A Midsummer Night's Dream: Artistic Staff & Cast Biographies

IU Opera Theater Presents the 2005-6 Season

INTRODUCTION	SYNOPSIS	PROGRAM NOTES
CAST LIST	BIOGRAPHIES	PRODUCTION PHOTOS

A Midsummer Night's Dream
by Benjamin Britten
Libretto adapted from William Shakespeare
By Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Premiered: Aldeburgh, Suffolk, June 1960

November 11, 12, 18, 19 at 8:00pm
with opera insights at 7:00pm
Conductor: David Effron
Stage Director: Colin Graham
Designer: C. David Higgins
(Click here to see C. David Higgins' Costume Drawings)

BIOGRAPHIES OF THE CAST AND ARTISTIC TEAM

ARTISTIC STAFF

David Effron, Conductor
Originally from Cincinnati, OH, distinguished symphony and opera conductor David Effron grew up in a musical family. His father was concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony for 28 years and his mother was the pianist for that orchestra.
After earning Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in piano at the University of Michigan and Indiana University, Effron received a Fulbright grant for study in Germany and began his professional career as an assistant to general music director Wolfgang Sawallisch at the Cologne Opera. Returning to the United States in 1964, he joined the conducting staff of the New York City Opera, a position he held for 18 years.
In his early career as a pianist, he accompanied such artsts as George London, Placido Domingo, and Sherrill Milnes in recital and collaborated with soprano Benita Valente as her accompanist for a decade.
As a prominent educator, Effron taught at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1970 to 1977. As the head of the orchestral program at the Eastman School of Music from 1977 to 1998, he trained hundreds of instrumentalists now in professional orchestras worldwide. His conducting students presently hold positions ranging from the assistant conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra to music director positions in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and South America. Since 1998, he has served as professor of conducting at the Indiana University School of Music, where he was appointed chairman of the Conducting Department in the fall of 2005.
A highly sought after guest conductor with a repertoire of all the standard sympyhonic works, as well as 105 operas, Effron’s career has included appearances with major symphony orchestras and opera companies in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and the Far East. This coming summer will mark his tenth season as artistic director and principal conductor of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina.
In 1984, Effron was the conductor for the Grammy award-winning recording of Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. His discography also includes a 1987 Pantheon recording with Benita Valente, which won the German Critics Prize. Effron joined forces with flutist James Galway for a RCA recording of John Corigliano’s Pied Piper Fantasy, winning a top prize from Ovation Magazine.
In 2003, Effron received the Musicians of the Year Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs. In recognition and acknowledgement of his pedagogical contributions, he was honored in the spring of 2004 with the unveiling of a portrait to be displayed at the University of Rochester’s prestigious Eastman School of Music.
In the spring of 2006, Effron will be awarded an honorary doctorate from North Carolina State University.

Colin Grahm, Stage Director
Colin Graham is an internationally known stage director of opera, theater, and television, with more than 400 productions to his credit that have been seen worldwide. Born in London, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts; his theatrical training included extensive studies in acting, singing, dancing, and musical composition. He is now a U.S. citizen and lives in St. Louis, MO, where he is the Artistic Director of Opera Theater of St. Louis. In December 2001, he was named OBE (Officer of the British Empire) and cited for “services to British opera and music in the USA”. Early in his career, Graham began a long association with the work of composer Benjamin Britten. He directed all but one of Britten’s stage works, and also staged the premiere of Owen Wingrave for BBC Television, making his U.S. debut with the same work at the Santa Fe Opera. For many years, Graham worked at Sadler’s Wells and the English National Opera, where he was director of productions (1970-1980) and staged many of his most elaborate productions, including Prokofiev’s War and Peace and Britten’s Gloriana (both seen at the Metropolitan Opera on the company’s visit to New York). The production of Peter Grimes marked Graham’s debut at IU Opera Theater.

