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BRANDON HENDRICKSON , baritone

As a performer on the concert stage, Brandon is hailed for his “mellifluous,” and “beautiful baritone.” His credits include performances at Carnegie Hall, the Piccolo Spoleto Music Festival, the Canterbury Choral Society, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, and the American Festival Chorus. Recently he has performed Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem, and Mahler’s 8th Symphony. An active recitalist, Hendrickson has been invited to perform in Italy, Malaysia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States. Hendrickson was in the Emmy Award Winning Production of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd and the American Prize in Musical Theater First Place Prize Winning production of Titanic: The Musical. Dr. Hendrickson was the recipient of an SEC Travel Grant for master classes and a recital titled “I Was There,” at the University of South Carolina. Currently, Dr. Hendrickson is an Assistant Professor of Voice at Louisiana State University.

MARY JANE KNIGHT, mezzo-soprano

Considered a “renaissance woman of music,” Mary Jane Knight is noted for her warm, rich vocal tone, versatile style, soulful connection, and magnetic stage presence. As a concert soloist, she has sung with the Memphis Symphony in Bach’s B Minor Mass as well as Jennifer Higdon’s Ruminations, featured on a PBS special Articulate, and a live film score showing of Joan of Arc with the composer George Sarah. Other major works include Bach’s Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Handel’s Messiah, and a performance of Haydn’s Harmonie Messe at Carnegie Hall. A talented and diverse musician, Mary Jane is an opera and musical theater performer, director, choral conductor, pianist, organist, and a graduate of Simpson College (BM) and the University of Nebraska (MM). She currently teaches voice at Kirkwood College and maintains a private voice studio in her historic home in Iowa City. ,

Tenor

Jos Milton’s vigorous schedule includes a vast array of diverse programs with the Carmel Bach Festival Chorale, and he is a professional chorister with the Grammy Award-winning ensemble, Conspirare. Milton’s debut solo album, Southerly - Art Songs of the American South has garnered critical acclaim “…one of the most enthralling art song releases of the last twenty years” (Journal of Singing). A graduate of Trinity University (BM), the University of Massachusetts (MM), and the Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University (DMA), he is a respected pedagogue who gives master classes at many universities, has presented his research to College Music Society conferences, and has been published in The journal. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches studio voice as well as various courses in vocal literature.

STEPHEN MUMBERT, baritone

Quickly gaining attention on the concert and opera stage throughout the United States and England, Stephen was recently praised for being vocally the most promising singer and for possessing an assured and stylish technique at the Aldeburgh Festival in England. Recent performances have included Amahl and the Night Visitors and Mozart’s Requiem with the Dakota Valley Symphony (which was broadcast on Twin Cities Public Television) and several appearances in Handel’s Messiah, including the Oratorio Society of Minneapolis. Mr. Mumbert is active in the Central Florida area as a voice adjunct professor for the Rollins College Department of Music and is a frequent guest soloist with the Messiah Choral Society of Orlando and the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park. Stephen earned his BA from Stetson University, his MM degree at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and is currently working toward a doctorate at the University of Minnesota.

REBECCA MYERS , soprano

Rebecca Myers, soloist, vocal chamber singer and recording artist specializes in vocal repertoire from the Medieval to scores written especially for her and has gained a reputation for her “timbral clarity and flawless pitch.” This season includes her New World Symphony debut in Carmina Burana, performances with Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra in Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, the Enlightenment Festival with Seraphic Fire, and performances with Lorelei Ensemble and the Boston Ballet. Rebecca is a core member of the Crossing, the country’s premiere chamber choir dedicated to new music that include world premieres, commercial recordings, a Grammy-winning award (best choral performance 2018), and many Grammy nominations. Rebecca is co-artistic director and founding member of the genrebending, cutting-edge vocal ensemble, Variant 6, and will join Filament Baroque in a program of recently discovered French Baroque Music from a Ursuline Manuscript in a Louisiana abbey.

MORGAN DAVIS PECKELS , mezzo-soprano

Residing in Florida, Morgan is an educator and concert soloist and is active in many ensembles in Central Florida including the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, the Messiah Chorale Society, the Orlando Philharmonic, the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra, and Opera Orlando. Most recently she was seen with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park in Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans and Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light where she was praised for her “hauntingly lamenting tones” and was a soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass. On the opera stage she was most recently seen in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Opera Orlando and has an extensive background in musical theatre. Morgan earned her bachelor’s degree from Elon University and her MM from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She is currently on the voice faculty at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL and runs a thriving private studio out of her home in Winter Springs, FL.