Mary Pinto, an acclaimed accompanist and vocal coach, has worked with international opera singers and major American opera companies for the past 25 years. She serves as musical and artistic director at Opera at Florham. Ms. Pinto coached and served as rehearsal pianist for Metropolitan Opera star and international soprano Deborah Voigt as she prepared for the role of Brünhilde in Die Walkure, Siegfried, and Die Gotterdammerung for the Metropolitan Opera production of Wagner's ​Ring Cycle. She has also performed with Opera Noire's Ensemble in the American Embassy in Moscow and St. Petersburg and spent the past 3 summers coaching Masterclasses in Ischia in Italy. Mary has been the official accompanist for the Deborah Voigt International Competition in Vero Beach. ​Ms. Pinto has been a private coach and accompanist on the faculty of Montclair State University since 2007. In Fall 2018, she joined the adjunct faculty at SUNY Purchase College teaching Italian and French lyric diction, operatic styles, and coaching.

Stephen Scovasso is a musicologist, conductor, director, author, and soon to be Producer and Host of the Manhattan Neighborhood Network Cable program entitled "SAS Presents The Performing Arts.". He has directed operas including, Carmen, Tosca, La Bohème, Don Giovanni, Gianni Schicchi, Cosi fan Tutte as well operetta's such as The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus. He has also directed American Musical Theater pieces such as Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods and Bernstein’s Candide. In the dramatic theater, Stephen has directed Garcia Lorca’s La Casa del Bernarda Alba, Oscar Wilde’s Salome. In conjunction with SAS Performing Arts Company, he has produced and directed 6 full length virtual streams including Dracula: The Radio Play, Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as many virtual concerts and holiday concerts. Stephen studied Operatic and Symphonic conducting under the tutelage of the late Vincent La Selva. Among the works he has conducted are Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 in D minor, Handel’s Messiah, Puccini’s Tosca, and Mozart's Don Giovanni. During his years at Arizona State University, he taught classes on the Baroque Style, Opera, American Musical Theater, and Stephen Sondheim. Mr. Scovasso has also published a treatise on Puccini's Il Trittico and the end of Italian Opera

Dr. Gregory Hopkins appears as the Collaborative Pianist and courtesy of Antionio Watts. Gregory Hopkins was born and reared in Philadelphia, PA. He received his bachelors degree in voice from Temple University, master’s degree in opera from Curtis Institute of Music and doctoral degree in music from Belford University. Dr. Hopkins has won prizes in competitions including: The Verdi Prize in Busetto, Italy; Outstanding Tenor Award, Mantova, Italy; The Dealy Award and The Opera Index Grant. As a singer, pianist, organist, Choral conductor, teacher and clinician, Hopkins has traveled throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and The Middle East, with recent performances including The Cervantes Festival (Mexico), Orvieto Festival (Italy) and Umbria Festival (France). Dr. Hopkins serves The National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses as Director of Performance Ministries; The Hampton University Minister’s Conference as Recital Co-Coordinator; and Gospel Music Workshop of America as Vocal Consultant to the Men’s Department. He has been honored twice to prepare and present musicals for the National Baptist Convention, and was musical director for the NAACP’s Centennial Celebration. At Arkansas Baptist College’s EC Morris Institute he is Choral Clinician. For the Million Man March he was selected by Minister Farakahn to sing immediately following the address. As an educator , he has served on the faculties of: Community College of Philadelphia; Morgan State University; Westminster Choir College and NY Seminary of the East. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Voice at Howard University. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been Minister of Music for Harlem’s Convent Avenue Baptist Church. He is also Artistic Director for Harlem Opera Theater and Music Director for the Harlem Jubilee Singers and Cocolo Japanese Gospel Choir. He is a featured artist or more than 5 commercially released CD projects; one of which was nominated for a Grammy.