C. David Higgins, Set Designer.
C. David Higgins has been designing scenery since 1972 when he began working at the Indiana University School of Music as a master scenic artist. Now a faculty member, he teaches set design and has been designing opera and ballet scenery and costumes across the globe for theaters in the United States, England, Italy, Iceland, and Korea. With over 150 productions to his credit, he has been described as one of America’s finest scenic painters by Opera News magazine and is best known for his detailed, Italianate painting style.

THE CAST

Puck

Christopher Nachtrab, originally from Long Island, NY trained under the tutelage of his mother. C urrently in his senior year at IU, he is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Ballet Performance with an outside field in Comparative Literature while acting as the student representative for the Ballet Department. His many honors include the NSAL Chapter Award for Ballet in 2005, the Marina Svetlana Award (NSAL) in 2004, the Kenneth C. Whitener Award for Ballet, and the Music Dean’s Award. Nachtrab is also a member of both Phi Eta Sigma and The Golden Key Honor Societies. Throughout his past four years at IU, Nachtrab has been featured in several IUBT productions including the Jester in Cinderella (Spring Ballet 2005), Snow King & Herr Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker (2002-2004), Gold in Sleeping Beauty, Act III (Spring Ballet 2004), and as a featured dancer in Spring Water (Fall Ballet 2005), Viva Vivaldi! (Fall Ballet 2004), Glassworks (Fall Ballet 2004), and Serenade (Spring Ballet 2004). He has also performed in productions with the IU Theatre Department and as a guest artist with Chautauqua Opera.

Oberon

Countertenor, Daniel Bubeck made his professional operatic debut to critical acclaim singing the role of the First Countertenor in the world premiere of John Adams’ opera/oratorio, El Niño. Since then, he has performed with some of the world’s most prestigious ensembles including the BBC Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Radio Filharmonisch Holland, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester-Berlin, and Tokyo Symphony. Bubeck has also collaborated with conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Robert Spano, John Adams, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Sian Edwards, Daniel Reuss, Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan, and Paul Hillier.
Bubeck’s most recent accomplishments include the American premiere of Bang on a Can’s Lost Objects at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Handel’s Messiah with American Bach Soloists in San Francisco, the title role in Handel’s Solomon at the 2004 Bloomington Early Music Festival, and a concert performance of Hans Werner Henze’s Das verratene Meer with the Tokyo Symphony. In addition, he was a winner in the 2005 Sullivan Career Grant Competition as well as awarded a Virginia Best Adams Fellow at the 2004 Carmel Bach Festival.
Bubeck is a native of Wilmington, DE, and currently lives in Philadelphia. He holds musical degrees from Indiana University, Peabody Conservatory, and the University of Delaware.

Matthew Burton , countertenor, is pursuing a Master of Music degree in Early Voice at IU, where he recently completed his undergraduate studies in Early Voice and Italian. He performs regularly as a soloist and ensemble member at IU and throughout central Indiana. This spring, Burton performed the title role in Anima e Corpo Ensemble's production of M. A. Charpentier's Actéon. During the summer of 2005, he sang in both the Bloomington Early Music Festival and the Boston Early Music Festival. Upcoming projects include Handel’s Messiah in December with Columbia Chorale of Columbia, MO. He studies with Paul Elliott and is a native of Indianapolis.

Titania

Natalie Ford , a native of San Mateo, CA, is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Voice at Indiana University. Natalie graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music from Valparaiso University, where opera roles performed include Adele in Die Fledermaus and Kate in The Ballad of Baby Doe. Ford was also involved in VU’s theatre department, receiving Irene Ryan nominations for her portrayals of Léonide in Triumph of Love and Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Last year, she was seen in IU Opera Theater’s production of Dialogues des Carmélites, was a soloist in J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor. and performed the role of Pauline in the Bloomington Music Works production of The Toyshop. This past summer, she returned to the Bay Area to participate in San Francisco’s BASOTI opera institute. Ford is a student of Patricia Wise.

