Olivia Chen

Olivia Chen studies Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she grew up singing in school choirs and playing the violin and piano. At the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, she continued to study the piano with Mr. Fabio Witkowski, and had opportunities to participate in the Amalfi Coast Music Festival, compete in state competitions, and perform with the school orchestra. She also took up the organ with Mr. Al Sly in 2010, and contributed to Hotchkiss theatre as a music director. At Harvard, Olivia studied with Mr. Christian Lane and sang with the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum from 2012 to 2014. Looking forward, Olivia aspires to become an urban planner and address pressing environmental and social needs in cities of the global south. Playing the piano and organ will always be her treasured pastimes.

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Danielle Craan

Originally from Chicago, Danielle Craan is a graduate of Tufts University with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a Chinese minor. She has played piano off and on since she was six with three piano teachers in her neighborhood. In high school, she performed with Concert Piano and competed in several Illinois Music Association piano competitions. She started studying organ with Christian her last semester of senior year and learned two pieces: Arabesque Op. 31 by Louis Vierne and Johann Pachelbel’s Toccata in E minor.  She was honored to have played at Old West church in Boston and played on the Newberry organ at Woolsey Hall. She expects to continue with the organ (eventually). Looking to the future, she hopes to work with refugee and immigrant populations and maybe go back to school. For her, playing the organ will always be a treasured memory of her last year at Tufts. 

Adam Detzner

Adam Detzner is a graduate with honors and distinction from Stanford University (B.A. in Music, 2014), where he studied organ with Dr. Robert Huw Morgan and harpsichord with Elaine Thornburgh. After graduation, he served as Organ Scholar at Trinity Church, Copley Square (Boston) during the 2014-2015 program year, as the inaugural recipient of the Association of Anglican Musicians Internship Grant. He is currently a Masters student in Organ Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music, studying under David Higgs. Recent concert highlights include a performance of an organ concerto by C.P.E. Bach with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra.

Joey Fala

Joey Fala is pursuing a M.M. in organ at Yale, studying with Martin Jean. A native of Hawaii, he began organ studies with Katherine Crosier at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu and later coached with Alfred Fedak and Christian Lane during his undergraduate career. Joey previously served as organist and choir director at First United Presbyterian Church in Troy NY as well as organ scholar at Central Union Church Honolulu, and is grateful to have received support from the AGO Hawaii Chapter, Eastern New York Chapter and Pogorzelski-Yankee memorial scholarships. A 2015 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B. Architecture and M.S. Lighting, he has worked as a designer with HLB Lighting in Boston, and in research at the Lighting Research Center in Troy.

Joseph Fort

Joseph Fort was appointed College Organist & Director of the Chapel Choir and Lecturer in Music at King’s College London in 2015. He holds a PhD from Harvard University. Fort is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, where he was the Organ Scholar of Emmanuel College, and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music.

During his time in the US, Fort conducted several Boston-area choirs, and for four years was Resident Conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. He is in demand as a chorus master, preparing choirs for John Eliot Gardiner and Roger Norrington, and has recorded and broadcast on UK and US radio. As an organist, recital venues include St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, and he was a guest organist for the inauguration of Harvard University’s new Fisk organ.

Fort is currently writing a book on Joseph Haydn’s minuets, and recent conference presentations include the American Musicological Society and Mozart Society of America.

Gianmarco Massameno

Gianmarco Massameno is a Connecticut native and Harvard alumnus who plays classical pipe organ recreationally. As an undergraduate, he was an active member of the arts at Harvard, joining the Organ Society and touring with the Collegium-Musicum. As a graduate student, he also toured with the Glee Club, America's oldest collegiate choir. He is currently a principal and cofounder of a manufacturing startup in Connecticut and writes on issues at the nexus of law and management.

Adriana Pohl

Adriana Pohl studied organ with Chris while she was an undergraduate at Harvard University, where she studied Human Evolutionary Biology and sang with the Harvard University Choir and Choral Fellows.  She is currently pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science through Simmons College, and lives in the Twin Cities area, where she sings with the Minnesota Chorale and the Basilica of St. Mary Cathedral Choir and Schola Cantorum.  She has a passion for early music, but her other hobbies and interests include knitting, contra dancing, and anything and everything relating to Star Wars, Star Trek, and the Marvel Universe.

Jessica Rucinski

A Boston-area native, Jessica has participated as pianist, music director, and/or coach in 20 operatic productions. These include all three Mozart-Da Ponte operas with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras as well as student and professional productions in Boston and at festivals including the Aspen Music Festival and Music Academy of the West. As a Vocal Piano Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, she was a pianist and coach for the American premiere of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin in 2013. Also in 2013, she served as President of the Harvard Early Music Society, producing and music directing performances of Bach’s “Coffee Cantata” and Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She returned to Harvard to music direct Acis and Galatea in December of 2014. As a collaborative pianist, Jessica has played in master classes or coached with Marilyn Horne, Kiri te Kanawa, Anne Sofie von Otter, Dawn Upshaw, and Martin Katz, among others. She served as interim music director and organist at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston from 2013 until moving to Berlin in 2016. She currently works as a software engineer for Wayfair.com. 

Yasmin Sachee

Yasmin is currently an undergraduate student at Harvard University and began her organ studies in the U.K. under Ann Elise Smoot. After being appointed student Organ Scholar at St Paul's Girls' School and St John's Wood Church in London, she served as assistant organist and choir director, and is very grateful for the support and coaching that she received from a young age from Simon Weale. Yasmin studies Social Studies at Harvard with a citation in Mandarin. 

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