Sirens Song

Our Collaborative Artists

Barbara Flocco,

organist and harpsichordist, pursues an active schedule as both soloist and accompanist throughout New England while maintaining a private studio of piano and organ students.

A director of church music for more than 25 years, she has recently been appointed to the Bedford Presbyterian Church.

She studied in Philadelphia with Sylvia Noble Fish at the Settlement School and then wirh Russian-trained pianist Robert Schick of Curtis Institute. She continued with Victor Rosenbaum at Longy School of Music. She studied organ with John Skelton and Marian Ruhl Metson of Boston University.

Barbara Flocco’s Recordings: Mélange - a delightful compilation of duets from di Lasso to Gershwin sung by the duo, Sirens’ Song

The Bright Seraphim - sacred organ music performed on the Aeolian-Skinner organ at Phillips Exeter Academy featuring Mark Bacon, trumpet

For All the Saints - a duo piano collection of sacred and classical works album featuring Ellen Pond

Lysa James,

a poet, has published in national literary journals and is included in an anthology of New Hampshire poetry: Under the Legislature of the Stars. Her manuscript, In All the Benevolent Directions (formerly titled If you Sing to the River), was a finalist in the Kent State University Poetry Prize judged by American Academy of Poetry member Lucille Clifton and a semi-finalist in the Cleveland State University Press Poetry Contest, judged by Marilyn Krysl. Her chapbook Concerning Persephone was awarded honorable mention in the Sarasota Theatre Poetry Contest.

A performance piece she created with Genevieve Aichele and Pat Spalding was awarded grants from the NH Arts Council and the Humanities Council.

She holds an M.A. in Writing Poetry from the University of New Hampshire and is listed on the Artist Roster of the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

Other artists we have worked with:

Genevieve Aichele, director
John Carmichael, director
J. Scott Brumit, director
Anne Kissel, pianist
Kayo Iwama, pianist
Daniel Weiser, pianist
Jeffery Brody, pianist
Kathryn Southworth, pianist
Abbey Siegfried, organist
Richard Benefield, organist
Linda Copeland, organist
Ellen Pond, organist
Dianne Dean, conductor
Nancy Brown, conductor
Robert Stibler, trumpet
Margaret Herlihy, oboe
Becky McCatty, bassoon
Angela V. Carter, ballerina
Mark Andrew Cleveland, bass
David Cushing, bass
Edward Hinson, tenor
Charles Turner, composer
Heather Thomsen, presenter
Jane Forde, presenter