Elizabeth Jerri Koontz , soprano, is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Voice at IU, where she studies with Patricia Stiles. Among her many awards are The Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Competition, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Indiana University School of Music Undergraduate Dean’s Award, Indiana University Foundation William S. Armstrong Scholarship, Indiana University School of Music Faculty Award, Indiana University Foundation Scholarship, and The National Federation of Music Clubs Gwladys Comstock First Place Award. This past spring, she was a nun in IU’s production of Les Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc. In addition to her stage experience at IU, she performed the role of Anne Trulove in Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at Bel Canto Northwest Vocal Institute the summer of 2004.

Hippolita

Meghann Vaughn , mezzo-soprano, is pursuing her Master of Music in Voice. This performance marks her IU Opera Theater debut. A native of North Carolina, Vaughn received her bachelor’s degree from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she studied voice with Carla LeFevre and coached with Andrew Harley. While at UNCG, she performed the role of The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Mrs. McClean in Susannah, and Third Lady in The Magic Flute. She has performed the title role in scenes from Rossini’s La Cenerentola, as well as the role of Marcellina in scenes from Le Nozze di Figaro. Her oratorio credits include alto soloist in Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Bruckner’s Te Deum, and Mozart’s Vespers. Vaughn studies with Patricia Stiles.

Mezzo-soprano Lisa LaFleur, originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, appears in her second role at IU, with her first being the title role in La Cenerentola last fall. Before moving to Bloomington, She graduated summa cum laude with her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Loyola University New Orleans. At Loyola, she performed Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus. Also in New Orleans, she sang with the New Orleans Opera in productions of Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Pontalba (a world premiere), and Don Giovanni as well as in the St. Louis Cathedral Concert Series as mezzo soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria and Duruflé’s Requiem. In 2004, she was a Gulf Coast Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. This summer, she performed with the Central City Opera as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Moppet/1st Wild Goose in Britten’s Paul Bunyan. Given the continued reconstruction of New Orleans, LaFleur plans to make her Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra debut as the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah in December. She is a student of Patricia Stiles.

Theseus

Kevin Murphy , a native of New York, is a bass-baritone that received his Bachelor of Music from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. While at Crane, Murphy performed many roles, including Sarastro in The Magic Flute, Poo-Bah in The Mikado, and Czolgosz in Assassins. He is currently in his third year as a graduate student at IU, where he has appeared as Sciarrone in Tosca, Colline in La bohème, Alfieri in A View from the Bridge, and Don Alfonso in Cosí fan Tutte. Murphy recently performed the title role of Sweeney Todd for the Janiec Opera Company in Brevard, NC. He currently studies with Costanza Cuccaro.

AJohn Paul Huckle , bass, appeared last month as Friar Laurence in Roméo et Juliette. A past student of Giorgio Tozzi, Huckle is a native of Pittsburgh, PA, and is currently pursuing a Master of Music in voice from IU. This past May, he finished his Performer Diploma in Voice from IU. His various roles at IU include Sarastro in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Antonio in The Marriage of Figaro, the Commendatore in Don Giovanni, Pistola in Verdi’s Falstaff, and Olin Britt in The Music Man. Huckle has attended the Brevard Music Program, where he performed in Don Giovanni and Falstaff. Last year, Huckle participated in Martina Arroyo’s role preparation class, working on John Claggart in Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd. The past two summers, he attended Opera North’s young artist program in Lebanon, NH, and has performed the roles of Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Friar Jean in Roméo et Juliette, Sciarrone and the Jailer in Tosca, Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring, and covered the role of Don Alhambra in The Gondoliers. Huckle studies with Robert Harrison.

