Pianist

Adam (they/he) is a composer, lyricist, librettist, music director, pianist, orchestrator/arranger, educator, and artistic leader, based in NYC, dedicated to new music theatre and interdisciplinary collaboration. As a writer, Adam's works include The Naked Truth (Semi-Finalist—O'Neill NMTC, Green Room 42, The West End Lounge), Obscene, Lewd, Lascivious, and Filthy! (NAMT 15-minute Musical Contest Winner), A Trip To The Moon (The Maas Building, Temple University, Polyphone Semi-Finalist, CAP21), THIRD SEX: 1930s transvestite lieder (The Parkside Lounge, The Maker's Ensemble), and BrandedTM! (Polyphone Finalist). Their works in early development include Public Dominance (Roundabout Space Jam) and Bitchfest: LIVE! (commissioned by Prima Theatre). Adam’s piano trio, strange clowns bring great joy, was recorded by the Galan Trio in 2022.As a music director, Adam has worked at institutions including Goodspeed Musicals, MCC Theatre, TheatreWorks Hartford, Norwegian Cruise Lines, and various NYC venues including Joe’s Pub, The Cutting Room, Green Room 42, and Caveat. As an educator, they have worked at Pace University, CAP21/Molloy College, Temple University, The University of the Arts, The Hartt School, and NYU.Adam is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of the UNTITLED Musical Project, a 501c3 organization dedicated to supporting BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ musical theatre writers.Adam is currently a D.M.A. candidate in Composition at The Hartt School. They graduated from Temple University as part of the inaugural George and Joy Abbott Musical Theatre cohort with an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Collaboration as well as a Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. Adam is also part of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. They graduated with a B.A. in Music from the Tell School of Music at Millersville University. Adam is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild.

Carla Wesby is thrilled to be returning as a soloist with Philomusica, after having sung the soprano solos in Schubert’s Mass in C last December.

Carla Wesby maintains a busy schedule as a soloist, cantor and choral singer in New York City. She has been a soloist with New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet, and Staten Island Symphony, to name a few. She has sung in the Chorus at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Bard Summerscape, and Opera Orchestra of New York, as well as numerous other performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. She has toured in the chorus with Mark Morris Dance Group and has collaborated with pop stars Paul McCartney and Song Zuying. Carla has performed at BAM, Radio City Music Hall, and Barclays Center, in memorized and staged performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, music of Joe Hisaishi from Studio Gibli/Miyazaki movies, and live performances of Danny Elfman’s Nightmare Before Christmas, respectively. In the last few years, she created a cabaret called The Almost, Not Quite, In-Between Girl, which was performed at The Duplex, Don’t Tell Mama’s, and The Townhouse.

Carla graduated from Valparaiso University and Manhattan School of Music, and has been auditioning and performing in NYC since receiving her master’s degree. Currently, she is a cantor and a section-leader in the choir at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, which has afforded her the opportunity to sing for for Pope Benedict and Pope Francis and for thousands of people at their masses and concerts on TV, SIRIUS Satellite Radio, and YouTube. Carla is also a member of the 12-voice ensemble, The Salvatones, and can be heard on their CD Wonderful World. She can also be heard as a soloist on numerous Alice Parker recordings. Both of Carla’s parents are composers, and Carla has premiered various works of theirs over the years.

Carla co-founded Woodside Arts Collective in fall of 2021 and received a grant from City Artists Corp to produce and sing Mamma Rabbit in Peter Rabbit. The 25-minute opera for kids, created by her friends at New Camerata Opera, takes excerpts from Donizetti’s Elixir of Love and sets it to the famous children’s story. Woodside Arts Collective has now produced 2 full seasons of events, and is currently in their 3rd season.

Joy Tamayo is a performer, composer, and educator.

