Steve has been singing and conducting Renaissance music since college, where he met classmate Alex Blachly (Pomerium founder) in 1962, and they founded and directed the Renaissance Choir of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges (which still exists).  Other groups he has directed include: Vassar Madrigal Singers, Renaissance Chorus of NY, Canby Singers, NY Madrigal Singers, Polyhymnia, and most recently, Music Divine, which he founded in 2005.  He enjoys the rest of his time with Erica, his wife of 55 years, and his son, daughter and four grandchildren, who all live less than an hour away.  On his own he runs competitively, plays tennis and frisbee, and gardens too vigorously for his own good. With Erica he spends as much time as possible traveling in Europe--mainly all over France and Italy, most recently in Bologna, where the photo was shot.

Angelica has been singing with Polyhymnia for almost 10 years, and has been singing with various ensembles and churches around NYC for 15 years, specializing in early music. She has sung with Florigelium, Sing We Enchanted and Long Island Opera Night in recent concerts in the area, and has toured in France and Italy. She has also worked as a private voice, piano and music theory teacher for children and adults in the NYC area and Paris.

Olivia Grugan has appeared with the Forest Hills Choir, Astoria Choir, Sacred Chorale of Richmond Hill, Oratorio Society of Queens, Great Neck Choral Society, and the Mannes Baroque Ensemble. Her concert repertoire includes Messiah, Petite Messe Solennelle, Lord Nelson Mass, The Creation, Ein Deutsches Requiem, Elijah, and the Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio. Festival appearances include the AIMS Lieder Festival in Graz, the Sherrill Milnes VOICExperience in Savannah, and the IVAI New York Summer Program. Operatic roles include Carmen (Carmen), Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), and Le Prince Charmant (Cendrillon). Olivia holds degrees from Vanderbilt University and Mannes College The New School. She is an active performer in the New York choral community, serves as Choirmaster at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and is the founder of the Olive Grove Voice Studio in Astoria, Queens. This year Olivia will be serving as the Apprentice Conductor for the Oratorio Society of Queens.

Drew moved to New York from Wisconsin in 2017 after completing his masters in Historical Musicology from University of Wisconsin at Madison. Since then, he has sung with the New York Continuo Collective, Polyhymnia, Sing We Enchanted, the Stony Brook University Baroque Ensemble, and, really, pretty much anyone else who has asked. In 2023 he started a voice and lute duo group called Poore Astronomers who give regular recitals in the New York metropolitan area. He is currently a staff singer at St Agnes Church. He studies voice with Richard Slade. He maintains a private piano studio, and he spends most days singing at home with his toddling son who loves to “doot doot” and watch airplanes.

Bennett Mahler is a singer, violist, and violinist based in New York City. Specializing in Renaissance polyphony, chant, and historical performance, he serves as a soloist and cantor at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church in Manhattan and performs regularly with Polyhymnia. He was a vocal and baroque viola fellow with ARTEK Early Music for its 2022–2023 season and continues to perform with the ensemble. Bennett holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in viola performance and early music from McGill University in Montréal. Offstage, Bennett enjoys a career in public service focusing on healthcare administration. 

Early music has been an important part of Tod's life since college. (If memory serves, his first encounter was with Josquin's Missa Pange lingua.) He has sung with Polyhymnia for almost 10 years, and has sung with several other New York City choirs, including Canticum Novum, Cerddorion, Manhattan Choral Ensemble, Music Divine, the New York Madrigal Singers, and the West Village Chorale.

A fourth-generation musician, Erik-Peter Mortensen began singing professionally at age nine with the Men and Boys' Choir of New York's Church of the Transfiguration, later joining the children's choruses of the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera. While studying at Columbia University, he founded and directed the New York Madrigal Singers for seven years, producing three recordings and receiving two favorable reviews in The New York Times. A professional ensemble and church singer, he is also a composer, orchestrator, arranger, and music producer. He earned a Master Certificate in Orchestration for Film and Television from Berklee College of Music and is pursuing a dual-pathway Master of Fine Arts through ThinkSpace Education in composition and orchestration for film, television, and video games. His work ranges from Renaissance-inspired sacred music and Baroque counterpoint to contemporary choral and cinematic styles, including his award-winning Magnificat. He publishes under 4LeafComposer, representing Classical, Choral, Cinematic, and Contemporary music.

