ONE VOICE Community Ensemble

We believe everyone has a voice to be heard. Our mission is to offer a transformative community of respect, acceptance, and celebration of adults of all singing abilities in a musical environment. Directed by Laura Enslin and Matthew Green, OVCE will prove to be a quality experience.

Whether you are a seasoned or beginner singer OVCE is for you if you want to:

• have fun and share music making in a diverse community
• become a more confident and skilled singer
• build confidence, focus, problem solving and creative expression
• create a better sense of connection and well-being through music

The Directors

Laura Enslin

Soprano Laura Enslin brings more than two decades of professional teaching and performing experience to help launch the One Voice Community Ensemble. The success of CNY Singing Garden—a private voice studio she founded at DeWitt Community Church, offering private lessons, workshops and small-group classes—is a testament to her passion for working with singers of all ages and abilities.

Laura is one of only a few voice teachers in the area to emphasize the mind/body connection. Steeped in the bel canto singing tradition, she combines her Dharma Yoga 200-Hour Teacher Training with a rich background in Music for People, Music Together and Mary Knysh’s Rhythmic Connections.  Her goal? To help singers find their true, natural voice.

In 2019, Laura concluded a 14-year career at Syracuse University—first, in the Musical Theater program and then in the Jazz and Commercial Music applied study track—to focus on cross-cultural community building. She realizes that while many of her students perform all over the world (including on Broadway, television and major cruise lines), a greater number engages in music for purely personal reasons. “Music is not an exclusive club,” she says. Drawing on elements of music making and music improvisation, she is committed to helping everyone—regardless of age and background—experience the healing and transformative power of music.  

Laura also has taught voice at Nazareth College and the Eastman School of Music, the latter from which she earned a master’s degree in vocal performance and literature. A mother of two, she is an active soloist, recitalist, new-music champion and arts entrepreneur.   

Matthew Green

Tenor Matthew Green brings more than two decades of teaching and performing experience to the Front Row Players and One Voice Community Ensemble. 

For the past 22 years, he has taught privately throughout Central and Upstate New York, working with singers of all ages and abilities. Matthew is a faculty member of Singing Garden, offering private voice lessons, workshops and small-group classes through DeWitt Community Church (DCC), where he is a choir section leader. A New York State-certified respiratory therapist, he specializes in asthma and breathing problems.  

Outside the studio, Matthew is a 19-year veteran of the Syracuse Opera Chorus, where his silvery tone has graced dozens of operatic and musical theater productions. He also has performed with the Tri-Cities Opera Company in Binghamton, the Cortland Repertory Theatre, the Savoyards Music Theatre Ltd. (formerly Cornell Savoyards), the Central New York Playhouse in DeWitt and the Chenango Community Players in Norwich. 

In addition to being a sought-after soloist and recitalist, Matthew is an experienced stage director, an acting and vocal coach, a rehearsal director, a beginning piano instructor and an arts administrator. He earned a bachelor’s degree in vocal music performance from Ithaca College.