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SOLOISTS

Triad: Emerging Artist Residency is a collaboration between Music in the Somerset Hills, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and Tenet Vocal Artists, united by a shared belief that investing in emerging singers is essential to the future of vocal music. A carefully selected cohort of post-collegiate artists gathered this week for four days of intensive rehearsal, coaching, and professional development, beginning at Trinity Church in New York City and culminating in today’s performance. We are proud to introduce these extraordinary young voices to you and grateful to the Bach Choir of Bethlehem for welcoming them to this historic stage.

GABRIELLE BESSE, soprano   Based in New York City, Gabrielle is a singer, actor, and dancer trained in both classical music and musical theatre. Active in both repertoires, she is currently part of the Trinity Church Scholar program. Since 2011, Besse has trained in classical music in France at the Maîtrise of Notre-Dame de Paris and at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional, performing in renowned venues including the Philharmonie de Paris, the Philharmony of Moscow, the Theatre du Châtelet and the Seine Musicale. In 2022, following her passion for theatre and performance, she moved to New York to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), graduating with a focus in Musical Theatre. Her work blends classical technique with theatrical instinct, always rooted in a love of live storytelling.

ABBY BRODNICK, soprano   Praised by Musical America for her “iridescent soprano” and engaging stage presence, Abby Brodnick is a versatile coloratura soprano whose repertoire spans Baroque, opera, and contemporary works. During the 2025–26 season, she served as a Choral Scholar at Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City. She recently performed the role of Dagmar in Giants in the Earth with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, a performance featured on the opera’s commercially released recording. Other operatic roles include Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld (Opera North), Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance(Savannah Voice Festival), and Souer Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites (MSU Cali Opera Program). Brodnick is the First Prize recipient of the 2023 Camille Coloratura Awards Student Division and holds degrees from the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University (M.M., Vocal Performance) and DePauw University (B.M., Vocal Performance, minor in Musical Theatre).

MARISA CURCIO is a New York-based soprano whose work spans from the late medieval through new compositions. She was recently featured in Saints at a Disco (Prelude) with The New Consort and Gerard and Kelly through The Met Live Arts, singing both Hildegard and reimagined disco classics. Other solo work this season has included quite a bit of Bach, which Curcio heartily welcomes: Cantata 51 with Amor Artis, Mass in B Minor with Music in the Somerset Hills, and Christmas Oratorio with Princeton Pro Musica. Recent small ensemble work includes a concert celebrating Palestrina@500 with Res Facta through the Gotham Early Music Scene and works by Bach and Gibbons with Music in the Somerset Hills. She is on the core roster of Res Facta and Amor Artis and is a founding member of the Philadelphia-based choral collective Convoco, which is in its fifth season. She sings with the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, the choir in residence for The Philadelphia Orchestra. Curcio is a member of the professional choir at St. James’ Madison Avenue and the Lux Choir at The Episcopal Church at Princeton University. She holds degrees from Westminster Choir College, where she studied with Tom Faracco. She resides in northern New Jersey with her wife and their cat, Regina Caeli.

JASMINE GALANTE is a mult-ihyphenate soprano, composer, and producer based in Atlanta and New York. As a choral artist, Galante has had the pleasure of singing at Trinity Church Wall Street as a Choral Scholar and with Cantori New York, a group dedicated to performing new and neglected choral works. Choral highlights include performing in Pakui Hardware’s Spores (U.S. premiere) as part of the Performa Biennial, singing in the ensemble for Yorgos Lanthimos’ short film Bleat at the New York Film Festival, as well as performing as a step-out soloist on Silent Spring by Laura Schwendinger (world premiere) and Memento Nostri by Calliope Tsoupaki (U.S. premiere). She values the community and connection vocal performance can bring and is excited to continue to hone this passion through Triad Emerging Artists Program. As a composer, her creative practice centers storytelling and draws from a voice-centered musical language. She recently premiered an opera with Experiment in Opera’s Writers Room (and Hypercube) at HERE Arts Center. Upcoming projects include a piece for counter codex’s Plague Mass. Outside of her artistic work, Galante is passionate about supporting bold new works and artist-led processes and serves as the new works and community engagement manager at The Atlanta Opera.

SCARLETTE HORVATH, alto, is a multi-genre vocalist from Parsippany, New Jersey, and is a graduate of William Paterson University, having earned her Bachelor of Music in Classical Voice Performance in 2024. She was a four-year member of the university’s auditioned Chamber Choir and had the honor of touring and conducting in Belgium, France, and Italy. Horvath has a deeply rooted love for pop music and has also performed musical theatre and jazz. She has performed at Don’t Tell Mama NYC and the Afternoon Music concert series in Summit, New Jersey, working with Broadway music director John O’Neill in 2025. Her admiration for Bach is credited to her late professor and beloved mentor, Dr. Lauren Fowler-Calisto, who introduced her to Jesu, meine Freude when she was 19 years old. She recently wrapped up a season as a choral scholar at Trinity Church Wall Street and sings in churches across Northern New Jersey. Horvath is passionate about building a musical presence in the pop and classical worlds and is excited to do so among her talented colleagues. She currently works full time as Assistant Director of Bach to Rock Music School in Wyckoff, New Jersey. When not on the stage, she loves travelling and spending time with her partner, recording engineer Christian Leitner.

