Soprano

“Beautiful and ethereal” (Rutland Herald) coloratura soprano Abby Brodnick captivates audiences all over the country with her “personable [and] engaging” stage presence (South Florida Classical Review). Abby specializes in numerous genres of vocal music, including Opera and Operetta, Baroque and Oratorio, musical theater, and contemporary music.

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Abby was a Resident Artist with Opera North and a Studio Artist with the Savannah Voice Festival in the 

summer of 2024, performing as Eurydice in Orphée aux enfers — described as “brilliantly sung with comic flair” by the Rutland Herald— Rapunzel in Into The Woods, and Mabel in Pirates of Penzance.

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Abby is the First Place winner of the 2023 Camille Coloratura Awards Student Division and the recipient of the Cali School of Music’s Outstanding Graduate Performance Award. In April of 2025, Abby will perform with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra in a revival production of Douglas Moore’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Opera Giants in the Earth as the role of Dagmar, which will be broadcasted live on PBS.​

Abby received a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Montclair State University’s Cali School of Music while studying in the studio of Beth Roberts, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance with a minor in Musical Theater from DePauw University. Some of her favorite past roles include Sister Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites, Pernille in The Beautiful Bridegroom, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, and Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro. An avid performer of concert and chamber works, Abby has sung the soprano solos of Carmina Burana as well as Handel’s Messiah. She has performed with presenters such as the Four Seasons of Music in Sands Point, NY, Duke University Gardens, and the New York Composer’s Circle.

Tenor

Tenor Mitchell Hernandez holds a B.M. in Vocal Performance from West Texas A&M University, and an M.A. in Music Composition from Montclair State University, where he studied voice with Professor Matthew Oglesby, and Dr. Julia Rolwing respectively. Mitchell’s favorite roles include Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, George Gibbs in Our Town, Ralph Rackstraw in  i, Ferrando in Così Fan Tutte, Monostatos in The Magic Flute, and Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance.

Soprano

Soprano Lizzie Kandziolka is a Senior at Villa Walsh Academy. She’s been singing since she was 5 years old and started official lessons with Mrs. Mariana Karpatova 7 years ago. She is a member of New Jersey Youth Chorus and enjoys musical theatre. She also loves to draw in her spare time and has a love for music (outside of singing) and psychology. She hopes to attend college to study Fine Arts next year.

Violin

Violinist Gabriel Anker interprets chamber music, “with impressive weight and cohesion..." (The Strad

magazine), and he is a practicer of diverse musical genres and traditions, ranging from early to new music. Gabriel has concertized at venues across the globe, including Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, Disney Hall, the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, the Philharmonie de Paris, and others. He has performed at international summer music festivals including Aspen, Encore, Bowdoin, Madeline Island, and Domaine Forget.

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Gabriel is passionate about historically inspired performance, and he has collaborated with members of the Netherlands Bach Society. In 2022, Gabriel toured Holland with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and performed with the Orchestre de Paris under Klaus Mäkela. 

Gabriel believes the future of music is assured by living composers through recent immersive collaborations with such artists as Caroline Shaw, Rhiannon Giddens, and Paola Prestini. Projects with Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra since 2018 and with LA’s Street Symphony have enabled Gabriel to advocate for
access to traditional and new classical music. Since moving to the northeast, Gabriel is a founding member of the Rose Quartet and a 2025 Emmanuel Bach Fellow. He is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire in the Hague, San Francisco Conservatory, University of Southern California (MM), and Rice University (BM, Distinction in Creative Work and Research).

Artistic Director & Piano Accompanist

Mary Pinto, an acclaimed accompanist and vocal coach, has worked with international opera singers and major American opera companies for the past 25 years. Ms. Pinto's career began as a rehearsal pianist for noted opera companies:  Dallas Opera, Chicago's Lyric Opera, Omaha Opera, and others. In 2012, Ms. Pinto coached and was rehearsal pianist for Metropolitan Opera star and international soprano Deborah Voigt as she prepared for the three Brünhilde roles for the Met's production of Wagner's ​Ring Cycle​ which was featured in the documentary Wagner’s Dream: The Making of the Met's Ring Cycle ​and premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.

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In 2022, Ms. Pinto was invited to be official accompanist for the Giulio Gari Competition and to accompany singers in the Gerda Lissner Song, Zarzuela and Aria Competition. She made her Carnegie Hall debut playing for the winners of the Gerda Lissner Winners Concert. In 2021, Ms. Pinto coached and directed scenes at the Summer Opera Festival of Morelia and coached at the Queens Summer Vocal Institute. In the fall of 2020, she performed at Black Opera’s tribute to Jessye Norman. She spends her summers on the coaching staff at Masterclass d' Ischia, Italy. She has worked with the NJ State Opera and Light Opera of NJ, and internationally with Opera Noire’s Ensemble in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

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Ms. Pinto is on the faculty of Montclair State University as a private coach, accompanist, and prepares students for opera productions. She serves as Artistic Director and accompanist for Opera at Florham while maintaining coaching studios in New Jersey and New York City.

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Mary received her Bachelor’s degree in Music for piano performance from DePauw University and a Master’s in Music degree for piano and voice accompaniment from University of Illinois.