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.

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