member profiles

Grammy® nominated duo, producers and songwriters of Helen Bruner & Terry Jones records reached No. 1 on the Billboard Dance Club Charts in early 2000 and many of their songs have been featured on Film/TV soundtracks, most notable the blockbuster film The Score starring Robert DeNiro. Their voices can be heard on national commercials and their songs have been licensed to numerous international dance compilations.

Helen O'Shea has just released her first full CD "Turning Tides..." - a collection of original songs about relationships, love, loss, motherhood, grief and friendship. Originally from Limerick, Ireland. In 1995, she moved to the USA and now lives in Princeton, NJ. Helen cowrites and collaborates regularly with two-time Grammy-winning® producer, Marc Swersky. She has a Celtic band called "Shenanigans" dedicated to performing the traditional songs of Ireland, as well as her own band "The Shanakees" (based on the Gaelic for "storyteller" - "seanachai") performing her original songs as well as duet arrangements of covers in the "AmeriCeltiCana" style - Americana with a Celtic twist.

Herb Ernst has been creating intuitively composed and performed instrumental neoclassical music since 1986. He has six albums currently available as CD's and digital downloads through Amazon, iTunes, New Leaf and other outlets. He's worked with actress/author Shirley MacLaine, Dr. Duncan Goheen, Laurie Grant and numerous other counselors, ministers and therapists and on their audio and video projects.

Herschel Garfein is a twice Grammy®-winning composer, writer, and director. “His music and themes are deeply American and rooted in the mores of Gens X and Y” (Time Out New York). His song-cycle MORTALITY MANSIONS (with poet Donald Hall) has been praised as “one of the most deeply moving and impressive vocal works of the twenty-first century” (Journal of Singing). His recent orchestral work for baritone Keith Phares and American Modern Ensemble King of the River (based on a Stanley Kunitz poem) was hailed as “a marvelous piece of descriptive modernism… a smashing premiere.” (Blog Critics).

Hinda is a gifted singer. But that is just a part of what creates her sound and voice. Despite having this extraordinary vocal gift, Hinda had and did face her demons on her life journey. All of this is part of what makes her and her sound special. unique. When you talk to Hinda, she talks like she sings and lets it all hangout when she decides.