Paul Laurence Fletcher

A transplanted Texan, Paul is an honors graduate of Abilene Christian University (Bachelor of Music Education) and won a full graduate opera scholarship to The Hartt School, where he took top prizes for operatic and art song performance while earning his Master of Music Degree in Voice. He has since been professionally active in an unusually diverse repertoire with many of our region’s leading ensembles and theaters, and as a featured oratorio and concert soloist he has appeared with such groups as Orchestra New England, The American Classical Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Yale Collegium Musicum, Pro Arte Singers and many others to consistently enthusiastic reviews. The Hartford Courant has described his singing as being “…at once youthful, virile, impassioned, and seductive…” and The Greenwich News found “…a flowingly graceful voice with an earnest, convincing, and rich quality.” Recent solo credits include Elijah with The Stonington Choral Society, Brahms’ Requiem with the Greater Middletown Chorale, and Beethoven’s Mass in C with Con Brio Choral Society. Paul is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and has performed leading and supporting roles in productions at Lambs’ Theatre (Times Square), Theatre 315 (New York City), Downtown Cabaret Theatre, Theatre on the Green, Hartford Stage, The Shubert Opera and others, with Tony (West Side Story), Macheath (Threepenny Opera), Lancelot (Camelot), and Don Quixote (Man of LaMancha) among his credits. He teaches privately and is on the voice faculty at The Community Music School in Centerbrook. He also serves as Principal Vocal Coach/Consultant for The Greater Middletown Chorale, and is a section leader at Immanuel Church in Hartford. Paul, his wife Jessica, and their 14-year-old twin boys Nathan and Zachary live in Middletown.

Thomas F. Cooke II

Tom Cooke, Voce’s Executive Director, began his singing career as a treble with the choir of Men and Boys, Trinity Church On-the-Green, New Haven, Connecticut. He sang with the Harvard University Choir under John Ferris and with the Rockefeller Chapel Choir in Chicago under the direction of Victor Weber. Tom has extensive solo experience with a wide variety of choral groups and church choirs, and has appeared as Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors. He currently sings with two professional ensembles in the Hartford area – Concora and Voce – and with the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Choir. Tom also sang with The Woodland Scholars from 2004 to 2006. In addition to his choral work, Tom has performed voice recitals in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut. He currently studies voice with Herbert Burtis. In addition to his vocal work, Tom is a classically trained clarinetist and has performed extensively on the East Coast and in the Mid-West. He studied with Peter Mansfield and Pasquale Cardillo (Boston Symphony). He was also privileged to study for one summer with Franklin Cohen (Principal for the Cleveland Orchestra). Tom played with Harvard’s Bach Society Orchestra and, in 1982, won Harvard’s Horblitt Prize for a performance of the Brahms Clarinet Trio. In 1999, Tom accompanied Mr. Burtis and mezzo-soprano Barbara Rearick in their performance of Mozart’s Parto, ma tu ben mio (from Mozart’s La Clemenza di Titto) in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Tom and his family currently reside in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Daniel Campolieta

Daniel Campolieta is a senior at the University of Connecticut pursuing a B.M. in organ performance and a B.S. in music education with musical interests ranging from historically informed organ performance practice to contemporary composition and modern jazz styles. He currently studies organ with Angela Salcedo and is organist and music associate for Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford. Dan has twice received a special prize from the Charlotte H. Bagnall International Scholarship for Organ and Music Ministry and was a dual winner of the L. Cameron Johnson organ prize in 2003. He has participated in master classes with world famous organists Marie-Claire Alain and Paul Jacobs. He is a singer and continuo player in the UConn Collegium Musicum and plays piano for the UConn jazz ensembles. Dan also plays jazz piano for many functions around the state of Connecticut. He also served as accompanist and assistant music director for Simsbury Summer Theatre for Youth’s production of Anything Goes in the summer of 2006 and will be returning for this summer’s production of 42nd Street as assistant music director and overseer of all vocal and choral activities. Dan is an in demand accompanist for as many as forty music and drama students per semester at the University. In his spare time, he composes chamber music and is a collector of vintage keyboards.

Jonathan Clune

Robert Borden

Robert Borden is a partner with the Connecticut law firm, Shipman & Goodwin. Before turning to the practice of law, Rob received his undergraduate degree from the Crane School of Music at Potsdam, NY, and a Masters of Music Education degree at Teachers College, Columbia University, which he put to use teaching public school choral music. His partner in life and in the art of making music is fellow Crane grad and Voce member, Salli-Jo. While the day job helps to pay for their pet dachsund's back surgery, singing with Salli-Jo and accompanying her on piano provide the greatest satisfaction.

Jeffrey Vanags

Jeff originally hails from Meriden, CT. He first pursued a history degree at James Madison University in Harrisonburg,VA but ultimately received his Bachelor of the Arts in Music at Central Connecticut State University. During that time he studied voice with Joanne Scattergood and Maks Ivanov and was awarded a scholarship as a member of the CCSU University Singers. In more recent years Jeff has performed professionally in the Woodland Scholars, Collegium at Trinity Church in Hartford, and the Connecticut Chamber Singers. He holds a position as Section Leader/soloist and teaching children’s music at Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford. As a soloist, in 2006 Jeff sang the role of Simon for Handel’s oratorio Judas Maccabeus with the Farmington Valley Chorale. Jeff’s favorite singing as of late has to be the self-composed ditties he and his wife make up for his son.

Sam Eurich

Originally from Marlborough, CT, Sam Eurich is a recent graduate from the University of Connecticut where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Bachelor of Science in Education. With piano as his emphasis, Mr. Eurich had great success both as an accompanist and as a soloist, having given three solo piano recitals. Mr. Eurich is sought after as a musical director for various musical productions and was the musical director of UConn's premier all-male vocal ensemble, A Completely Different Note, for four years. Currently Mr. Eurich teaches at King Philip Middle School as the 6th grade general music teacher and works alongside Marc Kaplan with the KP Singers. Additionally, he works at Immanuel Congregational Church as a bass section leader and as the assistant director of the Vernon Chorale.