Rose Beattie

Voice part: Mezzo Soprano

Seasons with the Chorale: 3

Hometown: Edgewood, WA

Previous Chorale solo(s): Ricky Ian Gordon’s Suite from The Grapes of Wrath; Bass’ Christmas Flourish

Education: DMA, MM from UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, BM USC Thornton School of Music

Opera performances: Santuzza in Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana with Lyric Opera Northwest; Madame Flora in Menotti’s The Medium; Principessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica; Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte; Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen; Fate in the premiere of Ian Krouse’s Lorca, Child of the Moon

Has appeared as a guest artist with: Seattle Opera’s Young Artist Program singing Hippolyta in A Midsummer Nights Dream

As a soloist: Wagner’s Wesendonk Lieder; Jake Heggie’s Statuesque; Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’eté; Bach’s St. John Passion; Vivaldi’s Magnificat; Händel’s Messiah

Musical theatre credits include: Aldonza/Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha

Awards and Honors: International Festival Society grant to attend TOP Opera 2009 in Austria; UCLA’s prestigious “All-Star” concerto competition award; a finalist award from the LA Young Artist of the Future Competition; a USC Thornton School of Music Excellence and Leadership Award

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Karen Hogle Brown

Voice part: Soprano

Number of seasons with Chorale: 10

Hometown: Tucson, AZ

Previous Chorale solo(s): Tangos and Prayers, Toon Tunes, Broadway, Rejoice (’05, ’06, ’08), Treasure

Education: Bachelor’s in Music Education (summa cum laude) and Master’s in Vocal Performance, University of Arizona

Opera performances: with LA Opera Outreach, Susanna/Sinopa in The Marriage of Figueroa and Poodle in Friday Night at Hodges’ Café; Carmen with LA Opera; La Perichole, The Gondoliers and Cendrillon with U of Arizona Opera; Corinna in Sestina with Long Beach Opera; The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore and The Gondoliers with Opera a la Carte

Has appeared as a guest artist with: Los Angeles Chamber Singers/Cappella; Millennium Consort Singers; teaching artist for LA Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and Music Center of LA

As a soloist: Schnittke Symphony #4, Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella; Bach Magnificat, Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music

Recordings: Grammy Award®-winning Padilla—Sun of Justice with the Los Angeles Chamber Singers; Argento: Te Deum, Glass: Itaipu and Daniel Variations with the LAMC; Linda Ronstadt’s A Merry Little Christmas; Brian Setzer’s Christmas Album; Crystal Cathedral’s Glory of Christmas

Has toured with: Opera a la Carte, Roger Wagner Chorale, Japan Tour 2002

Musical theatre credits include: Rose in The Secret Garden with Cabrillo Music Theatre; Hope Harcourt in Anything Goes with Torrance Theatre Company; conducted Dan Redfeld’s Little Women

Film/Television credits include: 9/Tenths (soloist); License to Wed (on camera); Click, Lady in the Water, The Seeker, National Treasure 2, Marley and Me, X-Men: Wolverine

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Daniel Chaney

Voice part: Tenor

Seasons with Chorale: 6

Hometown: Malta, Montana

Previous Chorale solos: Rachmaninoff ’s All-Night Vigil, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Harmonie Mass and Mass in Time of War, Ricky Ian Gordon’s Suite from the Grapes of Wrath

Education: French horn major at University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music

Opera performances: Spoletta in Tosca, Monostatos in Magic Flute and Guiseppe in La Traviata with the L.A. Opera; 10 years in the Los Angeles Opera Chorus

Movie/TV soundtracks include: Oscar and Lucinda, Lady in the Water, Charlie Wilson’s War, Watchmen, Medium

Has appeared as a guest artist with: San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Roger Wagner Chorale, The Evangelist in the Los Angeles Bach Festival production of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

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Pablo Corá

Voice part: Tenor

Seasons with the Chorale: 9

Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Previous Chorale solos: Händel’s Messiah; J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Magnificat; Rachmaninoff’s Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom; Ariel Ramírez’s Misa Criolla

Education: B.M. Ithaca College; M.M.Indiana University

Opera performances: The Faerie Queen and Dido and Aeneas with Musica Angelica and The Concord Ensemble; Orphée in La Descente d’Orphée with Catacoustic Consort, Les Arts Florissants with Camerata Pacifica, Alfred in Die Fledermaus with the Rome Festival Orchestra, Nathanäel in Les Comtes d’Hoffman, Candide with the Ithaca Opera.

