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Artistic Personnel Craig Hella Johnson Artistic Director & Conductor COMPANY OF VOICES Soprano Cynthia I. Gonzales* Julie Keim Gitanjali Mathur Stefanie Moore^ Nina Revering^ Kathlene Ritch^ Sonja Du Toit Tengblad^ Alto Wendy Bloom Pam Elrod* Cecilia Kittley^ Keely J. Rhodes Cina Crisara Tenor Cole Blume* Paul D’Arcy Carr Hornbuckle^ Dean Revering Dana Wilson Bass Daniel Arredondo II Cameron Beauchamp^ Charles Wesley Evans^ Rick Gabrillo* Robert Harlan John Proft Paul Max Tipton ^ Soloist *Section Leader Thomas Burritt, percussion 26
About Mela Dailey Soprano Mela (mee-la) Dailey has command of both her instrument and the stage and has received recognition in a wide variety of musical genres including opera, oratorio, art song, musical theater, vocal jazz, gospel, country, and popular music. She has won competitions sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs, Metropolitan Opera, New York University, Gerda Lissner Foundation, Downbeat Magazine, and Connecticut Opera Guild, and was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Mid-South Region, International Opera Singer Competition, and Career Bridges Grant Awards with the Schuyler Foundation for Career Bridges, Inc. Mela sang the role of Tina in Jonathan Dove’s opera Flight with Austin Lyric Opera in April 2011. She also took part in a jazz concert in Klagenfurt, Austria and made her debut with the Dallas Wind Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. At the Georgetown (TX) Festival of the Arts she sang Brahms’ German Requiem and performed several concerts around the U.S. with cellist Scott Kluksdahl beginning with the Helps Festival of Music in Tampa. In fall 2011 Mela performed and recorded a Samuel Barber choral program with Conspirare for the Harmonia Mundi label and was soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle with Chorus Austin. 2012 begins with a Conspirare mid-western tour, solo debuts with the Spokane and Edmonton Symphonies, a Florida chamber music tour, and solos in Debussy’s La damoiselle élue and Poulenc’s Gloria in a return to the Georgetown Festival. Passionate about many charities and causes, Mela has raised over $100,000 for Austin groups including Life Works, Austin Lyric Opera, After School Arts Programs, GLBT Alliance, Historical Organ Restoration, Honor Our Heroes, an Alzheimer’s care facility called House of Friends, and many more. In November 2011 she helped The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure by headlining the Survivors Brunch Concert. Beginning Christmas Eve 2011, Mela becomes Director of Contemporary Arts at First United Methodist Church (fumc.org) where she will lead a monthly Sunday evening service. Mela’s debut CD with Scott Kluksdahl entitled Shelter will be released commercially soon and will be available through Amazon.com and iTunes. Please visit her online at meladailey.com. 27
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