Director of Music and Organist
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Matthew Cramer is a conductor and bass-baritone based in New Haven, CT. He served as Interim Director of the Litchfield County Choral Union in collaboration with the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival for this past summer and is the preparatory conductor for the Yale Schola Cantorum at the Yale Institute for Sacred Music. He holds degrees from the Yale School of Music (MM, conducting) and the Hartt School (GPD, BM music composition), and is currently ABD for his doctorate in choral conducting at Northwestern University. Off the podium, Matthew is an active performer of early and contemporary music as both soloist and ensemble singer, most recently having sung with the Choir of Men and Boys at St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, the Christopher Street Collegium, the New Consort, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and new music choir The Crossing.
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Stephen Gamboa-Diaz is a distinguished harpsichordist and organist who has performed for audiences in the United States, Germany, and Italy. A laureate of the 2012 Westfield Center International Harpsichord Competition, he was also a finalist in Early Music America’s inaugural Baroque Chamber Performance Competition as part of the harpsichord duo Zweikampf with Faythe Vollrath. Recent projects include performances with the Elm City Consort of New Haven, Handel’s Messiah at the Washington National Cathedral, and a benefit concert for New Haven’s East Street Arts. Stephen, who holds degrees from UC Berkeley (B.A.), Stony Brook University (M.M., M.A., D.M.A.), and the Yale School of Music (A.D.)., teaches organ and conducting at Southern Connecticut State University and has directed church music programs on Long Island and in Connecticut.
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