Janice Baugh is a professional horn and trumpet player originally hailing from Fort Worth, Texas. She completed her undergraduate studies at Texas A&M-Commerce and received her masters in music from the University of New Mexico. Before moving to Colorado, Janice served as the assistant principal horn of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra.  She is currently an active freelance musician across the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, having notable performances with the New Mexico Philharmonic, the Santa Fe Symphony, and the Festival Ballet of Albuquerque. Janice has also toured as a soloist with her duet group, The High Desert Duo, through the American south. Her students have won positions in the Texas and New Mexico All-State bands, achieved the highest ratings at solo and ensemble competitions, and have taken numerous “Best-in-Class” awards. When not performing, she dabbles in baking, drawing, and crocheting to spark her creative genius.

Benjamin Garcia joined the West Colfax Music Studio in 2023 as a freelance trombonist and bass trombonist based in Lakewood, Colorado. He performs regularly across the front range with
ensembles such as the Colorado Ballet Orchestra, the Denver Philharmonic, and Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra of Denver, and also specializes in performance psychology. Ben completed music studies at the University of Colorado Boulder as a graduate of the Evans Scholarship program. A Colorado native, he was on fellowship with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra and was acting principal trombone for the Denver Philharmonic Tour of China in 2016. After Boulder he studied bass trombone at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. During that time he was a semi-finalist in for the 2021 Southeast Trombone Symposium Orchestral Excerpts competition. In addition to performance, Ben is a regular brass coach at over half a dozen schools across the front range from elementary to high school, also acting as a guest teacher in Jefferson Count and a golf instructor at Applewood Golf Course. His principal music teachers are Dr. Denson Paul Pollard, Dr. William Stanley, and Paul Naslund. When not teaching or performing, he
enjoys golf, chess, and fly-fishing.