June Byun was born in Seoul, South Korea and began piano at the age of five. She was a frequent prize winner in competitions during her formative years and was given an opportunity to perform with Seoul national Orchestra. At the age of fifteen she was accepted into Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Australia. She performed in many concerts, international Music festivals and competitions in Australia, Italy, Austria Germany, Holland, England, Sweden and several cities in the USA including LA, Seattle, Washington D.C and Hawaii.

Ms. Byun received Bachelor of Music Performance degree with Honours and Master of Music Performance degree under Professors Leah Horowitz, Oleg Stepanov, Lev Vlassenko and Natasha Vlassenko. Ms. Byun was one of the last pupils of legendary pianist Lev Vlassenko during his last year of life in Australia.

One of the biggest event for her career was that she presented a recital in the Sydney Opera house sponsored by Queensland government and in the same year she received the Owen Fletcher Postgraduate Scholarship from Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University. Also her performances are frequently broadcasted on 4MBS FM Radio Classical channel in Australia and engaged with ABC Radio recording for Young Performer Award.

Ms. Byun performed at the International Sommerakademic University of Mozarteum in Austria and was awarded a performance diploma by professor and director of International Chopin competition Andrezy Jasinski. In same year she invited to perform at Oxford Piano Festival in England.

Ms. Byun participated in masterclasses with Piers Lane, Christopher Elton, Lamar Crowson, Philip Kawin, James Gibb, Mikhail Voskressenkey, Paul Robert, Christina Ortiz. Also she participated as chamber musician in masterclasses with Lyn Harrell, Tim Hugh, Richard Markson, Florian Kitt, David Pereira, Howard Davis, Yehudi Menuhin, Ralph Kirshbaum, Maxim Vengerov, Ola Carson.

Sun Elliott is a pianist, chamber musician, and teacher. She began piano at the age of 6 in South Korea, and continued her piano studies after moving to Canada in her adolescence. During her years in Canada, she participated in various competitions and festivals, notably as a prizewinner at the Canadian Music Competition, the Pacific Music Festival, and the Kiwanis Music Festival. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia, where she studied with Rena Sharon and Alexander Korsantia.

She went on to receive her Master of Music degree from the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with the late Yonty Solomon. She was one of the top prizewinners for the Beethoven Competition at the RCM. She also had an opportunity to study for some time in Vienna, Austria with Prof. Em. Walter Fleischmann.

Throughout her studies at various institutions and beyond, she had numerous opportunities to perform as a soloist and collaborative pianist at venues across Canada and the U.K., such as The Orpheum, the Chan Centre for the Arts, the Banff Centre, the Royal Albert Hall, and St. Paul’s Cathedral, among others. She also performed in masterclasses by Leon Fleisher, Jane Coop, Henri Brassard, and Heinz Medjimorec of the Haydn Trio Wien, among others.

Irene Tsai is a highly professional musician who has studied piano since she was 7, has over ten years of performing experience. She has also had three years of accompanying experience with a variety of ensembles and soloist situations. Irene moved to the United States in 2017 from Taiwan with her family and now lives in Northern Virginia. She just graduated from James Madison University, where she studied piano with Eric Ruple and Gabriel Dobner and studied with Narciso Solero, a past president of the Virginia Music Teachers Association, before she attended JMU. Throughout her musical journey, she has participated in numerous competitions and won multiple prizes. She has been the winner of the piano area competition and a finalist in the JMU Concerto Competition in 2021 and 2022. She won first place in the Mackay Cup Piano Competition in 2016, just before moving to the United States. Throughout all three years of studying at James Madison University as a piano performance major after transferring, she has been receiving scholarships from the Wednesday Music Club outside of school and the JMU School of Music. After graduating, she decided to become a piano teacher to embark on this exciting journey with a heart full of melodies and a wealth of knowledge. She is here to help the students unlock the enchanting world of piano music.

As an avid soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative pianist, Minji Lee appeared at
numerous concerts and festivals nationally and abroad. When Lee was eleven, she made her
first debut performing Mendelssohn Piano Concerto in G minor with the National Ukraine
Symphony Orchestra.

From a young age, she won numerous competitions, including Eumyoun Competition and
Eumak Chunchu Concours in Korea. She attended Seoul Arts High School and Yewon School,
the most prominent Arts Schools in South Korea. Since she arrived in the United States, she
has received top awards in Lennox International Young Artists Competition, International
Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington DC, and MTNA National Finals. She was also
presented in prestigious music festivals, including Aspen Music Festival, Honeywell Arts
Academy, and Asia International Piano Academy & Festival, with a full fellowship and
scholarship.