Alana Murphy is a jack of all trades and a (double) Master of Music based in NYC, holding an MM in piano performance from Indiana University and an MPhil in musicology from the CUNY Graduate Center. An active collaborative pianist, Alana particularly enjoys working with singers; she is also a staff accompanist at several ballet schools around the city. She has taught music courses in the CUNY system and Indiana University, and currently works as an assistant editor for RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Alana has also always moonlighted as a soprano with affinities for early and new music, and has been a proud member of Polyhymnia since 2017. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Arthur and their two rescue coonhounds, Layla and Charlie.

Lianna Portnoy is currently the Managing Director of St. Ann's Warehouse, a nonprofit theatre in Dumbo, Brooklyn. She is a CPA and arts administrator with previous roles at accounting firm PwC and Manhattan School of Music.  A musician by trade, Ms. Portnoy still actively performs in New York City as both a clarinetist and early music singer.  She attended McGill University to Clarinet Performance, and Baruch College, where she obtained her MBA in Accounting.

Nathan Riehl has lived in NYC since 2012 and has performed with numerous church and professional ensembles including: The Riverside Church, St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village, Grace Church in NYC, Canticum Scholare, Polyhymnia, Pomerium, The American Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, Canterbury Choral Society, and What the Dickens carolers.  A native of Richmond, VA, Nathan holds his B.A. in Biology from the University of Richmond and his M.S. in Data Analytics from Johns Hopkins University.

Andrea, a New York public school teacher librarian, has been singing in New York for over 30 years. She has sung with Grace Church Choral Society, Music Divine, and has participated in the Sintra Choral Workshop with Ghislaine Morgan.  She is so thankful that there is an active early music community in New York City! Singing with Polyhymnia is a highlight of her week. 

Gwen Thompson is a prize-winning author, editor, and choral music addict who has sung with NYC choirs including Polyhymnia, Manhattan Choral Ensemble, New York Chamber Choirs, Canticum Novum, Young New Yorkers Chorus, and at St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Michael's on Amsterdam, Broadway United Church of Christ, and St. John's, Christopher Street.  Further afield, she has sung with the Royal School of Church Music Cathedral Singers at Durham Cathedral and York Minster, and in the Oxford Bach Choir under Christopher Robinson.  She studied early music performance practice at the Tallis Scholars International Summer School in Oakham, England, where she sang under Peter Phillips and studied voice with Ghislaine Morgan and Patrick Craig, and at the Brighton Early Music Festival, where she sang in the Brighton Consort under Deborah Roberts.  She received her B. A. in music, summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College

This year marks David’s 11th season with Polyhymnia and his 30th with Cantori New York directed by Mark Shapiro. For the past several years, David has enjoyed singing in the Tallis Scholars Summer Course with  Zenobia Música in Ávila, Spain under Peter Phillips and Rupert Damerell. This summer, David sang at The Gesualdo Six Renaissance Weekend in London and also performed with the chamber choir Sing We Enchanted in Sleepy Hollow.

Anna Willson is a vocalist and pianist from Yakima, WA. In addition to singing with Polyhymnia, Anna is a section leader and soloist with the Canterbury Choral Society at the Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side. She sings regularly with the choirs at Marble Collegiate Church and The Church of Our Saviour. She has been a regular member of the New York Continuo Collective, a chamber group of early musicians that present concerts at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church. She also has a lute song duo “Good Pennyworths” that performs 16th century English Lute Music in Renaissance garb to the good walkers of Central Park and presents house concerts to anyone who will host wandering troubadours. In her free time, she also likes to play her harpsichord and lute.