JTVA 11th Annual Competition Program

COMPETITION WEEKEND

MASTER CLASSES

Saturday, June 22, 2024

3:30 pm — Tier II Master Class with Robin Fisher Break

6:00 pm — Tier I Master Class with Lise Lindstrom

JTVA Board of Directors Hosted Reception

11th ANNUAL COMPETITION

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Master of Ceremonies Michael Colbruno

11:00 am — Tier II Vocal Competition Finals & Awards Presentation Break

Food & beverages available for purchase

2:00 pm — Tier I Vocal Competition Finals & Awards Presentation

*We respectfully request no photography or video during competition events

James Toland Vocal Arts

James Toland Vocal Arts was established to encourage and cultivate, through competition and education, the emerging talents of singers who aspire to a professional career in vocal performance, and to broaden the search for and exposure of new voices within the arts community. Achieving success as a vocalist in the performing arts world is a complex and challenging task. JTVA’s mission is to provide encouragement for singers early in their careers, offering the opportunity for further development, primarily through the annual vocal competition which provides exposure to expert judging, performance opportunities before a live audience, and monetary prizes.

Advisory Council

Jamie Barton | Patricia Craig | Robin Fisher | Ronny Michael Greenberg | Jake Heggie | Michael Hix | Brandon Jovanovich | Susanne Mentzer | José Luis Moscovich | Michael Nutter | Brian Staufenbiel | Deborah Voigt | Frederica von Stade

Nurturing the dreams, talents and careers of emerging vocal artists since 2014

WELCOME!

It is with great joy and excitement that I extend a warm welcome to each of you! Since its inception, JTVA has been dedicated to discovering and nurturing exceptional vocalists, allowing them to demonstrate their skills, gain invaluable experience, and receive the support necessary to thrive in their careers. In return, we are inspired by their remarkable artistry. Today is not just a showcase of technical skill, but a celebration of the emotional depth and storytelling that only the human voice can convey.

As we embark on this second decade, I am reminded of the power of music to unite us, to elevate our spirits, and to transcend boundaries. Our commitment to encouraging these gifted artists continues and I am grateful to all of you for making it possible. To our many generous donors, thank you for your belief in the transformative power of music and dedication to nurturing the arts, your contributions are the lifeblood of JTVA. To our esteemed judges, my thanks for your expertise in recognizing and encouraging excellence. To our finalists, thank you for sharing your extraordinary talents with us, your hard work, dedication, and passion are the very heart of this event. May this competition be an unforgettable experience, filled with growth, inspiration, and, above all, the joy of music.

JAMES TOLAND Founder & General Director

JAMES TOLAND VOCAL ARTS

Board of Directors

Helen Sheaff, Chair

James Gee, Vice Chair

Debbie Bennett, Secretary

Peter Mendiara, Treasurer

Kevin Brown

Judith Grove

Michael Nutter

Patrick Ritto

Mark Wilhelm

James Toland, Founder & General Director

Emeritus

Dorian Kingman Chong

Leslie Krikorian

Frank Sperling

Dr. Paul F. Starrs

Operations Manager

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ABOUT THE COMPETITION

In 2010, Founder James Toland conceived of the idea of a Bay Area voice competition to support emerging singers in their efforts to achieve professional success. The idea met with considerable enthusiasm, including that of the late Oakland Symphony Music Director and Conductor Michael Morgan, who agreed to grant the first-place competition winner the opportunity to perform with the Oakland Symphony. Operations began the following year and JTVA’s initial fundraising goal of $20,000 for first-year competition prize money was met by 2012. The organization incorporated in 2012 and was granted 501(c)3 tax-exempt status the following year. The inaugural JTVA Vocal Competition was held on June 21, 2014, at Holy Names University in Oakland, with fourteen finalists competing in two tiers, selected from a total of more than 125 applicants from around the country.

