JAKE ELSAS (Writer, Director, Editor)
After acting professionally for several years in Atlanta, New York, and Portland, Jake took an interest in film production. In 1997, he completed the Certificate Program in Film from Portland's Northwest Film Center; and in May of 2000 he received an M.F.A. in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts. One of Jake's earlier films — La Passante — has been screened at festivals around the world. It was recently included at the Spoleto Arts Festival in Italy, as well as Etiuda '98 in Krakow, Poland. In 1998, La Passante was a National Finalist in the Student Academy Awards. While in school, Jake was the recipient of various film scholarships, including the Marilyn Day Scholarship Award and the Hollywood Foreign Press Scholarship.

McCAIN STEINBACK (Producer)
At the time of Instrumental Treason's production, McCain had recently wrapped Twentieth Century Fox's Men of Honor, starring Robert DeNiro and Cuba Gooding Jr. , after which she spent a few years working on various features and commercials around Portland, Oregon. McCain currently resides in Chicago and is mostly out to prove that it is possible to make great movies outside of L.A.

MIRA AINBINDER (Director of Photography)
Mira graduated Cum Laude from Smith College with a B.A. in Political Science. She has eleven years of professional experience as a commercial photographer and camera assistant. Mira has worked on major corporate accounts such as Nike, Gardenburger, National Geographic, and HBO. Mira has served as director of photography on several documentaries and narrative shorts, including La Passante, which was National Finalist in the 1998 Student Academy Awards. Mira was awarded the 1998–1999 American Express Foundation Scholarship to attend the American Film Institute, from which she graduated in 2001.

NIELS FÖLSTER (Composer/Sound Engineer)
Niels completed his education at the School of Fine Arts in Berlin, Germany, where he received a Tonmeister diploma. In 1997, he studied for one year in the Music Technology program at CalArts, where he met Jake Elsas and immediately began working on Instrumental Treason. Niels made his first film scores in 1994 for two computer-animated short films. He has spent the past few years scoring for numerous theater, dance, and film productions. Instrumental Treason marks Niel's first full symphony. The Union of German Tonmeisters awarded Niels 10,000 Deutschmarks for his work on this film. Niels' website is at www.filmscore-berlin.de.

LAJOS BALOGH (Conductor)
Hungarian-born Lajos Balogh has studied and performed music internationally for over fifty years. In 1966, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Portland, Oregon, where he soon joined the faculty of Marylhurst College. In 1970, Maestro Jacques Singer invited Mr. Balogh to join the Oregon Symphony, where he was initially a member of the first violin section (as well as becoming acting Concertmaster in 1972). Mr. Balogh ultimately accepted the position of Principal Second Violin — a position he held for twenty-five years. He is the founder and current conductor of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra as well as the Marylhurst College Orchestra, both of which have reached critical acclaim locally and around the world. In 1981 — to celebrate his newly won U.S. citizenship — Mr. Balogh founded the Portland Festival Symphony, a group of professional musicians dedicated to presenting free summer symphony concerts in parks all across Portland. Mr. Balogh still continues to teach at Marylhurst College and to conduct his orchestras, hoping to enrich the lives of today's youth through music.

BEN WOLFE (Composer)
Born in Baltimore, Ben moved with his family at an early age to Portland, Oregon, where he eventually began studying jazz music. Now living in New York City, Ben has toured and recorded with some of today's greatest jazz musicians, including Wynton Marsalis (and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra), Branford Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Eric Reed, Benny Green, James Moody, and Diana Krall. Ben has released three of his own albums — featuring all-original compositions — on Mons Records, Murray's Cadillac, 13 Sketches and Bagdad Theater. In the future, Ben hopes to continue to write jazz scores for films. His website is at BenWolfe.com.

The Orchestra

CONTRACTOR
Dick Saunders

VIOLIN 1
Peter Vini Piazza — Concertmaster (Mutineer)
Carol Taylor (Neutral)
Tina Alexander (Faithful)
Linda Vasey (Neutral)
Harold Wolf (Neutral)
Karen Hilley (Neutral/Mutineer)

VIOLIN 2
Hugh Ewart — Principal (Faithful)
Eugene Kaza (Neutral/Mutineer)
Leonard Cogan (Neutral)
Ronald Williams (Neutral)
Catherine Noll (Faithful)
Dolly Clarizio (Neutral)

VIOLA
Shawne Stone — Principal (Faithful)
Al Faruolo (Faithful)
Brenda Liu (Neutral)
Ron Kogen (Neutral)
Cline Otey (Neutral)

CELLO
India Jobelmann — Principal (Neutral)
Sherill Roberts (Neutral)
Georgienne Young (Neutral)
Dieter Ratzlaf (Faithful)

BASS
Garrett Jellesma — Principal (Neutral)
Frank De La Rosa (Neutral)
Ed Bennett (Mutineer)

FLUTE
Rob Scheps — Principal (Mutineer)
Beverly Jacobs (Faithful)

CLARINET
Philip Baldino — Principal (Neutral)
Dick Saunders (Neutral/Mutineer)

OBOE
Franck Avril (Neutral)

ENGLISH HORN
Alan Juza (Faithful)

BASSOON
Mark Eubanks (Neutral)

CONTRA BASSOON
Juan De Gomar (Faithful)

FRENCH HORN
Carol Olson — Principal (Faithful)
William Stalnaker (Faithful)
Kevin Calvert (Faithful)

TRUMPET
Paul Mazzio — Principal (Mutineer)
Sally Kuhns (Neutral)

TROMBONE
Stan Bock — Principal (Mutineer)
Gary Nelson (Mutineer)

TUBA
JáTtik Clark (Neutral/Mutineer)

HARP
Elaine Seeley (Faithful)

PIANO
Jof Lee (Neutral/Mutineer)

PERCUSSION
Ron Steen (Mutineer)
Fritz Weber (Faithful)

TIMPANI
Dean Hinkley (Faithful)

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