The Great Equalizer

Guest Artists

A “soaring soprano soloist” (Boston Classical Review), Gina Marie Falk is a Boston-based singer specializing in the performance of early and contemporary chamber music.

Gina Marie regularly performs and tours imaginative programs with the Pandora Consort, joins Emmanuel Music in their weekly Cantata Series and annual concerts, and collaborates with pianist Clémentine Dubost to bring underrepresented art song to the Middlebury College School of French. Other recent credits include a residency at the Portland Bach Experience and premiering works of emerging composers as a member of Nightingale Vocal Ensemble. With award-winning bands Saint Boneface and DREAMGLOW, Gina Marie is privileged to explore the boundaries between classical and popular genres in intimate venues.

When not singing, Gina Marie teaches French language and diction courses to undergraduate and graduate students at the Longy School of Music and the New England Conservatory.

Described as a “rich, smooth mezzo soprano,” Kim Leeds has appeared as a soloist with GRAMMY winning ensemble Apollo’s Fire, GRAMMY nominated True Concord Voices and Orchestra, Gramophone award winning ensemble Blue Heron, Tafelmusik Baroque Chamber Orchestra and Choir, the Oregon Bach Festival, Les Délices, Cantata Collective, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and Bach Society of St. Louis.

Ms. Leeds has garnered multiple accolades including winning the Tafelmusik Vocal Competition in 2016, attending the Carmel Bach Festival as a Virginia Best Adams Fellow in 2017, attending the Aldeburgh Festival as a Britten-Pears Young Artist in 2019, and in 2022 was a semi-finalist in the Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition.

As a choral artist, Ms. Leeds has performed with the GRAMMY winning ensembles the Crossing and Apollo’s Fire; GRAMMY nominated ensembles Seraphic Fire, True Concord, Clarion Choir; and the Oregon Bach Festival, Handel and Haydn Society, and Ensemble Altera.

Corey Dalton Hart, tenor, is an active performer of opera, oratorio, and song repertoire as well as an eager chamber musician. He has been a featured soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, the Asheville Symphony, the Bard Baroque Ensemble, and The Orchestra Now.

As a chamber artist, Corey has collaborated with Blue Heron, Skylark, Ensemble Altera, Calliope’s Call, Zenith Ensemble, the Handel and Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, Boston Baroque, the Boston Camerata, Seven Times Salt, Boston Baroque, Renaissance Men, The Ashmont Bach Project, and Upper Valley Baroque. He was also named an American Scholar of VOCES8, one of the world’s most versatile vocal ensembles.

Corey holds degrees from Furman University and Bard College as well as a DMA in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from NEC. He is currently a member of both the NEC College and Prep School faculties as well as the Longy School of Music.

Bass-baritone Nathan Halbur is an eclectic singer, actor, composer, producer, and bandleader. 

He is an active concert soloist, notably with the Boston Pops Holiday Singers every December since 2021, and in the Carnegie Hall world premiere of Heidi Breyer’s Amor Aeternus: A Requiem for the Common Man. Praised for his “nimble accounts of [Bach’s] melismas” (Boston Classical Review), he is a regular soloist with Emmanuel Music, including a recent B minor mass. He has portrayed Pilate in the St. John Passion (Marsh Chapel), as well as Judas and Pontifex in performances of the St. Matthew Passion (Cantata Singers, Emmanuel Music). 

Nathan has performed with Skylark Vocal Ensemble at The Met Cloisters, the Hispanic Society of America, and the Morgan Library (alongside actress Christine Baranski). He can be heard on Skylark’s GRAMMY-nominated album Clear Voices in the Dark, Ensemble Altera’s recent release Dazzling Light, and in concerts with the Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque.