Rachmaninoff + Haydn
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Adriana Manfredi
Voice part: Alto
Season you joined the Chorale: 2002-2003
Birthplace: California
Education/Vocal Training: Oberlin Conservatory, CalArts
Do you make your living as a musician? Yes
Where else do you gig/teach/conduct/sing/perform? Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Opera Pacific, Orange County High School of the Arts
Where else do you sing NOW? Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Opera Pacific, Cantor at Church of the Good Shepherd, Beverly Hills
Recent solo roles or guest appearances: Britten’s Ceremony of Carols (alto soloist), as "mother" to Joaquin, born February 2008.
Recordings/TV/Film: Click, Lady in the Water
Highlights of your musical career: Singing with LAMC and LA Chamber Orchestra, discovering the magic of the Haydn masses. Singing in Helmuth Rilling's Festival Ensemble in Stuttgart, Germany - Mahler 2 and Brahms Requiem - stunning!
Favorite choral work: Brahms Requiem or anything by Arvo Pärt, Henryk Gorecki, Steve Reich
A defining moment or favorite onstage experience: Singing the keynote concert at Chorus America (2007) with LA Chamber Singers, a program of all Los Angeles composers, following a Grammy win earlier that year for the group's recording Padilla, Sun of Justice (2006)
What are you listening to these days? Anything great from the Long Beach Public Library. In the pop world: Of Montreal, Grant-Lee Phillips, The Eels, She and Him, and whatever my older son (age 4) is into - right now vintage ska.
Anything you'd like to add about yourself? Reader of blogs, laist.com (about LA) and Alex Ross's therestisnoise.com (New Yorker music critic, where LAMC has appeared!)
Daniel Chaney
Voice part: Tenor
Season you joined the Chorale: 2000
Birthplace: Malta, Montana
Education/Vocal Training: french horn major and voice minor at Lamont School of Music in Denver Colorado
Do you make your living as a musician? yes
If so, where else do you gig/teach/conduct/sing/perform? tenor soloist at Sinai Temple, St. George's Episcopal Church, and Glendale 7th Day Adventist church
Where else do you sing NOW? LAMCA Chamber Singers the past 3 years, JACARANDA music group, Roger Wagner Chorale
Recent solo roles or guest appearances: Latest solo appearance was Stravinsky’s Renard at the tribute concert to Ernest Fleischman at Walt Disney Hall in April, with the L.A. Phil and Esa-Pekka Salonen
Recordings/TV/Film: Lady in the Water; Watchmen; The Sorcerer's Apprentice; Avatar; Sex and the City II; SALT; The Rite; Battle L.A.
Favorite choral work: Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil
What are you listening to these days? Andreas Wollenweider
Reid Bruton
Voice part: Bass
Season you joined the Chorale: 2003 or 04
Birthplace: "the South"
Education/Vocal Training: Oberlin Conservatory and The Julliard School of Music (part-time student)
Do you make your living as a musician? Yes
Where else do you gig/teach/conduct/sing/perform? LA Opera chorus, major motion picture soundtracks and my private teaching studio
Where else do you sing NOW? LAO and recording studios in LA
Recent solo roles or guest appearances: several comprimario roles at LAO and solos with LAMC. Frequent soloist at the Episcopal Cathedral of Los Angeles. Solo guest spots on a few TV shows ... most recently (drum roll!) FAMILY GUY... my fav!!
Recordings/TV/Film: over 30 major motion picture soundtracks. 4 TV shows.
Highlights of your musical career: singing a very personal arrangement of 'Old Man River' that Maestro Gershon arranged for me for the annual "Maestro Dinner" on stage at Disney Hall.
My favorite choral work: Figure Humaine by Poulenc - for its atypical bass line writing... OH so melodic!! love it!!!
What are you listening to these days?: Cecilia Bartolli singing Vivaldi. The late Leyla Gencer. A homemade a cappella gospel recording that my mother's 70-year-old housekeeper recorded for my mother when she was dying - think Mahalia Jackson meets Cissy Houston... REALLY!