Susan Via (violin) serves on the performing artist faculty at William & Mary where she teaches violin and directs the Gallery Players, a conductor-less chamber orchestra. Ms. Via has held positions with the Virginia Symphony and Virginia Opera as associate concertmaster, principal second violin with the Greensboro Symphony, and assistant concertmaster with the Williamsburg Symphony. She has also performed with the North Carolina Symphony, the Mallarmé Chamber Players, and others. She has served as faculty and orchestra member of the Eastern Music Festival and has performed with the Colorado Music Festival. Other faculty positions include the Duke University String School and Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts. An active chamber musician, in addition to Trio Niche, Ms. Via performs on baroque violin with the Wren Masters, an ensemble that specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music. She has also been heard on baroque violin in concert with the Norfolk Chamber Consort, the Governor’s Musick of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia Chorale, and Three Notch’d Road. Ms. Via received her Bachelor of Music degree from New England Conservatory of Music where she studied with Eric Rosenblith and participated in master classes with Josef Gingold. She studied baroque violin with Risa Browder.

Sarah Glosson (cello) taught viola da gamba at William & Mary for ten years. She studied historical performance practice at Orvieto Musica, the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin, the Baroque Academy at the Amherst Early Music Festival, and the International Baroque Institute at Longy. She routinely performs on cello, baroque cello, and viola da gamba. She has performed with ensembles including the Williamburg Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Norfolk Chamber Consort, Governor’s Musick, and Virginia Chorale. She was a founding member of the Wren Masters, a baroque ensemble. She can also be heard on stage in the string section of popular swing band, Good Shot Judy. She holds a B.A. in Music. Her M.A. and Ph.D. are in American Studies. Dr. Glosson is the author of Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom (LSU Press, 2020). She serves as Director of the Graduate Center at William & Mary.

Tom Marshall (fortepiano) joined the music faculty at William & Mary in 1981, teaching organ, piano, and harpsichord performance. He was recently honored with the title University Organist. He holds degrees in performance from James Madison University and the University of Michigan. For over 25 years he was harpsichordist for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation using their extensive collection of historic keyboard instruments. He has been featured on numerous Colonial Williamsburg recordings and issued an album of the solo organ transcriptions of concerti by Vivaldi and Ernst as arranged by J.S. Bach. Mr. Marshall also plays harpsichord with many ensembles, including the Wren Masters. He served as organist for the Williamsburg Presbyterian Church for 27 years, and is now organist for the Williamsburg United Methodist Church.