About Dongwhi Tony Baek (백동휘)

Tenor

Tenor Dongwhi Baek, originally from South Korea, recently played a role of Gheraldo from Gianni Schicchi with San Diego Opera, and Muciacio from El ultimo sueńo de Frida y Diego. He also was seen as Prince Ramiro from Cinderella – Opera for Kids with Pacific Symphony. In 2022, he worked with Del Mar International Composers Symposium and he is very much pleased to work with them again this year. In December 2022, Mr. Baek placed a finalist in Palm Spring Opera Guild Competition.

Mr. Baek holds a Performance Studies Certificate in Opera Performance from Boston University Opera Institute where he appeared as Tom Rakewell from The Rake’s Progress. With Opera Institute, he prepared the role of Tito Vespasian from La Clemenza di Tito before pandemic. Other notable stage credits include Jimmy O’Keefe (Later the Same Evening), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Schoolmaster (The Cunning Little Vixen), Detective Thibodeau (Dolores Claiborne), Alfredo (La Traviata), Albace (Idomeneo), and Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi).

Equally adept at concert, he was appeared as a tenor soloist with Boston Pop Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony in Bach’s Cantata 150, and Bach B minor mass with CCM Philharmonia. Mr. Baek holds a M.M. in Vocal Performance from University of Cincinnati under tutelage of William McGraw and a B.M. in Vocal Performance from Chapman University where he studied with Patrick Goeser.

About Brandon Morales

Bass-Baritone

Brandon Morales, Bass-Baritone and 2nd year member of the Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist Program at Arizona Opera has performed with opera companies all over the US - stretching from the Pacific northwest’s Portland Opera to Virginia Opera on the East coast. Morales has recently completed two years with Virginia Opera’s Heardon Foundation Emerging Artist’s Program with highlights including Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jose Castro/Billy Jackrabbit in La Fanciulla del West, and the Mother in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins. A graduate of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, he has been highly active in the Ohio area performing with Dayton Opera, NANO Works, Cincinnati Chamber Opera, Queen City Chamber Opera, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Cincinnati Opera, participated in Toledo Opera’s Resident Artist program, and performed the roles of Friedrich von Telramund in Lohengrin and the Dutchman in Die Fliegende Holländer in concert with the Wagner Society of Cincinnati, where he is a part of their blooming Wagner studio. A native of San Antonio, TX, Morales currently enjoys the vagabond life of performing, but misses his faithful cat, Elsie.

About Michael Sokol Baritone

Baritone Michael Sokol has had great success in opera and music theatre here in the United States and in Europe, in venues from the Metropolitan Opera, to the Philadelphia Orchestra, to Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Mr. Sokol grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, where as a child he was a member of the Phoenix Boys Choir for many years. He received his university degrees from Arizona State University, the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and Northwestern University. As a performer in theatre and opera, he has performed roles from Mozart's, Count in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Marcello in LA BOHEME Henry Higgins in Lerner and Loewe's MY FAIR LADY.