Has appeared as a guest artist and soloist with: Piffaro, the renaissance wind band; Catacoustic Consort; Cappella Romana; The Concord Ensemble; Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra; Aguavá New Music; Theatre of Voices; The Pro Arte Singers

Recordings: Cappella, Padilla: Sun of Justice; gravitación, elements; Los Angeles Master Chorale, Steve Reich: Daniel Variations, Steve Reich: You Are (Variations) and Glass- Salonen; The Concord Ensemble and Piffaro, Il Trionfo d’amore e della morte; Pro Arte Singers, William Byrd: The Three Masses; Aguavá New Music, Itineraries of the Night; Theatre of Voices, I am the True Vine, Carols of the Old and the New World, vol. 2, and Monastic Song; The Concord Ensemble, The Victory of Santiago

Film/Television credits: License to Wed, Lady in the Water

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Amy Fogerson

Voice Part: Mezzo Soprano

Seasons with the Chorale: 23

Hometown: San Mateo, CA

Previous Chorale solos include: Händel’s Messiah; Bach’s Christmas Oratorio; Reich’s Tehillim at Lincoln Center

Education: BA in Choral Conducting, Occidental College

Performs regularly with: Los Angeles Chamber Singers/Cappella, Millenium Consort Singers, Paulist Choristers of California, Jacaranda Chamber Singers (for which she is also the contractor)

Teaching Artist: with the LAMC’s educational outreach program Voices Within; also sings in the LAMC Chamber Singers, an 8-voice ensemble that performs school assemblies all over Southern California

Recent solo appearances: Ligeti’s Clocks and Clouds and Andriessen’s De Stijl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Bach’s Magnificat with Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music; Dvorak’s Mass in D with the Paulist Choristers of California

Film/television/video game credits include: more than 50 film and TV soundtracks, including The Simpsons Movie, Watchmen, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Marley and Me, X-Men: Wolverine, Ice Age 3-D, Medium and upcoming movies 2012 and The Wolfman; video games include The Simpsons, many versions of Spyro the Dragon and the upcoming Assassin’s Creed 2

Recordings: Grammy Award®-winning Padilla—Sun of Justice with the Los Angeles Chamber Singers; Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, Argento-Duruflé, Glass-Salonen, Steve Reich: You Are (Variations) with the LAMC; background vocals for albums by artists as diverse as LeAnn Rimes, Josh Groban, and Busta Rhymes

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Gregory Geiger, bass

Voice part: Bass

Seasons with Chorale: 9

Previous Chorale solos: 
Haydn’s Harmonie Mass

Education: a graduate of both Michigan State University and the Peabody Conservatory

Solo performances: Baltimore Opera, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Washington Opera (at the Kennedy Center), Polaris New Music Ensemble, Baltimore Concert Artists, Los Angeles Opera, Curtis Institute Opera, Los Robles Master Chorale

Performed as a soloist for: former President James Carter when the president received the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism

On disc: with such artists as LeAnn Rimes and Barbara Streisand

Films/Television: more than 25 film soundtracks and an appearance as a singer on the TV show Jag

Other accomplishments: formerly on the faculty of The Baltimore School for the Arts and the Peabody Preparatory; founded the Russell Wonderlic Competition for Young Artists in Baltimore (now in its 15th year); currently on the vocal studies faculty at Pomona College

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Ayana Haviv

Voice part: Soprano

Seasons with the Chorale: 6

Hometown: Jerusalem, Israel

Previous Chorale solos: Händel’s Messiah; Haydn’s Heilig Mass

Also performs with: Los Angeles Opera Chorus, Los Angeles Chamber Singers and Cappella

As a soloist: premiered Sharon Farber’s song cycle Time; sang in Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London; Third Swallow in Die Vögel at LA Opera; Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem; Shostakovich, From Jewish Folk Poetry; Shulamit Ran, O the Chimneys; Betty Olivero, Zima’ar; Rossini, Inflammatus; Mozart, Mass in C minor and Requiem; Vaughan Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem; Dov Seltzer, Yiddish Song Cycle; resident soprano of Synergy, new music chamber ensemble

Recordings: Cappella’s Grammy Award®-winning Padilla: Sun of Justice; Ayana’s own CD as part of Nest, her alt-rock band; many recordings for Walt Disney Records including Disney on Broadway and Disney Holiday Magic; and numerous movie, TV, and video game soundtracks including 2012, The Philanthropist, The Vampire’s Assistant, Tinkerbell 2: Lost Treasure, The Punisher, James Bond: Quantum of Solace, Fight Night, When Nietzsche Wept, Richard III, West Bank Story, Alpha Dog, Desire: Table for Three, Fashion House, My Super Sweet 16

Other musical endeavors: Ayana also sings in a rock band, a klezmer band, and a Bulgarian women’s chorus.

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Steve Pence

Voice part: Bass

Seasons with Chorale: 5

Hometown: Costa Mesa, CA

Education: BM from Chapman University and two MM degrees from New England Conservatory

Previous Chorale solos: Bach’s Christmas Oratorio; Handel’s Messiah; Haydn’s Creation Mass, Lord Nelson Mass, and Theresienmesse

Opera Performances: Sciarrone in Tosca, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Nonancourt in Nino Rota’s Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze

As a soloist: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at UCLA’s Royce Hall with the American Youth Symphony, Britten’s War Requiem with Cypress Masterworks, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Cuesta Master Chorale, Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Los Angeles Bach Festival, Mozart’s Grand Mass in c-minor with the Orange County Catholic Chorale, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Lark Society

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