In 2015, the Bonnie Bell Encouragement Awards were added, providing a monetary award for each finalist who did not finish in the top three, to support their ongoing efforts. General Director Awards have also occasionally been granted to encourage a notable applicant who did not advance to the next round. JTVA has continued to grow steadily, earning a reputation among singers for its collegial and nurturing environment. This year more than 320 applicants applied to compete for over $40,000 in prizes.

THE ELIZABETH GREENFIELD AWARD

JTVA recognizes that Black singers have historically faced inordinate barriers to establishing classically-based singing careers, depriving the world of great voices for generations. Born into slavery in Mississippi and emancipated in the early 1820s, self-taught soprano Elizabeth Greenfield became known as “The Black Swan,” the first African-American singer to gain recognition in Europe and the United States. In 2021, JTVA inaugurated a new award honoring this trailblazing singer to recognize outstanding presentday Black singers by providing meaningful financial assistance to further their careers. Singers in the early stages of a professional career who identify as Black are encouraged to apply. There are no age or repertoire requirements, although applicants are encouraged to highlight music by Black composers. Applications open each summer and winners are announced in November.

Merola Opera Program Summer Festival

June 27–August 17, 2024

Tickets start at $10

Opera curious? Don’t miss this year’s talented international cohort of 29 artists delighting audiences in six world-class performances including works by Mozart, Puccini, Strauss, and more.

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2024 COMPETITION PRIZES

JTVA offers prizes in two tiers. Rather than specific age or educational requirements, these tiers are distinguished primarily by level of ability, vocal experience, and readiness to begin a professional career.

TIER I

For emerging artists in the early stages of a professional career:

1st place — $10,000

2nd place — $6,000

3rd place (Karen Reiter Award) — $5,000

TIER II

For promising singers seeking support for further study and career advancement:

1st place — $4,000

2nd place — $3,000

3rd place — $2,500

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AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARDS

Awards are based on a tally of votes by the audience for each tier of the competition.

Tier I — $2,000 Tier II — $1,000

BONNIE BELL ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS

An Encouragement Award of $2,000 will be given to each finalist in the two tiers who does not win a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd prize. These awards are underwritten through the wonderful generosity of James Bell, in memory of his late wife Bonnie. James has long been recognized for his leadership and support of the Bay Area arts community, including JTVA, where Bonnie was a valued board member from 2018 to 2019.

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MASTER CLASS: TIER II

Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 3:30 pm

LINDSAY MARTIN

• “Dopo notte, atra e funesta” from Ariodante by Georg Friedrich Handel

JORDAN McCREADY

• “Se Romeo t’uccise un figlio” from I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini

NATALIE CORRIGAN

• “Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle?” from Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod

AMANDA OLEA

• “L’amerò, sarò costante” from Il re pastore by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

MATTHEW DEXTER

• “For every love there is a last farewell” from Vanessa by Samuel Barber

ROBIN FISHER is Professor of Voice at Sacramento State University in California and Director of Lingua e Canto, a summer program in Italy for college singers which she founded in 2013. Her publications include a second edition of American Art Song & American Poetry, a collaboration with scholar/performer Ruth Friedberg, and The Selected Writings of John Duke (2007). She studied voice at the University of Vienna as a recipient of a Rotary Foundation grant, as well as the Hamburg State Conservatory as a Fulbright Scholar; she received her DMA degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Under professional contract in Germany, Fisher performed over 15 leading operatic roles. Her recordings include works for flute and soprano (The Nightingale Sings), as well as sacred American art songs with pianist Dalton Baldwin (God be in my Heart).

