Zack Devine - Tenor 1, is a guitarist, vocalist, composer, and educator from Philadelphia, PA. He is very active both as a performing artist and as a teacher. He regularly plays Philadelphia and surrounding areas as both a bandleader and a sideman. Devine also has extensive teaching experience, from private tutoring to responsibilities at the collegiate level as a professor at Drexel University. He is stylistically multi-faceted, able to play anything from jazz to americana to rock, and beyond. He is also a multi-instrumentalist, able to play and teach a plethora of different instruments, ranging from strings to woodwinds and percussion, and his primary focus is rooted in his extensive music theory background.

Zack Devine graduated from University of the Arts in 2020 with a Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies, winning the President’s Award for Excellence in Creative Practice for his conceptual programmatic graduate recital. He collaborated with some of Philadelphia’s best musicians, forming a septet to bring the music to life in what would eventually become his 2021 studio album release entitled Secret Garden. Devine also showed his ability as a skilled audio engineer by recording, mixing, mastering, and producing the entire album on his own. He graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Guitar from Berklee College of Music.

Zack Devine has spent years building a reputation for being a talented guitarist, powerful vocalist, and innovative composer. He has played music on prominent stages in and around the Philadelphia area, to include the Newtown Theater, Bucks County Playhouse, The City Winery of Philadelphia, and more. He has thrice played the prestigious Diner En Blanc event in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Berklee College of Music Mentor Collective, the Jazz Education Network, and has contributed to the Jazz Guitar Today publication.

Joshua Myers – Tenor 1, is a graduate of Muhlenberg College and will receive his Master’s in Music in Voice Performance from Temple University in 2025. Located in Newtown Square, PA, Joshua has spent his life (so far) making music throughout Southeast PA, having performed with organizations such as the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Interrupted Silence Vocal Ensemble, and the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. Previous teachers include John Stuart Kennedy, Christopher Hodson, and, currently, Dr. Lawrence Indik. Joshua has a passion for all things vocal music, be it 19th-century opera, 16th-century madrigals, or contemporary chamber pieces. Outside of singing, Joshua’s hobbies include music composition, coffee-making, and cooking. Joshua is honored to be joining Cordus Mundi as his journey of musicianship is also just beginning; with a long road ahead, he couldn’t ask for better company.

James Wells - Baritone, joins Cordus Mundi with experience as both a musician and board member of organizations supporting music.  He is a pianist, percussionist and vocalist.  As a health care executive—and now into retirement--James maintained active roles with many musical organizations over decades, including the Boards of the Atlanta Symphony, Orlando Philharmonic, Concordia Chamber Players and Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus.  He was an accomplished jazz and backup musician in Southern California and led his own group Graduate Vibes.  He attended Westminster Choir College, associated with his degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary.  Lionel Hampton tutored him through a program established by the National Endowment for the Arts.    He has performed piano concerts with lectures featuring the works of Dave Brubeck and Scott Joplin.  Currently, James sings with the Trinity Solebury Choir, the New Hope-Lambertville-Solebury Community Chorus and studies piano with John Schucker.  He is a Warden at Trinity Solebury church and a supporter of Trinity’s Friends of Music.

George Caucci - Tenor 1, is originally from Levittown, PA and attended Pennsbury High School before going off to college. He currently lives in Newtown, PA with his wife Bernadette.

George holds degrees in voice from Stetson University (BM) and The University of Arizona (MM). He also has a MA in Elementary Education from Trenton State College.

Previous musical stops include The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Trenton Opera Theatre, and The Greater Philadelphia Chorale.

He is a cantor and soloist at The Church of Saint Andrew in Newtown and works as a 5th grade teacher at Saint Andrew's School.

George began singing with the Bucks County Choral Society in 2011 and was introduced to Cordus Mundi by several members with dual membership. He was intrigued and impressed by the diversity shown in the Cordus repertoire and is looking forward to expanding his musical horizons with the pre-eminent male a cappella group in the Philadelphia region.

Michael Cosdon - Baritone

Evan Creedon - Tenor 1, is the youngest member of Cordus Mundi, proudly representing the 90's (not his age, the decade he was born in) and serving as the token Millennial in the group. Evan got his big musical break playing a munchkin in the Wizard of Oz (in 5th grade), and has participated in choral groups and musical theater ever since. On the choral side of his musical background, Evan last sang with the Central Bucks East (of which he is a proud alumni) Men's and Select Ensembles, where he was exposed to a wide variety of choral music, highlighted through singing Bach Cantata #4 during a church service at the Bryn Athyn cathedral his senior year. In the musical theater world, Evan has played a wide variety of roles in his time, with some of the highlights being Uncle Max in the Sound of Music, William Morris Barfee in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Gomez Addams in the Addams Family. A recent college graduate from Boston University (at which he obtained his BA in Business Administration and Management), Evan is not quite sure where life might take him next, but he is more than happy to have music back in his life after a brief hiatus, and looks forward to creating wonderful music with the rest of the Cordus Mundi team. He could not be more excited to be on board!

David Fryling - Bass, is the former Music Director of Cordus Mundi, who provided some conducting and sang in the bass II section. David graduated from Houghton College with a Bachelor of Music degree in music education, vocal emphasis. While at Houghton he studied advanced conducting with Dr. Donald L. Bailey. He taught music from the elementary through junior college level for 15 years, and has directed church choirs in western New York, Bucks County, PA, and most recently Lambertville, NJ for over 30 years. David has attended workshops with Dennis Keene, Robert Page, Vladimir Morosan, and Dale Warland to name a few.

David was the bass II section leader for the Bucks County Choral Society for many years before retiring from the group at the end of the 2010-2011 season. He was a frequent soloist with the Choral Society, and has also done solo work with Robert Page and the Children's Miracle Network in Hershey, PA, Voices Chorale of Pennington, NJ, and numerous other groups in western New York and the greater Philadelphia area.

David Hughes - Tenor 2,  joined the group in the spring of 2009. He's been singing since he was a young pup and brings a moderate degree of choral training to Cordus. While in college, he sang in the concert choir and madrigal singers, he also presented an all Bernstein senior voice recital. He sang with the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts under the direction of Michael Korn in the 1980s. David sang with the Bucks County Choral Society under the direction of Elma Heckler from 1986-1991 and has stayed vocally active doing solo work within his church and community since that time.

Summertime finds David singing in the Great Auditorium with the Ocean Grove Choir under the direction of Jason Tramm; That is, when he's not sailing on the Tom's River and Barnegat Bay.

David is a retired educator and elementary school principal.  He is working full time again, this time at an insurance firm in the area.  He hopes to retire again soon.  His five children have blessed him with two grandchildren thus far.  He looks forward to the possibility of many more.  He makes his home in Doylestown with his lovely wife, Florence.

Timothy Harrell - Tenor 1, is an accomplished musician moving into new territory by singing with a male a cappella group for the first time.

Tim has been organist/choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church in Solebury since August 1998. He has also served as University Organist and accompanist for Choral Union at Lehigh University. Before coming to Trinity he held the organist/choirmaster position at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Trenton, NJ and St. John's Episcopal in Olympia, Washington. Harrell was also on staff at Doylestown Presbyterian Church for 10 years. His first church job was as organist at Cradock Baptist Church in Portsmouth, VA.

A native of Portsmouth, Virginia, Harrell graduated with a B.S. in Organ Performance from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA), and a M.M. in Organ Performance & Church Music from Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ.). He has been an active recitalist and accompanist in the Bucks County area for 28 years.

Ed Johnson - Tenor 2, is a twenty year member of Bucks County Choral Society along with his wife Susan, the current Soprano Section Leader.  His parents were both long time BCCS members as well.  Ed has two children; Bryan and Amy.  Amy is also a soprano with BCCS, which makes her a third generation member.

Ed retired from Teknion, an office furniture manufacturer, where he was a product and sales trainer for twenty-one years, involving extensive travel. He currently works part time for Thompson Lexus as a valet driver.

Ed's interests include learning about wine, World War II aircraft, and vintage sports cars.  He is also involved with his son's Boy Scout troop.

Ed and Susan enjoy traveling, especially to the shore and to Sanibel Island

Robert Landley - Tenor 1, has been active in vocal music since his early years in Florida.  In high school he was the student director of the chorus, sang in small ensembles, and had leads in the musicals.  As an undergraduate at MIT he was in the Glee Club and a singer/conductor of the MIT Logarhythms, a small a cappella group not unlike Cordus.  After graduating, Robert returned to Florida for a few years before moving his family to Kwajalein, an island in the Pacific Ocean, to work on large military radars.  While there, he sang in/directed the chapel choir and started a 60 voice community choir.

After 5 years on Kwaj, Robert moved to the Philadelphia area where he sang with Singing City Choir and The Philadelphia Singers Chorale, performing in such venues as the Academy of Music, the Kimmel Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Leningrad’s Philharmonic Hall.  In addition to Cordus, Robert currently sings, with his wife, Lisa, in two choirs at Trinity Episcopal Church in Solebury, and the Bucks County Choral Society.  They have sung several times with small vocal ensembles in Europe. 

Robert has an MBA from Rutgers, is a registered Professional Engineer, and recently retired from Lockheed Martin, where he was radar design engineer.

Eric Muth - Baritone, began his "second career" of choral singing at age 42 at Trinity Episcopal Church of Solebury, where he still sings in the Senior Choir and is one of the founding members of the Chamber Choir. He has been a baritone with the Bucks County Choral Society since Fall of 2000, where he also sings in the Chamber Choir, co-chairs the Production Committee and is the co-chair of their Senior Sing outreach program. He has also sung with Singing City in Philadelphia, Voices of Pennington, NJ, and the Bucks County Motet Singers (now Cantus Novus), and has studied voice with Guy Rothfuss. Eric is a founding member of Cordus Mundi.

Eric has a Ph.D. in pharmacology, and he retired after 24 years with Wyeth (now Pfizer) where he was a manager of Drug Discovery Research and Development in the Neuroscience therapeutic area and a Senior Director in their Global Business Development group. Post-retirement, he has been a volunteer at the Center for Learning in Retirement at Delaware Valley University, where he has taught Pharmacology and Biology courses to interested seniors. Eric lives in Doylestown, PA and plans never to stop singing.

Jim Peters - Baritone, who has been singing with Cordus Mundi since its east coast inception in 2005, is involved in an eclectic range of musical pursuits.   Jim is active with the Bucks County Choral Society, with the choir at Trinity Episcopal Church in Ambler, PA, and had studied voice with Guy Rothfuss.  

Since moving from Doylestown to Huntingdon Valley in late 2016, Jim has built a fully equipped rock band rehearsal studio in his basement where various groups of friends get together to jam, or prepare for the occasional classic rock gig where Jim will perform as a keyboardist/singer..

For both Cordus Mundi and for his classic rock friends, Jim is increasingly adept at preparing choral scores and lead sheets, using Finale notation software to arrange for TTBB and make lead sheets.

Jim is a chemical engineer from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh PA where he and his wife Margie grew up as Steeler fans.

Peter Scarpato, Baritone, has been singing and playing music for virtually a lifetime, from his beginnings on alto sax at age 9, to guitar and voice at age 15. For six (going on 7) decades, he has followed his love for all things musical in rock n’ roll, club and wedding bands, on-stage chorus performances in operas, to baritone and bass sections in five choral groups. He is currently one of 170 singers in the Philadelphia POPS Festival Chorus and was one of 12 singers In an early iteration of Cordus Mundi to which he has happily returned this year after a 6 year hiatus.

Peter found his true voice thanks to 10 years of formal voice training. It was during this period that he joined and performed with Cordus: “the most challenging and enjoyable musical experience of my entire life, where you learn as much from listening as you do from singing.” Peter currently lives in Philadelphia with his wife of 39 years, Paula, and son Aaron. His daughter Rachel lives in New Orleans.

Bill Stefanowicz - Baritone, was with the group since 2005 with a brief break during 2009. Bill began his singing career as a soprano at the age of 7 in St. Timothy's Episcopal Church Men and Boys choir in Philadelphia and remained in the choir till 1984 when he relocated to Solebury and has been a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church Senior & Chamber Choirs since.

After 20 years as Trade Marketing Manager for 6 global brands, Bill has retired from that position. He was responsible for trade & consumer promotion, photography, graphic design, display merchandising, and trade and consumer show management. Bill now has his own graphic design and photography business Top Shelf Design Studio, and is responsible for all concert poster, program, and website design for Cordus Mundi and other musical groups.

A connoisseur and collector of single malts, Bill has is own tasting club Top Shelf Tasters, and is a fine woodworker, although singing is still the most fulfilling activity in his life, all of which he could not do without the support of his loving wife, Debbie. Bill & Debbie recently moved from Bucks County and now reside in Worton, MD

Christopher Whitney - Baritone, is long retired from teaching high school English and history and more recently retired from working as Director of HIV/AIDS Education and Training with the Bucks County Health Department. Until the pandemic shut things down, he was a waiter at a popular restaurant in nearby Lambertville, NJ.

He serves as organist at Holy Nativity Episcopal Church in Wrightstown (26 years). He is a singing member of the Bucks County Choral Society and on the board of directors. He is also a board member of the New Hope - Solebury public library and the Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania, the drug and alcohol agency servicing Philadelphia and surrounding counties.

He and his husband of 29 years, Frank Levy, are members of a local play reading group.

Tony Fazey - Tenor 2,  relocated to the Philadelphia area from the U.K. in 1982 for work related reasons. Prior to crossing the pond, he sang first tenor in musicals produced by the Falkirk Bohemians, a theatre group based in Falkirk, Scotland. He also had a brief stint with a Gilbert and Sullivan group there, soloing in The Gondoliers.

After arriving in the New World, Tony continued to sing, joining the Trenton Civic Opera chorus in 1990. Travel commitments forced him to give up singing in 1995, but couldn't silence him for long. In 2005 he joined the Bucks County Choral Society where he sang first tenor.

At the same time, he became aware of a new a cappella group (Cordus Mundi) being formed in the New Hope area where he lived. He attended one of their first rehearsals and was promptly added to the group as a first tenor.

The U.K. is still seeking reparations from the United States for stealing one of their first tenors.