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Melissa Sittig, soprano, is beginning her first season with the Kansas City Chorale. A native of Fort Worth, she moved to Kansas City in 2008 to continue work on her Bachelor of Music Education degree at UMKC. Melissa has toured and performed with several Conservatory ensembles and interned as an assistant director with the Kansas City Children’s Chorus. She was a guest performer with Collegium Vocale when it debuted the newly transcribed edition of Clerambault’s Miserere. Melissa was also part of the premiere performance of Zhou Long’s Future of Fire for chamber chorus and wind ensemble at the 2009 Conference of the College Band Directors National Association. She has co-chaired several fund-raising events including a concert benefitting the American Cancer Society and Relay for Life. Melissa lives in downtown Kansas City and looks forward to completing her degree next December. |
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Soprano Lindsey Lang is noted for her bold interpretions of early music, having performed frequently with modern and period orchestras nationwide. She has appeared as a soloist in such great works as Mass in B Minor (Bach), Magnificat (Bach), Schöpfungsmesse (Haydn), and Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 (Monteverdi). Lindsey currently sings with the ensembles Fénix de los Ingenios, ¡Sacabuche!, Vox Reflexa, and Voices of Prometheus and has appeared in mainstage events in both the Bloomington Early Music Festival and Berkeley Early Music Festival. After earning a Master’s degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Missouri in 2008, she studied for two years at the Early Music Institute in Indiana University. This is her first season singing with the Kansas City Chorale. |
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Pamela Williamson, soprano, is the Choral Music Director at Olathe Northwest High School, and is in her eighteenth year as a music educator in the public schools in Kansas. Pam is on the music staff at Grace United Methodist Church in Olathe, Kansas. She has earned Bachelor’s and Master's degrees in Music Education from the UMKC Conservatory of Music. Pam is in her eighteenth year of singing with The Kansas City Chorale, and is a featured soloist on four of their Nimbus Records CDs. Pam sang in the Robert Shaw Festival Singers twice in performance at Carnegie Hall, and has been an active music director and accompanist for many community musical theater events in the Kansas City area. Pam is the proud mother of three sons; Jack, 11, Avery, 8, and Cole, 6, and enjoys the support of her husband, Brett, who is also the Chorale’s webmaster. |
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Melanie Melcher, soprano, has sung with the Kansas City Chorale since 2005. As an opera singer, Melanie has performed roles with such companies as Ohio Light Opera, Knoxville Opera, Anchorage Opera Studio, Opera New York and Portland Opera Works. She can be heard as Lady Psyche on the Newport Classics recording of Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida. Ms. Melcher received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education from Millikin University and her Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from The University of Tennessee. She is the Director of Worship Arts at Leawood United Methodist Church in Kansas City. Melanie, her husband Brian, and 2 year-old son Caleb, welcomed baby Anna to the family in September. |
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Coloratura soprano Sarah Tannehill is a vibrant singer with versatility and a flare for both comedy and drama on the operatic stage. She has performed leading operatic roles with the Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera Omaha, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Saarländisches Staatstheatre in Saarbrücken, Germany. Shortly after Sarah’s move to Kansas City in 2006, she received rave reviews for singing her first Ophelia in Thomas’ Hamlet with the Kansas City Lyric, with only a few hours notice. In 2007, Sarah earned distinction from Symphony magazine as an Emerging Artist. She has sung with Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, North Shore Choral Society, Southern Illinois Symphony, Wichita Symphony, Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, the KC Chamber Orchestra, the New Ear Ensemble, and the Kansas City Symphony. Sarah is also a three-time Emmy winner for her film work with the Missouri Department of Conservation. Sarah received her Master’s Degree at UMKC Conservatory in 1999. She is a member of the Lyric Arts Trio, and teaches voice in Overland Park, Lee’s Summit and William Jewell College. |
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Katherine Crawford
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