Violinist Charles Sherba holds the Heidi and Chester Kirk concertmaster chair of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, where he has been lauded for his performances of some of the most demanding concertmaster solos, including Ein Heldenleben of Richard Strauss, and Scherherazade of Rimsky-Korsakov, which he will be performing again this season under director Larry Rachleff. He is a founding member of Aurea, and is also concertmaster of the Simon Sinfonietta. He has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The New Hampshire Symphony, the Vermont Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, and was concertmaster of the West Virginia Symphony, the Atlanta Ballet, and the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra. He was first violinist of the Charleston String Quartet, and has performed at the Monadnock, Grand Teton, Aspen, and Colorado Music Festivals. In addition to his appointment on the applied music faculty at Brown University, he also teaches at the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School, and has taught at Connecticut College, Emory University, and the Greenwood Chamber Music Camp. In 2001, he was selected to be a participant in the Starling-Delay Symposium on Violin Studies at the Juilliard School, where the topic under consideration was “Teaching the Exceptionally Gifted Young Violin Student.”