PIANIST— HADLEY MCCARROLL

MASTER CLASS: TIER I

Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 6:00 pm

THOMAS KINCH

• ‘Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond’ from Die Walküre by Richard Wagner

MAGGIE RENEÉ

• “Amour! viens aider ma faiblesse” from Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns

KRESLEY FIGUEROA

• “S podruzhami po yagoda khodit” (Prologue Aria) from The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

ETHAN VINCENT

• “Alzati!...Eri tu che macchiavi” from Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi

ILANAH LOBEL-TORRES

• “Chi il bel sogno” from La rondine by Giacomo Puccini

PIANIST — CÉSAR CAÑÓN

LISE LINDSTROM, soprano, is recognized for her leading roles at The Metropolitan Opera, San Diego Opera, San Francisco Opera, Oper Leipzig, Oper Frankfurt, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Oper Zürich, Hamburg Staatsoper, Opera Australia, Les Chorégies d’Orange, Royal Danish Opera, Verbier Festival and Arena di Verona. This season she returns to Opera Australia as Brünnhilde in their Ring Cycle, Semperoper Dresden in the title role of Elektra, Oper Köln as Die Färberin in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Palau de la Música de València for concert versions of Salome, and Dallas Symphony Orchestra as Brünnhilde in their complete Ring Cycle. Next season she returns to The Metropolitan Opera as Die Färberin in Die Frau ohne Schatten and Atlanta Opera as Brünnhilde in Siegfried

FINALISTS

NATALIE CORRIGAN (Mezzo-Soprano, Augusta, Georgia) is completing her undergraduate studies at University of Cincinnati-CCM, where she received the Darwin T. Turners Scholarship, Cincinnatus Scholarship, and CCM Power Scholarship. She recently performed Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with CCM’s Opera d’arte and joins Chautauqua Opera Conservatory this summer as Bradamante in Alcina. Prize highlights include Schmidt Vocal Competition Winner (2024), Encouragement Award/Metropolitan Laffont Competition/Kansas City District (2024), Dayton Opera Vocal Competition Second Prize (2023), and Classical Singer First Prize (2022).

MATTHEW DEXTER (Bass-Baritone, Plano, Texas) is a senior majoring in vocal performance at the University of North Texas. During his time with UNT Opera, he has performed the roles of Mícha in The Bartered Bride, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro, Zuniga in Carmen and The Conductor in Lisa DeSpain’s That Hellbound Train. As a vocal fellow at the Spoleto Festival USA, Matthew appeared in the world premiere of Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar in 2022 and covered the role of the Old Doctor in Samuel Barber’s Vanessa the following year.

LINDSAY MARTIN (Mezzo-Soprano, San Diego, California) received her bachelor’s degree in music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is now pursuing a master’s in voice and opera performance at the University of Southern California. She has sung the title roles in the operas Chérubin and Giulio Cesare, as well as Minkswoman in Flight, Annio in La clemenza di Tito and Adelberto in Ottone. Last summer she attended Aspen Music Festival and School where she covered Idamante in Idomeneo and is part of the Merola Opera Program this summer.

JORDAN McCREADY (Mezzo-Soprano, Salem, Oregon) is currently a first-year graduate student at San Francisco Conservatory of Music studying Opera Performance under the tutelage of Cathy Cook. This past year at SFCM, she has appeared in the title roles of Zanetto by Mascagni and Serse by Handel. In addition, she has sung as chorus and Fox (cover) in Pocket Opera’s production of The Cunning Little Vixen. She was honored to receive the Anchorage Festival of Music Young Artist of the Year Award and Scholarship in August 2023.

AMANDA OLEA (Soprano, Mexico City, Mexico) made her debut with the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus in 2022 and joined Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist the same year, contributing to productions of Carmen and Falstaff. She has sung a range of roles including Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos and Flora in The Turn of the Screw. As a studio artist with Florida Grand Opera, she performed in their productions of Fellow Travelers and Rigoletto. Amanda has participated in Cincinnati Opera’s OperaFusion: NewWorks workshop. A graduate of University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, she is currently pursuing a doctoral degree.

