Music

Laura Thomas is a Boston-based soprano specializing in early, sacred, and choral music. She holds an M.M. in Historical Performance (Voice) from Boston University. Around town, Laura performs music from the Renaissance to the present with Il Contrapposto, Cappella Clausura, Eudaimonia, and the choir of St. Clement Eucharist Shrine. Off the stage, Laura enjoys learning folk tunes and baking the weekly Communion bread. Award-winning soprano 

Alexandra Henderson is an avid performer in the Boston area and beyond. As seen in the New York Times, Alexandra was featured in the world premiere of Robert Paterson’s operatic work New York Stories at Scorca Hall in New York City. During her 2024 season, Alexandra was a soloist with Boston’s Rivers Symphony Orchestra, the St. Ignatius concert series and the Nightingale Vocal Ensemble. In September, Alexandra reprised her role of “The Governess” in Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw with Opera Roanoke under Maestro Steven White, a role which she has previously performed with the Janiec Opera Company, and during her master's degree at the New England Conservatory. Alexandra is honored to have been the recipient of the second prize from the Wilkinson Young Singers Scholarship, third prize for the 2024 Carolyn Bailey Argento Award with the National Opera Association, as well as third prize at the John Alexander National Vocal Competition.

Noah Christopher Gunn, tenor, is a student at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, studying for a master’s degree in Voice Performance and Opera. Originally from south Florida, Noah received his bachelor’s degree in Voice Performance with a minor in the French language from the Florida State University College of Music in the fall of 2021. In the between time, Noah worked as the Director of Music at Oceanview United Methodist Church in Juno Beach Florida, alongside teaching classes and private lessons to students with a variety of special needs (Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down’s Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Etc.), and singing with the Palm Beach Opera. Noah is thrilled to be joining the schola at Saint Paul’s, and is excited to explore a variety of repertoire, performances, and help share the love of this faith with all who are willing to listen!

Johan Hartman, bass-baritone, is a graduate of both NEC's undergraduate program and the Cincinatti CCM graduate program. He has worked with a number of professional opera companies, most recently performing the role of Colline in Florida l'opera and Zarzuela's production of La Boheme and the role of Uberto in Mostly Baroque's production of La Serva Padrona. He has also worked as a young artist at Sarasota Opera in Sarasota Florida. His list of operatic roles is extensive, including Mozart operas such as Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, to the operas of Richard Strauss (Truffaldin in Ariadne auf Naxos). He’s performed early operas, such as Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, and premiered new operas, including The Hunter in Timothy Ayres-Kerr’s Game of Werewolf. 

As a composer, he has written two song-cycles, Blood and the Moon and Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, (poetry by W.B. Yeats and Robert Browning). He also set part one of Yeats’ epic poem, The Wanderings of Oisin. Most recently he has written a one-act chamber opera entitled The Signal Man, with a libretto based on Charles Dickens’ short-story of the same name. 

He has also stage-directed three operas, most recently having directed Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. He is currently pursuing his Graduate Diploma in classical voice at New England Conservatory.