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Kari Francis
Kari Francis (she/her) is a vocalist, arranger, and choral music educator who has shared the stage with Imogen Heap, competed on NBC’s “The Sing-Off”, and can be heard beatboxing on Cory Smythe’s album “Accelerate Every Voice”. Currently a choral conducting doctoral student in the Sacred Music program at the University of Notre Dame, she was…
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Lisa French
Lisa Dixon French is the Executive Director of Nashville Ballet. Ms. French moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2015 following a successful tenure as Executive Director of the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra. Ms. French went to Portland from her role as the Chief Operating Officer of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Ms. French is also a graduate…
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Lourdes Cossich (Lulu)
Lourdes (Lulú) Cossich earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education and vocal performance at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Subsequently, she earned a second master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, where she focused her studies in Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy. Ms. Cossich began her teaching career…
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Myles Boothroyd
Myles Boothroyd is a saxophonist, teacher, and music scholar. He is Assistant Professor of Saxophone and Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He is the soprano/alto saxophonist for Generation Quartet, and he also performs with the award-winning East End Quartet founded at the Eastman School of Music. He currently serves on the 2022…
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Stephania Romaniuk
Ukrainian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Stephania Romaniuk is the Grand Prix Winner of the First International Competition of Ukrainian Retro Music and has toured Ukraine twice, singing in the Odesa, L’viv, and Kyiv Opera Houses and in concert with the Kyiv National Operetta Company. As a teaching artist for Calgary Opera, she has created and led cross-cultural song-sharing…
