Adriana Repetto, soprano

Adriana Repetto’s voice has been described by critics as “…radiant tones sung from the heart” (Munich), and as having a “melting bloom” (Thomas Garvey, The Hub Review).  As soprano soloist, she has performed in Germany and Italy in the passions and cantatas of Bach, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Paulus, Händel’s Messiah and Haydn’s Creation, among others.  At the ‘Festival of Sacred Music’ in Lucca, Italy, Adriana was featured as Dalila in Händel’s Samson.  Regionally, she has sung and/or recorded with Philovox, King’s Chapel Singers, Longwood Opera, Cappella Clausura, and Boston Secession.  An avid recitalist, she has concertized in Europe and the U.S., presenting traditional works with a focus in Spanish repertoire as well as world premieres of works by composer Erik Gustafson. Boston audiences have also seen her as the Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, as well as Mary Elizabeth O’Brien in the Boston premiere of Diet Monologues: The Musical (Monica Bauer).  She is a native Bostonian and a graduate of both Oberlin College and Conservatory, with a Master of Music in voice from Boston University.

Currently, she is soprano soloist at Boston’s Old South Church (Copley Square), serves on the voice faculties of Emerson College, Middlesex School and Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School, and manages her own voice studio.  In 2012, Adriana will release her first solo ‘alternative’ holiday CD, The Irrational Season, exploring the Marian experience of the nativity.  Included will be commissioned songs by Gustafson on spiritual texts of Madeleine L’Engle.  

Marjorie Gere, violin

Marjorie Gere, violinist, is an Iowan living in Somerville, MA. She builds her life and work around meaningful, complex, long-term, collaborative projects with idealistic artists and thinkers from a wide variety of backgrounds. In collaboration with composer/pianist Dan Sedgwick, she has performed violin/piano recitals, composed puppet shows, pop songs and rounds, and organized An Exciting Event, an unwieldy and wacky chamber ensemble of musician/puppeteers.

Through the organization musiConnects, Marjorie teaches violin and chamber music to students at the Chittick Elementary School in Mattapan, MA, and performs as member of the Boston Public Quartet. She also teaches music, leads workshops in puppetry, music, and creative writing at the Charlestown Working Theater. Between 2002-2005, as a two-time fellow of the US State Department's Cyprus-America Scholarship Program and representative of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in New Hampshire, Marjorie conducted action research in reconciliation through music, as it applies to the Cyprus peace process.

Marji received a Master’s in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Bachelor’s degrees in Music and English from the University of Iowa, where she studied violin and chamber music with Annette-Barbara Vogel, the Maia Quartet, and the late Leopold LaFosse.

Jason Amos, viola

Jason Amos began his viola studies at age eleven through the public schools in his hometown of Southfield, MI.  He has received honors in several competitions including 4th place in the 2007 Sphinx Competition and 1st place in the 2006 Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Bradlin Scholarship Concerto Competition. He has also performed as the featured young artist of the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings. After undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan where he served as co-principal violist of the University Symphony Orchestra for all four years, Mr. Amos received a Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory of Music.  He has appeared as soloist with the Ann Arbor Symphony, played in the Flint Symphony, and has played principal viola for many other orchestras throughout Michigan as well as the Aspen Sinfonia.  During the summers, Jason has enjoyed serving as faculty for the Sphinx Performance Academy and the Four Strings Academy (Lexington, MA), as well as mentoring the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Jason has had the honor of studying primarily with Martha Strongin Katz, Yizhak Schotten, Caroline Coade, and Catherine Carroll.  Mr. Amos completed the Fellowship program at Community MusicWorks in Providence, RI. While there, he collaborated with the Providence String Quartet toward the organization’s goal of transforming communities through chamber music-based youth development programs. Mr. Amos also teaches at Project STEP in Boston, MA.  Jason has served as violist and resident musician at MusiConnects and Boston Public Quartet since 2010.

Betsy Hinkle, violin

Violinist Betsy Hinkle has been performing and teaching in Boston since graduating from the New England Conservatory in 2001 with a Masters in Violin Performance. She founded the Boston Public Quartet and the non-profit organization musiConnects in 2007. musiConnects and the BPQ are pioneering a new model for public music education and performance that unites youth, families and musicians around the shared intention of building a strong, thriving community. Ms. Hinkle performs regularly with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, and the Back Bay Chorale. Major teachers and coaches include Nicholas Kitchen, the Borromeo String Quartet, Peter Zazofsky, Dan Stepner, and Lenny Matczynski. Visit www.musiconnects.org for more information.