FREE CONCERT: “Beloved Melodies – A Collection of Arias and Songs Celebrating Italian Heritage Month
October 5, 2025 / 2:30pm
St Patrick’s Church
9 North Clinton Ave., Bay Shore, NY

QUEENS SOUND
Helena Kim has been an active performer as a pianist, organist and conductor. Currently, she is a music director at St. Ephrem RC Church in Brooklyn, NY. Ms. Kim participated in various productions of New York Grand Opera under the direction of late Maestro Vincent La Selva, and studied orchestral conducting under his tutelage. In 2019, she was the music director of Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island, and conducted the opera “The Gondoliers” with great success. She is currently a pianist for Queens Sound, and has performed on the piano in various recitals throughout the United States. She received a DMA in organ performance at Mason Gross school of the Arts at Rutgers University and was awarded the Elizabeth Wyckoff Durham Award.

Linda Teixeira is a Long Island–based soprano, music educator, and co-founder of Queens Sound, a music group that has performed classical and contemporary works around the country at concert series and festivals. Linda is the co-creator and co-star in the music education webseries, Maestro’s Magical Music Box. She is frequently a guest performer with the West Islip Orchestraand regularly sings with Opera Night Long Island. Regionally, Linda has performed with Dicapo Opera, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, Regina Opera, Rockland Opera, and Garden State Opera. She has also sung abroad with the Amalfi Coast Musical Festival andwith Dicapo Opera in Szeged, Hungary. She studied vocal performance at The Hartt School of Music and Hunter College and music education at Queens College. Linda is a music teacher at the Masera Middle School with Eastern Suffolk BOCES.

Special Guests
Nicole Karrs, mezzo-soprano
Michael Celentano, tenor
lan Joyal, bass

Presented by the Islip Arts Council through a grant from Suffolk County Legislator Steve Flotteron.