JANICE CHANDLER - ETEME SOPRANO

American soprano Janice

Chandler-Eteme’s astonishing range of concert literature includes Strauss’ Four Last Songs (Reading, Baltimore, Syracuse, Harrisburg, and Utah symphony orchestras; Florida Orchestra; Fort Wayne Philharmonic; and Grand Teton and Texas music festivals); Philip Glass’ Passion of Ramakrishna (Pacific Symphony); Mahler’s Second Symphony (San Diego, Baltimore, Nashville, Cincinnati, Colorado, and Pacific symphonies; and Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra); Haydn’s Die Schöpfung (Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati symphonies); Mendelssohn’s

Lobgesang Symphony (San Diego Symphony); Lokumbe’s Dear Mrs. Parks (Detroit Symphony Orchestra) and Can You Hear God Crying? (Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia); Brahms’ A German Requiem (San Diego, Baltimore, and Colorado symphonies); Mahler’s Eighth Symphony (Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, American, and Montreal symphonies); Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Cleveland Orchestra, and the New Jersey and Houston symphonies), Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Festival Miami, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra), Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (Dallas and Santa Rosa symphonies) and Britten’s War

Requiem (Lincoln and Santa Rosa symphonies and Evansville Philharmonic). She remains among the most in-demand sopranos for Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess , and has performed in staged performances of the complete work at the Opéra de Lyon and Dallas Opera; the Bennett concert version under Jeff Tyzik with the Milwaukee, Seattle, Detroit, and Vancouver symphonies, Florida Orchestra, and at the Vail Music Festival; and in Andrew Litton’s version with Litton conducting the Colorado Symphony. Other forays into operatic literature have included a first-ever Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the National Philharmonic.

Ms. Chandler-Eteme first came to international prominence as a favorite of Robert Shaw and has in the years since collaborated with many renowned and respected conductors, among them Marin Alsop, James Conlon, Andreas Delfs, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Claus Peter Flor, Hans Graf, Jeffrey Kahane, Carlos Kalmar, Raymond Leppard, Jahja Ling, Andrew Litton, Keith Lockhart, David Lockington, Stuart Malina, Peter Oundjian, Christof Perick, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Stefan Sanderling, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Temirkanov, Edo de Waart and Hugh Wolff. She has been guest soloist with the Los Angeles and Saint Paul chamber orchestras; Boston,

NHK (Japan), Phoenix, and Kansas City symphonies; Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Rochester Philharmonics; and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Festival invitations include Bard, Grant Park, Aspen, Prague Autumn, and Blossom. Ms. Chandler-Eteme’s recordings include an inspirational solo disc ( Devotions ), and the Dvoˇrák Te Deum with Zden ˇ ek Mácal and the

New Jersey Symphony. She holds degrees from Oakwood College and Indiana University and has studied with Virginia Zeani, Margaret Harshaw, Ginger Beazley, and Todd Duncan.

Greg Jones Ellis appeared as Mr. Bumble in the Classic Theatre of Maryland production of Oliver! Other recent area stage appearances include Titanic (Theatre Lab guest artist) as doomed architect Thomas Andrews, as the evil Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd (Opera AACC) and kindly Scottish minister Mr. Lundie in Brigadoon (Compass Rose Theater). His skills with dialects have led to several roles in the ongoing “noir” podcast entitled Quorum: The Gambler’s Tale and as an offstage BBC reporter in In Praise of Love (Washington Stage Guild). Greg appeared this summer in New York in his own cabaret act for which he wrote several original songs, and this fall he also provides musical consultation for