Performers
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!
Miranda Bergmeier, Soprano
Miranda Harris Bergmeier, originally from Brooklyn, Connecticut, now lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. Miranda began her vocal study in high school and continued with a major in Music at Bryn Mawr College, cultivating a particular love of early and Baroque music. She has performed as a soloist and chorister with a variety of groups in the area, including Counterpoint, Vermont Chamber Artists, Thetford Chamber Singers, the Randolph Singers, and Sounding Joy!, and The Big Moose Bach Festival in Gorham, New Hampshire. This is Miranda’s first concert with GMMEV and she is delighted to participate in sharing this wonderful music.
Amy Frostman, Alto
Amy Frostman grew up in Moretown, Vermont, where she attended Harwood Union High School. While there, she performed in numerous school musicals and choral festivals. In 1999, she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She moved back to Vermont and began her career teaching general music at Orchard Elementary School in South Burlington, where she can still be found sharing her love of music with children. She has sung with numerous local groups, including Counterpoint, Simple Gifts, Oriana, the VSO Chorus, South County Chorus, and In Accord. Amy has appeared as a featured soloist with the Hinesburg Artist Series, the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra, and the VSO Pops. For the past fifteen years, Amy has enjoyed singing the alto arias in the Rutland Area Chorus' annual "Messiah". She frequently cantors at St. John Vianney Catholic Church. She resides in South Burlington with her husband Dan, and their kids, Sam and Max.
Carolyn Morton, Alto
Carolyn has enjoyed singing with a variety of choirs and ensembles in Vermont for over 30 years. A self-described “highly-motivated amateur singer” her love of classical music dates back to her college days working at the University of Connecticut Music Library where she spun LPs and checked out scores to the conducting and voice students. Though her training was in the visual arts at UConn she spent as much time possible soaking up all the musical offerings available, everything from student solo tuba recitals to world-class symphony concerts. She has toured with Vermont’s Village Harmony and is currently singing with Onion River Chorus and the Burlington Choral Society. Her real love is Early Music and for the past ten years she has organized Renaissance Sings with Dick Riley, a non-performing group from the Montpelier/Burlington area and beyond. By day she is a semi-retired painting contractor.
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.
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, Baritone
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.
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.
Lindsey Warren, soprano, Co-Director (on leave for this program)
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.