Claire Fedoruk

Voice part: Soprano

Seasons with Chorale: 7

Hometown: Eugene, OR

Previous Chorale solos: Haydn’s The Creation, J.S. Bach’s Weinachtsoratorium, Handel’s Messiah, Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Reich’s Tehillim at Lincoln Center, Velasco’s La Púrpura de la rosa, Andriessen’s De Stijl (with the LA Philharmonic)

Education: BM, Pacific Lutheran University, MM, Eastman School of Music, DMA in Early Music Performance, USC

Performs regularly with: Concord Ensemble, Musica Angelica, Los Angeles Chamber Singers/Cappella

Opera performances: Amor, Fortuna (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Foothill Master Chorale

As a soloist: The Concord Ensemble, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orange County High School for the Performing Arts Symphony at the Cerritos Center, Pasadena Master Chorale, Occidental/Foothill Master Chorale, Pasadena Symphony, Glendale Symphony.

Recordings: You Are (Variations) and Daniel Variations (Nonesuch) with LAMC; Evening Wind and the Grammy Award®-winning Padilla: Sun of Justice (RCM) with Los Angeles Chamber Singers; albums for LeAnn Rimes and Josh Groban

Film credits include: Slackers, Click, Lady in the Water, License to Wed, Horton Hears a Who, Race to Witch Mountain, Wolverine, Avatar, and Percy Jackson

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Emily Lin

Voice part: Soprano

Seasons with Chorale: 17

Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan

Education: BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California

Recent solo appearances: Ligeti’s Clocks and Clouds with the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Opera Performances: Pamina in Die Zauberflöte; productions with Opera Pacific chorus

Recordings: With LAMC, Steve Reich’s You Are (Variations), Steve Reich’s Daniel Variations, Glass-Salonen

Film credits include: Click, Lady in the Water

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Adriana Manfredi

Voice part: Mezzo Soprano

Seasons with the Chorale: 8

Hometown: Costa Mesa, CA

Previous Chorale solos: Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Haydn’s Harmoniemesse

Education: Oberlin College, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)

Has appeared as a guest artist with: Long Beach Opera, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Eighteen Squared, CalArts New Century Players

As a guest soloist: Tehillim by Steve Reich at Skirball Cultural Center

Opera Roles: The Frog/Woodpecker in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen; Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro

Movie soundtracks include: Lady in the Water, Click

Has toured with: Helmuth Rilling, Bachakademie Festival Ensemble Stuttgart/Berlin

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Kimberly Switzer

Voice part: Mezzo Soprano

Seasons with Chorale: 9

Hometown: Fullerton, CA

Previous Chorale solos: Velasco’s La Púrpura de la rosa

Education: BM vocal performance at CSU Long Beach

As a soloist: Ojai Music Festival, assorted LAMC short solos

Appears regularly with: jazz quintet Pacific Swingline

As a educator and conductor: teaches general music to grades K-6 at St. Bonaventure Elementary School in Huntington Beach; conducts the contemporary ensemble at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Huntington Beach; cantors at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Newport Beach

Recordings: Glass-Salonen and Steve Reich’s You Are (Variations) with LAMC

Has toured with: LAMC

Film/Television credits include: Avatar, Click, Little Mermaid 3, Meet Dave, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Race to Witch Mountain, Wanted, Wolfman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 2012

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Matthew Brown

Voice Part: Tenor

Seasons with Chorale: 1

Hometown: Taft, CA

Education: DMA & MM in composition from USC Thornton School of Music; BA in composition from Pepperdine University

Performs regularly with: Los Angeles Chamber Singers’ Cappella, De Angelis Vocal Ensemble

Recordings: Christmas by Kimberley Locke (background vocals); Voodoo Queen by Reneé Wilson (choral arrangements)

Awards and Honors: 2010 VocalEssence Essentially Choral Commission, 2007 Jimmy McHugh Composition Prize, 2007 VocalEssence Welcome Christmas Competition, 2003 Hans J. Salter Endowed Music Award

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Shawn Kirchner

Voice part: Tenor

Seasons with the Chorale: 9

Hometown: Cedar Falls, Iowa

Previous Chorale solos: Ariel Ramirez’ Misa Criolla; solo sextet for LAMC’s 2006 collaboration with Meredith Monk

Education: MA in Choral Conducting (University of Iowa), BA in Peace Studies (Manchester College), Dalian Foreign Language Institute, China

Performs regularly: as a jazz pianist with the Shawn Kirchner Quartet and as pianist/organist/composer-in-residence at the La Verne Church of the Brethren

Has appeared as a guest artist with: The Concord Ensemble, Los Robles Master Chorale, Pasadena Master Chorale

