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Tenor
Steven Kronauer was
born in Grand Rapids, MI, where he began singing at the age
of nine,
performing all over North America prior to enrolling at the
University of Michigan. He completed his Bachelor’s
and Master’s degrees in vocal performance and conducting
while continuing to perform both opera and concert programs.
He has performed Carmina Burana many times in the US and
in Europe and has been heard as soloist is a wide variety
of oratorio concerts.
Mr. Kronauer’s opera career began in the chorus of
the Bavarian State Opera and eventually led to solo roles
in The Excursions of Mr. Broucek
by Janacek, Antigone by Carl Orff and Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.
He has had the opportunity on several occasions to appear on national telecasts
here and abroad.
After ten years in Germany, he has come to Los Angeles and completed his
second year in the doctoral program in conducting, under the guidance of
Professor Neuen. At UCLA he serves as the assistant conductor of the Opera
Program directed by William Vendice. In addition to studies and concert
performance, Mr. Kronauer is an established voice teacher, whose students
have been soloists in the major opera houses of Europe. |
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Bass-baritone
Wayne Shepperd has sung throughout
the United States in recital, opera and oratorio performances.
He has appeared at the Los Angeles Opera, Opera San Jose,
the Mormon Tabernacle and Carnegie Hall and has performed
with The Riverside Master Chorale, the Desert Chorale, Los
Angeles Camerata, Canto Bello Chorale and Angeles Chorale.
He has worked with such noted conductors as Donald Neuen,
H. Vincent Mitzelfelt, Barbara Favorito, Greg Norton, Stephen
Gothold, Michael Lamkin, William Chunestudy and Jon Robertson.
His many roles with Los Angeles Opera have included Jake
Wallace in La Fanciulla del West, Starveling in Midsummer
Night’s Dream, and Gaoler
in Tosca.
Among engagements scheduled for the 2002-2003 season are Handel’s
Messiah, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Walton’s Belshazzar’s
Feast, Bach’s St. John Passion, Rossini’s Petite Messe Sollenelle,
Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Requiem (with the Redlands
Symphony) and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Classical Music Festival
in Eisenstadt, Austria.
Mr. Shepperd holds both a BA and MA from Loma Linda University at Riverside. |
Also featuring:
Susan
Montgomery, Soprano
Kelley
O’Connor Alto |
