Mr. Aerie was the cellist of the Nacht String Quartet, the University of Colorado's Graduate Quartet from 2000 to 2002. Mentored by the Grammy-winning Takacs Quartet, the Nacht won both first prize and the audience choice award in the Bruce Ekstrand Memorial Competition in December 2001. They were then invited to be the inaugural quartet in an exchange and residency program with the Hans Eisler Conservatory in Berlin. Subsequently, the Quartet spent 8 weeks in Germany, performing in Berlin, Lichterfelde, and Bielefeld.

At the University of Colorado, Mr. Aerie was Principal Cellist of the CU Symphony and Opera Orchestras. He was a frequent guest on many student and faculty recitals, both with the Nacht Quartet and as a soloist. At the Oberlin Conservatory, Mr. Aerie was Principal of the Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Assistant Principal of the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra and Oberlin Opera Orchestra. Mr. Aerie is currently on the cello faculty at the College of St. Scholastica, and freelances in the Duluth, MN area. In the summer of 2004 he moved to Northern Virginia from Los Angeles where he was a successful freelancer and teacher. While in Southern California he was a regular cellist in many orchestras, including the Riverside Philharmonic, the San Bernardino Symphony, the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra, and the Golden State Pops. While in the Washington, D.C. area Mr. Aerie performed with the National Philharmonic, Maryland Symphony, Baltimore Concert Artists, Fairfax Symphony, Roanoke Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, and the National Cathedral Orchestra. Additionally, he performed for various dignitaries, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Veterans' Affairs Anthony Principi, foreign ambassadors, and members of congress at such venues as the Kennedy Center, Strathmore Hall, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian museums.

I attended Law School, but knew that it was not what I wanted. I graduated from high school when I 13 and left home to make something of my life. I do some live performances and have traveled worldwide.

It is my goal to build a successful business with my recording abilities. Through computer technology, I am able to work with people requiring music services from all over the country.

He plays also chamber music in trio, quartet or quintet. Is clarinet and sax teacher at Istituzione Scuola Comunale di Musica "Clara Schumann" in Collesalvetti, near Livorno.

Alex offers clarinet and saxophone lessons in the following areas: Richmond, Kew, Twickenham, Teddington, Whitton, Isleworth, Feltham, Hounslow.

Arshak began to play the piano at the age of three. At the age of six, he entered the Lucy Moses School of Music, studying with Boris Slutzky. Arshak started to compose at the age of fourteen and studied with his father, Iosif Andriasov; Daniel Thompson (Lucy Moses music school); and Shafer Mahoney (Hunter College). Mr. Andriasov also studied piano, ear training, solefege, harmony, theory, form analysis with his mother, Marta Andriasova (Kudryashova), and Daniel Thompson, as well as piano, orchestration, polyphony, and conducting with his father.

Mr. Andriasov was the Assistant Conductor of the BMCC Downtown Orchestra from 1997 until 1999. He has conducted his father’s compositions with the San Francisco Student Philharmonic. Arshak performs his own music and has recorded all of his piano compositions. In 2002, Mr. Andriasov graduated from Hunter College with a bachelor degree in English Creative Writing and Music Composition. Arshak is the Founder and Owner of the recording label “IMMA Records”. In 2003, Arshak Andriasov wrote his Second Piano Sonata, dedicating the work “To All Those Against U.S. Military Barbarism.” He also composed the “Torch No. 1” for Trumpet, Trombone, Piano, and String Orchestra.

He was the founder and Music Director of Cadence Chamber Orchestra in Seattle; the orchestra premiered a new piece at every concert as well as traditional repertoire. Arakelyan conducted the Pacific Northwest premiere of Paul Hindemith Kammermuzik Nr. 1. He has also premiered works by Iosif Andriasov, Jon Brenner, Arshak Andriasov, Gracie Sutherland and Brendon Wilson. Cornish College of the Arts gave a grant in support of his work with Cadence Chamber Orchestra. He is a recipient of Nellie Cornish and Welland Jordan Scholarships and first place winner of the Armenian Allied Arts Competition. He graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance and Lark Musical Conservatory with a performance diploma.

He has won several piano competitions in Greece and Australia and has appeared solo and as member of the piano duo he has formed with his wife N. Tsaldarakis at the Sydney Opera House, the Sibelius Academy, the Megaron Hall of Athens, the Penteli Festival etc.

A strong foundation to performance has been made and a selection of performance achievements to date include: Membership of National Youth Orchestra of Wales,1992-1998. Selection via audition 1999 to work with the BBC NOW under the baton of Taadaki Otaka, as part of a BBC Education venture. Winner of Royal Philharmonic Society Sir John Barbirolli Prize For Strings 1999. Selected in 2000 to join the highly esteemed Britten Pears Baroque orchestra.

Mr. Auerbach-Brown was awarded an ASCAP Young Composers’ Award in 1996 for his Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano. In 1998 Mr. Auerbach-Brown was the recipient of a Charles Ives Scholarship given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters to “composition students of great promise.” Other notable performances include the premiere of Mr. Auerbach-Brown’s String Quartet at Weill Recital Hall in December of 1997 by the Cavani Quartet.