Our Team
Hannah Shanefield (she/her), Executive Director
Boston-based soprano Hannah Shanefield earns enthusiastic acclaim on and off the stage for her work as a performer, producer, and stage director.
Her operatic roles include Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Suzel (L'amico Fritz), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice), Diana (La Calisto), Gilda (Rigoletto), the titular role in The Cunning Little Vixen, Madame Herz (The Impresario), La Grande Prêtresse/Une Bérgère (Hippolyte et Aricie), Jenny (Rorem's Three Sisters Who Aren't Sisters), the Sandman/Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel), and Berta (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Recent directing projects include: Alcina (MassOpera), Die Fledermaus (The Opera Company), Don Giovanni (Boston Summer Opera), and Il Giuoco del Quadriglio by Antonio Caldara and J.S. Bach's Coffee Cantata (West End Lyric).
Equally as enthusiastic about concert works, Hannah has performed the soprano solos in Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem, F. Couperin's Trois Leçons de Ténèbres, J.S. Bach’s BWV 150 and BWV 196, Mozart's Requiem, Dubois's Seven Last Words of Christ, and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.
A diverse repertory enthusiast, Hannah is passionate about championing new music and the works of underrepresented composers. She has produced and performed in numerous chamber concerts featuring modern works by female and queer composers.
Hannah holds her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory. She holds her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance with a minor in Music History from the Hartt School.
Luca Antonucci (he/him), Music Director
Luca Antonucci is a conductor based in Ann Arbor and Boston.
He currently serves as Music Director of the Michigan Pops Orchestra, Artistic Director of the Open Door Ensembles of Boston, and Music Director of Boston Summer Opera, as well as Assistant Conductor of the Berkshire Opera Festival, the UMS Choral Union, the Grammy-Award-winning University Orchestras at the University of Michigan, and the Portland Symphony Orchestra.
Former appointments include Interim Music Director of the Michigan Life Sciences Orchestra, Music Director of the Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestras, Assistant Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony and Conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony Youth Orchestra, Music Director of the First Parish in Cohasset, Unitarian Universalist. Recent appearances include as guest conductor with the Spectrum Orchestra in Bloomfield Hills, MI and as Assistant Conductor with The Washington Chorus on its concert tour to Buenos Aires, where he prepared the Orquesta Juvenil “San Martin”, Argentina’s premiere training orchestra, for its performances of Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” with baritone Will Liverman under the direction of Eugene Rogers.
A native of Watertown, MA, Antonucci studied conducting at the University of Michigan and the Hartt School. Winner of a number of academic awards, including as a Helen Wu Conducting Fellow at the University of Michigan, a recipient of the Graduate Regents Award at the University of Hartford, and the Consulate General Prize for Achievement in German from Amherst College, Luca was a Fulbright fellow in Vienna, Austria, where he studied the music and writings of Arnold Schoenberg and performed as a trumpet player and singer. He was also the recipient of a Jolidon Scholarship while at Hartt, and member of the American Guild of Organists, the American Musicological Society, and the Massachusetts Association for Music Educators (MMEA) and National Association for Music Educators.
Luca is also in demand as an educator. He is the conductor of the Campus Symphony at University of Michigan, and worked as band director and Director of After-School Music at the Brimmer and May School, where he taught jazz, rock, and concert bands, as well as developing curricula ranging from samba percussion to hip-hop history. He also serves as a lecturer at Lasell Village, the extension program of Lasell University. Previously, he served on the faculty of the Rivers Summer Music Camp, teaching Wind Ensemble and Music Theory. In his free time, Luca enjoys running, cooking, playing jazz piano, and listening to opera.