Hyunju Jung is a highly accomplished pianist with a distinguished academic background and an extensive international performance career. Dr. Jung has earned numerous prestigious awards in both Asia and the United States, including the absolute first prize in the Special Venue Music Award, the Silver prize in The 2025 Shanghai International Forte Yearly Music Festival and Competition, Second Prize in the Royal Mass International Competition. She has performed as an invited artist at Seongnam Art Hall, Rode Art Center, and Moonam Center in Korea. Her remarkable performance achievements include a solo appearance with the Perugia Piano Festival Orchestra at the renowned Perugia Hall of Notaries in Italy, Carnegie Hall, San Francisco Opera House, Gallery Inn in Puerto Rico, and the Steinway & Sons Scottsdale, Arizona, further solidifying her reputation as a distinguished artist on the international stage. Her artistic development has been significantly shaped by master classes with some of the world’s most respected pianists, including Ian Hobson, Robert Roux, Jerome Lowenthal, Joseph Rackers, Mia Chung, Martin Katz, and Sasha Starcevich. These invaluable experiences have deepened her interpretive insight and elevated her technical prowess. Dr. Jung received Doctoral of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at Boston University, where she studies under the tutelage of Professor Boaz Sharon. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and dual Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan. Her mentors include Gila Goldstein, Sharon Mann, Arthur Greene, Mack McCray, and Kuy Jung Kim. Alongside her academic pursuits, Dr. Jung remains a vital force in the music community, serving as the collaborative pianist for the highly regarded Coro Allegro, New England Classical Singers, the Bristol Chorale of Massachusetts, Commonwealth School, and the Arlington Street Church, where her collaborative artistry enriches each ensemble’s performance.
Jerrick Cavagnaro • Organ
Jerrick Cavagnaro is a graduate of the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music where he earned a master’s degree in organ performance studying under Jon Laukvik and Thomas Murray. He completed his undergraduate studies at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey where he earned bachelor’s degrees in sacred music and organ performance studying under Alan Morrison. A native of New Jersey, Jerrick has served in several church music positions. Most recently, he was the assistant director of music and organist at Christ Episcopal Church in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently serves as the associate director of music at Trinity Episcopal Church (Copley Square) in Boston. Other accolades include second prize in the National Competition in Organ Accompaniment sponsored by the Washington, D.C. AGO chapter and third prize in the Quebec Organ Competition in Quebec City, Canada. In 2022, Jerrick received the second prize in the National Competition in Organ Accompaniment sponsored by the Washington, D.C. chapter of the American Guild of Organists, third prize in the Quebec Organ Competition in Quebec City, Canada and was a semifinalist in the 2022 Boston Bach International Organ Competition. In 2023, Jerrick competed as a quarterfinalist in the St. Alban’s organ competition. Jerrick was the first prize winner of the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation in San Francisco in the summer of 2024. Also an active composer, Jerrick’s choral music has been performed by choirs around the globe and was recently featured in Oxford University Press’ latest edition of Carols for Choirs 6.
Janet Stone • Soprano
Soprano Janet Stone’s first musical exploration was at age four, when she would sing “Row, row, row your boat” repetitively, at increasingly higher keys, much to her parents’ chagrin. She gained much of her musical education at Grace Episcopal Church and the Madison Opera Chorus, both in Madison, Wisconsin, before earning her Bachelors of Music degree at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where she studied under Margie V. Marrs. Now based in Boston, Janet served as staff singer at Trinity Church, Copley Square for nine years, under the direction of Richard Webster and Colin Lynch, where she was soloist for multiple services and concerts. Most recent of these were performances of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, G.F. Handel’s Messiah, and Benjamin Britten’s The Company of Heaven. Other recent solo performances include Bach’s St. John Passion – where she was praised for her “sparkling voice” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), David Ibbett’s Mars Symphony at the Charles Hayden Planetarium, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered, and Ordo Virtutum (Castitas) by Hildegard von Bingen. Janet has performed with multiple professional ensembles, including Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Yale Consort, Ensemble Altera, Zenith Ensemble, Cappella Clausura, The Bach Project, The Boston Camerata, The Handel & Haydn Society, Odyssey Opera, and Nightingale Vocal Ensemble. Recording credits include the GRAMMY® nominated albums: Seven Words from the Cross and It’s a Long Way, along with the first American recording of Francis Poulenc’s Figure Humaine (Clear Voices in the Dark) all with Skylark Ensemble. Other album credits include two albums of music by Hilary Tann with Cappella Clausura, The Lamb’s Journey and Dazzling Light with Ensemble Altera, and A Christmas Carol with Skylark. She also recorded vocals for the Charles Hayden Planetarium film God, Science, and Our Search for Meaning in collaboration with best- selling author Dan Brown. Janet thoroughly enjoys working directly with composers, and has premiered works by Benedict Sheehan, Greg Brown, Dan Tepfer, Patricia Van Ness, Elena Ruehr, Adam Jacob Simon, Nell Shaw Cohen, Joey Meland, and Richard Webster.
Edgerton Allen Fiala • Boy Soprano
Edgerton Allen Fiala, boy soprano, has been singing with the chorister program at Trinity Church in the City of Boston since the age of eight, training under Music Director Colin Lynch. Edgie is excited to perform with his Assistant Music Director Jerrick Cavagnaro and Coro Allegro today under the direction of David Hodgkins. Edgie’s recent choral accomplishments include his role as soloist for Trinity’s Candlelight Carols and serving as part of the Choir in Residence at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and Canterbury Cathedral this past summer. He also performed in The Boston Camerata’s production of The Play of Daniel: A Medieval Masterpiece Revisited, directed by Anne Azéma. A recipient of the Royal School of Church Music Bronze Award with High Commendation, Edgie regularly cantors midweek Evensong services at Trinity. He attends Boston Public Schools where he is an active member of his school’s Gender-Sexuality Alliance club, and he will be attending Boston Latin School in the fall.
