Flutist, Joe Bonner, assistant professor of music at Arkansas State University, received the BA degree from the University of Houston and the MA degree from Stephen F. Austin State University. His professional activities include the positions as principal flute for the 2nd and 13th U.S. Air Force Bands. More recently he was principal flute in the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra of Memphis and was co-principal at the Wildwood Opera Festival in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, he is principal flute of the Delta Symphony in Jonesboro, AR. His teachers include Byron Hester, former principal flute of the Houston Symphony, and Harold Bennett, former principal flutist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York City.