Dr. Luke Darville began his cello studies with the Heritage Area String Program in Danville, KY. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Louisville, a Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Minnesota, where he attended as a Berneking Fellow. He has had the privilege of studying with Dr. Clyde Beavers, Prof. Paul York, and Prof. Tanya Remenikova. During his studies, he has received awards from the University of Louisville, Macauley Competition, and the Schubert Music Club Competition. He has taught cello and string bass at the University of Minnesota Morris and Centre College; cello and piano at Mt. Calvary Music Academy; he was Director of Orchestras at Western Middle School for the Arts in Louisville, KY; and has held a private studio for 15 years. Dr. Darville has performed with orchestras throughout Indiana, Minnesota, South Dakota, Texas, and Kentucky. He has worked as a Teaching Artist for the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Darville is currently the Director of Orchestras at Model Laboratory Schools in Richmond, KY. He has been a featured recorded artist on Centaur’s Label. He plays on a cello crafted by the American luthier Timothy J. Jansma.

Turkish violinist and violist Dr. Sila Darville is the Associate Prof. of Violin and Viola at Eastern Kentucky University. She holds degrees from Istanbul Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory, the University of Minnesota, and Texas Tech University. She received many international awards and honors including the Rotary Club International Competition for Young Musicians; the Turkish Educational Foundation Outstanding Achievement Award; the Berneking Fellowship; the Thursday Musical Young Artist Scholarship Competition and the Schubert Club Scholarship Competition. Throughout her career Dr. Darville has performed with many Symphonic Orchestras including the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Lubbock, Lubbock Moonlight Musicals and Kentucky Bach Choir as the principal second; the Amarillo Symphony, Midland Symphony, the La Crosse Symphony, Paducah Symphony Orchestra, and Louisville Orchestra as a section violinist and Amadeus Chamber Orchestra as principal viola. Her recent performances include Prokofiev Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1, Mozart Sinfonia Concertante and Sibelius Violin Concerto with Eastern Kentucky University Symphony Orchestra Sila Darville performs regularly with Lexington-based chamber music ensemble Amadeus Lex. She performs on a 2021 Ben Mason violin and a 2023 Ben Mason viola. Dr. Darville is the recipient of the 2023 ASTA Kentucky Chapter Outstanding Educator Award.

Originally from Eldorado, IL, Madeline Rogers earned a Master of Music from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as a student of André Watts, and a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Nebraska with Dr. Paul Barnes. Rogers is an accomplished solo and collaborative performer in the US and abroad. Rogers is a recurring scholar at Brahmshaus Baden-Baden, Germany, where she researched the late music of Brahms and performed recitals in 2022 and 2024. Other significant international performances include solo and collaborative recitals in England, Spain, Italy, Vietnam, and Argentina. A proponent of living composers, Rogers has worked closely with Victoria Bond to revive a piano concerto that was last performed in 1997 and was the first to premiere the two-piano version of the concerto in 2021. Her latest research is on H. Leslie Adams, whom she interviewed extensively to revive and edit his Empire Sonata for Horn and Piano from 1960. The new edition was released in 2024 through the American Composers Alliance. Rogers previously taught applied and collaborative piano as an Artist-Faculty member at the Omaha Conservatory of Music and is currently Assistant Professor of Keyboard Studies at Berea College.

Bailey Yates is a graduate of Butler University, where he studied violin performance under the tutelage of Prof. Larry Shapiro, Dr. Lisa Brooks, and Dr. Davis Brooks. Growing up in Kentucky, Bailey honed his skills in violin, fiddle, and mandolin with Daniel and Amy Carwile. As a private lessons instructor he takes pride in being a steward of his teaching lineage. Most recently Bailey has served as Luthier and Shop Specialist at Old Town Violins in Lexington; Bailey enjoys repairs, bow rehairs and helping customers find the products they need to best complement their playing style. 

Composer, violist, stealth pianist, mad computer scientist, bridge Life Master, occasional technophobe and general rabble-rouser. Somehow he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln under Clark Potter. One time he helped start a chamber orchestra. Then the U.K. granted him a visa for “Exceptional Talent,” and he lived in Oxford for a while with his wife, Kathleen.  Until recently, Dr. Crosmer wrote software for factories at QAD Redzone, but now he is enrolled at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, where he is best known for conducting an unhinged jazz band cover of “Bad Romance” featuring Lady Mahrya and the Restatements.  He demonstrated his legal prowess by winning a default judgment in Small Claims Court, following intense questioning by the judge; one onlooker summarized this achievement by saying, “Well, I could have won that case.”