Working with Professionals
Eva Bronstein Barton
Born in Santiago, Chile, pianist Ena Bronstein Barton began her performing career in her native country. After graduating from Escuela Moderna de Música, and Universidad de Chile, she traveled to New York City to study with Claudio Arrau and Rafael de Silva.
Since then, Ms. Barton’s career has taken her across the United States, back to South America, to Europe, the Near and Far East, Australia and New Zealand, as solo recitalist, soloist with orchestras and chamber music performer. Her chamber music performances have included appearances with violinist Jaime Laredo and the Guarneri Quartet. Her piano partnership with pianist Phyllis Alpert Lehrer spans over 35 years.
As a teacher, she has been on the faculty at California State University, Fresno, she was artist-in-residence at Monterey Peninsula College in California and has conducted master classes at the University of Veracruz in Xalapa, Mexico, Santiago de Chile, Curitiba, Brazil, and Lima, Peru.
She has been a member of the piano faculty of Westminster Choir College of Rider University since 1983, and has been on the faculty of Westminster Conservatory since 1982, where she served as Piano Department Head for over thirty years.
Aiyanna Braun
Aiyana Braun is an acclaimed composer and educator who has received honors from the ASCAP Foundation, BMI Foundation, American Composers Forum, Copland House, and NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts. Her music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and featured on NPR’s From the Top, PBS’s On Stage at Curtis, and I Care if You Listen.TV. She debuted in the Kimmel Center’s Marian Anderson Hall (previously Verizon Hall), performing an original composition for the Marian Anderson Awards, honoring famed producer, director Norman Lear and poet Maya Angelou. Aiyana was commissioned at age 15 to write a piece for the New York Philharmonic, and has since worked with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (workshop led by John Adams), Berkeley Symphony, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and New York Youth Symphony, among others. Her primary mentors are Pulitzer and Grammy-winning composer Jennifer Higdon, Pulitzer Prize finalist and Grammy-winning composer Ted Hearne, and David Ludwig, the Dean of Music at The Juilliard School.
Victoria Browers
Victoria Browers is an American soprano whose career spans opera, recital, and chamber music, with performances at venues including the Roerich Museum in New York, the Stony Brook Chamber Music Festival, and Zipper Hall in Los Angeles. She has appeared in leading roles such as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Musetta in La Bohème, the Governess in The Turn of the Screw, and Younger Alyce in Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied, and has collaborated with artists including Khari Joyner, Randolph Bowman, JJ Penna, and Kristina Marinova.
Alongside her performing career, Victoria is committed to advancing vocal education. She is Artist Faculty at SongFest, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Voice at Westminster Choir College, and teaches in Rider University’s CoOPERAtive Program. She also serves as songSLAM Coordinator for Sparks & Wiry Cries, a global platform for art song.
Victoria is the founder and artistic director of PASSAGGIO, an immersive Salzburg-based initiative that integrates singing, language, and cultural exchange. As Assistant Teacher to Barbara Bonney, she brings this mentorship into PASSAGGIO, where Bonney also teaches. Through PASSAGGIO and collaborations with partners such as Presto Arts in China, Victoria is shaping innovative models of performance, pedagogy, and cross-cultural dialogue for the next generation of singers.
Vinroy Brown
VINROY D. BROWN, JR. holds credits in conducting, sacred music and music education. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sacred Music at Westminster Choir College, where he conducts the Westminster Jubilee Singers, teaches in the Baccalaureate Honors Program, is Founder & Curator of the university wide Celebration of Black Music and director of the Westminster Vocal Institute. He was recently a Lecturer of Music in the College of Communication & Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University where he developed their inaugural course in music and social justice. A church musician, he is minister of creative worship, music & arts at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New Yok. Maintaining an active conducting schedule, he artistic director and conductor of Capital Singers of Trenton.
