People

Jessica Corbin, Artistic Director

Jessica Corbin, Founding Director of Bella Voce SingersJessica Corbin is happy to be celebrating her ninth season as Artistic Director of the Bella Voce Singers.  A graduate of Indiana University and Duquesne University, Jessica currently works as a free-lance accompanist and conductor in and around New York City.  She also 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 the newly-formed Five Words In A Line arts proect.  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
  • Kerri Angell
  • Keiko Asakawa-Golden
  • Linda Bailey
  • Elizabeth Balogh
  • Ruth Bodenhorn
  • Li Chakravarty
  • Melanie Curcio
  • Marissa D'amato
  • Sohini Das
  • Ali Dawson
  • Margaret diZerega
  • Michele Elefant
  • Denise Ganjou
  • Tracey Greenspan
  • Sandy Greer
  • Peg Haller
  • Carole Harris
  • Nancy Hernandez
  • Helen Kapstein
  • Beth Kleber
  • Anne Kostick
  • Dea Kotthaus
  • Rachel Leventhal
  • Fran Levy
  • Judy Lipshutz
  • Michele Lombardo
  • Audrey Pico
  • Claire Rodriguez
  • Margaret Schilling
  • Sarah Strauss
  • Alex Strelow
  • Joanna Weiner

Board Members

  • Sohini Das
  • Margaret diZerega
  • Melissa Grober
  • Nancy Hernandez
  • Birgit Kiernan
  • Rachel Leventhal
  • Margaret Schilling
  • Catherine Tomasi
  • Joanna Weiner