John Etter

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Jennifer Gray

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Jim Grice

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Merrill Hall

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Givonna Joseph

As Founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning OperaCréole, Ms. Joseph’s research on 19th Century New Orleans free classical and operatic composers of color and Creole history and heritage has been featured in The New Yorker, Southern Living magazine. She was previously honored as a "Standard Bearer " of Louisiana culture on Le Grand Tour, a documentary for French TV and locally on Music Inside Out. Her most recent cover articles are in BreakThru Media Magazine and NOLA Boomers magazine.

Since 2011, the international soloist, arts integration specialist, and university lecturer, along with her daughter, Aria Mason, OperaCréole co-founder, has received awards for mounting lost or rarely heard operas by composers of color such as Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Thelma, Williams Grant Still's Minette Fontaine, Scott Joplin's Treemonisha, Lucien Lambert’s La Flamenca, and her original opera The Lions of Reconstruction: From Black Codes to the Ballot Box, written to celebrate New Orleans’ Tricentennial.

Most recently, Givonna was featured in many educational documentaries, including Dillard University's Ray Charles Center for Material Culture's Legacy of American Slavery, Nous NOLA's Voices of Renewal, and on the recently released CD and documentary Songs of Slavery and Emancipation, speaking the Creole lyrics of Quarra Saint Malo about Jean Saint Malo's 1783 Louisiana slave revolt. She also teaches a new class for Loyola's College of Music and Media called Opera, Classical Music, and Race.

The mezzo-soprano has been featured in roles in many New Orleans Opera productions and serves on their Diversity Committee and Advisory Board. She also serves on the Membership Committee for Opera America.

Romney Richard

Born and raised in New Orleans, Romney grew up as a YMCA gymnast and has enjoyed participating and watching this sport her entire life. She went on to Springfield College in Massachusetts and participated as a NCAA gymnast. Later, she taught gymnastics in her own gym in New Orleans.

After graduating with a degree in Communications from Loyola University in New Orleans, Romney formed her own publishing company which has featured three successful award-winning publications for almost 30 years – two are international trade journals and one was a consumer magazine. She has since sold two of the magazines and continues to publish Sugar Journal. In 2019 she published her memoir, Orchid After the Storm, a woman’s story of personal success overcoming corruption and adversity.

Romney is also active in the New Orleans arts community, singing with the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans, where she served as board president several years ago. Singing is one of her passions as for the last 30+ years, she has sung with this chorus in places such as Florence, Italy and New York’s Carnegie Hall. With her love of jazz singing, she has enjoyed singing with Delgado Community College’s Jazz Band in Jazz Fest, graduations and festivals. In 2022 she recorded a CD, A.C. Jobim Revisited, music of Antonio Carlos Jobim the sounds of Brazil with a New Orleans twist.

Mark Winter

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Tommy Zanca

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