About Us

Co-Producer Jay Fluellen is a Philadelphia born composer, college professor, educator, accompanist, pianist, singer, and organist/choir director. He has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Temple University in Music Composition. Fluellen has his K-12 Music Pennsylvania State certification from Eastern University. He teaches music at Northeast High School in the School District of Philadelphia. Since January 1997, he has been a co-minister of music at the historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas. He is also an adjunct professor at Montgomery County Community College, where he teaches piano.

Fluellen has been commissioned by performers and institutions, including; Chamber Orchestra First Editions, Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia's LiveConnections, Teya Sepinuck and Theater of Witness, Bucks County Choral Society, Philadelphia Jazz Project, Orchestra 2001, Network for New Music, and Relâche New MArosemenausic Ensemble, among others. Fluellen was recently accepted into the Philadelphia Public Orchestra. In June 2022, Fluellen’s Symphony for McCoy Tyner was premiered by the Musicopia String Orchestra. This was a special commission funded by a grant from Black Music City.

Since 1989, Flutist and Co-Producer Pamela Whitman has been producing multi-media concerts, delivering a message of peace through intercultural understanding and compassion. Whitman created and directed the multi-cultural world peace rock band WorldColor which toured nationally and internationally for fourteen years. The band brought together musicians from around the globe to educate audiences about world cultures through music and art. Whitman led WorldColor in a three year cultural exchange project with Nepal. She recently collaborated with Peru’s leading Pan-Flutist Cesar Villalobos and a group of Incan musicians in concerts in Ascope, Peru.

“Artists for a Better World” honored Pamela with an international award for her humanitarian work as a producer and flutist. In the summers, she enjoys playing classical favorites by the sea in the Ocean City Pops Orchestra, where she has been the Principal Flutist since 1989. Pamela earned a degree in Flute Performance from the University of Michigan. She is an active recording artist, a chamber musician and author. https://pamelawhitman.com

Mezzo Soprano Carrie Lessene has over 40 years of choral directing, composing, teaching and solo performances to her credit. She has sung before such luminaries such as Presidents, Aretha Franklin, Andre Bocelli and even Pope Francis. She has performed classical, jazz and gospel music in the United States and as far abroad as Egypt. On two occasions Carrie has been accompanied by the Philadelphia Orchestra. This afforded her the opportunity to lead the final selection of the opening summer season of the Philadelphia Orchestra. 

She is a member of numerous ensembles including the Grammy nominated Gabriel Hardeman Delegation, Intermezzo Choir Ministry (Director), Robert Ladson Ensemble (soloist). She is the Director of Music for her church, Berean Presbyterian. Carrie holds a degree in Music Therapy from Montclair University.

Antonio Arosemena is an accomplished bassoonist and recorder player whose repertoire spans the Renaissance through modern music. He has attended the Amherst Early Music Festival for three years, where he was coached in baroque bassoon with leading performers and directors including Dominic Teresi (principal bassoonist, Tafelmusik Orchestra) and the late Michael McCraw (former principal bassoonist, Tafelmusik Orchestra). 

Antonio studied recorder performance at the Aaron Copland School of Music, and received his Master of Music in Bassoon Performance, and his teaching certification from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. Antonio is currently the instrumental music teacher at Northeast High School in Philadelphia, where he directs the Arts Academy band and orchestra. 

Scott J. Breiner is a gifted pianist, organist and choirmaster. He has been the Music Director at Grace Lutheran in Somers Point, New Jersey, since 2007. He serves as musical director and accompanist for choruses and musical theater groups in the Northeast. Scott is a member of the American Guild of Organists. He has served as guest conductor and guest organist with the Ocean City Pops Orchestra. In July 2005, he became the director and one of the founders of the Cape Shore Chorale, a chorus consisting of sixty local singers based in Ocean City. Scott performs regularly at Atlantic City’s Convention Hall on the World’s Largest Pipe Organ.

A winner in the 1st Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition as well as the Philadelphia and Princeton Metropolitan Opera auditions, tenor Paul Spencer Adkins enjoys a career in the United States and abroad. He has performed with a number of opera companies in Miami, Philadelphia, Tulsa, Des Moines, Delaware, Orlando, Boston, Virginia, Cleveland, Sarasota, Lake George, Columbus, Sacramento, and Boston. Mr. Adkins’ New York operatic debut took place at Alice Tully Hall in the title role of Vigil Thompson’s, Lord Byron. 

His European operatic debut was with the Netherlands Opera Forum as Nadir in The Pearl Fishers. Other international performances include: Belgium; Italy; Sweden, Great Britain and Algeria, Africa. Paul Spencer Adkins was also the first vocal director for Peter Nero and The Philly Pops® Voices of the Pops, a resident ensemble. Mr. Adkins is a principal artist of Creative Leaps International and vice-president of Associated Solo Artists, Inc. Paul is the featured solo tenor in the New Bel Canto Trio. He taught for 22 years as Adjunct Associate Professor for the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. https://paulspenceradkins.com