UCLA Ensemble Artist Program

2021-22 ENSEMBLE ARTISTS

Jessica Carlson, soprano Elisabeth Fortescue, soprano

Kim Mendez, alto

Max Ary, tenor Tivoli Treloar, alto

Michael Washington, tenor

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Seraphic Fire’s Ensemble Artist Program at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music (EAP) provides season-long vocal ensemble training to undergraduate and graduate voice students at UCLA. Participating artists are chosen through competitive auditions chaired by Associate Conductor James K. Bass. This collaboration aims to help emerging professional singers discover outlets for professional employment while fulfilling Seraphic Fire’s educational mission to advance art through the professional development and refinement of our musicians’ talents while promoting community connectivity. Participating students are invited to South Florida every season to perform alongside the professional ensemble in subscription concerts. The EAP is one part of Seraphic Fire’s multi-pronged education initiatives that aim to develop the next generation of professional ensemble singers.

Program Success

• Two former EAP students have been invited to perform with Seraphic

Fire on professional contracts. • Four non-UCLA students that participated in Seraphic Fire’s 2018 and 2019 Professional Choral Institute at Aspen Music Festival and School (PCI) auditioned for placement in the Herb Alpert School of Music during the 2020 audition season. These students indicated that a major reason for ultimately deciding to attend UCLA was the Seraphic

Fire partnership and the opportunities it provided. • A total of 10 EAP students have attended PCI in the first two summers. • The UCLA choral program has been nationally recognized, earning a

GRAMMY® Award in 2021 for a recording of The Passion of Yeshuah.

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The Ensemble Artist Program at UCLA is made possible by a generous grant from The Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation.

Seraphic Fire Education Programs are endowed in perpetuity by The Clinton Family Fund Education Endowment.