Artist Rosters

Hayden Eberhart is a native of Dallas, Texas, and currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has sung with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Polyphony New Mexico, Golden Bridge, and fourteen seasons with the LA Master Chorale, where she has been a part of the Lagrime di San Pietro world tour, and soloist in Messiah and Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem. She is also a co-founder and Administrative Director of Los Angeles-based PRISM Choral Ensemble, a nine-voice, conductorless professional choir focused on early music (prismensemble.org). She has appeared as a guest artist with Pasadena Master Chorale, LA Daiku, Hollywood Master Chorale, and the Pomona College Choir and Orchestra. She can be heard on such film soundtracks as Frozen, Big Hero 6, The Conjuring, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, among others.

Megan Garcia is a born and raised member of the Albuquerque community. She recently graduated from the University of New Mexico with honors, magna cum laude. She received her Bachelor of Music with a concentration in Vocal Performance. During her time at UNM, Megan sang in the treble ensemble, 'Las Cantantes' and in the mixed Concert Choir ensemble. She was also involved in the UNM Opera Program performing in scenes and full productions. She is currently a soprano section leader in the choir at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque. She sings with the professional vocal ensemble, Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico and is passionate about creating music with others. In addition to singing music from the sacred choral canon, she also enjoys singing in the barbershop style with her community ensemble, "Route 66 Sound."

Christina Haroldson was born and raised in Glendale, Arizona where she began her choral training with the Phoenix Girls Chorus at age nine. After completing her BA in Music, Christina took part in the OperaWorks program in LA and the Schumann Liederfest in Germany. While working on her Master of Music in Voice Performance at ASU, she taught music theory and sight-singing for the Arizona Girl choir Association and performed with the Southwest Shakespeare Company in Mesa, Arizona. After completing her Masters, Christina moved to New Mexico where she enjoys being a wife and mom, directing the Sandia Youth Homeschool Choir, and teaching private lessons.

Jennifer Perez holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The University of New Mexico. She enjoys a career as a concert soloist and ensemble singer primarily within the Western U.S., and she has had the pleasure of appearing as a soloist for the Bergamo International Culture Festival’s performance of Mozart’s Requiem (2011) in Bergamo, Italy. In addition to the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, her ensemble experience includes the Oregon Bach Festival, Boulder Bach Festival, Dallas Choral Festival, New Mexico Performing Arts Society, Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Chatter, and the New Mexico Philharmonic.

Ms. Perez has a deep passion for Baroque style chamber music, particularly the works of J.S. Bach. Recent chamber engagements include intimate ensemble performances of Bach’s Magnificat (BWV 243) with the OBF and Der Herr denket an uns (BWV 196) with the BBF, and she received the “Honorable Mention” award in the BBF’s online World Bach Competition in 2020. She also loves the unique challenge of exploring and interpreting contemporary music and regularly performs such works with Albuquerque’s eccentric chamber group, Chatter. Among her many memorable performance experiences are the chattering vocalizations of Berio’s Agnus, the meditative tintinnabuli style within Pärt’s Stabat Mater, and the intense aspects of human emotion and experience conveyed through Lang’s Death Speaks and Heroin.

World premiere performances include Jenny Olivia Johnson’s The Many Poems She Learned as a Child with PVNM (2022), Richard Danielpour’s Passion of Yeshua with the OBF (2018), and Hector Armienta’s Bless Me, Ultima with Opera Southwest (2018), which was later broadcast nationally through Chicago’s WFMT Radio Network. Ms. Perez lives in Santa Fe where she serves in the Parish Choir for the Church of the Holy Faith and as a guest radio host for Classical 95.5 KHFM Santa Fe/Albuquerque.

Born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jordyn Tatum joined the Cathedral Choristers in 2008, and is now the Chorister Assistant and a soprano choral scholar in the Cathedral Choir. She is currently in her last year at the University of New Mexico, studying Music Education with a concentration in voice, and is taking secondary studies in pipe organ. She has toured with the Cathedral Choir both nationally to Washington D.C and New York City, and internationally to England. She has been a featured soloist on three commercially released CDs through Raven CD, and has had the opportunity to premiere new choral music by composers in residence including Stephanie Martin, Cecilia McDowall, Sarah Quartel, Philip Moore, Andrew Carter and most recently, Zachary Wadsworth with the Cathedral Choir. Apart from music, she enjoys being in nature, baking, and woodcarving. This is Jordyn’s third season with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico.