He is a scholar on music of the Black experience, women, and living composers, facilitates cultural informant exchange, and explores the ways in which music can be used as a tool for social justice and anti-racism in diverse learning communities. He is published in the Choral Journal of the American Choral Directors Association and is a Contributing Author of Choral Repertoire by Women Composers. Brown is also the curator of the Black Psalmody Database, the first compendium of choral settings of the Psalter by Black composers. Professor Brown has presented for the National Conference of the American Choral Directors Association, National Collegiate Choral Organization, New Jersey Education Association and for Virginia, Georgia, Illinois and Maryland Music Education Association Conferences. He has lectured at the University of Miami, Millikin University, Kutztown University, Princeton University, Yale University, Rowan University, The University of Delaware and The College of New Jersey.
An active conductor, During the 2025-2026 season, Brown will headline the Millikin University Vocal Festival and the Rowan University Tenor-Bass Festival, serve as keynote speaker for the Rockland County Music Educators Association Conference, conduct Handel’s Messiah with the Abyssinian Cathedral Choir and New York Philharmonic, conduct the Margaret Bonds Credo with the Westminster Jubilee Singers and Randall Thompson’s The Testament of Freedom with Capital Singers of Trenton. As a performer, Brown was in the Netflix film, Maestro, starring Bradley Cooper, winning the 2025 Grammy Award for Soundtrack for Visual Media. Most notably, Brown served as Chorus Conductor for the world premiere performances of Omar by Rihannon Giddens and Michael Abels, which received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Professor Brown holds membership in the National Association for Music Education, National Alliance of Black School Educators, American Choral Directors Association, International Society for Black Musicians, National Collegiate Choral Organization and the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., for which he is national second vice president & director of membership and Chief Editor of EMERGENCE: Research & Performance Topics in Black Music, a scholarly publication which will be released this year. Brown is also a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, Inc. He holds the Master of Music in Choral Conducting degree from Temple University, where he was the recipient of the Elaine Brown Choral Award and the inaugural recipient of the Alan Harler Choral Award, the Master of Arts in Practical Theology degree from Regent University, and Bachelor of Music degrees in Sacred Music and Music Education from Westminster Choir College. Currently, Brown is a Sigma Alpha Phi scholar at Temple University where he is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Music Degree, Musicology concentration, with additional work in Africology & African American studies.
Michael Diorio
Director of Organ Study
Dr. Diorio earned degrees in organ performance, with piano and music history concentrations from Westminster Choir College, the Institute of Sacred Music and the School of Music at Yale University, and the College of Fine Arts at Boston University, respectively.
His principal teachers in organ were Eugene Roan, Martin Jean, and James David Christie. Continued organ studies in Paris with Vincent Warnier and Marie-Louise Langlais. Piano studies were with Philip Sbrolla and Phyllis Lehrer. Dr. Diorio served as a special project editor for Carus-Verlag (Stuttgart), by whom his dissertation is published as a first-edition of the "Missa Hyemalis" by Franz Xaver Richter. As a recitalist, Dr. Diorio has performed throughout the United States and in Europe, where he was presented with a citation for an outstanding public performance by the Mayor of Innsbruck. As an organist and choir director Dr. Diorio has held positions at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in the Diocese of New Jersey, Washington Memorial Chapel (Valley Forge, PA), and Church of the Redeemer (Bryn Mawr, PA). His compositions and arrangements are published by Carus, Paraclete Press, GIA, and Church Publishing.
Gillian Erlenborn
Gillian Erlenborn is the conductor of Handbell Choirs at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. She is a proud alumna of the Westminster Concert Handbell Choir, where she rang under the baton of Kathy Ebling Shaw. Gillian received both a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Westminster Choir College.
Gillian also serves as the Choral Director and Musical Theatre Teacher at Frelinghuysen Middle School, in Morristown, New Jersey. There, she teaches over two hundred students each year from diverse cultural and economic demographics. Gillian utilizes handbells and handchimes in her vocal ensemble curriculum to better engage her students in a full body and literacy-based musical education.
As a handbell clinician, Gillian travels throughout the country to share her expertise in using handbells and handchimes in the music classroom. She has taught at various state music education association conferences, national music education conferences, and online for both the Handbell Musicians of America and the National Association for Music Education.
