TYLER MARTIN serves as second flute/piccolo with Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet Orchestras, as well as Affiliate Professor of Flute at the University of Houston. He has performed with orchestras around the country including appearances with the Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, San Antonio Philharmonic, and Gateways Festival Orchestra. He regularly performs with the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

Having gained widespread acclaim as a recitalist and chamber musician he has appeared with Performing Arts Houston’s New/Now performance series, Context Chamber Music Series, and Musiqa Houston. As a soloist he has been nationally broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today and gave the world premiere of Dark Matter: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (2026) by composer and friend Jaylin Vinson. During recent summers he has performed as a member of Spoleto Festival USA, National Repertory Orchestra, and the Orford Music Festival. He is a prize winner of numerous competitions, including the 20th International Friedrich Kuhlau Competition, Houston Flute Club, New York Flute Club, Austin Flute Society, Sphinx Organization’s SOPA Competition and National Flute Association’s Orchestral Audition Competition. As an educator, Tyler maintains a studio of talented flutists from beginners to adults and has coached chamber music, given masterclasses and performed across the country.

Tyler received a Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University and Master of Music degrees from both the New England Conservatory of Music and Rice University.

BEILIN HAN, born in Shanghai, China, started piano lessons at the age three. After four years of studies, she won 1st prize at a young artist competition in Shanghai. While attending the Shanghai Conservatory of Music for primary and middle school, she was a prize winner of the 8th Hong Kong International Piano Competition.
Ms. Han attended Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore and studied with American pianist Jack Winerock and Portuguese pianist Sequeira Costa at the University of Kansas. Ms. Han won prizes in many prestigious competitions including first place in the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Scholarship Competition, the Kansas City National Scholarship Competition, the Naftzger National Young Artist Competition, and the “Vianna Da Motta International Piano Competition” in Portugal. Ms. Han was invited to perform at the 7th Annual World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Las Vegas in 2002 and was honored as a Young Artist in 2003. She was invited to perform concertos with the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra, T’ang Quartet in Singapore and Portugal’s Gulbenkian Orchestra.
Ms. Han has toured internationally as a concert pianist performing in China, Portugal, Spain, and throughout the US. Her performances have been heard on radio shows in Singapore, the U.S., and a television show in Shanghai. In 2008, Ms. Han graduated from Roosevelt University, where she received her Artistic Diploma with Dr. Solomon Mikowsky and Mr. Meng-Chieh Liu. She is currently the coordinator of piano faculty of Heifetz International Music Institute, pianist of National Flute Convention and Artist Collaborator of Shepherd School of Music in Rice University.