Throughout her studies, Lee has been offered full scholarships by the Peabody Institute of
the Johns Hopkins University and Shenandoah Conservatory. She is currently pursuing her
Doctoral degree at Shenandoah Conservatory. She has received masterclasses and
mentorships from Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Pascal Rogé, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Anton Nel,
Ann Schein, Jeremy Denk, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Anne-Marie McDermott, Finghin Collins,
Susan Starr, Orion Weiss, Peter Dugan, and Alexander Bernstein. Her primary teachers have
been John O’Conor, Boris Slutsky, and Hyoung Joon Chang.

Qiuyu Li, Soprano, has performed as a soloist in numerous prestigious concerts across North America, Europe, and Asia. In May, Qiuyu Li earned her Doctorate in Vocal Performance from Shenandoah University. She holds a graduate diploma from the Longy School of Music of Bard College and completed her undergraduate studies at the esteemed Tianjin Conservatory of Music in China. Throughout her studies, she has received guidance from Dana Lynn Varga, Byron Jones, Timothy Steele, Ashley Putman, and Jigang Du. Most recently, Qiuyu Li took on the leading role of Titania in the Main Stage Spring Opera 2023 with the Symphony Orchestra of Shenandoah Conservatory. Her diverse opera roles include the Countess from Le nozze di Figaro with Boston Opera Collaborative, Micaela from Carmen, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Mimi from La Bohème, and Yum-Yum from The Mikado. She has also participated in music festivals in North Carolina, working with Gregory Buchalte, Amy Shoremount-Obra, and Kathryn Frady in rehearsals, classes, and masterclasses.

Russian born soprano Olga Orlovskaya inherited her talent from her great grandfather famous Russian bass Fedor Shalyapin. She graduated with honor from the Russian Academy of Music and attained degree Master of Arts with specialty in voice.
Olga participant and finalist of multiple national and international festivals and competitions such as “Palaces of St. Petersburg”, “Norway Cultural Festival”, “Opera Ischia Festival”, “Roma Opera Festival” and “Great Lake Chamber Music Festival” Ms. Orlovskaya was prize winner of the international competition Operetta Land for best performance of Kalman in 2008 in Moscow. Ms. Orlovskaya is the founder and artistic director of the quartet "The Russian Sopranos”.

Heather Vineyard, soprano, has over 20 years of teaching experience teaching students at the secondary, collegiate and professional levels. She holds a Master of Music Education Degree from Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. She has been seen on the musical and operatic stage and is a former frequent soloist and assistant conductor with the Master Singers of Virginia. She began her career as a music teacher and choral conductor in the public school system, and has served as Director of Vocal Activities at Northern Virginia Community College in Sterling, VA. She has additionally served the Northern Virginia area as a private voice teacher for over 13 years. Her students have been accepted to multiple prestigious college and university music programs throughout the country including Eastman School of Music, Peabody Conservatory, and Jacobs school of music at Indiana University. Additionally, her students have experienced success at the professional level on the operatic stage, a Broadway touring company, and as singer/songwriters. She is in frequent demand as an adjudicator, voice specialist, and places special emphasis on healthy vocal technique and vocal health. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering with creative teams, mentoring young people in the uses of technology in service of the community, engaging in the culinary arts, and enjoys playing with dogs and children.

Gersh Chervinsky is a professional concert violinist and violin teacher. Gersh is the second-award winner of the Cremona Festival and
Competition (Italy, 2012), and was a participant in the London Purcell School Music Festival
(England, 2013), and the Keshet Eilon Festival (Israel, 2019).

He has performed with star musicians such as Joshua Bell, Norman Kreeger, Sarah
Daneshpour, Amit Peled and others.
Gersh collaborates with the Washington Bach Consort, Alexandria Symphony Orchestra,
and the Apollo Orchestra as the associate concertmaster. Trained at the Moscow Conservatory, Jacobs School of Music, and Peabody Institute of Music, he exhibits the finest traditions of modern and baroque violin playing.

Gersh is an enthusiastic educator. He has extensive teaching experience. He taught college students at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as an associate instructor of violin. He also taught exceptionally gifted pre-college students at the IU Summer String Academy.

