Category: Artists

Composer and double bassist Joshua DeScherer (b. 1977) began his musical studies in the preparatory division at Manhattan School of Music, and has earned degrees in music from Colby College, Tufts University, and the University at Buffalo. His compositions have been performed by The Sage City Symphony and the Tufts University New Music Ensemble, as…

Dr. Hentus van Rooyen, a native of South Africa, is the Director of Music Ministries and Organist at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Cape Elizabeth, ME, and teaches Organ Performance at Bowdoin College. He holds the degrees Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music in organ performance from the University of North Texas. His other degrees in…

Christian M. Clough, B.A., M.M., M.A.R., has been active as a choral conductor, singer and keyboardist for over three decades. He holds the Master of Music degree, with a double concentration in Organ Performance and Choral Conducting, from the Yale University School of Music, where his conducting teacher was Marguerite Brooks. The primary focus of…

Anna Maria Amoroso-Noyes is from Gorham, Maine. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. She is very excited to be playing the viola for St Mary Schola.

Stephen White, baritone, has been singing with Schola for six years. He has sung all his life and combined singing quite naturally with his vocation as an Episcopal priest, serving parishes for forty years mainly in New England. Presently he sings with the Cathedral Choir at St. Luke’s Episcopal Cathedral in Portland while also serving…

Jane Flukey, a mezzo soprano from Georgetown, ME, received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern Maine and her Master of Music from the University of North Texas. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Musical Arts from Shenandoah Conservatory in Voice Pedagogy. Jane is an active performer and teacher of classical and commercial…

Bethany Perkins, soprano, is a longtime classical performer and music director in southern Maine. She teaches middle school chorus at Greely, and has taught piano and voice for two decades. She is the staff soprano at St Mary’s Episcopal Church and the founder of Solutionary Arts of New England. SANE is an organization that provides educational performance events…

Anna is a freelance violinist and violist who takes a special interest in Baroque performance.  Currently residing in the Portland area, she was Concertmaster of the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra and regularly plays both violin and viola in the Portsmouth symphony and other orchestral groups. She has performed in musicals, weddings and events throughout New England,…

Ben McVety, tenor, has a Bachelor of Arts in music from the College of William and Mary, and a Masters of Science in Music Education from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He has been a high school choral director from 2013-2021, and has recently moved to Maine where the rest of his family resides. He has…

Michael has performed as a soloist on oboe, recorder, Baroque violin, and as countertenor throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. As a violinist and countertenor he has performed with Seraphic Fire, the Firebird Orchestra, Ecclesia, Tableau and St. Mary Schola. As an oboist he has performed with Initial Ascent, a Toronto-based band, and as principal oboe with the…