Lauded as having a “honey-colored tone” and “the most radiant solo singing” from Opera News, soprano Jessica Beebe is steadily gaining international attention as an affecting interpreter of repertoire from the Renaissance to contemporary American opera.

Ms. Beebe has performed as a guest soloist with several major orchestras and ensembles across the country including The New York Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, The English Concert with Harry Bicket, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra with Raymond Leppard, The Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, The Folger Consort, Piffaro, Lyric Fest, The Princeton Festival Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra and more. In the 2019-20 season, Ms. Beebe had solo debuts with Cathedral Choral Society and The Washington Bach Consort at the Washington National Cathedral, and Gamut Bach ensemble.

Ms. Beebe is a member of the Grammy winning ensemble The Crossing, Grammy nominated ensemble Clarion Society, Variant 6, Trio Eos and Choral Arts Philadelphia. Ms. Beebe is a graduate of the University of Delaware, Indiana University and The Royal College of Music. She is a professor of Music in Voice at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster PA, and Muhlenberg College in Allentown PA. She lives in Lansdale with her husband Mark Livshits and her son Henry, born in June 2020!

Rebecca Myers is a celebrated performing and recording artist who specializes in a comprehensive variety of repertoire including early, contemporary, and chamber music.

Recent seasons have seen solo engagements with Seraphic Fire, Tempesta di Mare, Lyric Fest, Opera Philadelphia, Apollo’s Fire, the CalPoly Bach Festival, and Philadelphia’s Bach @ 7 series. Also a highly sought after recital artist, Rebecca has been featured in art song recitals with pianists Laura Ward and Benjamin C.S. Boyle presented by the European American Musical Alliance (EAMA), The Woodmere Art Museum, and Opus Opera.

Acclaimed for her work in the field of new music, Rebecca is a core member of The Crossing, the two time GRAMMY winning ensemble dedicated entirely to new music. She has premiered works by the top living composers around the world and she was a soloist on the 2016 GRAMMY nominated Bonhoeffer, released by The Crossing.

Known for her “soul-infused expressiveness and unselfconscious joie de vivre” (New York Music Daily), mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland is dedicated to detailed, stylistic interpretations of early and new music.

Highlights from this upcoming season include an appearance with Contemporaneous, performing the role of Conversation in Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles with TENET, and a program of Buxtehude and Bach duet cantatas with Apollo’s Fire. Elisa will also sing and dance in a new ballet with New Chamber Ballet and perform in the NY premiere of Daron Hagen’s latest song cycle, The Art of Song with Brooklyn Art Song Society.

Elisa sings frequently with the top ensembles of the United States, including The Crossing, TENET Vocal Artists, Roomful of Teeth, Seraphic Fire, and Clarion Choir. She has a special passion for one-on-a-part vocal chamber music and in addition to her work with Variant 6, is a core member of Ekmeles, a sextet dedicated to exploring microtonal tuning and extended techniques..

A graduate of The University of the Arts, Steven Bradshaw is a professional vocalist and visual artist based in Philadelphia. He has appeared as a soloist with The Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Tempesta Di Mare, Bang on a Can, The Bach Collegium of Philadelphia, and Network for New Music.

In 2020 he performed as a soloist with the LA Philharmonic for the premiere of Ted Hearne’s PLACE. In addition to recording and performing with Variant 6, Roomful of Teeth and Ekmeles, Steven performs regularly with Seraphic Fire, Trinity Wall Street, Spire, Blue Heron, Yale Choral Artists, and Apollo’s Fire. He is a founding member of The Crossing. Steven premiered Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang’s work “Lifespan" for three whistlers and a four billion year-old fossil, and gave over 300 performances of the work.

James Reese is an avid ensemble, chamber, and solo musician whose singing has been praised for its “intensity and sensitivity...spirituality and eloquence” (Chestnut Hill Local). James' 2019-20 sees solo debuts with the American Bach Soloists, Tempesta di Mare, the Gamut Bach Ensemble, the Master Chorale of South Florida, and Princeton Pro Musica; in addition to return appearances with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, TENET Vocal Artists, , Lyric Fest, Philadelphia's Bach @ 7 series.

In May 2018, he made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in Bach's B Minor Mass with the New York Choral Society, directed by David Hayes. Of that performance, the New York Classical Review wrote, "the high, easy tenor of James Reese...floated beautifully on its own over the long, gentle lines of the Benedictus." He sings on The Crossing's release of Gavin Bryars' The Fifth Century, which won a Grammy for Best Choral Performance in 2018. He also sang on 2016 Grammy-Nominated Bonhoeffer, released by the Crossing. James is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, where he studied with Kurt R. Hansen, Alan Darling, and Donald Nally. He is a graduate of Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music, where he studied with James Taylor as part of the Yale Voxtet.

A Philadelphia native, Daniel Schwartz has sung with the Opera Philadelphia chorus where he has performed a number of bit roles including The Foreman in the east coast premiere of Oscar.

Daniel also sings with The Crossing, a two-time GRAMMY-winning new music choir, and has been featured as a soloist on their radio broadcasts. In 2014 he traveled to California to perform Louis Andriessen's De Materie with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and seven other singers from The Crossing, who also made their Carnegie Hall debut that year.

Daniel has performed as a soloist with many distinguished ensembles such as Piffaro and Choral Arts, and is a founding member of Variant 6. In 2016 he performed the role of Captain Belville with Brandywine Baroque in William Shield’s opera Rosina. In 2017 he made his debut as a soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra for Pat Metheny and the American Beat. He continues to perform around the world with many of the above ensembles. In addition to singing, Daniel is the conductor of the Philadelphia Voices of Pride.