Given the current circumstances regarding COVID-19, musicians have realized what a luxury and a blessing it is to gather, rehearse, and share ideas on a spontaneous basis. Artists around the world have realized that something so special cannot be taken for granted. Join Logan and Maria as they draw back the curtain and invite you to ask questions and observe their rehearsal and performance process, bridging the distance through art and expression.

Maria Eleni Zollo is a vibrant, Greek American soprano, who brings authenticity and enthusiasm to everything she does. As an active recitalist, concert soloist and operatic performer, Maria Eleni has appeared with the Mannes Orchestra, the Brooklyn Metro Chamber Orchestra, Apotheosis Opera, the Mannes Opera, Martina Arroyo's Prelude to Performance, Hunter Opera, Savannah Voice Festival, and the Lidal North International Opera Workshop at the Oslo Opera House. She was also a sposored recitalist with the New York City organization, Project 142. As well as performing standard repertoire, Maria Eleni has premiered the works of up and coming composers, including Nathan Fletcher and Zachary Gulaboff Davis. Maria Eleni holds a B.M from Mannes School of Music and a M.A from CUNY Hunter College, where she won the university concerto competition in spring of 2018. Maria Eleni has been the choir director and organist of Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Brooklyn, NY since 2013. She is very tied to her Greek American roots, and was named Miss Peloponessos in the 2016 Miss Greek Independence Day Pageant. That same year, she was also awarded the esteemed Pan Hellenic Scholarship. In her spare time, she enjoys painting, reading, and cooking.
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Logan Vrankovic (b. 1997) is an award-winning classical composer, pianist, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist from New York City. He served as the Frank Sinatra School’s Symphonic Orchestra guest conductor and resident composer. He received his Bachelor’s in Music from the Mannes School of Music, studying composition with Dr. Lowell Liebermann, one of America’s foremost composers. He now studies composition, music history, and piano performance at the Masters level with Dr. Mark J. Stambaugh at the Manhattan School of Music, where he was awarded the top prize in composition, the Manhattan Prize. He was awarded 2nd prize at the International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition for his pieces “6 Variations on ‘Šlo Dzjevča’” for violin and piano, and his “Double Concerto ‘By Vltava’” for two solo clarinets in Bb and strings. He composed both pieces during the five day speed-composing competition in Prague, Czech Republic. That same year, his “Piano Concerto”, won both the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Award and the Bohuslav Martinu Prize in Composition. As a performer, Logan is a classically trained concert pianist and conductor. He has performed in venues in the United States and Europe, his favorite performances including the DiMenna Center, Carnegie Hall, Lobkowicz Palace, and the historical Church of St. Donatus. He is a proponent of improvisation in classical music and includes the practice frequently in his programs