St. James Theatre
Opened April 12, 2026
Closes September 20, 2026
Titaníque Musicians
Geoffrey Ko
Conductor
Alex “Goldie” Golden
Keyboard 1/Associate Conductor
Yoonah Oh
Keyboard 2
Andy Collopy
Keyboard 3
Zac Zinger
Reed 1 - Tin Whistles/Flute/
Tenor Sax
Julie Pacheco
Reed 2 - Clarinet/Alto Sax
Priscilla Rinehart
French Horn
James De La Garza
Trumpet 1
Shawn Edmonds
Trumpet 2
Matt Watson
Drums
Shelby Blezinger-McCay
Percussion
Alex Mak
Guitar 1
Michael Herlihy
Guitar 2
Jordyn Davis
Electric Bass
Chelsea Starbuck Smith
Solo Violin
Sylvia D’Avanzo
Violin
Gabriela Rengel
Violin
Jen Herman
Viola
Melissa Westgate
Cello
Music Team
Nicholas James Connell
Musical Supervisor/Orchestrator/Music Arranger
Geoffrey Ko
Musical Director
Libby Hatton
Music Assistant
Exponential Music, Nick Wilders, and Ari Goldbloom-Helzner
Music Preparation
Kimberlee Wertz
Musical Coordinator
Musician Bios
Geoffrey Ko
Conductor
GEOFFREY KO is a New York based music director, arranger, and orchestrator who primarily works in new musical theater. He is the Music Director and Conductor of the current Broadway production of Titanique and is the Music Supervisor and Conductor of The Jimmy Awards.
BROADWAY: Titanique, The Notebook (Grammy Nominated Cast Album), Be More Chill.
OFF-BROADWAY: Broadway Bounty Hunter, Baby, Billy and the Killers, Generation Me, Renascence.
WORLD PREMIERES include Take The Lead (Paper Mill), Broadway Bounty Hunter (off-Broadway), Disney’s A Jolly Holiday (Paper Mill), Row (Williamstown), Mystic Pizza (Ogunquit), May We All (Tennessee Performing Arts Center), Punk Rock Girl (The Argyle Theatre), Other World (Bucks County Playhouse), and Love in Hate Nation (Two River).
ORCHESTRATIONS and ARRANGEMENTS: The Tale of the Gifted Prince (Theater Calgary), Baby (MTI/New Off-Broadway Cast Recording), Take The Lead (Eva Price/Paper Mill), Always Something There (Lively McCabe/The Marriott Theatre), The Museum of Broken Relationships (Daniel Green), The Morris & Essex Line (Salzman and Cunningham), Sweet Charity (The Marriott Theater), Explora Cruises, and The American Pops Orchestra.
OTHER WORK: Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, American Songbook (Lincoln Center), and concerts for Disney on Broadway. Geoff is a New Jersey native and graduate of Northwestern University.
Yoonah Oh
Keyboard 2
Andy Collopy
Keyboard 3
Andy Collopy is a New York City-based pianist and music director. His theatrical credits include The Lightning Thief on Broadway, the national tour of the Daniel Fish-directed revival of Oklahoma!, the Off-Broadway production of Daddy Long Legs, and both Take The Lead and Frozen at Paper Mill Playhouse. He is particularly passionate about the development of new musicals and has worked extensively as a music director of readings, workshops, and festival presentations of new works. Andy is on the music team of the Jimmy Awards and can be heard each year accompanying the finalists on the stage of Broadway's Minskoff Theatre.
More info can be found at andycollopy.com.
Zac Zinger
Reed 1 - Tin Whistles / Flute / Tenor Sax
Zac Zinger is an award-winning composer, arranger, orchestrator, music supervisor, and multi-instrumentalist. He plays saxophones, shakuhachi, flute, clarinet, EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument), and a host of world flutes, and has been credited for musical contributions to over 100 commercial music releases, three of which received Grammy Awards. He has lectured on the shakuhachi and multicultural art at the World Shakuhachi Festival, Berklee, CalArts, NYU, and Texas A&M.
Artists: Sir Paul McCartney, Branford Marsalis, Michael Bublé, Dionne Warwick, Audra McDonald, Bear McCreary, Tituss Burgess, Sungazer, 8-Bit Big Band
Awards/Fellowships: 1st place, 2021 Tribeca New Music Competition; 1st place, 2020 USA Songwriting Competition; 4 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards; Johnny Mandel Prize; Asian Cultural Council Fellowship; Salon De Virtuosi Career Grant
Shows (Broadway Chairholder): Titanique (2026), Gypsy (2025), 1776 (2022)
Media Credits: Street Fighter V, League of Legends, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Elden Ring, PubG Mobile, Final Fantasy XV, Jump Force, The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power
Julie Pacheco
Reed 2 - Clarinet / Alto Sax
Broadway credits include Smash, The Great Gatsby, The Notebook, Kimberly Akimbo, West Side Story, Paradise Square, Kiss Me, Kate! and The Prom. Julie has been an orchestra member for The Tony Awards, City Center Encores!, The New York Pops and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and has performed in concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Town Hall.
