Chi Nguyen, a junior at Stanford University, has played piano for sixteen years. At the age of three and a half she began studying piano in the Holy Names College Preparatory Music Department and is now studying with Tom Schultz at Stanford. Chi loves singing, salsa and swing dancing, learning languages, and the outdoors. Chi is an engineering major studying atmosphere and energy and was heavily 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 is also a director for FACES (Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford) and was a delegate for its 2007 conferences.

Truc Nguyen, an MBA student at UC Davis, has a B.S. in management science and engineering from Stanford. She has played piano for eighteen years; she has studied 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.