Zoie Lamb
Zoie Lamb has her Master of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA, and received her Bachelor's degree from Chapman University in Orange, CA. She has sung with numerous ensembles, including the Handel and Hayden Society and Boston Baroque. She has performed Mozart's Queen of the Night from Die Zauberflöte in three different venues and has performed the world premiere of Richard Toensing's The Whitman Tropes at Carnegie Hall. She has performed under many conductors and directors, including Grant Gershon, John Greer, and William Hall, and has studied privately most recently with Carole Haber. Locally, Zoie has performed with the Portland Opera in their most recent production of Gounod's Faust and is a proud participant in Portland Vocal Consort.

Jennifer Lowe, alto
Jennifer graduated from Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2009. Before attending, she had received the Semper Fi Music Award in 2001. In 2004, she received a Director's Award for Women's Choir President. She has graduated with a degree in Vocal Performance with a minor in French and Theatre. She has participated in the university opera workshop program and was pleased to perform a duet from Handel's Guilo Cesare in 2007 playing the part of Cornelia and later in 2008 the part of Miss Todd in the The Old Maid and the Thief. In 2009 she performed in a scene of The Magic Flute as the third lady as well as Marcellina in the final act of The Marriage of Figaro. Also in 2009 she gave her senior recital called The Many Faces of Love.

Though along with her enjoyment performing with the opera and recitals, she enjoys singing with choirs. Since she was in grade school she has sung with her church choir and primary choir. She has enjoyed singing again in high school choir with many opportunities for solos. In 2001 she made it in to the BYU- Idaho Women's choir where she sang for four years. Thereafter, serving a mission in Madrid, Spain from her church was able to sing on international television. Her return to finish her degree proved fulfilling in that she was received in to the highest choir at BYU-Idaho the Collegiate Singers with whom she sang for two years.

Because of these experiences she has grown not only as a soloist, but as a member of a body of singers that helper her grow as a musician and a person. She now is preparing for graduate studies at Portland State University in fall 2010.

Anita Lundgren
Anita is currently serving as section leader and soloist with the First Presbyterian Church in Portland, where she has performed solos from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Cantate 68, Vivaldi's Gloria as well as the Rutter Gloria. A life-long love of choral music has engaged her with such groups as Cappella Romana, St. James Lutheran Church (Bach Cantate series), the St. Cecilia Society of Sacramento (where she performed the role of evangelist in Arvo Pärt’s PASSION), Seattle Choral Company and the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and continued vocal studies with Patricia Stedry of Boston College. Anita is a Contract Administrator with Otak, Inc. by day; wife to "Larry” for 24 years and mom to 2 grown sons, Peter and Andrew.

Brianna Morningreed, alto
Brianna is a native of Port Orchard, Washington and was parented by two amazing yet under-celebrated musicians. Some of her earliest music experiences centered on her mother accompanying high school musical productions and listening to the pit musicians. Music has always been one of the most influential parts of her life, and as such began singing in church choir at age 7. Answering her desire to experience more music, Bri also participated in several shows and chamber ensembles. Some of her favorite roles include Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors and the witch in Into the Woods. Science filling the academic arena afforded no outlet for choral experiences in high school. Instead, her choral activities were encouraged in her congregation's many ensembles. No stranger to the dramatic stage, Bri enjoyed performing as Ronette in, Little Shop of Horrors, and as Laurentia in Captain Lovelock while at Pacific University.

After graduating with many honors from South Kitsap High School, Bri move to Forest Grove, OR where she recently graduated from Pacific Univesity with a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Biology. Bri studied under Angela Niederloh for one semester, but has enjoyed being under her brilliant direction in both Little Shop of Horrors, and Captain Lovelock. Bri has been a member of the Pacific University Chamber Singers under the direction of Dr. Scott Tuomi since her freshman year and finshed her last season with them on a two week tour of the Islands of Hawaii.

Solveig Nyberg, soprano
A native of Minneapolis, MN, Solveig holds her Master's degree in vocal performance from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She sang with the Dale Warland Singers and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and has appeared as a guest soloist with the Nebraska Chamber Orechestra, South Dakota Symphony and Idaho Falls Symphony. She is a recent transplant to Portland from Idaho, where she served as artistic director of the Idaho Falls Symphony Chorale and Idaho Falls Opera Theater as well as appearing on stage in both opera and musical theater. Currently, she is director of the MHCC Symphonic Choir, music director at Gresham United Methodist Church, sings with the Portland Symphonic Choir and has a private voice and piano studio.