HADLEY McCARROLL (Pianist) has performed nationally and internationally with LINES Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Festival del Sole, Concerts in the Barn, and with KRONOS Quartet violist Hank Dutt. She has served on the musical staffs of Royal Danish Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, and West Edge Opera. As a soloist, Hadley has appeared with Santa Rosa Symphony, Noontime Concerts, Old First Concerts, at Flower Piano, and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

TIER II COMPETITION FINALS

Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 11:00 am

NATALIE CORRIGAN

• “Svegliatevi nel core” from Giulio Cesare by Georg Friedrich Handel

• “Sein wir wieder gut” from Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss

JORDAN McCREADY

• “We had one room” from Elizabeth Cree by Kevin Puts

• “Se Romeo t’uccise un figlio” from I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini

AMANDA OLEA

• “No word from Tom...I go, I go to him” from The Rake’s Progress by Igor Stravinsky

• “Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren” (The Presentation of the Rose) from Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss

MATTHEW DEXTER

• “For every love there is a last farewell” from Vanessa by Samuel Barber

• “Mentre gonfiarsi l’anima” from Attila by Giuseppe Verdi

LINDSAY MARTIN

• “Dopo notte, atra e funesta” from Ariodante by Georg Friedrich Handel

• “This journey” from Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie

PIANIST — HADLEY McCARROLL

FINALISTS

KRESLEY FIGUEROA (Soprano, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a first-year Cafritz Young Artist with Washington National Opera. Her roles this season include the title role in Handel’s Partenope, The Unicorn in Tesori’s The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me, and Berginella in an English adaptation of Offenbach’s La Périchole. Other recent highlights include performances with Aspen Music Festival as Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff alongside Bryn Terfel in the title role, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Opera San Antonio. Kresley is a winner of the Duncan Williams Voice Competition and an Encouragement Award winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.

THOMAS KINCH (Tenor, Cardiff, Wales, Britain) is a 2024 Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera and is quickly becoming established as an exciting young performer. As a participant in the Merola Opera Program last year, he performed the title role in Otello Act 2 for the Schwabacher Summer Concert. He recently sang as the tenor soloist in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with San Francisco Ballet. In 2022, Thomas was an Associate Artist for the Welsh National Opera, and with WNO sang First Armed Man in The Magic Flute, and covered Vitek in The Makropulos Affair.

ILANAH LOBEL-TORRES (Soprano, Brooklyn, New York) received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and Mannes School of Music respectively. Immediately following her master’s degree in 2019, she was invited to Opéra National de Paris to join the young artist program, L’Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris. As a young artist, she sang on the mainstages of Opera Bastille, Palais Garnier, and Opéra Dijon, on tour in Beirut, Lebanon, and at La Grange au Lac in Évian, France. Ilanah made her debut at Palais Garnier in January 2020 in L’enfant et les sortilèges as La Bergère and La Chauve-Souris.

MAGGIE RENEÉ (Mezzo-Soprano, Los Angeles, California) is a Metropolitan Opera Competition Grand Finalist Award winner, a Saengerbund Awards winner, Rochester Oratorio Society Emerging Artist winner, Opera Index Award winner, Igor Gorin Memorial Award recipient, and an Honors BM and MM graduate of The Juilliard School, where she is pursuing her ADOS. This season her performances include the title role in Carmen with both Music Academy of the West and with Juilliard Opera, Baba the Turk in Barbara Hannigan’s production of The Rake’s Progress with the Swedish Orchestra, and as Venus with Vienna Volksoper. Last summer she covered the title role in Carmen and sang Nicolette in Love for Three Oranges at Des Moines Opera.

ETHAN VINCENT (Baritone, Lubbock, Texas) joined the roster at The Metropolitan Opera for the 2023-2024 season, covering the role of Riolobo in Mary Zimmerman’s production of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas. He followed this with house and role debuts as Leporello in Don Giovanni with San Diego Opera. His house debut with Washington National Opera was singing Ping in a new production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Kennedy Center, which featured an added world-premiere prologue and ending. Ethan is a graduate of Northwestern University and was a resident artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.