Julie is the owner of the woodwind instrument stand company Blayman Music.
Shawn Edmonds
Trumpet 2
Shelby Blezinger-McCay
Percussion
Alex Mak
Guitar 1
Alex Mak is a guitarist and educator based in New York City, originally from Markham, Canada. He’s played with Titanique since its off-off-Broadway basement beginnings, holding the guitar chair since November 2022.
Alex also works with the artist Mark Ambor and is co-producing his upcoming second album. With Mark, Alex has toured North America and Europe, played TV shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Today Show, and festivals including Lollapalooza, NOS Alive Lisbon, and the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Alex is an active teacher and clinician, and has led clinics at his alma mater, Berklee College of Music. He’s an endorsed artist with Fractal Audio Systems, Mono Creators, Shubb Capos and 64Audio IEMs.
Michael Herlihy
Guitar 2
Michael is a guitarist and producer based in NYC. You can currently see him performing in Titanique at the St. James Theater, and catch him playing with various artists around the city!
Jordyn Davis
Electric Bass
Jordyn Davis is a pioneering force in contemporary music, celebrated for her versatility as a bassist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. A Detroit native, Davis made history as the first African-American woman to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Composition from Michigan State University, where she also became the first student to receive simultaneous degrees in Music Composition and Jazz Studies. After completing a Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies, Davis moved to Brooklyn, NY, where she was named an inaugural Jazz Leader Fellow at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music as well as a New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow with the American Composers Orchestra.
Davis’s music spans Jazz, Folk, Indie Rock, Musical Theater and Contemporary Classical, with compositions that reflect her deep empathy and social awareness. Her work has been featured on PBS’s “Music for Social Justice” and commissioned by esteemed institutions like the Kennedy Center, the New York Philharmonic, the Juilliard School Preparatory Division, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has collaborated with industry greats such as Michael Dease, Craig Harris, Dee Dee Bridgewater, David Murray, Melba Moore and many more. Her ensemble, “Composetheway,” began as a solo project and has grown into a genre-bending exploration of performance and improvisation. Davis is also a dedicated educator, mentoring young musicians through organizations like the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Girls Rock Detroit, and Brevard Summer Jazz Institute. With her innovative approach and profound impact, Jordyn Davis is a name to watch in the music world.
Chelsea Starbuck Smith
Solo Violin
Acclaimed for her “compelling presence, fearless attack, and technical aplomb and bravado” (The Day), violinist Chelsea Starbuck Smith has performed at major venues across the U.S. and internationally, including Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, David Geffen Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Elbphilharmonie, Musikverein Wien, and Palais de Fontainebleau.
Equally at home in classical, theatrical, and crossover settings, Chelsea has collaborated with Diana Ross, Baz Luhrmann at the Met Gala, Chris Thile, The Eagles, Kelly Clarkson, Debbie Harry & Blondie, The Knights Chamber Orchestra, and Joshua Bell's Chamber Orchestra of America. A seasoned Broadway musician, she has performed in over ten Broadway productions, including her current engagement at Titanique. As one half of the crossover duo Les Deux, Chelsea has been recognized for her “keen ear for arranging” (New York Examiner). She has appeared as a soloist with the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, Southern Finger Lakes Orchestra, and Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, where her performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto was called a “show-stopper.” Her television appearances include Glee, The Today Show, and a featured role in a national NYU Langone commercial filmed in Grand Central Station.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Chelsea holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, studying with esteemed teachers Sally Thomas, David Chan, and Laurie Smukler. She is the recipient of the Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant. A third-generation educator, she has taught as a teaching artist with the New York Philharmonic and currently serves on the faculty at Temple Emanu-El and the Charles Ives Music Festival. Chelsea loves sharing her passion for music and is proud to teach an inspiring group of students, ages 3–21, helping each cultivate their unique voice and artistic path.
Her recordings include her debut album with Les Deux and an EP with pianist Adam Rothenberg, featuring the Corigliano Sonata. She performs on a 2004 Kurt Widenhouse violin.
Offstage, Chelsea shares the spotlight with her Scottish Fold, Leonard “Lenny” Bernstein, whose charisma rivals that of his famous namesake.
Sylvia D’Avanzo
Violin
Sylvia has 30+ years on Broadway. Highlights include Sunset Boulevard, The Light in the Piazza, She Loves Me, SpongeBob SquarePants, Sunday in the Park with George and The Notebook. Touring violinist with Barbra Streisand, Harry Connick Jr & Madeleine Peyroux. Hell’s Kitchen is her hood.
Jen Herman
Viola