LEAH ROSENMAN, mezzo-soprano, based in New York City, is an avid performer of vocal repertoire spanning from Hildegard to Howells. Praised for her musical sensitivity and passion for collaboration, Rosenman strives to uplift underrepresented voices in classical music through performance, administration, and education. During the 2025–2026 season, she performed with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, the Northern Berkshire Chorale, and as a teaching artist with the Quintessence Summer Choral Festival. She recently completed her second fellowship with the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus, performing in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, and the festival’s choral concert series. As a 2025–2026 VOCES8 US Scholar, Rosenman performed, recorded, and workshopped across the country with VOCES8. Born in Ohio and raised in Massachusetts, she holds a BA in music from Williams College, where she studied voice with Kerry Ryer-Parke and Paul La Rosa, and an MA in music leadership from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied voice with Katherine Ciesinski. Apart from singing, Rosenman enjoys working as the Operations Manager for Tenet Vocal Artists, listening to the music of Buxtehude, reading poetry, and spending time with her tuxedo cat, Jojo.

KEV SCHNEIDER is a New Jersey-based tenor specializing in early music and small ensemble singing. Most recently, they have sung throughout the United States as a VOCES8 Scholar, premiered Gerard & Kelly’s immersive performance Saints at a Disco (Prelude) as a member of The New Consort, performed as a soloist in Bach’s Mass in B Minor at the Spoleto Festival USA, and appeared on screen and in the choir in Netflix’s biopic, Maestro. They are a member of the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir under the direction of Dr. Joe Miller, through which they regularly sing with The Philadelphia Orchestra. They are also a member of Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble (VAE) and a founding member the choral collective Convoco. An experienced church musician, Schneider is in the professional choir at St. James’ Madison Avenue, at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and many other sacred spaces in the New York metro area.

ART WILLIAMS is a tenor, pianist, and interdisciplinary artist currently based in Manhattan. He most recently completed coursework toward an MA in Religion at Union Theological Seminary, where he studies ritual and performance alongside Latin American history. Williams’ most recent performance credit includes serving as a choral scholar at Trinity Church NYC. Previously, he worked as a freelance singer in Colorado, where he performed at Snowmass Chapel, most recently appearing as a soloist in Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Livingwith the Aspen Choral Society. Alongside his work in classical music, Williams has devoted his creative energy to training in the Tamalpa Institute’s Professional Training Program in Movement/Dance, Voice, and Narrative. Away from his creative, academic, and therapeutic pursuits, he enjoys walks in Riverside Park, copious hours of sand volleyball, and reading nonfiction.

ROZIME LINDSEY, bass, is a versatile and expressive vocalist specializing in sacred and operatic repertoire. A choral scholar with the Choir at Trinity Church Wall Street during the 2025–26 season and a vocal fellow with The Thirteen in Washington, D.C., Lindsey is a first-year graduate student in Early Music Voice at Yale University. In summer 2025, Lindsey was selected as a vocal fellow at the Charlotte Bach Festival. Lindsey has appeared as a soloist with ensembles across New England and beyond, including Boston Baroque, Arcadia Players, Newton Baroque, ARTEK Ensemble, the Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street, the Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue Choir of Men and Boys, and the Charlotte Bach Festival. Recent solo engagements include Handel’s Messiah and Chandos Anthems, Mozart’s Requiem and Missa solemnis, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and Schütz’s Seven Last Words of Christ.

BLAKE WAYMENT is a New York City-based lyric baritone who specializes in ensemble singing, early music, oratorio, and art song, with a particular passion for the music of J.S. Bach. Recent solo highlights include the baritone arias in Bach’s St. John Passion with the Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir, as well as performances as a soloist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Mass in B Minor, Handel’s Messiah, and the Duruflé Requiem.Wayment will return for a second season as a Choral Scholar at Trinity Church Wall Street in 2026–27, where he sings regularly with the Trinity Choir. He is also thrilled to be a member of the VOCES8 US Scholars Programme for the 2026–27 season and a roster singer with Seraphic Fire. He additionally sings with Voices of Ascension and the Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir. Wayment holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Brigham Young University, where he sang for four years with BYU Singers under R. Andrew Crane. Outside of music, Blake is an avid basketball fan and loves spending time with his wife, pianist Savannah Rae. He is excited to be joining the Bach Choir of Bethlehem for this performance of Bach at Noon.

