Anastasia Petrunina is a visiting assistant professor of violin at Furman University. She is also concertmaster for the Augusta Symphony and a passionate proponent of contemporary music.

Emily Monroe is a section violinist with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, a chamber player having performed with the Central Music Society of Central Virginia, the Washington National Cathedral, and baroque chamber group Three Notch'd Road. She recently became artistic director of the Richmond Chamber Players. 

After the release of his debut album, “Reflections on Debussy” in 2012, Laurens Patzlaff was dubbed “Master of the art of improvisation” by the Deutschlandfunk. He currently serves as the Professor of Piano Improvisation at the University of Music, Freiburg, Germany.