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.