a more advanced performance class,

During her sabbatical in 2003 Prof. Melrose received travel funds from the African Studies Program to return to Ghana to verify her research and field tapes done in 1994 in the Brong Ahafo region. Prof. Melrose has given paper presentations about the transformation of values possible through methods of teaching West African dance in the U.S. The venues included University of Florida-Gainesville (Congress of Research in Dance Conference and Gwendolyn M Carter Conference in African Studies) 2004, Michigan State University (National Dance Educators Organization conference) 2004, and Dakar Senegal (West African Research Center) Jan. 2005. She was Chair of the Dance Program from fall of 2005 until 2007. She retired in May 2007 but continues to teach, choreograph and research.

He has been on faculty at the San Diego School of Rock, and Head Instructor at the world famous Songwriter Seminar. He is vice-president of the San Diego Song Writers Guild, and a judge at the guild's songwriting competitions, and is the president of Songwriting Planet. Kevin is currently writing music for his next CD, teaching songwriting seminars in the U.S., and teaching courses and private lessons over the Internet.

Paul worked closely with MUM's founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to incorporate principles of the Science of Creative Intelligence and Maharishi Vedic Science in songs which have been recorded in several albums. Paul has also produced albums for other artists, notably two song collections by Mike Love (Beach Boys) — First Love, and the soon-to-be-released Only One Earth. Paul served as chair of the MUM music department from 1987 to 2000.

His commissions include the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and Museum of Modern Art. Dozens of his film scores are available on the Criterion, Kino and Milestone labels, and close to 2000 sheet music arrangements published by Hal Leonard, Cherry Lane and Warner Bros.

She later studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Patricia was a finalist in the Liverpool Music in Education, National Composer's Competition, and won the composition prize at the Oxford Festival. She received an award from the Oppenheim-Downes Trust. Patricia has prepared several courses in music theory and music composition for beginners and was an examiner in music performance for the UK’s top national examination board, Edexcel.