Cherokee Randolph, Violin

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Cherokee Randolph grew up in New Mexico, playing viola with the Albuquerque Youth Symphony and earning a Bachelor’s of Music degree from the University of New Mexico. After five years in Boston studying with Michael Zaretsky, she moved to Mexico City to play viola with...
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Justin Pollak, Violin

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Violinist Justin Pollak is a native of Santa Fe, currently living in Albuquerque. He first studied violin with Catherine Nichols. As a student at the University of New Mexico, he studied with Leonard Felberg and Bernard Zinck, and he also took lessons from Kimberly Fredenburgh...
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Sheila McLay, Violin II

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Sheila began playing melodies by ear on the organ at age three, and took up violin, piano, and clarinet when she was nine. At 12 she was studying with UNM professor Morton Schoenfeld on piano, and at 14 with UNM professor Leonard Felberg on violin….

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Joel Becktell, Cello

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Joel Becktell has performed, taught, and lectured throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees with honors and received the Rubenstein prize for cello performance. Joel has...
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Emily Erb, Clarinet

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Emily Erb has held the position of second clarinetist with The Santa Fe Symphony since 2013, and has played with the orchestra since 2008. Originally from Eastern Oregon, Emily earned her Bachelor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Idaho, where she studied with...
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Melinda Mack, Cello

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Melinda Mack, is a professional classical cellist performing with symphonies all over the southwest, but when she met eVOLVStrong, she fell in love all over again with fitness. For the past 3 years, under the strict mentorship of Esteban Garza, Melinda has become qualified to...
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Alan Mar, Violin

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Alan Mar moved to New Mexico from Santa Barbara, California in 1995 after completing graduate studies in electrical engineering at the University of California and is currently a research scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Alan began playing the violin in the fifth grade and was...
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Barbara Morris, Violin

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Barbara Morris was born in Albuquerque, NM, and as a child watched her father, Richard Scalf, play the violin in the Albuquerque Symphony. Thus, at an early age, she knew that playing the violin was what she wanted to do. After high school, Barbara played...
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Laura Chang, Violin

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Laura Chang, a native of Wisconsin, was born into a musical family and began her studies shortly after her fourth birthday. Laura earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Peabody Conservatory under the tutelage of Martin Beaver and Pamela Frank, for whom she was a…

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Carlos Vázquez Baur, Tenor

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Born and raised in Santa Fe, Carlos Andres Vázquez Baur began his musical journey with the Cathedral Basilica choirs and marimba band, singing in multiple masses and large events including the 400th Anniversary Mass and at Carnegie Hall, and starred in staged productions with Pandemonium…

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Devin DeVargas, Bass-Baritone

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Devin DeVargas, bass-baritone, brings a warm refreshing presence coupled with a resonant and commanding sound to the opera stage. Most recently, he appeared as Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro at Red River Lyric Opera, and as the Congregation Leader and Shipmaster in Lori Laitman's...
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Handel’s Messiah Soloists 2023

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Praised for her “full, focused soprano,” Caitlin Gotimer makes her role debut as Tosca with Arizona Opera followed by her Dallas Opera debut as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in the 2022–2023 season. She joins the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice program during this summer…

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Craig Terry, Piano

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Grammy Award winning pianist and arranger Craig Terry enjoys an international career regularly performing with the world’s leading singers and instrumentalists. Currently Craig serves as Music Director of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago after having served…

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Beethoven’s Ninth Soloists

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Teresa Perrotta, Soprano Soprano Teresa Perrotta is a 2023 Grand Finals Winner of The Metropolitan Opera’s Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition and a first-year Cafritz Young Artist at Washington National Opera. In the 2022-2023 season, she made her Kennedy Center debut as Fünfte Magd in…

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Ana María Martínez, Soprano

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Grammy Award® winner Ana María Martínez is considered to be one of the foremost sopranos of her time, with an international career that spans the world’s most important opera houses and concert halls. A winner of the 15th Annual Opera News Awards, her repertoire encompasses...
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