Soprano Megan Sharp has sung in operas with the Boston Early Music Festival and Longwood Opera and performed with Ensemble Chanterelle, the Schola Cantorum and the Connecticut Early Music Festival. She has given recitals with her husband, Jonathan Schakel, on organ and fortepiano, in both the United States and Germany. Together they direct the music program at Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Soprano Rachel Evangeline Barham received her Master of Music degree from The Catholic University of America and can be heard frequently in the Washington, D. C., area. Among her performances are appearances with the Washington Savoyards (the summer opera theatre company), Cantate Chamber Singers and the Great Noise Ensemble

UVa faculty violinist David Sariti is active as a recitalist and chamber musician on both modern and period instruments. As a baroque violinist he has appeared with the Washington Bach Consort and the Arcadia Players, and is involved with Monticello in a project to perform and record works from the collection of Thomas Jefferson.

Jennifer Myer studied Baroque violin and viola with Enrico Gatti in Italy, where she performed and toured extensively. She plays with modern and original instrument groups in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C., Maryland, and throughout Virginia.

Tina Chancey specializes in bowed strings, from the medieval rebec & vielle, the traditional kamenj & lyra, renaissance and baroque viol, and various fiddle styles from Cajun and Old-Time to Irish and baroque. Dr. Chancey is the director of the early music ensemble HESPERUS and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for her Carnegie Hall debut on the 18th century pardessus de viole.

Jonathan Schakelis a native of Michigan, where he graduated from Hope College with degrees in history and music. He earned a master's degree with distinction in organ from Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied organ, harpsichord and clavichord with Peter Sykes and continuo with Frances Conover Fitch. He has also studied with James David Christie and in the masterclasses of Olivier Latry, William Porter, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Siegbert Rampe, and James Higdon. He has given recitals on organ and harpsichord throughout the United States and in Germany. He and his wife, Megan Sharp, direct the music program at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville.