Sarah Frei's work as a singer and actor encompasses the music and language of multiple centuries and traditions. Sarah has been praised by the NY Times for her "dramatic bent and command of tone color" and her "clear tone, agility, and abundant spirit." Solo oratorio engagements include Poulenc's Gloria, Fauré's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem and Exsultate, Jubilate, Berio's Sinfonia, Madrigals of Monteverdi and Byrd, and more. Her one-woman show Artemisia: Light and Shadow (Toth/Sandrow), featuring music of Strozzi, has toured the US and will have an international premiere in the coming season. Sarah takes particular interest in collaborating with living composers, having premiered and/or performed works of Paul Salerni, Scott Wheeler, David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Michael Gordon and Bruce Odland, to name a few. In addition to many classical operatic roles, Sarah originated the roles of Ada Lovelace in Kim Sherman’s opera ADA, Madeleine X in Richard Foreman/Michael Gordon’s What to Wear, and Nellie Bly in David Friedman's musical Stunt Girl. Musical theater roles include Carrie in Carousel, Marian in The Music Man, Guenevere in Camelot, and others.  She has performed Schoenberg in cabaret joints, Dolly Parton in European cathedrals, contemporary electronica in an ancient Greek rotunda, and metal at the Knitting Factory.  Sarah did her MM studies at Manhattan School of music, and her BM at Peabody Conservatory. She was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and did additional studies and performances at the Mozarteum Salzburg and l’Académie internationale d’été de Nice. Sarah has recorded on the Cantaloupe, New Amsterdam and Innova labels. Her solo cabaret album Love.Sex.Death: A Cabaret is available on all major streaming services. www.sarahbfrei.com 

Mezzo-soprano, Lucia Bradford is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. Ms. Bradford has performed a number of operatic roles including Carmen in Bizet’s La Tragedie de Carmen, Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, La Principessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen, Mrs. Quickly in Verdi’s Falstaff, The Sorceress in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Hippolyta in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Miss Todd in Menotti’s Old Maid and the Thief, the Duchess of Plaza Toro in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, Azelia Dessalines in William Grant Still’s opera Troubled Island, Douglas Tappin’s I dream as Grandma with Opera Carolina, Mary Watkins’ Emmett Till as Mamie Till and Maria in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess with Des Moines Opera.  

Her concert works include Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore, Hadyn's Lord Nelson Mass, De Falla’s El amor Brujo,  William Grant Still’s And they lynched him, Nathanial Dett’s The Ordering of Moses, Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, the Mozart Requiem, Durufle Requiem, Bach B minor Mass, and Mendelssohn’s “Elijah.”

Ms. Bradford has had the privilege of singing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Voices of Ascension, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Oratorio Society of New York, and NYFOS. Performing at the Kimmel Center, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and touring in Russia, Budapest, Spain, the Caribbean and throughout the United States. She also enjoys performing a variety of genres including contemporary opera, jazz, gospel and blues. 

Upcoming events include Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater”with Resonance Works, Marcellina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with North Carolina Opera, Paul Moravec’s world premiere “All Shall Rise” and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall and Bach’s Magnificat and Reena Esmail’s “This love between us” with the New York Choral Society. 

A winner of Astral Artists’ 2016 National Auditions, violinist Katie Hyun has been described as “a virtuoso by any measure” (The Berkshire Review).  She has appeared as on both baroque and modern violin at festivals such as Chamber Music Northwest,, Mostly Mozart, and the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival in New Orleans. Katie is concertmaster of NOVUS Trinity Wall Street, and frequently appears with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Seraphic Fire.

Katie is also the founder and director of Quodlibet Ensemble, a collective of string players and creators dedicated to creating musical experiences that engage, entertain, and invite people to invest in their communities, and serves on the faculty of Musicambia, an organization that brings music education to correctional facilities.  

Katie was a founding member of the award winning Amphion String Quartet, whose debut CD was also featured on the New York Times’ ‘Best of 2015,’  and with whom she performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Music Festival, and Caramoor Music Festival.  

Katie received her Artist Diploma at the Yale School of Music, studying Baroque violin with Robert Mealy and modern violin with Ani Kavafian, and her Masters Degree at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, where she studied with Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian, and Philip Setzer.  She also studied with Aaron Rosand and Pamela Frank at the Curtis Institute of Music where she received her Bachelor of Music degree.

Praised for her “colorful tone and artistic depth” (The New York Times), flutist Melissa Baker is an accomplished soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral performer, with appearances across the United States, Europe, and Russia. Equally adept on modern and historical flutes, she has served as principal flute and concerto soloist with NOVUS NY, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and Artemis Chamber Ensemble, while also performing with ensembles such as Stereo Hideout, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan Chamber Players, and American Bach Soloists. Her versatility has led to collaborations at the Prototype Festival and performances with artists like Terence Blanchard and Jay-Z.

Melissa’s discography includes performances on the Grammy-nominated Akathist album and the recording of Ellen Reid’s prism, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she was honored with the Irene Alm Memorial Award for excellence in performance and research.

 Avi Stein is the organist and chorusmaster at Trinity Church Wall Street and on faculty at The Juilliard School where he teaches continuo accompaniment, vocal repertoire, and chamber music. The New York Times described Avi as “a brilliant organ soloist” in his Carnegie Hall debut.  Avi is the artistic director of the Helicon Foundation and has directed the International Baroque Academy of Musiktheater Bavaria, and the young artists’ program at the Carmel Bach Festival. He has conducted a variety of ensembles including Tafelmusik, Opera Lafayette, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the Opera Français de New York. Avi conducted Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Juilliard in a production that toured in London’s Holland Park and at the Royal Opera House at the Palace of Versailles. Another production at Juilliard, Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, was named one of the best performances of 2021 by The New York Times.  He performed on the 2015 Grammy Award-winning recording for best opera by the Boston Early Music Festival. 

Avi studied at Indiana University, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Southern California, and was a Fulbright scholar in Toulouse, France.