Directors
Vincent Metallo
Mr. Metallo has distinguished himself in recent years as an eagerly sought after conductor, singer and music educator. Director of the Princeton High School Choral Department, Mr. Metallo is also the Music Director of the acclaimed Pennsylvania Girlchoir based in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. He has held the positions of Chair of the Performing Arts at the Princeton Day School, Artistic Director of the American Boychoir, and Assistant Professor of Music at Westminster Choir College, DePauw University, Wellesley College and Lehigh University.
Mr. Metallo has collaborated on numerous performances with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony , Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Collegium, Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the Dryden Ensemble of Princeton, NJ. Recorded and televised events include Heinrich Biber's Missa Christi Resurgentis with the New York Collegium under the direction of Andrew Parrott; A Ceremony of Carols at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts for Public Radio International; PBS Live from Lincoln Center; A&E's Breakfast with the Arts; The Lost Christmas Eve with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
A graduate of the Hartt School of Music in Music Education and Vocal Performance and Westminster Choir College in Conducting, Mr. Metallo is certified in Kodaly music pedagogy through the Kodaly Musical Training Institute.
Sarah Pelletier
Ms. Pelletier is Associate Choir Director of the Princeton High School Choir. She performs professionally as a pianist and singer.
As a pianist, she has accompanied and toured with The American Boychoir and The Westminster Choir, and has served as Musical Director of the Opera Theater of Weston in Vermont. Ms. Pelletier has been on the faculty at The Walnut Hill School, Emerson College, The Peddie School, and is currently on the Vocal Performing Faculty at Princeton University.
Her singing has been praised by the Boston Globe for possessing “virtues of voice, intelligence and musicianship… with purity of tone and expression”. She has performed as a guest artist at the world’s leading music festivals and recent highlights include a recital at the Kennedy Center on the Millennium Stage; Mozart Vesperae Solennes de confessore at Carnegie Hall; performances with New England Philharmonic of Berg’s Wozzeck and Schwantner’s Magabunda. Ms. Pelletier has appeared in opera productions with Opera North, Opera Theater of Philadelphia, Princeton Festival Opera, Opera-Aperta of Boston, and the Aldeburgh Festival, UK. Her operatic roles have included the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte, Mimí in La Bohème, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Lady Billows in Albert Herring. She has collaborated on these productions with many esteemed conductors and directors such as Seiji Ozawa, David Kneuss, Drew Minter, James Robert Carson, and Craig Smith.
As an advocate of the art-song recital, Ms. Pelletier is a founding member of the Florestan Recital Project, and she has given solo recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Goethe Institute in Boston. Her interest in Contemporary Music has led to premieres by Howard Frazin, John Goodman, James Yannatos, and Arlene Zallman as well as performances under the direction of Lukas Foss, Robert Spano, and John Harbison. She has performed for the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Composers in Red Sneakers, the “Music in Time Series” at Spoleto Festival USA, and with Santa Fe New Music. Ms. Pelletier is recorded on Chesky Records.