CÉSAR CAÑÓN (Pianist) is a staff conductor and pianist for San Francisco Opera and Norwegian National Opera and served as music director for Pocket Opera’s 2019/2020 seasons. He is a frequent guest instructor at universities in Colombia and across the U.S. A native of Bogotá, César is a graduate of the National University of Colombia and received his doctorate from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Martin Katz. An alumnus of the Aspen Opera Theater Center and Merola Opera Program, he is a former San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow.

TIER I COMPETITION FINALS

Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 2:00 pm

ILANAH LOBEL-TORRES

• “Ivan Sergeich, khochesh’, v sad poydyom” from The Tsar’s Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

• “No word from Tom...I go, I go to him” from The Rake’s Progress by Igor Stravinsky

THOMAS KINCH

• “Dio! mi potevi scagliar” from Otello by Giuseppe Verdi

• “Song of the Road” from Hugh the Drover by Ralph Vaughan Williams

MAGGIE RENEÉ

• “Werther! Qui m’aurait dit...Ces lettres!” from Werther by Jules Massenet

• “Svegliatevi nel core” from Giulio Cesare by Georg Friedrich Handel

ETHAN VINCENT

• “Ya vas lyublyu” from Pique Dame by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

• “O Carlo, ascolta!” from Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi

KRESLEY FIGUEROA

• “S podruzhami po yagoda khodit” (Prologue Aria) from The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

• “À vos jeux, mes amis...Partagez-vous mes fleurs!” (Ophelia’s Mad Scene) from Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas

PIANIST — CÉSAR CAÑÓN

MASTER OF CEREMONIES

MICHAEL COLBRUNO is the founding partner of the Milo Group of California, a Bay Area government affairs firm. He is currently a board member of the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco, serves on the Opera Parallèle Advisory Board, and is a former board member of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the UC Theatre in Berkeley. He has commissioned three new works by New York-based composer Clint Borzoni and a new song cycle from award-winning composer Brittney Boykin. He also produced Beer & Baroque, BooM BooM Baroque, the West Coast premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s opera Green Sneakers and a concert and CD of works by living American composers.

THE JUDGING PROCESS

For the JTVA Vocal Competition, judging is a multi-step process and interest in the competition has increased each year. For 2024, applications were submitted by 322 singers from around the United States and more than a dozen countries. A preliminary panel of five judges viewed and evaluated two videos from each applicant — a total of 644 videos — and selected 50 singers to advance to this year’s semifinals. A second panel of four judges was then tasked with narrowing the field down to five finalists for each tier using a numeric overall scoring system to assess the singers on vocal quality, vocal technique, musicianship, dramatic interpretation, diction, and stage presence. The five finalists in each tier with the highest scores were invited to this weekend’s competition, where they will demonstrate the outstanding talents that launched them to the top.

FINAL ROUND JUDGES

OFER DAL LAL is a highly-praised, dynamic choral conductor. He is the artistic director of WomenSing and was the artistic director of several other Bay Area choirs. He has served on the board of Livermore Valley Opera and on the faculty of California State University East Bay. Among the many ensembles he has conducted are the world-renowned Stuttgart Chamber Choir and Classical Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany), Berlin Radio Choir (Germany), Oregon Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra (Oregon, USA), Salt Lake Vocal Artists (Utah, USA), and The Israel Philharmonic Resident Choir (Israel).

ROBIN FISHER (See photo and bio on page 6)

ALEXANDER KATSMAN is a sought-after conductor, solo recitalist, collaborative pianist and opera coach. He recently finished his 22nd year on the coaching staff at the San Francisco Conservatory and recorded two recitals for the St. Paul’s Towers music series. Alex’s conducting credits include over 80 opera, operetta, and musical theater productions. He is a Music Director and Conductor at Livermore Valley Opera and at Solo Opera. Since 2018, he has served on the conducting faculty at the Bach-Millenium Music Summer Program. His most recent production at Livermore Valley Opera was highly-acclaimed Verdi’s Otello with tenor Limmie Pulliam in the title role.

