With the founding of the Inscape Chamber Orchestra in 2004, Artistic Director Richard Scerbo set out to create an ensemble intent on reaching new audiences by performing interesting and relevant programs.  An immediate success, Mr. Scerbo created the Inscape Chamber Music Project as a companion to the Inscape Chamber Orchestra. Together, these groups represent one of the most exciting performing organizations in the Washington Metropolitan area. Mr. Scerbo co-founded his first orchestra, The Philharmonia Ensemble, in 2000 with violinist Dale Barltrop while studying at the University of Maryland.  As Music Director, he led the orchestra in a series of diverse and exciting programs that included collaborations with artists such as pianist Rita Sloan, soprano Carmen Balthrop, and the Prism Brass Quintet.  In 2003, he made his operatic debut conducting Dominick Argento’s A Water Bird Talk with The Philharmonia Ensemble and Handel’s Xerxes with the Maryland Opera Studio.  Mr. Scerbo helped launch the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra (Maryland) in 2003 when he was invited to conduct their inaugural concert, and returned again in 2004 to conduct their season opening concert.    

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Violinist Sarah D'Angelo received her bachelor of music degree in violin performance from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and her master of music degree in violin performance and Suzuki pedagogy from the University of Maryland in College Park. Ms. D'Angelo's principal teachers have included: Yong Ku Ahn, Herbert Greenberg, Ronda Cole, and Violaine Melancon of the Peabody Trio. Ms. D'Angelo teaches violin at the Norwood School in Bethesda,MD and has performed with groups such as the Baltimore Opera Company, Maryland Symphony, and Maryland Philharmonic. As a chamber musician, Ms. D'Angelo is a principal player in Inscape Chamber Music Project, and has appeared in concert at the National Gallery of Art, Washington National Cathedral, The Arts Club of Washington, and the Mansion at Strathmore.

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A native of Scarborough, Maine, Justin Drew grew up in a family deeply influenced by music. While beginning his musical studies on the trumpet he performed at the Annual Key Bank Jazz Festival with notables such as Dave Brubeck, Cleo Laine and Wynton Marsalis.  Although jazz trumpet was a passion of his, Justin decided to make the French Horn his focus mid-way through completing a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Maine, Orono. He continued studies on the horn in 2005 at the University of Maryland College Park, where he earned a Masters degree and is currently pursuing a DMA in Music Performance.  He has been a finalist in the University of Maryland’s Concerto Competition three years, with both Strauss’s 2nd Concerto and the Ewazen Concerto. Justin has also been a guest soloist at the International Brass Festival, performing Schumann’s Konzertstuck with the Minot Symphony in North Dakota. Equally at home as an orchestral musician, Justin has served as Third Horn with the National Philharmonic for the past year and a regular substitute prior to that.  He is a regular substitute with the Palm Beach Opera and the Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra.  Justin is also a substitute with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Boca Raton Philharmonic and has played with, among others, the McLean Symphony (VA), Southwest Florida Symphony, Lancaster Symphony (PA), Bangor Symphony (ME) and the Prince William Symphony Orchestra and Ballet (VA). Principal teachers include Gregory Miller, Suzanne George and Wanda Whitener.  Justin has also been highly influenced in studies with William Vermeulen, Marty Hackleman, John Boden and Eric Ruske.

Cara Fleck began playing the harp at age four under the instruction of Sonja Inglefield at the Peabody Preparatory. From 1998 to 2001, she participated in the Peabody Preparatory's Sinfonietta and chamber music program. Cara is a seven time recipient of the harp achievement award and a three year scholarship recipient in the Peabody Preparatory Arts for Talented Youth Program. She is a three time winner of the American Harp Society regional scholarship competition, and was recognized as a Maryland Distinguished Scholar for the Arts. Cara continued her studies in music at the University of Maryland with Rebecca Smith under a Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship in 2003 and graduated with a Bachelor of Music in 2007. During her years at Maryland, Cara won second runner up in the University of Maryland Concerto Competition and was a featured soloist with the University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra. From 2005 to 2007, she participated in the Saratoga Harp Colony, an intensive summer program for the emerging generation of professional harpists. She has participated in masterclasses with Alice Chalifoux, Elizabeth Hainen and Catrin Finch.
 
Currently, Cara is pursuing a master’s in Arts Management at American University. She freelances in the D.C. and Baltimore areas as a soloist and in collaboration with other musicians. Cara has in interest in interdisciplinary performance art and has an affinity for working with composers and premiering new works for harp. She concertizes regularly with the Inscape Chamber Music Project and has recently performed at venues such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Cosmo Club, Kennedy Center and Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Benjamin Greanya, bassoonist, plays regularly with several diverse groups in the Washington DC area, including the National Symphony, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Baltimore Opera Company, Annapolis Symphony, and Concert Artists of Baltimore. Recent chamber music performances include the Verge Ensemble of the Contemporary Music Forum and the Fessenden Ensemble. Other orchestra appearances include the Alabama Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Virginia Symphony, and Tenerife Symphony Orchestra in Spain. He attended the Kent Blossom and Aspen music festivals and was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and National Repertory Orchestra. Benjamin holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the New England Conservatory of Music.

