Tenor

This past 2024 season Jacob performed with Shakespeare Opera Theater in their mash up production of Béatrice et Bénédict and Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio). Jacob also covered the role of Oronte as an Emerging Artist in St. Peterberg Opera production of Alcina. Jacob will be returning in 2025 to make his main stage debut in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music.

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This past summer, Jacob was an Apprentice Artist with Opera Southwest in the production of L’Occasione Fa il Ladro (Don Eusebio) and made his debut on the main stage in 2024 in George Martin’s thrilling piece Before Night Falls (Lazaro) based on the story of the gay cuban poet Renaldo Arenas. 

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Jacob had the pleasure of being one of this year's Encouragement Award Winners for the North Dakota-Manitoba District in the Laffont Competition, Third Place at the Lyra New York International Art Song Competition as well as a Finalist at this year's American Song Prize Competition. Other performances include Carmen, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lucio Silla in Mozart’s Lucio Silla, Eugene Onegin, and The Tales of Hoffman.

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Jacob graduated with his Master of Music Degree from Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music. Jacob also participated in Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance Program for three consecutive seasons, performing in the choruses of La Fille du Régiment, La Bohème and Carmen.

Tenor

Tenor Christian Šebek has entertained audiences from Opera to Broadway, Off-Broadway, television, film
and international concert halls. He has performed over 1600 shows on Broadway as Ubaldo Piangi in
The Phantom of the Opera. Mr. Šebek is recognized for his lyrico spinto voice. The New York Times praised him as “possessing a marvelous voice,” while the Houston Chronicle extolled his Rodolfo as "full of visceral excitement.” 

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Mr. Šebek has sung many of Opera's enduring Tenor roles including: Il Trovatore's Manrico, Rodolfo in La bohème, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Radames in Aida and Calaf in Turandot, Otello, Samson in Samson et Delilah, Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Luigi in Il Tabarro, Canio in Pagliacci, Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana, Don Jose in Carmen, Alfredo in La Traviata, Michele in The Saint of Bleecker Street and as Romeo in Romeo and Juliette in concert at Carnegie Hall.

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Mr. Šebek created the lead role of Nathanael in Thomas Cabaniss’s Off-Broadway, contemporary Opera
The Sandman. He performed at the Basilica de Santa Maria Aracoeli as the Shepherd in Andrew Miller’s The Birth of Christ for Pope Benedict and the Vatican. 

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In concert, Christian Šebek has performed throughout Europe. Christian’s voice, as a Jingles Artist, can be recognized in over a hundred television and radio commercials, highlights include appearances on Comedy Central and as musical director of the motion picture Harlem Aria. For seventeen years he was the General Director of Stern’s World Music Record Label, highlighted by Latin Billboard Top Ten Africando and was the Artistic Administrator of Chautauqua Opera. Mr. Šebek is the Co-Founder of AB Studios/Shanghai. Christian is on faculty at Concordia College/IVAI /Savannah Voice Festival/AMF Music Festival. He maintains a vocal studio in New York City and New Jersey and his students are on Broadway, Broadway tours and have sung in international venues.

Tenor

Tenor Eric Šebek has always been surrounded by the Performing Arts with a family of Opera singers
and Broadway performers. He is proud to be a part of The Šebek Tenors comprised of his brother Zach, and his father Christian. He made his start in Nutley High school playing Pippin and Jack Kelly in Newsies. Eric has also played Patrick professionally in the The Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring The Rockettes in their 2016-2017 and 2019-2020 seasons. 

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He attended Montclair State University for 4 years where he has played Fleet in Titanic, Cigar in the new musical: The Names We Gave Him, Musidorus in Head Over Heels, and Cat in the Hat in Seussical. He has also crossed over to Opera. Eric took part in a role study for The Marriage of Figaro where he played Basilio and Don Curzio with Montclair State University’s Opera program. Eric also sang the role of Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Michael Ching’s hilarious continuation: Buoso’s Ghost. Eric played the roles of Tamino in The Magic Flute and Gastone in La Traviata at the Quisisana Resort, as well as Alfred in Die Fledermaus the following summer. Eric is thrilled to get out and audition and perform in the upcoming production of Trouble in Tahiti with SAS Performing Arts Company. He is represented by Jason Bercy Talent.

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.