Artistic Director of Music in the Somerset Hills
STEPHEN SANDS, is a 2025 GRAMMY-nominated conductor and tenor for his work as chorus master and tenor soloist in the album Akathist, by Benedict Sheehan, recorded in 2023 at Trinity Church in New York City. Sands conducts Downtown Voices at Trinity Church, which has been hailed for its “incisive, agile strength” (New York Times). He is the Executive Director of the Antioch Chamber Ensemble, overseeing international tours and recordings and managing director of Ensemble Veritas, Harvard University’s professional chorus. Stephen is the music director of Re:Soundings, a choral music project in New York City that utilizes the vast array of acoustical treasures to bring new ways of hearing vocal music to life. Sands is founder of Music in the Somerset Hills, where he directs The Somerset Hills Chorus and curates a full concert series and educational programs in Central New Jersey.

Artistic Director of Tenet Vocal Artists
JOLLE GREENLEAF, soprano, is one of today’s foremost figures in early music. Hailed by the New York Times as a “golden soprano” and “a major force in the New York early music-scene,” Greenleaf was named Artistic Director of Tenet Vocal Artists in 2009. She sings and directs the ensemble in repertoire spanning the Middle Ages to the present. Her flair for imaginative programming has been lauded as “adventurous and expressive” and “smart, varied and not entirely early” (New York Times).  She is a celebrated interpreter of the music of Bach, Buxtehude, Handel, Purcell, and, most notably, Claudio Monteverdi. Greenleaf has performed as a soloist in venues throughout the U.S., Scandinavia, Europe, and Central America for presenters including the Cambridge and Vancouver Early Music Festivals, Denmark’s Vendsyssel Festival, Costa Rica International Music Festival, Puerto Rico’s Festival Casals, the Utrecht Festival, Panama’s National Theater, and in Havana, Cuba.

LORETTA O’SULLIVAN, cello, praised by the New York Times as “an agile, eloquent player,” has played with many of this country’s leading ensembles and orchestras. On period instruments, these include the Four Nations Ensemble, Opera Lafayette, Aston Magna, Artek, the New York Collegium, the Haydn Baryton Trio, the Classical Quartet, the American Classical Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. In concerts and recordings, she has given memorable performances of Bach, Biber, and Britten for solo cello, concertos of Vivaldi and Porpora and Fiorenza, obbligato cello arias of Caldara and Handel, and a wide range of chamber music. She recorded the complete Op. 5 sonatas of Francesco Geminiani with the Four Nations Ensemble for Orchid Classics. As principal cellist of Opera Lafayette, she has performed at Versailles, the Kennedy Center, and the Rose Theater and has recorded for Naxos. As principal cellist with the Bach Festival Orchestra and featured artist in 2023, O’Sullivan performed the CPE Bach cello concerto in A minor, the Vivaldi concerto for two cellos, and Sarah Quartel’s Snow Angel for solo cello and children’s choir. In collaboration with Francine Ringold, former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma, she set several poems for solo cello entitled “Bird Songs.”

MORGANN DAVIS, flute, is Professor of Flute at Millersville University and Lebanon Valley College. She is an active teacher, performer, and writer and a certified yoga and mindfulness meditation instructor. Davis made her Carnegie Hall debut in March 2026 as a First Prize and Judges Distinction Award winner in the American Protegé Competition. She was also a 2024 and 2025 Finalist in the Instrumental Soloist Professional Division of The American Prize. Davis performs regularly with ensembles including the Reading Symphony, Harrisburg Symphony, Brandywine Valley Symphony, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and Lancaster Symphony. She is passionate about helping musicians explore the mind-body connection to improve their well-being and performance and has presented workshops and intensives for flute societies, universities, and summer music programs. She teaches Creative Resilience in addition to curating The B-List blog and newsletter. Davis holds degrees in music performance from The Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and did post-graduate study on scholarship in Paris and Southern France. morgannelycedavis.com

KERRY HEIMANN, keyboards, has been president of the American Boychoir School and accompanied the choir’s almost 100 annual concerts, coordinating an extensive international touring and recording schedule. With degrees in organ performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Heimann earned his doctoral degree in harpsichord and early music from Illinois, with a minor in choral conducting. His principal teachers have included Charlotte Mattax, Michael Farris, and Chet Alwes, and he received several awards, including the prestigious Theodore Presser Award and the Pi Kappa Lambda National Honor Society in Music. A widely sought-after accompanist, conductor, and collaborator, Heimann has played at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Kennedy Center and performed at festivals throughout Europe and North America, such as the Spoleto Festival and the Festival de Lanaudière. He helped found the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana and served as producer for Charlotte Mattax’s six CDs of harpsichord works. He has performed at national and regional conferences for the American Choral Directors Association, the Society for Seventeenth Century Music, and the Organization of American Kodaly Educators. In addition, Heimann serves as Operations Manager for Princeton University Concerts, Director of Music for Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Trenton, and Rehearsal Accompanist/Assistant Conductor of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem.

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