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!)