As a soloist, she has premiered Chaitanya Sangco’s Subway Atmos (for soprano, cello, piano, chorus, and electronics) at Opera America; the Calf in Kento Iwasaki's portable opera Beloved Prey at Flushing Town Hall; Barbarina in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro with the dell’Arte Opera Ensemble at ; lead soprano for Pete Wyer’s opera Spring Street available online at jeeni.com.

For collaborative works, Joy Tamayo performed for Freya Powell’s I cannot not grieve: CRY SCREAM SHOUT SING, produced by More Art; Miro Magloire’s Sanctum with the New Chamber Ballet; Tino Seghal’s This You, for a Public Art Fund exhibit called The Language of Things.

As an outskirt - a multimedia story-telling project, Joy Tamayo composed and performed Saklob for the 2023 Exponential Festival at JACK. She is composer/vocalist for experimental film Sanctuary by award-winning filmmaker Tanika I. Williams which was featured at the BAM Cinema Fest 2021 Shorts Program. Joy Tamayo is Emmy-nominated for Jonathan McCrory’s sonic opera The Roll Call: The Roots to Strange Fruit with the National Black Theatre.

Joy Tamayo has lectured on composing for the voice and has participated in workshops, performances, and readings of new works by student composers at Juilliard and Brooklyn College.

Joy was born and raised in the Philippines. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Lena Haleem is based in New York City, where she is a proud Brooklynite. She hails from Columbus, Ohio, where her piano studies led her to vocal study, and eventually to her one true love, opera repertoire. She loves making people laugh both on and offstage, and some favorite roles performed include Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro, scene), Siebel (Faust, scene), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, scene) and Gherardo (Gianni Schicchi, Brooklyn College Conservatory). She also enjoys dramatic roles, and recently sung the role of Princess Margaret with Regina Opera’s the Student Prince. She sang the role of Danica in the New York City premiere of Ana Sokolović’s chamber opera Svadba (Brooklyn College Conservatory). Lena is a member of the New York Philharmonic Chorus (hailed as “grandly cosmic” by the New York Times) and the Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City Chorus. She recently sang in Mozart’s Mass in C for the final season of the Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival.

Radnel Del Rio Ofalsa finished a Master of Music in Voice at The Mannes School of Music with a Full Merit Scholarship and through the generous support of the Asian Cultural Council and the Friends for Cultural Concerns of the Philippines. He received awards from The National Music Competitions for Young Artists, The Jovita Fuentes Vocal Competition, and The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. In the operatic scene, he previously essayed the roles of Albino and Linares in Noli Me Tangere, First Armored in Man in Die Zauberflöte, Tonio in La Fille du Regiment, Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Tapioca in L’etoile, Ulisse in Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Benvolio in Romeo et Juliette, and most recently, Count Alberto in L’occasione fa il Ladro. In companies such as The Cultural Center of the Philippines, Norwalk Concert Hall, Mannes Opera, Central City Opera, and Opera Southwest.

He is set to return to Opera Southwest as a Guest Artist to portray the role of Ovidio in Jorge Martin’s Before Night Falls in February.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Diana Dohyung Kim began playing violin at the age of four. Showing great promise, she was accepted into The Juilliard Pre-College Division at seven years old with Hyo Kang and I-Hao Lee. Diana has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral violinist in prestigious venues such as Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Tilles Hall and New World Symphony Hall. A top prize winner at numerous competitions, she has been awarded the Grand Prize for the Korean Times Young Artists Competition and the CW Post Festival Concerto Competition, which led to her Tilles Center debut. She is also a laureate of the New York Music Competition, semifinalist at the 2015 Stulberg International String Competition, and the 2019 winner of both the Concerto Competition and Chamber Music Competition at the DePaul University School of Music.

Diana has participated at renowned festivals such as the Great Mountain Music Festival, C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival, Casalmaggiore Music Festival, the Heifetz International Music Institute, and the Sarasota Music Festival. An avid chamber musician, she has had the privilege of collaborating with esteemed artists Roberto Diaz, Ani Kavafian, Janet Sung, Pacifica Quartet, and many more. She has also worked with renowned musicians including Pierre Amoyal, David and Linda Cerone, Bayla Keyes, John Adams, and Krzysztof Penderecki.

