People

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 has had an eclectic career as an organist, choral and orchestral conductor, and has performed all over the United States. Her main area is church music, and she focuses on performing sacred music on the finest level for masses as well as for concerts through choral and organ works. On the other hand, she has a keen interest in the opera genre and participated in various opera productions as a chorister and a conductor. Her recent performance repertoires include Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" (harpsichordist), excerpts from Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" (conductor), and Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "The Gondoliers" (conductor). For the last several years, she has led the opera gala series funded by the Islip Arts Council. As a chorister (soprano), she sang for New York Grand Opera and Seoul Oratorio Society. She is a founding member of a chamber ensemble, "QueensSound," which is heading for a full production of Handel's opera "Acis and Galatea" this year.

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Art Bryan Manabat is a bridge engineer in county government by day and a professional choral singer by night. Coming from a family of marching band directors on his mother’s side, he played clarinet from the age of ten through college while also discovering a passion for a cappella singing. Known for his “mystical” chant voice, Art studied vocal performance as a baritone under Bethany Reeves at Stevens Institute of Technology and trained in Gregorian chant under the late Emmanuel Leemans, a student of Flor Peeters and former director of the Boys Town Choir. Art is currently Assistant Director of the Cantantes in Cordibus Choir and Schola of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City NJ (where Frank Sinatra was married) and has sung and directed in several NY metro area liturgical and concert ensembles as a tenor and countertenor, including the Sleepy Hollow Schola Cantorum, Canticum Novum Singers, Renaissance Street Singers, and Higher Word Orchestra. 

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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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Anna Willson is a vocalist and pianist from Yakima, WA and an alumni of The Boston Conservatory. Anna is a member of the choir at St. Bartholomew's church. She sings with Polyhymnia, the Bard Festival Chorus, and is a section leader and soloist with Canterbury Choral Society at the Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side. She has been a regular member of the New York Continuo Collective, a chamber group of early musicians that present concerts at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church. She also has a lute song duo “Good Pennyworths” that performs 16th century English Lute Music in Renaissance garb to the good walkers of Central Park and presents house concerts to anyone who will host wandering troubadours. In her free time, she also likes to play her harpsichord and lute.

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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 first sang with the Jubilee Youth Chorale at the Episcopal Church of Our Savior. While studying at NYU, he was a member of the University Singers and later joined the first incarnation of Music Divine. After a hiatus to try his hand at entrepreneurship in the tech world and get married, Andy is excited to be back for the relaunch of Music Divine 2.0. When he isn’t singing or coding, he enjoys playing the piano.

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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 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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