Category: Artists

Bethany Perkins, Soprano. Bethany is a Portland based classical soprano and pianist. She teaches private lessons and group piano and voice classes for ages 5-105 at 317 Main Community Music Center in Yarmouth. Bethany is also the choir director and pianist/organist at New Brackett UU/UCC Church on Peaks Island. She can also be found singing…

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…

Philip Carlsen is a nationally recognized composer whose music has been performed by the Portland Symphony, Sebago-Long Lakes Region Chamber Music Festival, Manhattan Marimba Quartet, National Symphony Chamber Players, and many other groups in Maine and around the country. Besides St. Mary Schola, which he joined in 2015, he plays cello in the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra and…

Beth Gilford studied recorder at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland with Hans-Martin Linde.  After two years at the Schola, she returned to the United States, where she earned a B. F. A. in recorder from the Oberlin College Conservatory. Over the span of her career, she has performed with a variety of orchestras and ensembles.  She also…

Meagan McIntyre, violin, has appeared in concert at notable venues such as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Jordan Hall in Boston and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Known for her versatility, she enjoys exploring a wide variety of musical styles. In addition to her regular participation in the new music concert series Vigourous Tenderness and regenerative…

Lauren Hastings Genova, violin, enjoys exploring a broad range of musical genres, including the early music of St Mary Schola. She is a member of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and is the principal second violinist in the Colby Symphony Orchestra. Lauren also regularly performs with the new music concert series Vigorous Tenderness and recently performed…

Asa has performed as a bass-baritone in choral settings since his youth. He is educated in both music and art from the University of Southern Maine, where he spent several years singing with Robert Russell’s Chamber Singers. Asa began performing early music with the Schola Cantorum at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception under the directions…