John Weissenrieder is a classically trained luthier. His formal studies began in the workshop of the great guitar maker, Andrea Tacchi, in Florence, Italy. During his apprenticeship, he studied intensively the works of Enrique Garcia, Francesco Simplicio, and Robert Bouchet, traveling to Spain and France with the scope of investigating more deeply the works of past masters. John now constructs instruments in his own atelier in Florence, mixing the style of these luthiers and his own personal vision and style. Sarah Greenbaum is a painter and a graduate of the Russian Academy of Art in Florence, Italy, where she studied classical drawing.