Nicholas Hodges has appeared as a chamber musician, recitalist, and orchestral musician in concerts and venues in the United States and in Europe.  Currently Nicholas is on faculty at the Levine School of Music in Washington DC, freelances as a chamber and orchestral musician in the Washington DC and Baltimore area, and is pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Maryland.  

A native of Mechanicsburg, PA, Nicholas received a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance and Music Education from the Eastman School of Music, studied as a Take Five Scholar at the University of Rochester exploring the racial politics of the 19th Century American South, and completed a Master of Music in Violin Performance and a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the Pennsylvania State University.  He led as concertmaster of the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra under Tomasz Golka, served on faculty at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania for violin and viola, and served as the Creative Director for the State College Suzuki Program.  He was Assistant Conductor of the Penn State Philharmonic and Music Director of the Penn State Sinfonietta and has served as concertmaster of the National Orchestral Institute, the Austrian-American Mozart Academy Orchestra in Salzburg, Austria, Music School Festival Orchestra of the Chautauqua Institute.

Nicholas served as violist for the Adelphi String Quartet.  The Adelphi Quartet held the position of Graduate Quartet in Residence at the University of Maryland from 2009-2011 under the guidance of the Guarneri String Quartet and the Left Bank String Quartet.  The Adelphi Quartet was a semi-finalist in both the 2009 and the 2010 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and has performed many highly regarded concerts around the DC area and Pennsylvania.

Nicholas has studied violin with Timothy Ying, James Lyon, David Salness, James Stern, John Eaken, and Odin Rathnam.  He has taken viola lessons with Michael Tree, Katherine Murdock, and Daniel Foster.

Cellist Doug Jameson enjoys an active musical career in the greater Baltimore-Washington area. Doug is the Principal Cellist of the Prince George’s Philharmonic and the Inscape Chamber Music Project. He plays with orchestras throughout the region, and has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Alice Tully Hall. Doug has performed with the Singapore Symphony and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra on fellowship, and toured China in 2007 and 2009 as a member of the Mantovani Orchestra. As a chamber musician and recitalist Doug performs regularly as a member of the Largely Ludwig Chamber Ensemble and the Miller-Jameson Duo. In addition, Doug enjoys a schedule of offbeat recording and performance opportunities, which have recently included new chamber compositions and a promotional spot for ESPN football.

Doug received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Cello Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. He is adjunct faculty at the Park School, where he teaches music theory, ear training, composition, audio production, and coaches the Park String Ensemble. Doug serves as the cello section coach for the FAME youth orchestra, and his ninth year of teaching cello in Baltimore, where his students have taken part in All County, All State, and numerous other festivals and orchestras throughout the region.

Matthew Robotham is a percussionist in Washington DC. His performances include the Inscape Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Orchestra, Lafayette Symphony, Georgetown Symphony, Percussion Plus Project, Washington Vocal Artists, several DC theater orchestras and jazz/pop groups.  Matt has recorded for CBS, NPR, Naxos American Masters Series, and Voice of America. In addition to performing, Matt also teaches and has presented master classes and clinics in several schools along the east coast and Texas.  Matt received his masters degree from the Indiana University School of Music, where he premiered an Anthony Cirone composition for percussion and orchestra.

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Clarinetist Evan R. Solomon is a freelance artist in the Washington DC area. He is principal clarinet and bass clarinet of Inscape Chamber Orchestra, and has appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra, The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, and Washington Concert Opera. Mr Solomon has also performed as principal clarinet of Opera on the James (Lynchburg, VA),and bass clarinet with The Delaware Symphony. He has performed under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Leonard Slatkin, Eri Klas, and Michael Stern.

As a chamber musician Mr. Solomon plays regularly with Inscape Chamber Music Project, a group of which he is a founding member. He is also a member of the Georgetown Quintet. He has performed in recital at the Kennedy Center, National Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institute, and Montgomery College. Over twenty new solo and chamber works for the clarinet have been composed for Evan Solomon. He has worked with many composers including Joe Hallman, Justin Boyer, John McGinn, Altin Volaj and others. Mr. Solomon holds the BM degree from The Peabody Conservatory of Music, and the MM from The University of Maryland. His principal teachers include Anthony Gigliotti, Loren Kitt, Steve Bates, and Paul Cigan. 
He is currently on the faculty of Montomgery College in Rockville, MD.

Since 2005, Mr. Solomon has served as executive director of Inscape Inc.

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Violist Cassandra Stephenson is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Maryland, studying with Dan Foster. A native of Saratoga Springs, NY, Cassie began her musical studies on piano and violin, later switching to viola. She graduated summa cum laude from Ithaca College in 2005, completing her undergraduate studies with Debra Moree. She completed her Masters Degree at the University of Maryland in 2007, studying with Kathy Murdock. Cassandra has appeared in recitals in New York and Maryland, and well as with various orchestral and chamber ensembles throughout the United States, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Venezuela, and the Czech Republic. Miss Stephenson has attended the Tanglewood Young Artists Program, the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival (Italy), the National Orchestral Institute, and the Blas Traditional Music Festival (Ireland). In addition to performing in the Washington, D.C. metro area, Miss Stephenson is an avid teacher and maintains a studio in College Park. She plays on a 2006 Stanley Kiernoziak, recipient of the 2006 VSA Certificate of Merit for tone.