PEDRO
CARRERAS, JR.
Tenor

Noted for his emotionally sensitive portrayals and dark,

resonant voice, tenor and Miami native PEDRO CARRERAS, JR. 

is a very active performer in the Southeast and beyond.

Compilation video:  Coming soon
Personal website:  http://www.pedrocarreras.com/

Credits include:  Atlanta Opera; Peach State Opera; Utah Philharmonic; DCINY; Atlanta Philharmonic; Georgia Southern Symphony; Capitol City Opera.

Repertoire/roles include:  Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly; Don Josè/Carmen; Rodolfo/La Bohème; Cavaradossi/Tosca; Nemorino/L'elisir d'amore; Bruckner/Te Deum.

VIRGINIE
BESSON
Soprano

Swiss soprano VIRGINIE BESSON specializes in concert/symphonic soloist performances and displays a vast array of onstage operatic roles.

Compilation video:  https://youtu.be/TRLuxgHitR4
Personal website:  https://www.liricoamoroso.com/

Credits include:  Orchestre de la Sorbonne; Lamalou-de-Bains Operetta Festival; Opera performances in Vevey and Dorigny; Opéra de Lausanne.

Repertoire/roles include:  Tosca; Violetta/La Traviata; Aïda; Leonora/Il Trovatore; Countess/Le nozze di Figaro; Nedda/Pagliacci; Turandot; Brahms/Ein deutsches Requiem; Bach/Christmas Oratorio; Rossini/Petite messe solennelle; Handel/Messiah. 

JOEL
EDWARDS
Tenor

American tenor JOEL EDWARDS is making a real presence as a powerful interpreter of opera roles, as well as concert literature.

Compilation video:  https://youtu.be/a8zT_-_OxE8

Credits include:  Connecticut Lyric Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Wagner in Vermont Festival, Odyssey Opera, Opera North, Connecticut Virtuosi Orchestra, Promenade Opera Project, Opera del West, American Classics, Halifax Summer Opera Festival.

Repertoire/roles include:  Florestan/Fidelio; Siegmund/Die Walküre; Rinuccio/Gianni Schicchi; Don Jose/Carmen; Candide; Tamino/Die Zauberflöte; Turiddu/Cavalleria Rusticana; Rodolfo/La bohème.

STEPHANIE ANN
BALL
Soprano

STEPHANIE ANN BALL performs as a soloist in opera, oratorio, in concert, and has also created concept programs that showcase the many contributions African Americans have made to classical music.

Compilation video:  Coming soon
Personal website:  https://stephanieannball.com/

Credits include:  Mid-Ohio Opera, Bach Society of St. Louis, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Arizona Opera, Central City Opera, Boulder Opera, Winter Opera St. Louis, Ambrosian Choristers, Jefferson Symphony.

Repertoire/roles include:  Adina/L'elisir d'amore; Mozart/Requiem, Exsultate, jubilate; Adele/Die Fledermaus; Weber/Mass in G; Frasquita/Carmen; Lucy/The Telephone; Poulenc/Gloria; Handel/Messiah.

DAVID W.
COOK
Tenor

A Maryland native whose work has been described as both dynamic and versatile, tenor DAVID W. COOK is quickly distinguishing himself as a rising artist.  

Compilation video:  https://youtu.be/0nBtDfz7D1w
Personal website:  https://www.davidwcooktenor.com/

Credits include:  La Musica Lirica, Hub Opera Company, Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Songfest, Rocky Mountain Music Festival, Tiziano Rossetti Music Festival, Cumberland Choral Society.

Repertoire/roles include:  Ernesto/Don Pasquale; Alfredo/La Traviata; Nadir/Les pêcheurs de perles; Romeo/Romeo et Juliette; Mozart/Coronation Mass; Beethoven/Choral Fantasy;
Rutter/Gloria.

RYAN TOWNSEND STRAND
Tenor

RYAN TOWNSEND STRAND is a Minnesota native whose "beautiful vocalism" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "...attractive nimble tenor” (Chicago Classical Review) have afforded him an expanding career as a concert and oratorio soloist.

Compilation video:  https://youtu.be/DI3A8MMDMUE
Personal website:  https://www.ryantownsendstrand.com/

Credits include:  Lyric Opera of Chicago; Haymarket Opera Company; American Bach Soloists; Bach Vespers Cantata Series; Illinois Philharmonic; Chicago Opera Theater; Oregon Bach Festival; Opera Atelier; Fort Wayne Philharmonic.

Repertoire/roles include:  Acis/Acis and Galatea; Frederic/The Pirates of Penzance; Ferrando/Così fan tutte; Bach/Cantatas; Bach/St. John Passion; Bach/St. Matthew Passion; Dr. Cajus/Falstaff; Laurie/Little Women; Nerone/L'incoronazione di Poppea.

KATIE
SURINE
Soprano

Chicago-based soprano KATIE SURINE has sung a wide range of operatic and classical repertoire, from early to modern, sacred to secular.

Compilation video:  https://youtu.be/I94xE5BqaRQ
Personal website:  https://katiesurinesoprano.com/

Credits include:  The Princeton Festival; MIOpera; St. James Cathedral; Opera Notre Dame; Our Lady's Consort; Opera Notre Dame; CCPA Graduate Opera; EPCASO.

Repertoire/roles include:  Venus/King Arthur; Dulcine/Angry Birdsong; Erste Dame/Die Zauberflöte; Zerlina/Don Giovanni, Ilia Idomeneo; Marzelline/Fidelio; Eurydice/Orphée aux enfers; Cunegonde/Candide; Mozart/Exsultate, jubilate; Vaughan Williams/Mass in G Minor; Kodály/Missa Brevis; Handel/Messiah. 

FEI
XIA
Soprano

Currently pursuing her doctorate in West Virginia, soprano FEI XIA has been engaged by a number of professional opera companies and is a prizewinner of many competitions.

Compilation video:  https://youtu.be/wQZIHdeOVOk
Personal website:  https://melodyfei88.wixsite.com/website

Credits include:  Vienna Opera Festival, NYLOP, Angels Vocal Arts Opera Company, Manhattan Opera Studio, Miami Music Festival, Berlin Opera Academy, Connecticut Lyric Opera, Taconic Opera, New York Lyric Opera (Carnegie Hall).

Repertoire/roles include:  Juliette/Romeo et Juliette; Giulietta/Les contes d’Hoffmann; Zerlina/Don Giovanni; Despina/Così fan tutte; Annio/La clemenza di Tito; Pamina, Second Lady/Die Zauberflöte; Manon; Gretel/Hänsel und Gretel, Angelica/Orlando.

MICHAEL
GONZÁLEZ
Tenor

MICHAEL GONZÁLEZ has been praised as having a "sweet and resonant" tenor voice and is quickly making himself known in the performing world.  

Compilation video:  Coming soon
Personal website:  https://michaelalexandertenor.com/

Credits include:  Boston Cathedral Singers, Piccola Opera, Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, Hartford Opera Theater, Parlor Opera Players, Greater Worcester Opera.

Repertoire/roles include:  Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni; Satyavan/Savitri; Hoffmann/Les contes d'Hoffmann; Albert Herring; Gérald/Lakmé; Aeneas/Dido and Aeneas; Tamino/Die Zauberflöte; Mozart/Messiah; Rodolfo/La bohème.