For over ten years, she has also directed both the handbell choir and the children's choir at Middlebush Reformed Church in Middlebush, New Jersey. Gillian is proud to serve on the National Board of the Handbell Musicians of America.
Thomas Gaynor
A native of Wellington, New Zealand, Thomas Gaynor earned his undergraduate degree from the New Zealand School of Music while holding organ scholarships at the Wellington Anglican Cathedral of St. Paul and St. Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church.
In 2012 he moved to Rochester, New York, to study with David Higgs at the Eastman School of Music. He recently graduated with a DMA and Eastman’s highest honor, the Artist's Certificate. In 2017 Thomas was presented with the Gold Medal and Audience Prize at the St. Albans International Organ Competition. This followed first prizes at the Bach-Liszt Internationaler Orgelwettbewerb Erfurt/Weimar, the Sydney International Organ Competition, and the Fort Wayne National Organ Playing Competition. Thomas is the Assistant Organist and Choirmaster at Saint Mark’s Church in Philadelphia, where he directs the Saint Mark’s Singers and works with Robert McCormick, Organist & Choirmaster, to assist in direction of the Parish Choir and the Boy & Girl Choristers, and in leading all aspects of the busy music program.
Akiko Hosaki
Native of Osaka, Japan, pianist Dr. Akiko Hosaki is acclaimed for her sensitive playing, and one of the most sought-after collaborative pianists and vocal coaches in the New York – New Jersey area. She is currently on the faculty of Westminster Choir College of Rider University and The College of New Jersey.
Brought to the US by Dalton Baldwin, legendary collaborative pianist, Dr. Hosaki was his assistant at Académie internationale d'été de Nice, France, since 2013 until his passing in 2019, and was at Mozarteum Sommerakademie in 2017 and 2018. She was invited to give a master class in Hong Kong in 2016 and 2017. In 2024, she held a masterclass on Japanese Art Song and a concert in NYC as a part of “Summer of Art Song Festival 2024” hosted by Art Song Preservation Society of New York.
Dr. Hosaki has collaborated with regional opera companies such as the Princeton Festival Opera, the New Jersey State Opera, Opera North, and the Castleton Festival. In 2006 and 2007, she served as assistant conductor for Opera New Jersey, and was the music director for Romeo and Juliet with the Delaware Valley Opera Company in 2009, for which a review said, “She conjured up out of the piano nearly all the colors of Gounod’s orchestral score yet never overwhelmed her singers.” In her busy schedule, she still frequently works with Boheme Opera NJ and Opera Magnifico.
As accomplished accompanist/basso continuo player, Dr. Hosaki also enjoys working with conductors and instrumentalists, and frequently performs in chamber music concerts and the keyboard/basso continuo in orchestras. She was seen on the tours with the American Boychoir in the mid-west and southern states in the United States and Taiwan. In the instrumental world, she has performed at the World Saxophone Congress XIII, Tubonium2 and 3. She currently works with Jubilee Singers at Westminster with the conductor Vinroy D. Brown, Jr.
In addition to Westminster, she currently works as collaborative pianist at Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program. She is also the director of Westminster’s High School Vocal Solo Artist program.
Dr. Hosaki holds degrees from Musashino Academia Musicae in Japan, Westminster Choir College, and University of Minnesota.
David Leifer
Dr. David Leifer holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano and a Master of Music degree in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where he studied with Professor Lillian Livingston and Professor Ingrid Clarfield. While at Westminster, he was the winner of the 2004 Annual Westminster Piano Awards Competition, and had the honor of performing in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in 2007. He completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, where he studied piano and pedagogy with Dr. John Ellis.
