JUSTIN SIMONE Chorale Accompanist
E. Justin Simone is an award-winning collaborative pianist, vocal and instrumental coach, music theorist, and financial planner based out of Providence, RI. He received his degrees from American University (B.A.), the Cleveland Institute of Music (M.M.), and the University of North Texas (Ph.D.). He is in demand as a Music Director for opera and musical theater productions at the professional, college, and high school levels. He is also an adjudicator for Honors/All-State ensembles. He served as Assistant Director and répétiteur under acclaimed choral conductor Dr. André J. Thomas and has provided his educational and musical services to numerous institutions and festivals throughout the world, including the Aspen Music Festival and School, American Institute of Musical Studies, the Franco-American Vocal Academy, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Amherst Early Music Festival, and the Thomas A. Dorsey Gospel Institute. Among his notable performing venues are the White House, Blues Alley, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Washington National Cathedral, Severance Hall, Rhode Island State House, Amica Mutual Pavilion, Wales Millennium Centre (U.K.), Auditorium del Suffragio (Italy), Château de Losse (France), Minoritensaal (Austria), and Moscow and St. Petersburg Conservatories (Russia). E. Justin frequently performs concert series dedicated to complete oeuvres of specific composers, including most recently Rock the Rach’: The Simone-Rachmaninoff Project, a three-year project of the complete songs and chamber works of Sergei Rachmaninoff. In addition to his music career, E. Justin is the Founder of the Rhode Island Wiffle Ball League (est. 1996) and is a Certified Financial Planner™ and Wealth Management Advisor.
BRANDON SANTINI Chamber Chorus Accompanist
Brandon Santini, organist and pianist, is a native of Weymouth, MA. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in both orga
n and piano performance from the Oberlin Conservatory where he studied with James David Christie and Peter Takács and subsequently received his Master of Music degree in organ performance from the Eastman School of Music under the guidance of David Higgs. Further private study was with Christian Lane and the Boston Organ Studio. He was a finalist in the 2017 Canadian International Organ Competition and the 2022 Québec Organ Competition. Currently he serves as the Music Director and Organist for St. Theresa of Avila Parish in West Roxbury, MA, teaches piano both privately and at the South Shore Conservatory, and is the Music Director for the Franklin High School Theater Company.