Tuesday Rupp
Alto Tuesday Rupp a Portland native. Praised for her “rich, rapturous tone” by the Oregonian, Tuesday has a broad portfolio of performances. Recent solo work includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Eric Milnes and the Trinity Consort, the world premier of Robert Kyr’s A Time for Life with Cappella Romana, and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at First Unitarian Church. Tuesday is the co-founder and executive director of the early music ensemble In Mulieribus. She is the 2006 Cascade NATS winner in the Adult II division. Tuesday sings with Cappella Romana, Trinity Cathedral Chamber Choir, and Cantores in Ecclessia. She records frequently with Oregon Catholic Press, and is the Music Director at Milwaukie Presbyterian Church. Tuesday holds a B.Mus. from Boston University and is pursuing a master’s degree in conducting from Portland State University.

Paul Sadilek
Paul has been a member of a variety of vocal ensembles throughout the Northwest, including Cappella Romana, Cantores in Ecclesia, Oregon Repertory Singers, and Portland Symphonic Choir. He has recorded with the Oregon Catholic Press. He is involved as section leader or soloist with Westminster Presbyterian, First United Methodist, First Presbyterian, and St. Mary's Cathedral. As a soloist Paul has performed various roles with Oregon Repertory Singers, the Bernstein Mass with the Oregon Symphony, and Beethoven's Symphony #5 with the Willamette Falls Symphony.

Doug Strickler
Doug Strickler has been singing in church choirs since he was old enough to know which end of the music was up (one of the legacies of growing up as the son of a minister). Apart from various church choirs, he got his first taste of serious choral singing in the Glee Club of the University of California where he also attended enough classes to get a bachelor's degree in Architecture. When he lived in New Hampshire, he studied voice with John Oliver and sang with the Boston Symphony as a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for seven years. After moving back to Berkeley in 1984, he sang with the University Chamber Chorus and participated in a series of recordings with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra of the oratorios of Handel, including Susanna, Theodora and Messiah. He also appeared as a soloist in the Fauré Requiem and as Melchior in Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors in local Bay Area churches. Since moving to Portland 15 years ago, he has been a member of several local groups including Novum Cantorum and the Dickens Carolers. He spent several years as the bass soloist and section leader in the choir of First Congregational Church and a member of the Portland Opera Chorus. He currently lives in the Woodstock neighborhood with his wife and daughter and makes ends meet by working as a land use planner.

Cahen Taylor, tenor
Cahen received his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Southern California. He is an accomplished singer and has performed with the Los Angeles Master Chorale as both chorister and soloist where he performed the role of Evangelist for Bach's Christmas Oratorio. While at the University of Southern California, Cahen was a chorister for the USC Chamber Singers at the Thornton School of Music under Willam Dehning, Conductor. Cahen is a soloist/section leader for First Presbyterian Church. He has also performed with Capella Romana, Cantores in Ecclesia, and Portland Vocal Consort.

Sherrie Van Hine, mezzo-soprano
Sherrie has been singing since she was a little girl at her great-grandmother's church in Kansas. She grew up in Colorado and attended Adams State College touring Europe with the Adams State College Choir and the Colorado Choir. She received her music degree from North Texas State University and performed with the Fort Worth Opera Chorus. She taught secondary school music at the International School in Singapore for two years and then went back-packing around the world for 18 months before returning to the U.S. Sherrie has lived in Portland for the last 18 years with her husband of 27 years, raising two daughters. She was a member and frequent soloist with David York Ensemble for 15 years. She has also been a guest soloist for several area churches and choirs. A founding member of Viriditas Vocal Ensemble, Sherrie has sung in several small ensembles put together by NW composer and director, John Szymko, including being part of an ensemble providing live music for Do Jump Movement Theatre at the Newmark. She has been the vocal director for the musical theatre productions at Da Vinci Arts Middle Shcool for the last four years. She currently teaches private voice from her home studio in NE Portland. She practice yoga daily and loves to garden.

Melanie Downie Zupan
Portland-based soprano Melanie Downie Zupan graduated magna cum laude from DePauw University in 1998 with a double major in Vocal Performance and Computer Science. Mel is best known for her clear, soaring soprano sound and engaging stage presence. She studies with Nancy Zylstra in Seattle and is active as a soloist, recitalist and ensemble singer. Mel is a member of the Portland Vocal Consort and a soloist and section leader with the Bach Cantata Choir. She also cantors with Cantores in Ecclesia and performs annually in the William Byrd Festival under the musical direction of Richard Marlow. She has recorded with Cappella Romana and Oregon Catholic Press and is one of the soprano soloists at the First Unitarian Church. In 2007, Mel performed the St. Matthew Passion at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Helmuth Rilling. Having spent several years living and working in southern France, Ms. Zupan is fluent in French and is a well-known chanteuse in the local Francophile community. In addition to her vocal endeavors, Mel is an accomplished flutist. And, lest that Computer Science degree go to waste, she is the Systems Administrator (although better known as the "technodiva") at the French American International School in NW Portland.