Staff & Leadership

Maria Sensi Sellner

Artistic & General Director, Founder

Conductor Maria Sensi Sellner’s artistry, versatility, and reputation for innovation are making her an increasingly coveted collaborator and an impresario for the 21st century. Praised as “mightily impressive”, she was the first three-time winner of the American Prize for Opera Conducting and is a proud alum of The Dallas Opera’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors. Maria is the Artistic & General Director of Resonance Works, the multi-modal performing arts company she founded in her native Pittsburgh in 2013; co-founder and lead producer of the Decameron Opera Coalition; and a frequent cover conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Her unique, artist-driven programming has been praised for its “innovative streak” (Post-Gazette) and for bringing a “welcome infusion of sophistication and diversity” (I Care If You Listen) to Pittsburgh’s cultural landscape.

The ResWorks Team

  • Robert Frankenberry

    Associate Producer

  • Brennan Sellner

    Director of Operations

  • Jeffrey Klefstad

    Company Manager

  • Katy Lindhart

    Content & Grant Writer

  • Rachele Schmiege

    Administrative Coordinator

  • Kristian Tchetchko

    Recording Engineer

Dane Suarez, Season 13 Artwork

Melissa Neely, Program Design

Alisa Innocenti, Production Photography

Board of Directors

  • Coletta Perry

    President

    Owner/CEO, Avatar DPS
    Mayor of Crafton Borough

  • Kim Falk

    Vice President

    Evaluation Specialist, Allegheny County Department of Human Services

  • Lindsey Goodman

    Flutist, soloist, recording artist, chamber collaborator, orchestral musician, educator, and clinician

  • Bethany Mingle

    Chair, Friends of ResWorks

    Physician Associate at UPMC

  • Natalie Polito

    Head Paralegal, Alter, Kendrick & Baron, LLP; Founding Member, Boston Opera Collaborative; Opera singer

  • Rick Robinson

    Artistic Director, Composer/Arranger, CutTime Productions; Retired double bassist from the Detroit Symphony;

  • Brennan Sellner

    Treasurer

    Vice President of Engineering, BioForge

  • Anna Singer

    WQED-FM 89.3 Announcer & Music Programmer; Opera singer and painter

  • Daniel Teadt

    Secretary

    Baritone, Voice Practitioner; Assistant Teaching Professor of Voice, Carnegie Mellon University; Vice President & Co-Founder Magnvm Opus Tasting Concerts