Lysander

Garth Eppley , tenor, is a native of Wabash, IN. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Voice Performance with Honors in Performance from Anderson University, where he studied with Fritz Robertson. Eppley’s IU Opera Theater roles have included the Second Man in Armor in The Magic Flute, the Lawyer in Peter Grimes, and chorus in A View from the Bridge. He also is a frequent soloist with the Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, with whom he most recently sang the role of Pilatus in Arvo Pärt’s Passio. Eppley is also a frequent soloist with the Lafayette Bach Chorale where he has sung on such programs as Handel’s Solomon, Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, and the Festival of Sacred Choral Music. Last summer, he was a participant, along with other singers from the United States and Canada, in the Charley Creek Vocal Workshop, an intense program of aria and song study. Eppley is currently a master’s student studying with Tim Noble.

Joshua Whitener , tenor, is currently completing his Master of Music degree at IU. At IU, he has performed the roles of Camille in The Merry Widow, Josh in Jeppe, and Mike in A View from the Bridge. Previous roles include Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Edwin in Trial by Jury, and Nanki-poo in The Mikado. For the past two summers, Whitener was a young artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera. He has also spent two summers attending the German for Singers program at Middlebury College. Whitener is a student of Patricia Stiles.

Demetrius

Christopher Bolduc, baritone, originally from Albany, NY, has been an apprentice at The Santa Fe Opera for two summers, where he covered Masetto in Don Giovanni and Calchas in La belle Hélène. Each year, The Santa Fe Opera has awarded him for his outstanding potential on the operatic stage, with the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award in 2003 and the Donald and Luke Graham Memorial Award in 2004. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music (SUNY) and is a second-year master’s student at IU, studying with Tim Noble. Bolduc has won prizes in numerous competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Tri-State Region), the Liederkranz Foundation Awards for Voice, the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Competition, the Connecticut Opera Guild Compeition, and the Classical Singer Convention Competition. He has also been a finalist for Chicago’s Lyric Opera Center for American Artists and the Sara Tucker Study Grant (Richard Tucker Foundation).

Robert Brandt, baritone, is currently in his second year of doctoral studies at IU with Costanza Cuccaro. He has performed with IU Opera Theater as Alfieri in A View from the Bridge and Sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore. Previous undergraduate and graduate degrees in voice were awarded by Brigham Young University. While at BYU, he performed leading roles in many productions including Peter in Hansel and Gretel, Orgonin Kirke Mechem’s Tartuffe, the title role in Gianni Schicchi, and Escamillo in Carmen He was named BYU Singer of the Year in 2003. Brandgt was a 2003 apprentice artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera where he covered the role of John Proctor in Robert Ward’s The Crucible.

Hermia

A native of Okemos, MI, mezzo-soprano Kristin Brouwer is a second-year master degree student studying with Andreas Poulimenos. She made her IU Opera Theater debut last fall as Tisbe in La Cenerentola. Past operatic roles include Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, the Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Leonora in Scarlatti’s Il Trionfo dell Onore, The Duchess in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, and The Third Friend in TheBallad of Baby Doe. Brouwer completed her undergraduate studies in vocal performance at New England Conservatory.

Mezzo-Soprano Sarah Mabary, a Master of Music in Voice, has performed the roles of Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore and Third Lady in The Magic Flute with IU Opera Theater. With the Hattiesburg Civic Chorus and Concert Association, she performed Carlotta in The Phantom, and at the University of Southern Mississippi, she appeared as Peep-Bo in The Mikado. She is currently coaching the roles of Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri and Dame Quickly in Falstaff with Martina Arroyo. Her oratorio repertoire includes J. S. Bach's Mass No. 1 in F Major and Magnificat, Vivaldi's Gloria, W. A. Mozart's Requiem, and Purcell's Come, Come Ye Sons of Art. In 2004, Mabary represented IU in recital performances at the Midwest Composer's Symposium at the University of Michigan and performed a solo recital as a guest artist at the St. Phillip's Episcopal Church Concert Series in Jackson, MS. Her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and Bachelor of Arts in German were completed at USM in Hattiesburg, MS, her hometown. Mabary is a student of Patricia Havranek.

