Nicole Sharlow is a native of Rochester, NY. She is principal second violin of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and has been concertmaster of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra in Germany, principal second violin of the Jerusalem International Symphony Orchestra, and concertmaster of the Canadian Chamber Orchestra of NY. Ms. Sharlow is the violinist of ‘Scape Trio, a string group dedicated to bringing music and visual arts together. Since 2001 she has been spending her summers in residence at Quisisana Resort in Maine. A gifted educator, Ms. Sharlow is the head of the String Department at the Larchmont Music Academy where she teaches violin, viola and chamber music. She has been on faculty at Concordia College New York in Bronxville, NY and also maintains a private teaching studio. An active freelance musician, Nicole has performed with Il Volo, 2 Cellos, The Irish Tenors, Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra Jr., the Trans Siberian Orchestra and Opera Cowgirls. Ms. Sharlow earned her Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Her foremost teachers have included Andres Cardenes and Lucie Robert. Nicole resides in Larchmont, NY with her dog, Kezar. 

Andie Tanning is a violinist and performer. She is the cofounder and musical director of Wild Shore New Music, now in its seventh year as Alaska’s premier new music festival. She released her debut album, “Dandelion,” in December 2018. Steve Dollar of the National Sawdust Log writes, “The stylistically diverse Dandelion is not only a scrapbook of Springer’s experiences and influences, but also an open and always surprising collaboration with composers and video artists whose spirits are illuminated through the violinist’s intrepid musicianship and exploratory nature.” She has toured internationally as a company member of the New York City Players, has served as a multi-instrumentalist in theater groups Object Collection and New Paradise Laboratories, was the fiddle player in the musical, The Snow Child, by John Strand, Georgia Stitt and Bob Banghart, and was a violin sub in the Broadway revival of Oklahoma!. Ongoing musical collaborations include a duo with guitarist James Moore, the minimalist rock band Thee Reps, and the development of a new opera by Aaron Siegel. Her album with James Moore, “Gertrudes,” was released on New World Records in 2016. She has performed at LA Opera, The Kitchen, The Pompidou, and Carnegie Hall. 

Gillian Gallagher grew up in Saratoga Springs, NY, and attended the Juilliard School where she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees studying with Heidi Castleman, Misha Amory, and Hsin-Yun Huang. Gillian made her Weill Recital Hall debut in 2007 as founding violist of the Attacca Quartet, with whom she was awarded the Alice Coleman Grand Prize in the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006. Gillian performed with the Attacca Quartet for six years, during which time the quartet studied with the Guarneri, Juilliard, Emerson, Vermeer, Tokyo, and St. Lawrence string quartets. She toured the United States from 2007 to 2014 with violinist and composer Mark O'Connor and cellist Mike Block as violist of the Appalachia Waltz Trio and, later, the O'Connor Quartet. Gillian has been on faculty at Boston University's Tanglewood Institute, the Berklee College of Music Summer String Program, Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camps, and New York's Center for Arts Education. Highlights from recent seasons include performances at Carnegie Hall and the NY Phil Biennial as violist of Hotel Elefant, Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, and performing the music of composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone as a member of the house band for the dance company BalletCollective.

Maria Bella Jeffers (cello) has been happily making music in New York City since 2001.  Her classical background has led to performances of the timeless masterworks for chamber and orchestral ensembles and her love to rock has ushered her into studios and onto stages with some of finest artists of our time.  With degrees in both performance and education from the University of North Texas and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music Maria has had the great pleasure of performing around the world with music that ranges from Bach to rock and everything in between.