has served on the board since its beginnings in 1999. She has been involved in the musical life of Alaska since she moved to Kenai in 1979. A solo pianist and accompanist, she has collaborated in concert with nationally known artists Linda Rosenthal, Russell Guyver, Eric Bartlett, Andrew Cook, and Karen Clift, and has performed chamber music concerts with numerous Alaskan musicians. She is on the faculty of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. An adjunct music instructor at Kenai Peninsula College, she often performs lecture-recitals and music-art presentations with KPC colleagues.

In addition to working with the Kenai Performers and Pier One Theater, she has accompanied the Kenai Peninsula Borough Choirs, as well as toured overseas with the Kenai Central High Choir. For the last several years Allison has collaborated with Jean Brockel in organizing the Kenai Peninsula College/Community Choir. She maintains an independent piano studio, as well as playing viola and writing program notes for the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra. Allison received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in music from the University of Nebraska, studying piano with Audun Ravnan.

has served as secretary and member of the board since 1999. Ms. Forbes has lived in Kenai since 1971 and in Alaska much longer than that. She received her BA from Alaska Methodist University and a BEd from UAA. A certified teacher she is currently working as a special services aide for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District after subbing for many years. Lorrene served as a commissioner for the Kenai Library Advisory Commission and is still a member of Friends of the Library. She once produced the Kenai concert for the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra. She has designed and built costumes for Pier One Theatre, Peninsula Dancers, and Kenai Performers. She has also acted, danced and worked as techie for many of these productions, as well as singing in the Kenai College Choir.

has served as a board member since May 2001. Jackinsky, a resident of Kasilof, was born and raised on the Peninsula. He is currently the owner operator of a used bookstore called Already Read as well as continuing to work as a commercial setnet fisher, a profession he says he was born into. He has also worked as a hospice care giver and as an independent contractor in visual display in the San Francisco Bay Area. Benjamin received his BA from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, and his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in California. An active member of the community, Jackinsky was a founding board member and continues to serve on the board for the Kenai Watershed Forum. He is treasurer for the Transfiguration of Our Lord Orthodox Church. Jackinsky also maintains membership in the Ninilchik Native Association, Ninilchik Traditional Council, Ninilchik Native Descendants, Kenai Peninsula Fisherman's Association, KDLL, and Identity.

Mary Broderick joined the PAS board as treasurer in October, 2011. She has been active in the music community of Kenai and Soldotna, playing cello in the Central Peninsula Community Orchestra, the Redoubt Chamber Orchestra, and Kenai Peninsula Orchestra for a number of years, as well as volunteering her time to help produce concerts. She presently serves on the board of the KPO. She is also an accomplished graphic artist, working in the medium of pen and ink. She is a part of the business community of the Central Peninsula and has worked at First American Title Company for 17 years. Mary has five sons and four daughters and has lived in Alaska for 20 years.

is a music teacher at Skyview High School. He played tuba with the St. Olaf College Band and Orchestra and currently plays trombone and bass with the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra and the Redoubt Chamber Orchestra.

joined the board in the summer of 2008 after her retirement from Kenai Peninsula College, where she served as the liaison between the PAS board and the Arts & Humanities department. Former division chair and full professor of literature and composition, she holds a PhD in literature and criticism as well as an MA and a BS in English. In the 1980s, Christian launched the first public readings by local writers and started the group that became the Central Peninsula Writers Group. Her writing successes include two academic books as well as academic articles, professional presentations, stories, and poems. She still teaches occasional courses at KPC.

Arriving in Kenai as new teachers in 1970, Barb and her husband Mike stayed to raise a son and daughter and to promote education, school sports, libraries, and the arts in local communities. They also share a passion for travel, history, and all the arts. Barb's other hobbies include gardening, reading, and the study of US ethnic and world literatures.

Robert Kuiper has been "living off the land" on the Moose River since 1976. Career pursuits have included building contractor, logger and commercial fisherman. For the last 15 years he has been happily building log furniture as Alaskan Wildwoods. Harvesting raw materials from the Alaskan woods and river banks is the beginning of the musical journey Robert goes on while creating fine pieces of furniture. He and his wife Judy have just opened a new venture called Wildwoods Cabin, a lodging experience closely described as a symphony of wood. While not being able to read a note or carry a tune himself, he is a passionate listener of all music and has supported all such endeavors by local musicians and the Performing Arts Society.

Aaron Lohmeyer teaches music at Soldotna Elementary and Montessori schools. As an educator, he is passionate about defining music as a creative venture to the next generation of musicians. As a performer, he is equally committed to putting his own brand of creativity on stage through collaborations in jazz, Irish and traditional art music.

After earning his BA in Religion from Davidson College, he moved to Fairbanks for a couple of years before returning to earn a MM in Saxophone and a MMusEd from Florida State University. While at Florida State, Aaron studied jazz and classical saxophone, jazz composition, and classical guitar. Since his move to Soldotna, he has found the adventurous attitudes of local musicians to be a perfect fit for his artistic ambitions. The mixture of talents around Kenai has created some unique musical collaboration that could only happen in Alaska.