SEMIFINAL JUDGES

JEAN KELLOGG recently retired from the Merola Opera Program where she had been Executive Director since 2011. Previously, she was Executive Director of the Hylton Performing Arts Center at George Mason University (VA), Director of Education at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dean of the Levine School of Music in Washington, DC, and on the administrative staffs of Greater Miami Opera, Chautauqua Opera and Westminster Choir College. Jean holds a degree in piano performance from Florida State University, and a master’s in piano accompanying and coaching from Westminster Choir. She was honored as one of 50 Influential Women of Virginia in 2010.

PHILIP SKINNER, who has been praised by Opera News for his “mellifluous bass-baritone,” has appeared in performances with the San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro di San Carlo, and La Monnaie in Brussels, as well as prominent orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony. Skinner has a long association with San Francisco Opera where he has performed over 60 roles, such as Doctor Bartolo in The Barber of Seville in 2021 and Lepidus in John Adam’s Antony and Cleopatra in 2022. This past January, he sang the bass solos in Beethoven‘s Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall.

JAMES TOLAND, founder and general director for JTVA, has been involved in vocal music performance and education for more than five decades. He has served in numerous roles at opera companies and universities across the country, including performer, stage director, opera company general director, opera company artistic director, touring opera company manager, choral director, private voice teacher, as well as a professor. James has been a frequent adjudicator for numerous vocal competitions including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Now semi-retired, his focus is on continuing to teach both master classes and private students, as well as authoring a book about diction and its importance in vocal technique.

Carl Halvorson | Tenor, Instructor of Voice at Lewis & Clark College

Gwendolyn Jones | 40-year career as Mezzo-Soprano

Michael Nutter | Former Artistic Director, Capitol City Opera

James Toland | JTVA Founder & General Director

A SALUTE TO SUPPORTERS

JTVA’s ability to nurture aspiring singers depends on the many donors whose generous support funds prizes, events, and ongoing operations, and whose donations of service, gifts, and volunteer time have made this competition possible. We extend our deepest gratitude and appreciation to them for their dedication to making “something wonderful” happen! This donor list includes all donations made to JTVA between January 1, 2023 and May 31, 2024.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

At the Competition: Debbie Bennett & Judy Grove, Backstage/ Reception | David Gustafson, Stage Manager | Kristen Loken, Photography | Chris Rasmussen, Cinematography | Mark Wilhelm, Videography | Mauricio Acevedo & Alex Lopez, Audiovisual Technicians

Homestay Hosts: Kevin & Barbara Brown | Linda Daulton | John & Betsy Donnelly | James Bell | Jeff & Susan Dunn | Helen Sheaff | The Deane Washington Family | Phil & Judy Grove

Others: Kevin & Barbara Brown, Riggers Loft | Mark Brown, J. Lewis CPA | Paul Chan, Chartwells Catering | Luis Guerra & Daniel Cardenas, BH Properties | Nicholas Hengl, HFG Trust | Connie Tritt, CPA | Clifford Wiens, Acrisure

Volunteers: Phyllis Lynn Davies | Jason Patrick | Patty Reynoso | Frank Sperling | James Gee

In addition, JTVA acknowledges the many other behind-the-scenes volunteers who have been invaluable in making this competition weekend possible. Whether transporting singers, providing backstage and front of house support, or assisting our catering staff, these individuals are true heroes for whom we could not be more thankful.

HELP FUND THEIR FUTURE

JTVA could not exist without your support. Our primary goal every year is to raise the funds for the competition’s annual cash prizes. So even as we celebrate our 11th Annual Competition, we’re already looking ahead to 2025 and beyond. Will you help fund their future? We gratefully welcome donations of any size. Contribute online or mail a check to:

James Toland Vocal Arts 2415 San Pablo Dam Road Suite 106-333

San Pablo, CA 94806

www.JTVA.org

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