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Deirdre Lobo-d’Cunha | Soprano
Born in Bombay, India, Deirdre Lobo-D’Cunha
began her musical training under her mother,
Celia Lobo, opera singer and voice teacher.
Deirdre attained her Bachelor of Music degree,
University of Santo Tomas, Philippines; Master’s
Degree, University of Colorado, Boulder; and
Post-Graduate Diploma, Peabody Conservatory
of Music, Baltimore, MD. She has studied with
Marilyn Zschau, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, and now with
Voltaire Verzosa. Deirdre performs internationally
as a solo concert artist, as well as in opera and
recital. She has been soloist for the Messiah
(Handel), Creation (Haydn), and Gloria (Vivaldi),
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among others. She has a busy music studio, and has taught since 1980 in
the Philippines, India, and the United States. Deirdre has conducted vocal
workshops in India and the USA. She is choral director/cantor at St.
Matthew’s Church, San Mateo, and drama director at Our Lady of Mercy
School, Daly City. Deirdre is pleased to be a part of Viva la Musica! Deirdre
and her husband, Neville, and son, Andre, live in Daly City. This is Deirdre’s
third appearance as soloist with Viva la Musica.
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Casie Walker | Soprano
Casie Walker, soprano, has enjoyed a successful
career both in opera and concert work. She holds
a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance from
Southern Methodist University, where she studied
under mezzo-soprano Virginia Dupuy. She is also
a former member of the Young Artist Apprentice
Program at the Santa Fe Opera. Casie has sung with
numerous orchestras throughout the southwest. One
of the highlights of Casie’s career was an opportunity
to perform for several years with the Robert
Shaw Festival Chorus in Western Europe and the
American Northeast. Most recently she has enjoyed
performing in churches all over California. Casie is
currently the director of the Rainbow Children’s
Choir at Los United Methodist Church. This is Casie’s third appearance as
soloist with Viva la Musica.
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Elspeth Franks | Mezzo-Soprano
British-born Elspeth Franks is known for an
unusually wide vocal range and engaging and
characterful stage presence, and performs a wide
array of operatic and concert roles throughout
the mezzo, alto and soprano repertoires. Franks’s
European debut was in performances of Haydn’s
Harmoniemesse in Munich, Prague, Budapest and
Vienna. Awarded a Virginia Best Adams Fellowship
at the Carmel Bach Festival for the 2002 & 2003
seasons, Franks returned there in 2005 as featured
soprano soloist. Franks debuted with Virginia Opera
in the role of Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), and
with the Mark Morris Dance Group in New York in the role of Commère (Four
Saints in Three Acts). Vocal training has included scholarship study at England’s
prestigious Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) and as a Rotary
International Foundation Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Franks currently is a cantor at St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, and an Artist In
Residence in the Vocal Program at School Of The Arts. Recent engagements
have included Purcell and Vivaldi solos with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
This is Elspeth’s second solo appearance with Viva la Musica.
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Corey Head | Tenor
Corey Head, tenor, has sung a wide variety of
operatic roles throughout the US, including Ferrando
in Così fan Tutte, Don Curzio and Don Basilio in Le
Nozze di Figaro, Goro in Madama Butterfly, Frantz
in Les Contes D’Hoffmann, and Cecco in Haydn’s Il
Mondo Nella Luna. Corey specializes in Early Music
with a special affinity for J.S. Bach. His solo concert
performances have included Bach’s Magnificat,
Christmas Oratorio and many of his cantatas. Other
oratorio roles include Ahasuereus in Handel’s Esther,
“The Evening” in Telemann’s Die Tageszeiten and
Handel’s Messiah. Other appearances include: Tenor
Soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Marin
Symphony; The Moor in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mlada
and Charles Edward in Bernstein’s Candide, both
with the San Francisco Symphony; soloist with the San Francisco Choral
Society for a concert of two Magnificat works by J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach;
tenor soloist for San Francisco Concert Chorale in Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb
and Mozart’s Requiem; the role of “He” in William Boyce’s Solomon: A Serenata
and Jean Gilles’ Requiem, both with San Francisco Renaissance Voices. This is
Corey’s second solo appearance with Viva.
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Jordan Eldredge | Baritone
Jordan Eldredge, baritone, holds a BM in classical
voice from San Francisco State University, where
he performed such roles as Papageno in Mozart’s
Die Zauberflöte and the title role in Kirke Mechem’s
Tartuffe. He also performs with several Bay Area
companies including Sonoma City Opera and
Pocket Opera, where he recently performed roles
including Agamemnon in Offenbach’s Belle Helen
and Moralès in Bizet’s Carmen. This is Jordan’s
second appearance as soloist with Viva la Musica:
last season he sang the cantor solos in René Ochoa’s
Misa del Pueblo.
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Peter Lemburg | Oboe and Oboe D’Amore
Peter Lemberg is Principal Oboe with the San
Francisco Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco
Opera’s Merola Opera productions, West Bay Opera
and San Francisco Lyric Opera. He plays frequently
with the San Francisco Opera (including Principal
Oboe for the 2009 production of Daughter of the
Regiment), as well as many of the regional Bay Area
orchestras and opera companies. Peter has played
solo concerto performances with the San Francisco
Chamber Orchestra and the Palo Alto Chamber
Orchestra, and recently played the west coast
premiere of the Concertino for Oboe and Strings
by Michael Gilbertson. He plays in chamber music
performances and teaches privately in the Bay Area.
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