C. Stanley Eby

Stan Eby holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in voice performance from Bob Jones University and a doctorate from Boston University. He is an ordained minister and has many years experience as a minister of music. He has taught music on every level from elementary to graduate school. He is presently on the faculty at BJU where he teaches singing and vocal pedagogy and conducts the Chamber String Orchestra. He has conducted two major opera productions at BJU. In December 2007, Dr. Eby sang the title role in Simeon, a new Christian opera composed by Dr. Dwight Gustafson. He is married and has three children and 1 grandson.

Duane L. Ream

Duane Ream, a native of Kansas, holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Sacred Music from Bob Jones University. He has taught piano at BJU for over 20 years in addition to coordinating and arranging the music for various campus programs including Vespers, Living Gallery and the annual Bible Conference. He has served as music director for 4 independent Baptist Churches and has written dozens of sacred arrangements for all combinations of voices and instruments. He is a co-author of A Guide to Hymn Playing published by Bob Jones University Press and is a live contributor to a 4-year cycle of Home-Sat broadcasts ranging from developing music standards to introducing the instruments of the orchestra. He is married and has two children.

Achim Gerber

Mr. Gerber is a native of Germany where he received his musical training in Violin Performance from the Conservatory of Music in Dresden and a Master's degree in Viola Performance from the Conservatory of Music in Berlin. Mr. Gerber has performed and recorded extensively throughout Europe as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. He has held leading positions in major European orchestras including Assistant Principal Violist of the Dresden Philharmonic, Principal Violist of the Halle Opera Orchestra and Principal Violist of the Frankfurt/Oder Staatsorchester. In 2000 he moved to Greenville, SC where he serves on the string faculty at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC teaching violin, viola, orchestral repertoire, coaching chamber music, and conducting the Collegium Musicum Chamber Orchestra. He is married to Sharon Gerber and has two daughters.

Sharon Mulfinger Gerber

Mrs. Gerber is currently on the cello faculty at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC where she is actively involved in both teaching and performing. Sharon holds a Bachelor degree in Cello Performance from Bob Jones University and a diploma in Cello Performance from the Hochschule fur Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin where she studied with Professor Josef Schwab. She has studied and performed in music festivals in Canada, France, England, Germany and throughout the United States. Sharon has won several competitions for her cello playing including the Southeastern Young Artist Competition and the Lawrence Foster National Cello Award. She also won several concerto competitions resulting in solo performances with orchestras in the southeastern United Sates. Sharon has produced four successful CD's featuring her original compositions and arrangements for cello and piano and continues to write music for church, plays, and films. She is married to Achim Gerber and has two daughters.

Maaike Harding

Maaike Harding was born in Troy, Michigan, and completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in Cello Performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Richard Aaron and Desmond Hoebig. Ms. Harding has received many top prizes including the Louis Potter Scholarship, Michigan American String Teachers award, and the Rochester Symphony Concerto Competition. In 2006, Ms. Harding joined the Wô-mèn quartet, which was selected to perform in the Kennedy Center for the “Conservatory Project”, and gave a solo chamber recital sponsored by The Cleveland Chamber Society.

Ms. Harding has performed in masterclasses given by Itzhak Perlman, Paul Katz, Donald Wielerstein, Joseph Silverstein, Joel Krosnick, Norman Fischer, and Timothy Eddy. During the summers she has attended Music Academy of the West, where she received the Cello Fellowship Award, Aspen Music Festival and School, where she received a one-year fellowship, and the Perlman Chamber Music Program.

In 2000, Rachel, Maaike and their sister Rebecca formed The Harding Trio, which received top prizes in the National Fischoff Chamber Competition, senior division, and The Coleman International Chamber Music Competition. In 2005, the trio received the prestigious Bennet Levine Memorial Chamber Music Award from The Cleveland Institute of Music. The trio has been coached by ltzhak Perlman, Paul Katz, Donald and Vivian Weilerstein and Merry Peckham.

Elizabeth Pabón

Elizabeth Pabón is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. She received her training at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, obtaining degrees in violin performance (B.M.) and music education (M.M.E.). Her teachers include Franco Gulli, Henryk Kowalski, and Mimi Zweig. She has presented master classes and performed solo recitals in her native Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Ecuador, and in the United States. She accepted Christ as her Savior in 1994 and is currently serving on the faculty at Maranatha Baptist Bible College where she is developing the String Pedagogy and String Preparatory programs.