Pianist Robert Fleitz’s repertoire combines bold works by living composers with rare corners of the standard repertory. Called a “fine soloist” by the New York Times for his performance of Michio Mamiya’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the New Juilliard Ensemble, he has premiered dozens of works and performed with ensembles around the country. Passionate about drawing new audiences and empowering young musicians, he has helped organize arts outreach trips to New Orleans, Louisiana and Arusha, Tanzania. With bassoonist David A. Nagy, he is also the co-founder of the Resonant Grounds Initiative, an educational and performance based project dedicated to fostering collaboration and creativity in young musicians through the proliferation and practice of contemporary music. He is also a composer, and his children's musical Campfire Songs is set to premiere in Spring 2016. He was born in Lakeland, Florida, where his father taught him piano from age 4. He now studies with Julian Martin at the Juilliard School.

Chelsea Feltman, soprano, was recently praised by the New York Classical Review for “...singing beautifully and inhabiting the sweetness of sincerity of the role” of Monica in Menotti’s The Medium, calling her performance “magnetic.” She has studied and performed at Tanglewood, Académie International d’Eté in Nice, La Lingua Della Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy, as Gretel in San Jose, Costa Rica, and as Gilda in a scenes concert at the Härnösand Opera Academy in Sweden.

Chelsea is an alumna of The Juilliard School, where she completed her undergraduate studies, and Mannes College of Music, where she received her master’s degree and was a member of the Mannes Opera Program for two years. Her performances credits include the roles of Tytania in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Second Woman in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (both with the Juilliard Opera Workshop), Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia under the baton of Joseph Colaneri (both with Mannes College). An avid performer of new music, she has sung the works of Del Tredici with Mo. Lowell Liebermann and the Mannes American Composers Ensemble, and performed the New York premiere of Melissa Dunphy's Tesla’s Pigeon with The Secret Opera. Equally at home in oratorio, she recently appeared as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Metro Chamber Orchestra. Later this season she teams up with The Secret Opera again, as Frasquita in Carmen.

In addition to performing, Chelsea is a founding director of The Secret Opera, an innovative opera company dedicated to politically and socially relevant readings of new and classic works. From 2011-2014, she served as a co-director of Art Powers Arusha, an arts-empowerment program bringing workshops to underserved youth in Arusha, Tanzania.