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Soprano
Susan Montgomery earned a Bachelor
of Music degree at Chapman University and a Master of Music
at California State University at Fullerton. While still
a student she was a first place winner in the Metropolitan
Regional Auditions in Orange County. She has gone on to a
very busy and successful solo career, both locally and in
New York. This past summer she appeared in China with the
Beijing Symphony in Carmina Burana under the baton of William
Hall. She was recently a soloist with the Los Angeles Master
Chorale, for their performance of the Mozart Requiem. Also
this year she sang the Brahms Requiem and the B-minor Mass
by Bach, with the Palisades Symphony.
A member of the Screen Actors Guild, Ms. Montgomery performs
in recordings and movie soundtracks, including Galaxy Quest
and Snow Falling on Cedars.
She was the principal soloist with the London Symphony in a new work entitled
Orfeo – Opera for a New Age. She also recorded The Birthday of the
World – A Compendium of High Holy Day Music narrated by Leonard Nimoy – and
the enchanting Hotel Luna, a new age jazz album composed and performed
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Alto
Adelaide Sinclair has
appeared with the New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera
Theatre of St. Louis, Opera a la carte, Central City (Colorado)
Opera Festival, and California Guild Opera, as well as touring
with the Metropolitan Opera’s Outreach program. She
has been featured soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
(at both the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Hollywood
Bowl), the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the California Philharmonic,
and the Long Beach, Pacific, Utah, Seattle, and Chicago symphonies.
A Magna cum laude (Vocal Performance) graduate of the University
of Utah, with graduate work at USC, the Souther California
native has captured dozens of vocal awards and is heard frequently
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Tenor
Steven Kronauer is
experienced as a voice teacher, tenor, and conductor, and is
well-versed in the areas of opera, oratorio, musical theater,
and vocal pedagogy. After completing two Master’s degrees
at the University of Michigan, one in Voice Performance and
the other in Choral Conducting, Mr. Kronauer began his professional
career in the chorus of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich,
Germany, as its youngest member ever. During his ten year engagement
with the chorus, he had the privilege of meeting and studying
with many noted singers of the highest echelon, including world
famous Verdi tenor, Dennis O’Neill and Wagnerian baritone
Donald MacIntyre. After extensive vocal study, Mr. Kronauer
was employed as a soloist with the Bavarian State Opera for
television broadcasts, CD recordings, and live radio performances,
appearing with Renee Fleming, Kurt Mohl, and many others, in
secondary tenor roles. Mr. Kronauer performed the role of Smy
in a world premiere of the German opera Peter Pan, by Willfried
Hiller, directed by the world famous stage director August
Everding. This performance was recorded at the Prinz-Regenten
Theatre in Munich, Germany, and distributed by Deutche Gramaphone.
Mr.Kronauer has studied oratorio with the finest of the field, including Ernst
Haefliger and Peter Schreier, in Germany(while being a guest observer at the
Deutche Stats Oper in Berlin,Germany). He also studied with tenor John McCollum
in the United States. Since then, he established a career in Europe singing oratorio
under such noted conductors as Karl Anton Richenbacher and Peter Schneider. Additionally,
Mr. Kronauer has sung as a soloist at the Cologne Philharmonic, and with the
Munich Philharmonic in Germany. He has sung more than 100 performances of Carmina
Burana, internationally. Mr. Kronauer’s interest in opera conducting was
enhanced upon becoming acquainted with Zubin Mehta and Wolfgang Sawalisch at
the Munich Opera.
Mr. Kronauer is in his final year of completing a doctorate degree at the University
of California, Los Angeles in choral and opera conducting under the direction
of Donald Neuen and William Vendice, respectively. He has worked with Donald
Neuen as an assistant conductor with the UCLA Chorale and with Maestro Vendice
as the assistant conductor of the UCLA Opera, where Mr. Kronauer conducted performances
of Ravels opera L’enfent et les Sortileges in January of 2003. The University
of Michigan offered Mr. Kronauer the opportunity of completing two Masters Degrees
in Vocal Performance (under Lorna Haywood) and Choral Conducting (under Theodore
Morrison). There, he was the Assistant Conductor for Jerry Blackstone and the
University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club. He has also led a choral workshop
at the University of Munich. Mr. Kronauer’s expertise focused on performance
practice of American and British chorale music. While in Munich he formed The
Munich Opera Chamber Chorus, which sang some of the great chamber music of the
Germanic tradition, including the complete Liebeslieder waltzes. Recently, Mr
Kronauer taught on the voice faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp. Mr. Kronauer
will be on the voice faculty of the University of California, Irvine in the fall
of 2003.
Steven Kronauer’s fluency in the German language and mastery of Italian
and French diction make him an asset as a vocal coach. As a voice teacher, Mr.
Kronauer has had success with students of practically every genre, demonstrating
an ability to teach beginning singers, Musical Theater performers (some of international
standing), and highly successful opera singers who perform regularly at the Munich
Opera and Covant Garden opera houses, among others. Being an accomplished professional
singer since the age of nine, Mr. Kronouer’s musical interests extend over
several different genres and his understanding of the many different styles of
music, including classical, jazz, pop, and musical theater, is deep. Mr. Kronauer
will always be interested in all aspects of vocal music and in finding talent,
and in helping to aid students as they strive to express themselves so they may
thrive in the musical world.
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Bass
In Joon Jung is a native
of Korea, having received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano
performance at Kei-Myung University. He is currently a doctoral
student in voice at UCLA, studying with Timothy Mussard.
He has been seen with Opera UCLA as Mr. Director and Presto
in Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tiresias, Simone in Gianni Schicchi,
Olin Blitch in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah and the title role
in Don Giovanni. Last summer he sang the role of Bonzo in
Madama Butterfly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the
Hollywood Bowl.
Since 1999 he has sung with the Los Angeles Opera Chorus and covered a
number of roles. He has performed the roles of Fisherman in Peter Grimes
and Schaunard in the student matinee performances of La Boheme.
His oratorio credits include Bach's Magnificat, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
and Ninth Symphony, Haydn's Third Mass (The Imperial) and Puccini's Messa
de Gloria.
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