Helena

Eileen Marie Bora , soprano, returns for her third role at IU Opera Theater. As a master’s student of James McDonald, she appeared as Madame Lidoine in Les Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc and in the spring of 2004 as Niece No. 2 in Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten. Prior to IU, Bora performed at Interlochen Arts Academy, while attaining her Bachelor of Music at Westminster Choir College, where she studied with Laura Brooks Rice. There, she was seen as Laetitia in Menotti’s Old Maid and the Thief, Fiordiligi in W. A. Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Micaela in Bizet’s Carmen, as well as numerous choral engagements. Other roles include Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos, Mimi in La bohème, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel. Bora currently studies with Tim Noble.

Jenny Searles , soprano, is working toward a Performer Diploma, studying with Patricia Stiles. Searles appeared as the First Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute at IU. An Indiana native, she earned her bachelor’s degree from Butler University, where she studied with her mother, Sharon Searles. While at Butler, she performed the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica. She earned her Master of Music degree from Southern Methodist University under the tutelage of Virginia Dupuy. While at SMU, Searles was seen as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as Susannah in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah. She premiered the song cycle "Remembering the Yesterdays" by Samuel Adler last spring in Dallas with the Voices of Change recital series. Searles also attended the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, where she performed Ravel’s Shéhérazade with orchestra. This past summer, she traveled to Stockholm to perform Argento's "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf" under the direction of Hakan Hagegard. She has also been heard as the soprano soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem, and Rutter’s Requiem.

Bottom

Canadian baritone, Gregory Brookes, is completing his second year of study in the Doctor of Music program at IU. After receiving a BMus in clarinet performance from the University of Calgary, he pursued graduate work at the Eastman School of Music, where he earned a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and Literature. He has performed with opera companies throughout North America including NUOVA Opera Edmonton, Opera in Concert of Toronto, Eastman Opera Theatre, Brevard Music Festival, IU Opera Theater, Indiana University Theatre, and Ohio Light Opera. His operatic and musical theatre roles include, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Lindorf in Les Contes d’Hoffman, Don Geronio in The Turk in Italy, the title role in Sweeney Todd, Pooh Bah in The Mikado, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Elviro in Xerxes, Orgon in Tartuffe, the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Cervantes in Man of LaMancha, Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady, and Billus in South Pacific. He currently studies with Tim Noble.

Bass-baritone Robert Samels recently appeared as Marco in the collegiate premiere of William Bolcom'sA View from the Bridge at IU. Other opera credits include the title roles of Don Pasquale and Il Turco in Italia, as well as Leporello (Don Giovanni), Falstaff (Merry Wives of Windsor), and William Jennings Bryan (Ballad of Baby Doe). In the summer of 2004, Samels appeared as Creon in the New York premiere of John Eaton's Antigone. Equally at home in the oratorio repertoire, Samels has been heard as a featured soloist in The Creation (Haydn), Damnation of Faust (Berlioz), El Nino (John Adams), Les Noces (Stravinsky), and on the Bloomington Chamber Singers' recent CD release of Messiah (Handel). In the spring of 2005, he was selected as a semi-finalist in the annual competition of the Oratorio Society of New York. Samels began his vocal studies with Alfred Anderson at the University of Akron and Andreas Poulimenos at Bowling Green State University. Currently in the doctoral conducting program at IU, Samels is a student of Giorgio Tozzi. This past September, Samels conducted the world premiere performance of his two-act opera, Pilatvs.

