Sasha is a pianist local to the Washington Metropolitan area. He regularly appears at The Lyceum in Old Town Alexandria, in 2015 presenting Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Sasha is a featured artist of Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Association. Further performances can be heard in Maine, at the Winter Harbor Music Festival and at the Arts Barn in Surry. In 2018, Sasha, along with a group of friends, organized the Boston Community Studio Class, an analogue of the conservatory model for the community at large.
Sasha is a piano faculty member at NYU Steinhard School of Culture, Education and Human Development and also maintains his private piano studio in Rockville.
Gersh Chervinsky is a professional concert violinist and violin teacher based in Rockville, Maryland. He 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, and Amit Peled, among others.
Gersh played at the masterclasses of renowned violinists such as Guillaume Sutre, Sergey Ostrovsky, Paul Roczek, Eszter Haffner, Vadim Gluzman, and the legendary Haim Taub.
Gersh collaborates with the Washington Bach Consort, Alexandria Symphony Orchestra as an Associate Concertmaster, he also performs with the Apollo Orchestra and Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. 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 with extensive teaching experience. He has 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. Currently, he is a string faculty member at The European Academy of Arts and maintains his private studio in Rockville, MD.