Dr. Leifer is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music by the Music Teachers National Association. He currently holds the position of Adjunct Assistant Professor of Piano at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and maintains a private piano studio in Princeton, New Jersey. Most recently, he was honored as a recipient of the 2022 Top Teacher Award from Steinway & Sons. His students regularly perform successfully in studio recitals, as well as venues including Victor Borge Hall and Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York City. Additionally, Dr. Leifer's students consistently succeed in graded exams by the Royal Conservatory of Music. Alongside Dr. Leifer's teaching positions, he is the director of music at Allentown United Methodist Church in Allentown, New Jersey.
Pamela Stein Lynde
Praised for her “rich dramatics” (The Boston Globe) and called "Magnificent" by Fanfare Magazine, Pamela Stein Lynde is a versatile singer, composer, choral conductor and music educator. As a singer, Pamela has built a career working with contemporary composers of all levels, from students to internationally recognized artists. She has performed with Beth Morrison Projects, American Opera Projects, Rhymes With Opera, The Princeton Singers, Saratoga Fine Arts Festival, Yamaha Concert Artists series, New Music New Haven, and Unruly Sounds Festival. As a core member of conductor Martin Sedek's chamber choir Vocala Ensemble, she has premiered new works throughout the tristate area. She appears as a vocalist on minimalist composer Alexander Turnquist’s album Flying Fantasy, released on Western Vinyl, and on multiple albums of Princeton-based group Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, released on the new music label Carrier Records. Pamela is an alumna of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, The Bang on a Can Summer Institute at Mass MoCA, and OperaWorks. She was a 2017-2019 composer fellow with American Opera Projects Composers & the Voice Workshop. Her opera-in-progress, The Interaction Effect, has been workshopped and performed by Manhattan School of Music. Her music has been broadcast to audiences nation-wide on American Public Media’s Performance Today. Pamela's projects in new music have been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Robin Massie
Robin Leigh Massie has been Adjunct Assistant Professor of Voice at Rider for over 20 years. She received a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College and a Master of Music Degree in Voice/Opera Performance from Yale University. A native of Austin, Texas, she has established herself as a versatile artist in opera, concert and musical theatre. She made her New York City Opera debut as Flora in Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of The Screw. She has also performed with the Tulsa, Kentucky, Glimmerglass and Princeton Opera companies. In musical theatre, she performed the role of Jellylorum in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s CATS in Hamburg, Germany. She has also sung with the Bucks County, Pocono and Gateway Playhouses and toured South America singing the role of Christine in Ivan Jacobs’ The Phantom of the Opera.
In concert repertoire, Ms. Massie performed annually with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for 19 consecutive seasons in Yuletide Celebration. She has performed with the Utah Symphony Orchestra in Leonard Bernstein’s Mass for the farewell concert of Maestro Keith Lockhart, the MasterWorks Festival Orchestra in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, and with The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah. Other performances include the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, The Bucks County Choral Society and Mendelssohn’s i with The New York City Ballet. She is also featured as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Laudate Dominum on the 1996 Chesky Records recording Like As a Hart with Joseph Flummerfelt and the Westminster Choir.
In addition to Rider, Ms. Massie serves as Adjunct Faculty in Voice and Director of Opera Theater at Cairn University.
Rose McCathran, BM, MM, NCTM (she/her)
Pianist Rose McCathran is a teacher, professor, adjudicator, and performer who loves sharing her passion of music. She serves as a solo and collaborative artist and has given performances in the United States and Europe. Dedicated to teaching, she runs McCathran Piano Studio; a studio consisting of thirty-five students widely ranging in ages and levels. Her piano students have performed beautifully in studio recitals, won composition competitions, successfully fulfilled musicianship examinations, given full-length solo piano recitals, and enthusiastically participated in high level piano competitions and festivals, some of which have awarded her students solo and ensemble piano performances at Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York, at The Academy of Music of the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University. While several of her intermediate and advanced students have continued to study piano professionally in college as majors, minors, and participants in ensembles, all of her students have continued to enjoy and love music.
Rose has presented lectures and lecture recitals to undergraduate music majors at Harvard University, to graduate students at Westminster Choir College, to adult students at Westminster Conservatory of Music, and to open audiences in and around Princeton, New Jersey. One of her most recent presentations was entitled "Celebrating Female Composers of African Heritage in Western Classical Music", which featured the works of Florence Price, Nora Holt, Eva Jessye, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Julia Perry, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, and Nkeiru Okoye.
