Stephen Bonime earned his Ph.D. in Music History at Bryn Mawr College under the direction of Dr. Isabelle Cazeaux. As a Haverford undergraduate he co-founded and co-directed the Renaissance Choir of Haverford & Bryn Mawr Colleges with classmate Alex Blachly (the founder and director of Pomerium). While a grad student Steve resumed direction of the Renaissance Choir, which still performs regularly in the Philadelphia area. He has also conducted the Renaissance Chorus of New York, Vassar College Madrigal Singers, Canby Singers, Polyhymnia, and New York Madrigal Singers. In most of these groups, and in many other choruses and professional liturgical choirs, Steve has sung tenor and countertenor. He founded Music Divine in 2005.
Charlotte Roh
Charlotte Roh is a soprano from Seoul, Korea. She currently sings with the choir at St. Peter’s Church and its Bach Collegium. She has previously performed with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Church of The Holy Innocents, and the Duke University Chapel Choir. In addition to her vocal work, she is active as both a modern and baroque violinist. As a conductor, she has participated in the Orchestral Conducting Intensive at the Juilliard School and has directed orchestras at Duke University and in Korea.
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Helena Kim
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Art Manabat
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Lianna Portnoy
Lianna Portnoy is currently the Managing Director of St. Ann's Warehouse, a nonprofit theatre in Dumbo, Brooklyn. She is a CPA and arts administrator with previous roles at accounting firm PwC and Manhattan School of Music. A musician by trade, Ms. Portnoy still actively performs in New York City as both a clarinetist and early music singer. She attended McGill University to Clarinet Performance, and Baruch College, where she obtained her MBA in Accounting.
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Daniel Pincus
Tenor Daniel Pincus hails from Great Neck, where he got his start in music – singing and percussion. He graduated from Columbia College with a B.A. in Psychology, from the Manhattan School of Music with a Masters in Vocal Performance and from the Hebrew Union College’s School of Sacred Music. He has with the The Clarion Music Society, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Long Island Baroque Ensemble, the 1988 92nd Y Schubertiade, the Marlboro Music Festival, Monadnock Music Festival, the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, The New York Philharmonic Chorus and many more. Earlier on, Daniel sang many performances of Schubert’s Lieder and the great Western masterworks such as Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s cantatas and Passions, and Renaissance music. He has served congregations in Ohio and New York, and conducts weddings in the tri-state area, including in jails and prisons. Last June, he sang the first Shepherd in the Renaissance Chorus of New York’s production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”.
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Andy Chang
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Erik-Peter Mortensen
A 4th generation musician, Erik-Peter Mortensen (EP) started singing professionally at age 9 at The Men and Boy's Choir of the Church of the Transfiguration, NY, and developed a great passion for Early Music. A year later he joined both the Metropolitan and City Opera Children's Choruses. While studying at Columbia University for his Music BA, he founded the New York Madrigal Singers (NYMS), which he led for 7 years. The NYMS received 2 favorable NY Times Reviews and produced 3 CDs. In 2015, he received his Master Certificate for Orchestration for Film and TV from Berklee College of Music where he studied with Ben Newhouse and Pinar Tobrak, composer of Marvel's superhero saga, "Captain Marvel". EP has sung professionally for decades in numerous churches and ensembles in the tri-state area. His compositional style is very eclectic and he's equally at home writing motets, anthems and madrigals in Renaissance style, fugues in the style of Bach, divertimentos in the style of Mozart, as well as art songs, cinematic blockbusters, epic rock, sci-fi electronica, as well as blurring and/or inventing genres such as Sacred Hip-Hop or EDM infused with Gregoria Chant. He is currently pursuing a MFA with the University of Chichester, England, in Orchestration and Composition for Film, TV, and Games. Many samples of his work paired to visual media can be found on Vimeo, Spotify and other Social Media under his first name Erik-Peter, (which is unique) as well as his brand “4LeafComposer”.
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Mel Shu
Mel Shu is a bass vocalist hailing from Melbourne, Australia. He is a member of the choir at the Church of St. Joseph's in Greenwich Village, and has performed with Music Divine, KHORIKOS, and the Church of The Holy Innocents. He has also sung with the Marion Consort in Chicago and the Chapel Choir at Princeton University. He recently made his bass soloist debut with the Christopher Street Collegium, performing Johann Sebastian Bach’s BWV 131 (Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir).
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