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

He performs regularly with over ten choral and instrumental groups, and has been a guest artist with many more. He also performs with his ten-piece ragtime orchestra, and a seven-piece early jazz band.

Sean has directed or accompanied over eighty musical theater productions nationwide.

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 thirty years he has served as organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newcastle. 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

After receiving a Bachelor’s of Music Education from Southern University (TN) in 1978, Randy’s career began as an educator and musician.  In 1982 he obtained his Master of Arts in Organ Performance from Andrews University in Michigan. He has taught music on all levels from kindergarten through college. Randy has also been a recitalist since age 9 on piano and organ, and has concertized in the US, UK, and Italy.

Before moving to Maine in 2014, Randy played violin for 14 years with the York Symphony and was accompanist and Interim Music Director and Conductor of the York Symphony Choral Ensembles.

From 1994-1999 Randy served as Chapel Organist and Keyboard Instructor for Rollins College, Florida.  He also served as accompanist and harpsichordist with the Messiah Choral Society, Bach Festival Society, Winter Park, FL, for 12 years.

Randy recently retired from music ministry after 9 years at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brunswick, ME, and 21 years in total serving the Episcopal denomination beginning in 1989.  He has recently become the accompanist for Maine Music Society, Auburn; Thornton Oaks Singers, Brunswick; and organist for Christ Church on the Commons, Gardiner.  He continues to be a collaborative musician with the Amethyst Ensemble.

For the last ten years Randy has become fond of New England, especially enjoys exploring Maine lighthouses (34 so far), cello lessons, and travel.  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.

Violinist Katherine Liccardo, a native New Yorker, began her violin and piano studies at age 3. Katherine’s passion for music started at home, growing up in a household of music teachers and performers. At the age of 18, she made her Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium solo debut as the winner of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition. Katherine received her Bachelor of Music Degree from Mannes College, The New School for Music and her Master of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music.

An active pedagogue and trained Suzuki teacher, Katherine has served on the faculty of the Center for Preparatory Studies in Music at Queens College for thirteen years.

She runs an in-person and online teaching studio with students in New York, Maine, California, Texas, and Australia. During the summers, Katherine has served on the faculty of Kneisel Hall’s Program for Maine Students and Berkshire Summer Music in Massachusetts. As an adjudicator, she has been on the jury for Queens College undergraduate auditions and the Young Stars of Maine Competition. She is currently a member of the board of the Maine Suzuki Association, whose goal is to build community and create educational and performance opportunities for students across Maine.

Combining her passion for performing and teaching, Katherine and her husband started an interactive concert series for kids in Washington Heights, NY: For the Love of Music. The mission of this program is to give children the opportunity to listen deeply to classical music in a hands-on and engaging setting. Katherine has led many similar interactive music workshops through Kneisel Hall and the Treetops Chamber Music series in Connecticut.

Katherine is currently the associate director of Vigorous Tenderness, an immersive outdoor concert series that amplifies marginalized voices in classical music and democratizes new/experimental music. VT concerts happen on each equinox and solstice throughout the year and serve as a way to mark the passage of time for the community. Each concert resembles an art museum experience, with chamber music in harmony with the landscape. Katherine also works with Shelter Music Maine, a fledgling organization that brings music to unsheltered communities across the state of Maine. SMM believes that all people deserve access to the therapeutic and healing powers of music. https://katherineliccardo.com

Pianist Morgan Lee has built a dynamic career as a collaborator, soloist, and teacher. She frequently performs with some of the most prominent ensembles and performing arts organizations in the state of Maine, including the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Opera Maine, Classical Uprising, and the Colby Symphony Orchestra.

She has performed and competed in numerous music festivals in the US and abroad and has given recitals in New York City, Italy, Spain, France, and the Kennedy Center.

An experienced collaborator, Dr. Lee is currently a collaborative pianist for the Colby College Music Department and the Augusta Unitarian Universalist Community Church Choir. She has previously served as staff collaborative pianist for the University of Southern Maine Osher School of Music and the University of Connecticut Music Department.

In addition to being an active performer, Dr. Lee is a teacher with over ten years of experience instructing piano. She currently works with over thirty students as an applied piano instructor for the Colby College Music Department and a member of piano faculty at Bay Chamber Music School. She has previously taught at institutions such as Eastern Connecticut State University, the University of Connecticut, the Bronx Conservatory of Music, and Mannes College of Music.

In 2022, Dr. Lee received her Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from the University of Connecticut, where she studied with Angelina Gadeliya. She also holds a Master of Music from Mannes College of Music and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. Dr. Lee wrote her dissertation on interdisciplinary collaboration as creative practice for classical musicians and is passionate about finding new, unconventional ways to engage with classical repertoire. She is committed to continuing this work to connect with new audiences here in Maine. You can learn more about her work at 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