Claire Fedoruk

Voice part: Soprano

Season you joined the Chorale: 2003

Birthplace: Pontiac, MI

Education/Vocal Training: BM, Vocal Performance (Pacific Lutheran University); MM, Vocal Performance (Eastman School of Music); DMA, Early Music Performance (University of Southern California)

Do you make your living as a musician? Yes

If so, where else do you gig/teach/conduct/sing/perform? I teach musicology and early music performance practice at Azusa Pacific University as a full time music professor. Scholarly work: Lasciatemi Morire! A Critical Edition of Four 17th Century Roman Cantatas (Rossi, Carissimi, Strozzi, Cesti), Amour Fou: A Critical Edition of Six 17th Century French Cantatas (Michel Pignolet de Monteclair), Lecturer/Performer at Azusa Pacific University’s Bach Woche: “Spirituality in Bach’s B Minor Mass”, “Medieval Complexity and Mensural Proportions of the Middle Ages: A Counterpoint to C.P. Snow’s ‘The Two Cultures’”, Pre-performance Lecturer at APU’s Operas Cosi fan tutte and Amahl and the Night Visitors, Member of Judgment Committee for Abstracts submitted to the National Diversity Conference

Where else do you sing NOW? the Concord Ensemble, Mt Sinai Temple, St. James Episcopal Church, and solo for the Pasadena Master Chorale, LA’s Musica Angelica, Chicago’s Gravitacion, LA Chamber Singers and Capella and various other vocal and instrumental groups. I am also active as a film session singer.

Recent solo roles or guest appearances: Toured with St James Episcopal Choir through Oxford, London, Wells, Canterbury and Salisbury as an ensemble member and a soloist this July. Soprano soloist for the Brahms Requiem with the Pasadena Master Chorale this June. Soprano Soloist of Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3 at the Cerritos Center this past April. Premiered the role of Boudicca in composer Mike Lee’s composition Boudicca this past May.

Recordings/TV/Film: Steve Reich’s You Are Variations (2007 - Nonesuch) and Daniel Variations (2008), Josh Groban’s A Collection (2008), Leanne Rimes What a Wonderful World (2004); Films: Slackers (2001), Click (2006), Lady in the Water (2006), License to Wed (2007), Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Race to Witch Mountain (2009), Wolverine (2009), Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2009), Avatar (2009), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf (2010)

Highlights of your musical career: Performing a memorized and staged version of John Adams’ El Niño at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Soloing with four of my friends on Arvo Pärt’s Miserere last April. Singing in the farewell performance of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with Esa-Pekka Salonen. Soloing in the LA Phil’s Green Umbrella Series in Louis Andriessen’s De Stijl with three of my favorite soloists!

What are you listening to these days?: Aerosmith, The Red Hot Chilli Pipers (bagpipe band!), Kenny Rankin, The Black Eyed Peas, Christina Aguilera, Hildegard von Bingen, Webern’s Symphonies, Berg’s Lulu (I know it’s a strange list)

Favorite choral work: It’s a three way split between Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, and Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610.

A defining moment or favorite onstage experience: Soloing as Voice 4 in Steve Reich’s Tehillim at Alice Tully Hall in NYC with my three buddies Shelly, Alice and Amy

Anything you’d like to add about yourself: I am an avid animal lover and horsewoman. I volunteered for several months at a shelter for Pit Bull Terriers to shatter some of my own and society’s stereotypes. I always cheer for the underdog. I champion strength, intelligence and character, particularly that of women. I am passionate about good food and wine and great films. I am blessed to live with my wonderful husband Douglas Shabe who is also a member of the Master Chorale, and three out of four adopted pets!