Carol Marton, Artistic Director
Carol Marton, Koleinu’s founding Artistic Director, is a Boston-based singer and choral conductor. In addition to her work with Koleinu, Carol is also singer and conductor with Triad: Boston’s Choral Collective, performing choral music written in the last 25 years. She was recently a guest conductor for Cantilena, A Women’s Chorale, based in Arlington, MA, and she is the Founder and Artistic Director of Pandora’s Vox, a contemporary music ensemble for women’s voices.
Known for her work in Jewish choral music, Carol has directed the Temple Sinai Choir in Sharon, MA, for more than 20 years, and she has been on the faculty of the School of Jewish Music at Hebrew College, and in other Boston locations, teaching conducting, vocal technique, and voice and piano privately. She earned her Master’s Degree in Choral Conducting at Indiana University School of Music, and upon returning to Boston, she served as assistant conductor for the Zamir Chorale of Boston, and as conductor of the Temple Emanuel Choir in Newton. She has worked as a singer and soloist with several ensembles in the Boston area, including the Schola Cantorum of Boston, the Choir of the Church of the Advent, and the John Oliver Chorale. Carol is also the business manager for GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) in Boston, is an avid bicyclist, and lives in Jamaica Plain.
Terry Halco, Accompanist
Terry Halco is an active accompanist, organist and singer in the Boston area. He received his musical training at Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio and at the New England Conservatory. Terry is the accompanist for the Chorus pro Musica (Boston), Musica Sacra (Cambridge), the Westford Chorus (Westford), and the choruses of the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also the Music Director at Harvard-Epworth Church in Cambridge, where he plays for worship services and leads a volunteer choir. He has been the accompanist for the Simmons College Chorale, the Emerson College Chorale, and the Polymnia Choral Society. As a singer, he has performed with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the vocal ensemble Capella Alamire.
Asia Meirovich, Accompanist, 2018-2020
Koleinu welcomed a new accompanist in fall 2018, Asia Meirovich, who brought many valuable skills to the role. Born in Russia, raised in Israel, and having recently lived in New York and Western Mass., Asia now resides in the Boston area. Classically trained as a pianist and choral singer at the Rubin Conservatory in Jerusalem, she made the change to popular music through obtaining a degree in contemporary writing and production from Berklee College of Music in 2005. After years of industry work, she returned to school and earned a Masters in classical composition from UMass Amherst. Asia is a pianist, vocalist, composer/songwriter, arranger, producer, and educator who is fluent in English, Hebrew, and Russian. She was a winner of the 2015 Ben Steinberg Young Composer Award for Jewish Choral Music, and in 2018 was a finalist for the Stephen Paulus Emerging Composer Choral Composition. Asia currently teaches chorus at the Solomon Schechter school, vocal performance at Roxbury Community College, and plays piano for the Boston Ballet school, in addition to Koleinu. She is married to musician and scholar Andres Amitai Wilson, and “proud mom to musical mini-mes,” Eden and Liam Shai.
Victor Cayres, Accompanist, 2005–2018
Brazilian pianist Victor Cayres has earned praise for concerts with the Sine Nomine string quartet in Switzerland and as a soloist with such orchestras as the Boston Pops and Brno Philharmonic in the Czech Republic. A recent winner of the eighth Iowa Piano Competition and the eighteenth Leoš Janáček Competition, he has been a guest artist at Banff Center for the Arts, Canada, Interlochen Center for the Arts, MI, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He has released CDs for Albany Records (works by David Owens) and Parma Records (works by Joseph Summer). Mr. Cayres has performed in Brazil, Europe, and in the U.S., including a recent debut at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of New York. He currently serves on the piano faculty at Boston University School of Music. www.victorcayres.com