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Bernadene Blaha’s “brilliant command of the piano,” whether featured as a recitalist, concerto soloist or chamber musician, has been heralded in performances throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Mexico. She has also served as a jury member at the Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition in Utah. She is a piano professor at University of Southern California.

Kevin Fitz-Gerald enjoys a versatile performing career as a recitalist, orchestra soloist and chamber musician. His international concert tours have garnered international acclaim. He performs regularly with internationally acclaimed artists such as Midori, Richard Stoltzman and Hagai Shaham. He has several recordings that include solo works, as well as chamber music recordings. He has also served as a juror for several prestigious music festivals. He is on the faculty of University of Southern California as a piano professor.

Dylan Gentile is a highly sought after pianist in the Los Angeles area. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance from USC and a Master’s from the Manhattan School of Music. He most recently served as rehearsal pianist for A Christmas Story Live, which aired on Fox. He has accompanied for UCLA under Neal Stulberg, at CSULA, the Marlborough School, and with Pacific Opera Project in their productions of Don Giovanni, Lucia Di Lammermoor, and others. Dylan has consulted for the CW series Hart of Dixie and the Starz series Blunt Space. As a singer, Dylan has been a chorister in the Los Angeles Master Chorale for 14 seasons, performing under Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, Lorin Maazel, and others. He has sung with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Jacaranda Singers, and Millennium Consort. Most recently, he had featured solos as a throat singer in the Warner Brothers film, The Nun, and can also be heard as a soloist on the upcoming documentary, American Dharma. Choral session work includes Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Frozen, Despicable Me 3, and a host of others. In June 2019, Dylan will make his solo debut with The Los Angeles Philharmonic in a new landmark production of Meredith Monk’s opera, ATLAS.

Graham Jackson has been a theater/musical theater educator for numerous schools and organizations, including Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Theatre 360, Act-1, MyArt, MET2, Turning Point School, Fontana High School and Covina High School. He also teaches each summer in Beijing and Shenzhen, China.

As an actor and musical director, Graham has performed with many theater companies throughout the Los Angeles area, including Theatre West, Zoo District, Sacred Fools, Evidence Room, and the Getty Villa. He also performed with Zoo District at the first annual Bulgakov Festival in Kiev, Ukraine, presenting the world premiere of “Heart of a Dog”. As a founding member of FSHA, he brought “Go True West” to Tadashi Suzuki’s Spring Festival in Toyama, Japan.

Graham has directed numerous shows, including “Cabaret”, “Woyzeck”, “Machinal”, “Urinetown”, “Into the Woods”, “On the Town”, “Company”, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”, “Sweet Charity”, “Merrily We Roll Along”, “Thieves’ Carnival”, “42nd St.”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Sweeney Todd”, “Hello, Dolly!” and many more.

Graham has musically directed over 50 shows, and has played piano since the age of 5. When he’s not leading a class or directing a cast, he’s at the piano.

Julia Migenes was born on the Lower East Side of New York into a family made up of a passionate mixture of Greek and Irish-Puerto-Rican descent. Despite a difficult and violent childhood, she discovered her calling upon engagement of the child role in Madame Butterfly where she first experienced the power and the emotion of music linked to a stage setting.

A few years later, while studying at the New York School for Performing Arts, she was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to be a soloist in his Young People's Concerts. Julia then began her Broadway career; she was part of the original casting of Fiddler on the Roof with Zero Mostel and she interpreted Maria in West Side Story.

However, she understood that her real calling was to sing, leading her to a cover contract at the New York Metropolitan Opera. While substituting for the leading role of Alban Berg's, renowned for its technical difficulty, she was cheered and acclaimed by the public, launching her opera career.

While on stage in Geneva as Salomé, the Italian film director Francesco Rosi was casting for his up and coming film Carmen. The lead role required not only an opera singer and dancer but also an actress sensual enough to personify the burning passion of Bizet's character. The result was Julia Migenes immortalized in a motion picture that has since become a reference in the filmed opera genre. The soundtrack not only brought her a Grammy Award but even more worldwide notoriety that allowed her to access the greatest theaters in the world.

To this day, Julia Migenes has recorded more than 20 albums. Among the most recent are Vienna conducted by Lalo Schifrin, a Gold record six months after its release ; in 1996, Man of la Mancha (L'homme de la Mancha), conducted and arranged by Paul Gemignani, with Placido Domingo, Samuel Ramey, Mandy Patinkin ; in 1999, Robert Stolz and The music of Franz Lehar for BBC and in 2000, Donizetti's Catarina Cornaro.

Delores Stevens is a well known performer and piano teacher in the Los Angeles area. She has been the founder of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society for over forty years. Stevens was the pianist in the Montagnana Trio, touring the United States and Europe and associated with the Columbia Artists label. She has always promoted modern classical music and has several pieces written specifically for her.

Lisa Vroman has established herself as one of America's most versatile voices. She starred on Broadway, Los Angeles and San Francisco as Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera. As “One of American Musical Theater’s most beautiful voices” (Cameron MacIntosh), she has garnered Theatre critics’ awards for her portrayal. Lisa starred as Marian Paroo in The Music Man(Bushnell Theater with Shirley Jones, Patrick Cassidy and the Hartford Symphony), Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate (Glimmerglass Opera/MUNY Theatre of St. Louis), Birdie in Regina, Josephine in HMS Pinafore, Anna 1 in The Seven Deadly Sins (Utah Symphony/Opera), Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus (New Jersey Opera), and Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella (New York City Opera). For PBS: Johanna in Sweeney Todd (2001 Emmy Award), and Hey! Mr. Producer(London Royal Gala). She played Laurey in Oklahoma(BBC PROMS festival), Mary Turner in Of Thee I Sing (San Francisco Symphony w/Michael Tilson Thomas), and sang and danced opposite Dick Van Dyke as Mary Poppins at the Hollywood Bowl (Disney 75th). Lisa is a frequent guest with Symphonies including San Francisco, Nashville, Philadelphia, Dallas, Utah, St. Louis, Houston, Pacific, Atlanta, Hong Kong, Cleveland, National, Florida, Cleveland, BBC Concert Orchestra, Boston Pops (Keith Lockhart), Philly Pops (Peter Nero), New York Pops (Carnegie Hall) as well as with the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) and Organist David Higgs (Disney Hall, Los Angeles). Her Broadway debut was in Aspects of Love and she was the first to play both Fantine and Cosette in Les Misérables. Ms. Vroman is a graduate of the Crane School of Music, State University at Potsdam (BM, Dr. of Music, Minerva Award), Carnegie-Mellon University MFA, and is a George London Competition winner. Last year included trips to Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, as well as an evening of Cole Porter’s La Revue des Ambassadeurs in Paris.

This season has included a tour of China, a concert series with L’Opera de Rennes in France, and playing the role of Maria Callas in Terence McNally’s award winning play, Master Class. Please visit www.lisavroman.com.