Has toured with: LAMC to Lincoln Center for Steve Reich’s 70th birthday celebration performance of You Are (Variations)

Recordings: Velvet Light, a collection of his original Christmas choral arrangements; Meet Me on the Mountain, original bluegrass/country songs inspired by the film Brokeback Mountain; LAMC’s You Are (Variations), Daniel Variations, Glass-Salonen

Film/Television credits include: Lady in the Water, License to Wed, National Treasure II, Horton Hears a Who, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Race to Witch Mountain, Avatar, Percy Jackson, and Sex and the City II

Awards and Honors: commissioned by LAMC to write Tu Voz (text by Pablo Neruda) for the 2007 High School Choir Festival

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Michael Lichtenauer

Voice part: Tenor

Seasons with the Chorale: 5

Hometown: Shawnee, KS

Previous Chorale solos: Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Biebl’s Ave Maria, Louis Andriessen’s City of Dis, Chinary Ung’s Spiral XII: Space Between Heaven and Earth, Respighi’s Lauda per la Natività del Signore, Charpentier’s Messe de minuit pour Noël

Education: BS in Journalism, University of Kansas

Performs regularly with: Millenium Consort Singers, Jacaranda Chamber Singers

Sang for 7 seasons with: the Grammy Award®-winning men’s ensemble Chanticleer, including performances with Dawn Upshaw and Frederica von Stade

Recordings: with LAMC, Reich’s Daniel Variations; with Chanticleer include Sound In Spirit, Evening Prayer: Purcell Anthems and Sacred Songs, Our American Journey, Lamentations and Praises, Christmas with Chanticleer, Colors of Love, Matins for The Virgin of Guadalupe, Wondrous Love; with Kansas City Chorale include Ring Out To The Heavens, Rachmaninoff ’s Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Fern Hill, Nativitas

Film and Television Credits Include: More than 30 soundtracks including The Watchmen, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Horton Hears a Who, The Simpsons, License to Wed, Spiderman 3, Fantastic Four, Battlestar Galactica, Medium, 2012, Avatar, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Wolfman, Sex and the City 2

Awards and Honors: Grammy Awards®, Best Small Ensemble Performance, Chanticleer, 1999 & 2002

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Melvir Ausente

Voice part: Baritone

Seasons with Chorale: 2

Hometown: Bacolod City, Philippines

Education: BM in Choral Conducting; Diploma in Creative Performance in Music and the Arts

Performs Regularly with: Los Angeles Master Chorale, St. James' Choir, Vocalese, Harana Men’s Chorus and Sole Voce

Opera Performances: Il Trovatore with El Paso Opera

As a soloist: Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs with the El Paso Chorale; Dubois’ The Seven Last Words of Christ with the White Memorial Church Choir; Meredith Monk’s Night with the Los Angeles Master Chorale

Recordings: Acclamation and Iyo Kailan Pa Man with the Philippine Madrigal Singers; WYC 2008 Collection with the World Youth Choir, A Good Understanding, works by Nico Muhly with the Los Angeles Master Chorale

Has toured with: Philippine Madrigal Singers and World Youth Choir

Awards and Honors: Grand Prize Winner, European Gran Prix for Choral Singing 2007 with the Philippine Madrigal Singers

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Scott Graff

Voice Part: Bass

Seasons with the Chorale: 9

Hometown: Portland, OR

Previous Chorale solos: Handel’s Messiah, Virgil in Louis Andriessen’s The City of Dis, Pa in Ricky Ian Gordon’s Choral Suite from The Grapes of Wrath

Education: MFA in Vocal Performance, California Institute of the Arts; AB in Religious Studies, Occidental College

Performs regularly with: The Concord Ensemble, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Millennium Consort, Jacaranda Chamber Singers

Opera performances: George Frideric Handel’s Semele, Seven Small Operas (including a staged version of Claudio Monteverdi’s madrigal Lagrime d’Amante al Sepolcro dell’Amatai), Il Turco in Italia and Il Tabarro by Giacomo Puccini, Volo di Notte by Luigi Dallapiccola, and From the House of the Dead by Leoš Janáček (Long Beach Opera); La Descente d’Orfeé aux Enfers (Catacoustic Consort in Cincinnati); Michael Webster’s Hell

As a soloist: Musica Angelica, Catacoustic Consort, The Concord Ensemble, Millennium Consort, Carmel Bach Festival, Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra

Recordings: Grammy Award®-winning Padilla: Sun of Justice with the Los Angeles Chamber Singers

Has toured with: The Concord Ensemble

Film credits include: Soundtracks for Avatar, 2012, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Horton Hears a Who, National Treasure II, Click, License to Wed, Lady in the Water

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