Mr. Munayer graduated from Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Instrumental Music, emphasis in Violin and Music Education. He has done one year of graduate studies in violin performance at George Mason University and received a Performance Certificate for violin from the Siena Institute of Music in Italy. Mr. Munayer has played in numerous orchestras and solo recitals in the Northern Virginia area. He has performed with the World Civic Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. Mr. Munayer played in Switzerland & Italy, chamber, solo, and orchestral music.

Mr. Munayer has twenty years of private lesson experience and works as an orchestra director in the public schools. In 2008, he was featured in the "Prince William News and Messenger" for his solo performance in the Prince William County faculty recital. In 2010, he was interviewed in the Bull Run Observer about the importance of teaching young children to learn a string instrument.

Mr. Munayer has served as violin Judge for All-State Senior Orchestra Auditions and as an adjudicator for Solo & Ensemble Festival in Maryland and Virginia. He is a member of (ASTA) American Strings Teachers Association, (NAME) Music education organization for music teachers.

His goal is to encourage students to have a passion of learning and performing music to the best of their ability.

Earle Perez, cello, grew up in the Northern Virginia area and began his studies at the Prince William County Schools String program. He completed a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance from West Virginia University as a student of William Skidmore and a Master of Music in Cello Performance from University of Notre Dame as a student of Karen Buranskas. After graduate school he chose to remain in South Bend, IN, where he established a freelance career, as Principal Cellist with the Southwest Michigan Symphony for 18 years, and performing regularly with South Bend Symphony, Northwest Indiana Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony, and Ft Wayne Philharmonic. While freelancing, he also maintained “day jobs,” which included the Director of Operations for the South Bend Symphony, in charge of Concert Production, Orchestra Personnel and Guest Artist Relations. In 2015 Earle relocated back to the East coast, and spent a year with the Hartford (CT) Symphony as their Production Manager before moving to back to home to Northern VA.

Michael Caracciolo, a native of Woodbridge, Virginia, is a professional classical guitarist who graduated summa cum laude with a Master’s in Music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (‘19) and a Bachelor’s in Music from George Mason University (‘17).  He studied guitar with Clare Callahan and Larry Snitzler, both students of Andrés Segovia, as well as Matthew Trkula, and has performed in masterclasses for Oscar Ghiglia, Celino & Lito Romero, Carlos Perez, Julian Gray, Matt Palmer, Andrew Zohn, Nigel North, and Colin Davin.  While at CCM, he pursued early music by studying Renaissance lute and vihuela with Rodney Stucky as well as baroque performance practice with Dr. Michael Unger.  Michael also attended Eastern Music Festival in 2016, where he had the opportunity to participate in chamber coachings, lessons, and masterclasses with Kami Rowan, Julian Gray, and Jason Vieaux. 

Jack Dunlap has made a name for himself playing mandolin in the D.C. area. Formerly of the trio Bud's Collective, Jack has worked alongside past and present members of Mountain Heart, Audie Blaylock and Redline, Dailey and Vincent, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen, Blue Highway, Chris Jones and the Night Drivers and Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, to name a few. Though growing up playing bluegrass music, Jack stretches his instrument into other genres such as jazz, swing, blues, rock, classical, country, Eastern Indian folk music, Celtic, polka and many others. He worked as the apprentice to VA based mandolin legend Danny Knicely through the VA Folklife Program. Knicely and Dunlap recorded the album "Chop, Shred & Split - A Mandolin Player's Apprenticeship" together in 2015. The album went on to win Best Bluegrass Album of the Year at the Washington Area Music Awards (WAMMIES).

In January of 2018, he started the Jack Dunlap Band along with his longtime musical partner Jacob Bly and drummer extraordinaire Randall Witherspoon. In September of 2018, the band performed at Watermelon Park Fest in Berryville, VA with saxophonist Justin Eller sitting in. After that performance, Justin joined the band full time.

The Jack Dunlap Band released their debut album, The Adventures of Captain J-LAP & Major Jammage, in February of 2019. The record features 9 original tunes and one blues cover. Guesting are Wendy Dunlap on flute and Mason Wright on fiddle with Jack also playing the electric guitar.