Diana attended the Yale School of Music on a full scholarship, The Juilliard School as a C.V. Starr/Vicki Cowen Scholarship recipient, and the DePaul University School of Music on full scholarship. Diana joined the IHL Summer Music Program in China as a faculty member in 2017. She is currently getting her doctorate degree on the violin with Todd Philips and viola with Dan Panner at Rutgers University.

Lindsey Jones is pursuing a Ph.D in Musicology at Rutgers University. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Florida with a M.M. in Violin Performance with a concentration in Instrumental Conducting, and summa cum laude from Western Connecticut State University with a B.M in Violin Performance. Lindsey has broad experience in education and music performance. She has participated in international chamber music festivals and frequently organizes community recital projects.

A native Colombian, Ana Diaz Herrera focuses but not limited herself as an orchestra musician. Her musical education started at the Conservatorio del Tolima, in Ibague, Colombia. She established herself in Bogotá in 2010 and distributed her time playing in the two main orchestras in Bogota, Orquesta Sinfónica de Colombia and Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá; Ana has participated in orchestras in the United States and China, including the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, Meridian Symphony Orchestra, Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, University of Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Tianjin Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, Rutgers Symphony Orchestra.

In the Spring of 2019, she was appointed as the new violist of the Kahlo String Quartet which is based in the Philadelphia area. They were selected to participate in an Audience Engagement Intensive program at Carnegie Hall in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.

Ana holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern Mississippi, a master’s degree in Viola Performance from University of Delaware and in 2020 she joined the inaugural class of the Tianjin Juilliard School and completed a degree in Orchestral Studies with Professor Sheila Browne. Currently, she is pursuing her Doctoral degree in Viola Performance at Rutgers University where she is a student of Professor Daniel Panner.

Her music career has taken her from Colombia to different countries and given her the opportunity to perform and work in different stages around Europe, The United States, China and Colombia.

Ju Hyeon Kim, a native of South Korea, is an active solo cellist, chamber musician, and orchestra member. She has been invited to perform at the Heifetz Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Fontainebleau Music Festival, and Tanglewood Music Center. She came to the US after studying with Kyung-Ok Park in Korea while she was attending Sun-Wha Arts School and Sun-Wha Arts High School. She studied with Amit Peled at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University for her Undergraduate degree. After graduating from the Undergraduate degree, Ms. Kim pursued her Master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music under tutelage of Philippe Muller. Ms. Kim is currently pursuing a Doctorate degree at the Mason Gross School of Arts- Rutgers University studying with Jonathan Spitz. Ms. Kim is currently serving in the Delaware Symphony Orchestra as a section cello.

Ray Bohn is the principal bassist of Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra (NY), section bassist with Reading Symphony Orchestra (PA), instrumentalist at Saint Francis Parish on Long Beach Island (NJ), and is the ethnomusicologist adjunct professor at Rowan University. He began musical studies on trumpet at the age of seven and added the contrabass to his interests at age twelve. Dual Bachelor of Music degrees on contrabass and trumpet were completed in 2007 at Rowan University, where he studied with bassist, Douglas Mapp, and on trumpet with Dr. Bryan Appleby-Wineberg. He successfully auditioned to attend Manhattan School of Music on both instruments for a Masters of Music degree, but at which point focused on contrabass while studying with David Grossman of the New York Philharmonic. Afterwards, he enrolled at Stony Brook University, completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2017. Here, Dr. Bohn primarily studied with Kurt Muroki and focused on historical and modern tuning practices of the contrabass. He also intensely studied the compositional theories and techniques of Igor Stravinsky, culminating in numerous new arrangements for double bass and piano.

In addition to freelancing with numerous other orchestras, Dr. Bohn performs with diverse groups, such as The Wizard’s Consort, touring with Blackmore’s Night, and singer-songwriter, Sahara Moon.