In October of 2022, Rose had the great honor of being a presenter at the Pedagogical Legacy Lecture and Masterclass honoring her pedagogical lineage with John Perry and Ingrid Clarfield. The program took place at Jacobs Music in Philadelphia and was cast in realtime to 6 locations around the US through Steinway's Spirio system. The program was again presented at the New Jersey Music Teachers Association State Conference in 2023.
With a great interest for science and medicine, Rose recently performed music of Mozart at a neuroscience lecture in New York City, where listening to Mozart's music was being discussed as a successful therapy treatment for epilepsy.
In demand as a piano adjudicator and clinician, Rose has served on the panels for The Greater Princeton Steinway Society, The Delaware Valley Music Club, and The New Jersey Music Teachers Association. A chorister as well, Rose has performed in the Westminster Choir and the Westminster Symphonic Choir at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and the Kimmel Center with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors.
Rose holds a Master of Music degree and a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where she studied under internationally renowned teacher and pianist Ingrid Clarfield. Rose is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) and has served on the distinguished faculty of the Westminster Choir College Piano Pedagogy Certificate Program, where she taught courses in piano technique. She also served as a member of the Artist Piano Faculty at the Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, New Jersey and at Shanti Bhavan School in Bangalore, India.
Rose's studio annually participates in the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Performathon, a series of piano recitals which work to help raise over $20,000 dollars a year. In 2023, Rose was honored as the recipient of the Top Teacher Award from Steinway & Sons. In 2025, one of Rose's piano students was awarded the remarkable honor of being a top winner, one of 25 chosen out of 7,000 applicants from around the world, at the Crescendo International Music Competition. Rose and her student accepted the invitation to participate in Crescendo's exchange program in Japan this past summer. The program allowed them to share their artistry on a global stage and to be immensely enriched by cultural and musical collaboration and experience.
Scott Allen Miller
Scott Allen Miller is a composer, music theorist, educator, and bassist in New York City. His music expresses fluidity of pitch and rhythm with unconventional performance techniques, evocative microtonal harmonies, and expressive lyricism. Miller writes instrumental and vocal works for performers across the U.S. including PinkNoise Ensemble, Nebula Ensemble, Spark Duo, loadbang, the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society, Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra, Occasional Symphony, and Omnibus Ensemble.
Miller’s recent teachers include Suzanne Farrin, Jason Eckardt, and Kevin Puts. He earned a PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center, working with Kofi Agawu on a dissertation on Kate Soper’s music. His research, which has been presented internationally, analyzes music of 20th and 21st century composers including Soper, Jacob Collier, Georg Friedrich Haas, and Luciano Berio, using theories of semiotics, microtonality, microrhythm, and (post)modernism. Miller teaches at the College of Staten Island and Westminster Choir College and enjoys performing new works for double bass.
Laura Montanari
Laura Montanari is a singer/songwriter and music educator from Umbria, Italy. Her research focuses on embodied ways of learning, body music, and the relationship between songs and history, specifically on how songs can serve as primary sources and reveal different cultural perspectives and non-hegemonic historical discourses. Her career as a singer-songwriter has informed her pedagogy and scholarship, relying on songwriting and arts-based methodologies to access different ways of knowing, an approach she shared with her NYC students during her 12-year tenure as a K-8 general music teacher.
A Postdoc Fellow in Music Education at Montclair State University, Dr. Montanari holds an Ed.D. in Music & Music Education from Teachers College (Columbia University); a Master’s in Music Education from NYU; a Master’s in American Studies from Sapienza Università di Roma; and a diploma in Jazz Vocal Performance from St. Louis College of Music (Rome, Italy). In 2022, she self-published her first children’s book, “Let’s Make Our Sound”. Her original music is published under the pseudonym Larthia.