Quince

Nathan Baer studied with Antoine Cordahi for eight years, singing in all three choirs that Cordahi directed. These choirs provided Baer with a wide and varied education in period and style and instilled in him a love for choral music, as well as providing his first professional, large work, solo opportunities. Among Baer's bass sololist works are Haydn's Mass in Time of War, Rossini's Petite Messe Solonelle, and Dvořák's Te Deum. His first opera role was Crespel in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann in Brevard, NC. Other roles include Verdi's Requiem, Ptolemy in Handel's Julius Caesar, and Eric in Sandstrom's Jeppe. Other productions in which Nathan has had a primary role include Sondheim's Into the Woods as Narrator/Mysterious Man, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Charpentier's Mass for Eight Voices and Instruments, Carissimi's Jonas, Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado as Mikado, Berlioz's Romeo and Juliette as Friar Laurence, Handel's Israel in Egypt, Hugo Distler's Toten Tanz as Death, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro as Figaro, Puccini's Tosca as the Jailer and Sciarrone, and Robert Samels Pilatvus as Barabbas.

Flute

A native of Parke County, Indiana, tenor Matthew Latta makes his Indiana Opera Theater debut as Flute. Latta is currently pursuing his Master of Music degree at IU, where he is a student of Roy Samuelsen. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from The University of Evansville. His performance credits at the University of Evansville include Jupiter (Semele), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), First Bird in Richard Faith’s Beauty and the Beast (a world premiere), and the role of Martin in Bruce Trinkley and Jason Charnesky’s opera opera.com.edy (world premiere). Latta is the recipient of the Mavis Mcrae Crow scholarship from the Indiana School of Music.

Snug

Adam Cioffari , bass-baritone, is a junior pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Voice. Last season, he sang the role of the 2nd Armored Man in The Magic Flute for IU Opera Theater. This summer, he was a member of the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Center, where he performed the roles of Sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore, and Count Ceprano in Rigoletto. In 2004, he was a member of the College Light Opera Company, where he played the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods, and Enoch Snow in Carousel. Cioffari has taken private lessons on the piano and cello, and played in several student orchestras. He is a student of Andreas Poulimenos.

Snout

Tenor Carmund White received his Master of Music in Voice from IU School of Music, where he studies with Tim Noble. White earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied voice with Stafford Wing and Lied interpretation with Michael Zenge. While was Sam in Athol Fugard’s Master Harold…and the boys at the Le Norvell Theater and Drama Center at IU. He sang the role of Dr. Caius in Falstaff with IU Opera Theater. While at UNC, he sang the role of the Grand Consul in Robert Moran’s From the Towers of the Moon. White as tenor sololist in Handel’s Messiah at the Kennedy Center and sang the role of Bartley in Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea with the Long Leaf Opera Company. In addition, he has performed with the Cincinnati May Festival, the Charley Creek Vocal Workshop, and the Berkshire Choral Festival, where he also serves on the faculty. Currently, he teaches in the African American Arts Institute at IU, where he serves as the associate instructor and vocal coach for the African American Choral Ensemble.

Starveling

Chad Jewsbury, baritone, is a junior at IU pursuing two undergraduate degrees, in Vocal Performance and Audio Recording. He recently appeared as Bill Bobstay in the IU Opera Theater production of H.M.S. Pinafore. He also has performed in the chorus of Peter Grimes, Eugene Onegin, A View from A Bridge, and The Magic Flute. Jewsbury studies with Robert Harrison.

The Indiana University Children’s Choir organization is comprised of six different choirs designed to provide musical experiences for singers ranging from pre-school through high school. They have performed in a variety of local venues and have performed with the Bloomington Chamber Singers, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, and for the Bloomington visit of the Dalai Lama in 2003. Their two recorded CDs are available through the IU School of Music’s Marketplace. The children’s choir performs frequently in performances with the IU Choral Department and the IU Opera Theater. In addition, the Chamber Choir has been invited to perform at the national conference of the Organization of American Kodály Educators in Charlotte, NC. This season marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the IU Children’s Choir. Former members of IUCC and the general public are welcome to attend the Children’s Choir’s anniversary concert on Saturday, April 29 at 7 p.m. in the Evangelical Community Church on South High Street in Bloomington.

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