Musical Contractors

​Charis is fortunate to have a great partnership with 
Terence J. Flanagan and Nelva Lagerway TeBrake. When the need arises, these amazing and well-connected musicians keep Charis supplied with some of the finest professional instrumentalists and singers in the NY Metropolitan area.

Nelva TeBrake, violinist, is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She studied Baroque violin with Jaap Schroder at the Amsterdam Conservatory and with Sigiswald Kuyken at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.  She has performed with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under the leadership of Ton Koopman, as well as in a joint project with Koopman, Philippe Herreweghe, and Collegium Vocale Gent of Bach’s Saint John Passion. Other groups she has performed with include Concert Royal, the Waverly Consort, Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Bach Ensemble, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.

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Photo by Peter Michaelis Photography 2025