Martin Néron
Dr. Martin Néron is a collaborative pianist, diction specialist, and teacher of Vocal Coaching and French Mélodie at Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
Dr. Néron is Artistic Director of the Vocalis Consort and co-founder and co-artistic director of the Federation of the Art Song, organizations dedicated to expanding and diversifying the song repertoire through performance, competition, and education. He has guided initiatives that commission new works, broaden the canon through inclusive programming, and feature recurring collaborations with recitalists such as Metropolitan Opera tenor Paul Appleby and the late American art-song pioneer Paul Sperry. In 2021 he spearheaded the Canto Latino CyberChallenge, an international competition celebrating Latin American vocal repertoire, created as a one-time response to the pandemic to sustain opportunities for singers and pianists.
A committed advocate of culturally responsive practice, Dr. Néron has arranged Quechua, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, and Catalan folk melodies, approaching each project with a sense of stewardship that honors source communities. His scholarship on the ethics of adapting Indigenous music—illustrated through his Cuatro canciones Incaicas—has been presented in lecture-recitals and invited talks at the Longy School of Music, the College Music Society International Conference in Bogotá, and the International Congress of Voice Teachers in Toronto.
He has appeared as a guest artist and lecturer at institutions including Harvard and Tufts Universities, Princeton University, the University of Kentucky, SUNY Potsdam, The College of New Jersey, Rowan, Butler, and Ohio State Universities, Washington State and Tennessee Tech Universities, and Ecuador’s Universidad Central and Fundación Cultural Armonía. From 2019 to 2021 he served on the faculty of the Taos Opera Institute, and from 2017 to 2019 he was Vice-President of the Joy in Singing Foundation.
A recognized authority on lyric diction and art-song interpretation, Dr. Néron is the author of Francis Poulenc: Selected Song Texts (Leyerle Publishing) and more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of Singing. His performances and recordings span classical, crossover, and world music, including collaborations with Grammy Award–winning and -nominated artists such as the Shanghai Quartet, Victor Prieto, and members of the Silk Road Ensemble. His discography ranges from French mélodie to Greek contemporary art songs and global lullabies, and his artistry has been praised by Opera News for its attentiveness and depth.
Dr. Néron holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music, a Master of Music from Westminster Choir College, and a Bachelor of Music from the Université de Montréal.
Chris Schimpf
Chris Schimpf is a musician and woodworker with international experience in performance and teaching, as well as the owner of a bustling home remodeling business and piano tuning service. He is a graduate of Westminster Choir College, receiving Master’s degrees in Piano Performance and Musicology. Chris enjoys exploring music with his students, making pianos sound and feel their best, and designing and building custom cabinetry.
Todd Thomas
Todd Thomas is recognized by opera companies and critics alike as one of the true Verdi baritones gracing stages today, Todd Thomas continues his tenure as one of America’s most sought-after baritones. In an international stage career spanning more than four decades, the artist continues to earn accolades from the public and press alike. In the title role of Macbeth, Opera News depicted his performance as “warm and centered in his tone with subtle phrasing that emphasized the introspective, almost poetic quality of the tormented king.” Performing the role of Iago in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s season opening performance of Verdi’s Otello “earned him deservedly the largest ovation at the end of the night from the glittery opening night audience...” (The Chicago Classical).
Early in his career, Mr. Thomas was a member of the MusikTheater Ensemble for Stadttheater Giessen. During his years in Europe, he was a guest artist in Basel, Switzerland and Heidelberg, Germany, and made his début with Macedonia Opera as Amonasro in Aida. Mr. Thomas also appeared in Hong Kong, Fiesole, Pisa, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Sarlat, Luzerne, and Utrecht, under the auspices of Stichting Pagliacci of Utrecht University.
He is currently on faculty of the Westminster Choir College at Rider at Rider University. He is a Frequent clinician and guest master teacher at universities, conservatories and Young Artists Programs.
Mr. Thomas can be heard on the Naxos recording of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. He also recorded a solo album, Crown Him Lord of All, with organist Jon Spong.