Performers

Lindsey Warren, soprano
Lindsey Warren enjoys a career of live performance and studio work. She specializes in Early Music, though enjoys singing music of all styles and genres.  Lindsey also enjoys teaching private voice and piano lessons to students of all ages. She received a M.M. from McGill University in Montreal and a B.M. from Furman University in Greenville, S.C., both in vocal performance. She has also attended Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute. She has taught for McGill University's Music Theory department as well as voice lessons at Johnson State college. When not teaching or performing, Lindsey enjoys giving workshops on chant, meditation, and Hildegard of Bingen. Lindsey is a founding member of GMMEV and also plays harpsichord and sings with Atlantis Baroque, an ensemble that performs annually in England as well as in New England.

Molly Clark, Soprano
Molly Clark is the choral teacher at Harwood Union High School. She is also the music director for the Chandler Music Hall Annual Youth Musical and has performed in and music directed local adult theater productions. As a soloist, conductor, and choir member, Molly has performed with the VSOC, the Gettysburg College Choir and Camerata, the Randolph Singers, and other community choirs in VT and PA. Molly received her Bachelors of Music Education from the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. After taking some time away from performing to focus on her teaching career, Molly is thrilled to be singing with the Green Mountain Monteverdi Ensemble of Vermont! 

​​Carolyn Dickinson, Alto
   

Erik Nielsen, Tenor
As a composer, Erik Nielsen has created works for chorus, orchestra, wind ensemble, solo instruments, chamber music, works for dance, film and electronic music. His pieces have been performed all over the world. In September 2015, his opera, A Fleeting Animal, a collaboration with poet/playwright David Budbill that premiered in 2000, was performed in a newly revised edition to great acclaim in six locations in Vermont. Recent commissions include A Voice in the Night, a four-movement work for bassoon and piano, written for William Short, co-principal bassoonist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Bryan Wagorn, pianist and assistant conductor at The Met; Fanfare in B Flat, commissioned by the Vermont Symphony for their 80th anniversary, Glimpses of Azure, commissioned by the Boston string orchestra, A Far Cry; The Crane Maiden for chamber ensemble, narrator and three actors; Trajectory of Flight for mezzo-soprano and strings; and his Quartet for Strings #2.  As a singer, Mr. Nielsen has performed throughout New England and various locations across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom as a tenor soloist, member of the trio Tres Voces and various touring ensembles. Mr. Nielsen lives in Brookfield, Vermont.​

Ryan Matos, Tenor
Tenor Ryan Matos sings to connect deeply with the text, pluck audiences’ heartstrings, and have fun. He is a passionate interpreter of baroque music on both concert and operatic stages. Recent seasons have included performances with Ensemble L’Harmonie des saisons, Bach Collegium San Diego, Philharmonia Baroque, Oregon Bach Festival, and Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. Equally at home with contemporary repertoire, Ryan has undertaken several premieres as a soloist, such as Brian Baumbusch’s The Pressure at Other Minds Festival 2019. An art song fanatic, Ryan was personally selected by Malcolm Martineau for his art song residency in Scotland in 2018, and has performed song repertoire for Julius Drake, Dame Felicity Lott, Graham Johnson, and Isabel Bayrakdarian. In 2017, he gave a series of recitals in Italy with duo partner Peter Shepherd featuring works by Tosti, Barber, and Schubert.

Adam Hall, Tenor
​Tenor Adam Hall has returned to Vermont after leaving to study voice at the George Washington University and opera at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been contracted with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, St. Petersburg Opera and many other fine companies, performing roles such as Duca di Mantua (Rigoletto), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Ernesto (Don Pasquale) and Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), among others. As recipient of an encouragement award from the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Mr. Hall was accepted to the Music Academy of the West, where he studied and worked with Marilyn Horne and Warren Jones. In addition to performing the role of Tommy in Erik Nielsen's A Fleeting Animal, he sings regularly with Counterpoint, the Burlington Choral Society, Vermont Chamber Artists and many other local groups. Mr. Hall currently resides in Burlington, where he sings locally and abroad, runs the music program at First United Methodist Church of Burlington and teaches voice at the University of Vermont, St. Michael's College and Harwood Union High School.

Nathaniel Lew, Tenor and co-director
Raised in Larchmont, New York, Nathaniel G. Lew has been singing seriously since the age of twelve, when he sang the treble solos in Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols with the Juilliard Pre-College Chorus. His voice then changed, but, undaunted, he went on to sing tenor with the Yale University Glee Club, the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, and the Chamber Chorus of the University of California, Berkeley, incidentally picking up degrees from the same institutions. This inordinately long education culminated with a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from UC Berkeley, after which he had to seek gainful employment. In the decade he spent in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nathaniel sang with the Philharmonia Chorale and Volti and served as director of Ars Subtilior Medieval Vocal Ensemble, Vox Populi Renaissance Vocal Ensemble, the UC Berkeley Chorus, the Chorus of Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, and the Choir of Montclair Presbyterian Church. Nathaniel is currently Artistic Director of the Vermont-based vocal ensemble Counterpoint and Professor Music and Director of the Honors Program at St. Michael’s College in Colchester.

Tevan Goldberg, Baritone

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Jeffrey Buettner, Bass
Jeffrey Buettner, DMA is Director of Choral Activities and Christian A. Johnson Professor of Music at Middlebury College, where he conducts the Middlebury College Choir and teaches conducting, vocal ensemble performance, and the first-year seminar “Singing Communities.” Jeff’s teaching explores music engagement as pedagogy, and students in his ensembles and courses perform and engage in local community and school settings. He co-founded the Middlebury Bach Concerts, directs the annual Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas at Middlebury, and collaborates on programs including music for college services, vocal music and dance, Middlebury Celtic Concerts, and United for Ukraine. Jeff is organist and Acting Director of Music at the Congregational Church of Middlebury. Jeff promotes folk and traditional music as a singer and instrumentalist, and plays bodhrán, trichordo bouzouki, accordion and guitar. Jeff’s arrangements and compositions include American folk, neo-traditional and popular styles, and music for organ.

Stephen Falbel, Bass, Director
Stephen Falbel has been active as a singer since high school and has performed with a wide range of choruses, from the 120-voice Tanglewood Festival Chorus to the Alba Quintet. He studied voice for many years in the Boston area and performed and recorded with professional ensembles such as the Boston Camerata and the Handel & Haydn Society. His solo work includes opera and oratorio, with recent performances in the Middlebury Bach Festival, numerous roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and the roles of Sarastro in The Magic Flute and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro with Echo Valley Community Arts. Stephen has been a member of Counterpoint since moving to Vermont in 2005.