People

Jessica Corbin, Artistic Director

Jessica Corbin, Founding Director of Bella Voce SingersJessica Corbin is happy to be celebrating her 11th season as Artistic Director of the Bella Voce Singers.  A graduate of Indiana University and Duquesne University, Jessica currently works as a free-lance conductor and accompanist in and around New York City, and also serves as an adjunct professor at Kingsborough Community College.  She has extensive teaching experience, having served as an Associate Instructor in the Music Theory Department at Indiana University, Director of Musical Activities at the Maryland School for the Blind, teacher in the vocal music department at F. H. La Guardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, and teacher of piano, chorus and theory at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.  She is very active in conducting and performing new music in the New York City area, including working with Five Words in a Line and the Art on the Corner series in Brooklyn.  As an accompanist, she regularly works with area choirs, theater groups, and vocal classes, including those at New York University and Kingsborough Community College.  She teaches private piano and theory lessons, and resides with her family in Brooklyn.

Keiko Asakawa-Golden, Accompanist

Keiko Asakawa-Golden, Assistant Director and Accompanist for Bella Voce Singers

Keiko Asakawa-Golden is an active pianist who collaborates with instrumentalists, choirs and singers in concerts, recitals and recordings. She has been the accompanist for Bella Voce Singers since 2003. As a soloist, she has played with the Eastern Arizona Community Orchestra, N-kyou Danyu Orchestra, Bulgarian Hall Chamber Orchestra, Varna Philharmonic and Brooklyn Conservatory Orchestra. Ms. Golden also gives workshops and lecture-recitals on piano pedagogy and accompanying techniques. She holds a B.M. and M.M. in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University. She lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and teaches piano privately.

Choir Members

  • Pepa Anastasio
  • Keiko Asakawa-Golden
  • Linda Bailey
  • Elizabeth Balogh
  • Mary Burke
  • Phyllis Capello
  • Heather Chin
  • Sadra Christianson
  • Melanie Curcio
  • Sohini Das
  • Margaret diZerega
  • Anne Donlon
  • Michele Elefant
  • Suzie Eskelund
  • Amanda Farley
  • Denise Ganjou
  • Eci Garavito-Bruhn
  • Heather Gaw
  • Sandy Greer
  • Peg Haller
  • Carole Harris
  • Nancy Hernandez
  • Debbie Hoodiman
  • Julia Hurn
  • Helen Kapstein
  • Beth Kleber
  • Maya Kopytman
  • Anne Kostick
  • Dea Kotthaus
  • Rachel Leventhal
  • Fran Levy
  • Judy Lipshutz
  • Michele Lombardo
  • Isabel Martin
  • Meredith McMillen
  • Chantel Mead
  • Mirana Moore
  • Audrey Pico
  • Valerie Price Ervin
  • Jaime Quackenbush
  • Rachel Radin
  • Lucia Rojas
  • Margaret Schilling
  • Susie Shuttleworth
  • Erica Stoltz
  • Samara Strauss
  • Elaine Suben
  • Susan Sukenik
  • Suzie Syta
  • Joanna Weiner
  • Elizabeth Woodhouse