Rebecca Metheny Mason graduated from UMBC as a Linehan Artist Scholar under David LaVorgna, winning various awards and honors including the Alumni Outstanding Student in Music Scholarship and the Music Department’s Outstanding Student Award. She spent a semester in London her senior year to study with famed orchestral flutist, Susan Milan, then earned her Master of Music degree under Tim Day at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Dr. Mason has participated in various music festivals, including the Las Vegas Music Festival, and worked with Michael Parloff, Thomas Robertello, and Renee Siebert, among others in masterclasses. Rebecca received her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree under the world-renowned concert soloist, Carol Wincenc, at SUNY Stony Brook, where she also served as the undergraduate teaching assistant. While in NYC, Rebecca performed at the Kaufmann Center’s Merkin Concert Hall and The Juilliard School’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, and she played several seasons as principal flute with the Richmond County Orchestra in Staten Island where she was the winner of their Young Musician’s Concerto Competition in 2007.

Dr. Mason has competed as a semi-finalist in the Frank Bowen Competition in New Mexico, won first-place in the San Diego Flute Guild Young Artist Competition while in CA, and has been a prize winner in the Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention’s Young Artist and Collegiate Competitions. She was selected to perform at the 2018 and 2023 Mid-Atlantic Flute Conventions, and as a member of DCFlutes, Rebecca performed as one of their featured soloists in 2018. She has played principal flute with the Monticello Chamber Orchestra in Alexandria and is part of the music ministry at Alexandria Presbyterian Church. An avid music instructor, Dr. Mason works with flute sections of several middle and high school bands throughout Northern VA, and as a woodwind instructor for the Adult Extension Program with the Levine School of Music. Her primary musical endeavor has been her “Benefit Recitals” Concert Series, spanning over a decade to raise thousands of dollars for non-profits that fight against human trafficking.

Appointed in 2015 as an Instructor of Oboe and Saxophone with Opus Community Music School (Opus), Principal Oboe with the Freedom Philharmonic, and Faculty Clinician with the Academy of St. Cecilia Youth Orchestra (ASCYO) in Damascus, Mark Runkles completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in Oboe Performance at UNLV. In 2013, Dr. Runkles published the culmination of his doctoral research, a critical edition of Gustave Vogt’s 4ème Solo de Concert, with TrevCo Music Publishing. Dr. Runkles became the Artistic Director at Opus in 2018. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Oboe Performance and Master of Arts in Jazz Studies from the University of Iowa and his Bachelor of Arts in Oboe Performance from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Dr. Runkles has been a featured oboe and saxophone soloist with the Clazzical Project, Carroll Concert Band, Carroll County Jazz Band, Carroll Singers, Freedom Philharmonic, ASCYO, and Liberty High School Symphonic and Jazz Bands. He formed the Twin Arch Duo, which plays a mixture of standards and his own contemporary jazz compositions, with guitarist Charlie Trapp in 2013. In 2008, Dr. Runkles performed a series of Jazz Vespers services in Scotland. He served as the Assistant Principal Oboe with the Chesapeake Orchestra from 1999–2004 and performed on 2nd Oboe with the Las Vegas Philharmonic from the winter of 2009 through 2012. Dr. Runkles is an oboe student of Stephen Caplan, Mark Weiger, and Vladimir Lande and a saxophone student of John Rapson and Don Stapleson. Follow Dr. Runkles on his blog, Dr. Mark’s Music Notes (https://drmarksmusicnotes.wordpress.com), and his YouTube channel.

Oboist Lydia Rose Consilvio’s fearless composure has been described as, "making the impossible seem easy." An avid chamber musician, she has appeared on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center with her ensembles, the Fischoff Competition, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Avaloch Farm Music Institute.

Lydia holds degrees from the Yale (MM) and Eastman (BM) Schools of Music and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland.

Lydia played on the Naxos recording of Hannah Lash’s Requiem. She performed the Albinoni double-oboe concerto alongside Roger Cole of the Vancouver Symphony at the Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy in British Columbia. Lydia has also played with the Annapolis (MD) Symphony and Rochester (NY) Chamber Orchestras.

Lydia’s positive attitude and creative outlook make her an unconventional musician and an easygoing collaborator in both large and small ensembles, and across musical genres. Her instructing style is equally spirited, open-minded, and accessible.

Adjunct Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Ensemble at Northern Virginia Community College Loudoun Campus (2019-present)

Saxophonist, Maryland Army National Guard Band (2014-present)

Saxophonist, The Marine Corps Band in Quantico (2004-2007)

Doctor of Musical Arts, Candidate at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (2016-present)

Performed at the Mansion at Strathmore, Johns Hopkins University’s Shriver Hall, the Peabody Institute, Seoul Arts Center, Lotte Hall in South Korea, 2007 Super Bowl XLI, Cherry Blossom Parade and Governor’s Inauguration.