Chi Nguyen, a recent university grad, has played piano for nineteen years. At the age of three and a half she began studying piano in the Holy Names College Preparatory Music Department and studied with Tom Schultz at Stanford. Chi was involved with Stanford's Green Dorm Project, traveling with other student researchers to Washington, D.C. to win the EPA's P3 grant to support further research. She was previously Director of Marketing for FACES (Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford) and was a delegate for its 2007 conferences. Chi holds a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University with a focus on Atmosphere/Energy.

Truc Nguyen, an MBA graduate from UC Davis, has a B.S. in management science and engineering from Stanford. Truc has studied piano with Thomas Schultz at Stanford and Ellen Wassermann. She won the Blew-Culley-LaFollette Prize in the Stanford Music Awards Competition, along with various prizes in other piano competitions, including the East Bay Music Festival. She has also performed in a Panel Honors Recital at the Music Teachers' Association of California State Convention. Besides playing piano, Truc enjoys photography and hiking. She now resides in Pasadena.