Sean Fleming is an in-demand pianist, organist, harpsichordist, accompanist, composer, and arranger based in Maine.

He performs regularly with over nine choral and instrumental groups, and has been a guest artist with many more. He is the music director for the Forever Young Chorus based in Newcastle, the assistant director of the Midcoast Community Chorus based in Camden, and regularly accompanies many high school and junior high festivals.

Sean has directed or accompanied over seventy musical theater productions nationwide. Most recently he was the orchestral conductor for “Big River” and “Guys and Dolls” with Heartwood Regional Theater Company.

A piano and organ recitalist who has performed throughout the United States, Sean studied organ and piano with Ray Cornils, John Doney, Michael Lindsey, and Gerald McGee. For the past twenty-five years he has served as organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newcastle. Sean performs periodic concerts of Ragtime and early jazz with his 10-piece Ragtime orchestra. He was the recipient of a 2009 St. Botolph Club Foundation grant award for achievements in music.

Scott Nicholas, pianist, has appeared throughout the U.S. and internationally in solo and chamber performances. He has served as pianist for the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, The Three Irish Tenors, Greek tenor Mario Frangoulis, Minnesota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, the Concord Women's Chorus and the Leontyne Price Vocal Arts Competition, among numerous others.

He records frequently with E.C. Schirmer's Philovox Vocal Ensemble, has been heard on WGBH-FM and WBUR-FM in Boston, and his commercial recordings are available on Albany records.

Scott has served as music director for several organizations including Central Square Theater, Franklin School for the Performing Arts, Franklin Performing Arts Company, Suffolk University, the New England Conservatory’s Opera Workshop and St. Michael’s Playhouse, VT.

Mr. Nicholas is on the faculty of Emerson College and is a senior lecturer at Suffolk University where he teaches piano and coaches opera and music theater.

Colombian Flutist Laura del Sol Jiménez performed with the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra and Colombia National Symphony Orchestra before moving to the US in 2015.

Laura has also appeared as a soloist, chamber musician, and with orchestras in China, Japan, Israel, Italy, Argentina, Chile, and throughout the United States. Equally at home as a chamber musician, Laura has performed at international music festivals such as the Bowdoin Music Festival and the Portland Bach Festival, and collaborated with groups such as Windscape and the Jupiter String Quartet.  In 2015, Laura founded the Linos trio, which toured South America and produced an album premiering music of contemporary Latin American composers.

Laura served as flute faculty at the Portland Conservatory of Music and was a founder and director of the Conservatory’s College-Preparatory Program. 

Currently, she lives in Brunswick with her husband and two young children, maintaining a private flute studio and performing with ensembles and orchestras in the New England area. www.lauraflute.com

An educator and musician, pianist and organist Randy Day has taught all levels of classroom music, from kindergarten to high school, as well as maintaining a private studio. He has lived and worked in Tennessee, Michigan, California, Illinois, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Randy holds a Bachelor’s of Music Education from Southern University in Collegedale, TN, later earning his graduate degree in Organ Performance from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI.

Presently, he holds the position of music director at St. Paul Episcopal Church in Brunswick, Maine. Previously, Randy served as the Minister of Music at Trinity United Church of Christ in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and for six years, he held the roles of Organist and Choirmaster at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Since moving to Maine in 2014, Randy has become fond of New England, exploring its lighthouses (34 so far). He resides in Gardiner, Maine, with his two Feist puppies named Bree and Fynn.

A native of Denmark, Heinrich Christensen, was appointed Music Director of historic King's Chapel, Boston, in the year 2000 after serving as the affiliate organist under Daniel Pinkham for the last two years of Dr. Pinkham’s 42-year tenure at the church. 

Heinrich was a prizewinner at the international organ competitions in Odense and Erfurt and has given solo recitals on four continents.  An avid proponent of contemporary music, he has premiered works by Daniel Pinkham, Carson Cooman, Graham Gordon Ramsay, James Woodman and several others. 

The solo CD "Heinrich Christensen plays the C.B. Fisk Organ at King's Chapel" (available at www.arsisaudio.com) was hailed by Gramophone Magazine as a "smorgasbord" of "enormous stylistic flexibility". 

For the past 15 years, he has performed an annual recital as a featured soloist of Boston’s venerable First Night celebrations.  In February 2011, he released a recording of Bach’s Clavierübung III.  In October 2011, Albany Records released “The Sacred Voice” with works of Graham Gordon Ramsay.

Paul Kneller, classical guitar

Paul Kneller holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Southern Maine. He studied classical guitar with two teachers in the Portland, Maine area, John Johnstone and Keith Crook.

While studying at the university, he participated in a Master Class with Lily Afshar and performed in the 41st Honors Recital.

Apart from solo performances, he has had the opportunity to play with a variety of different instrumentalists. He has performed and recorded with groups outside the classical realm.

Since 2017, Paul has been teaching guitar in southern Maine. Paul joined the faculty of the Portland Conservatory in 2021.

Morgan Lee has built a dynamic career as a collaborator, soloist, and teacher. She recently graduated from the University of Connecticut with her Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance, where she studied with Angelina Gadeliya. Morgan also holds a Master of Music from Mannes School of Music and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University.

She has participated in numerous music festivals in the US and abroad and has performed recitals in New York City, Italy, Spain, France, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Morgan has nearly ten years of private teaching experience and has served as an adjunct faculty member at Eastern Connecticut State University, piano faculty at the Bronx Conservatory of Music, and a teaching fellow at Mannes School of Music.

Morgan relocated to Maine in 2022 and currently serves as staff collaborative pianist at Colby College, is the collaborative pianist for the Maine Music Society Chorale, and frequently performs as principal keyboardist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. She also enjoys an active teaching schedule as a member of the piano faculty at Bay Chamber Music School and Stone Coast Music. morganleepianist.com

A multi-faceted individual, Benjamin Noyes has many talents all revolving around an exceptional focus on the cello. With a particular interest, fascination and devotion to the qualities and production of sound, he channels his creativity and music into areas including, but not limited to performing, teaching, recording, producing, composing, drawing and writing.

He is widely acclaimed for his performances of solo recitals, chamber ensemble concerts, and various classical and non-classical ventures. Pursuing the artist’s life has led him to collaborations and performances throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, performing, teaching, coaching and motivating individuals of all ages and professions with his signature, one-of-a kind projects.
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Violinist Tracey Jasas-Hardelhas performed with the Milwaukee Symphony, National Symphony, The National Gallery Orchestra, and many other orchestras. Ms. Jasas-Hardel was a member of the U.S. Marine Band Chamber Orchestra, which performs chamber music in the White House at the President’s request for state dinners. She has played in chamber music festivals such as the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival, Tuacahn Summer Arts Institute and the Portland Chamber Music Festival, and studied with the Audubon Quartet, the Cavani Quartet, and the Weilerstein Duo. She was awarded a Fulbright grant for violin study in Berlin, Germany, where she attended the Hochschule der Musik and toured around Europe performing both as a recitalist and an orchestra member.

Tracey is a co-founder of 240 Strings, a nonprofit in Portland, ME providing free private lessons to students who couldn’t otherwise afford them, as well as free concerts. She has taught at both New England Suzuki Institute and New England Music Camp. portlandpianotrio.com