Laurie Fleenor is a vocal performance major at the University of New Mexico, graduating in 2028. She has been singing at the Cathedral of St. John since 2016 and currently serves as the alto section leader. Her formal vocal training began in high school prior to the pandemic and builds on an early foundation in piano. Passionate about choral and classical music, she is committed to developing her artistry through both academic study and professional performance. Outside of music, she enjoys photography and spending time in nature, which continue to inspire her creative expression and artistic perspective.

Yasmeen Lookman is a proud member of New Mexico’s vibrant choral community. Since graduating from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance, she has performed with Opera Southwest, Coro Lux, the New Mexico Performing Arts Society, Quintessence, and Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico. Her performances as featured mezzo-soprano soloist include Vivaldi’s Gloria and Handel’s Messiah with Coro Lux and the New Mexico Philharmonic, and the recent New Mexico premiere of Bradley Ellingboe’s A Place Called Home at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. Offstage, Yasmeen works as an accountant at Homewise and enjoys the company of her many beloved cats.

Mary Quinn has spent a lifetime singing in choirs. Before moving to New Mexico, she spent many years singing professionally and semi-professionally in choirs in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a special emphasis on early music. She has translated a range of Spanish poetry and zarzuela texts for professional performance and has published articles on early zarzuela, Baroque opera, and vihuela music and poetry. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. Her current research focuses on literary, aural, and visual cultures of seventeenth-century festivals of the Habsburg Empire. She has been an enthusiastic member of Polyphony since 2010.

John is a transplant from Pennsylvania who discovered New Mexico in 2005 and only recently returned in 2022.  John has had the privilege of singing with the Westminster Choir, the Philadelphia Orchestra Chorus, the choirs of Ascension St. Agnes, St. Clement's Church, and St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, and was a long-time member of the Princeton Singers, and can be heard on four of their recordings.  Locally, he has sung with Coro de Camara, Sangre de Cristo Chorale, and the Desert Chorale.  He is proud to offer his singing for Albuquerque once again, serving as tenor section leader in the Choir of the Cathedral of St. John, and for Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico. John also enjoys gardening, composition, and servitude to his feline friends.

Nathan Salazar holds a master's degree in collaborative piano from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Martin Katz. Salazar has performed in England, Scotland, Italy, Russia, and in major performance venues throughout the United States. He performed in the International Festival of Spanish and Latin American Music with renowned mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza and has been featured at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Boston’s Symphony Hall, and Carnegie Hall in New York City.

He performed for Marilyn Horne’s 80th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall, where he worked with the legendary Christa Ludwig. Salazar has worked with such singers as Julia Faulkner, Maria Zifchak, Stephen King, Susanne Mentzer, Luis Ledesma, Wolfgang Brendel, Joyce Castle, Neil Shicoff, Stanford Olsen, George Shirley, Angela Meade, Caroline Worra, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Cecilia Lopez, Kelly Kaduce, Edward Parks, Stephen Powell, Jonathan Burton, Michael Fabiano, and Susan Graham. He has worked and performed with Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Polyphony, the Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Santa Fe Opera, The Handel and Haydn Society, The Boston Symphony, and the Boston Lyric Opera, where he worked on the company’s monumental 2019 production of Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale.

Salazar performed with Mexican-American soprano Cecilia Violetta Lopez in recital for Austin Opera, Opera Idaho, Opera Orlando, Opera Las Vegas, Opera Southwest, Opera America, Madison Opera, and Opera Colorado, where he now serves as Principal Coach. Most recently, Nathan was coach and pianist for the company’s production of Korngold’s Die tote Stadt. Up next is Salazar’s company debut with San Francisco Opera. 

Curtis Storm, tenor, is a regular soloist and collaborative musician throughout the Southwestern United States. Described by the New Mexico Review of the Arts as "sonorous", Curtis has been singing in the Southwest since 2010.

In that time he has been featured soloist in recital with renowned collaborative pianist Robert Spillman, in the world premiere of the American Choral Association's Alice Parker Award winning Requiem for Eagles by David Lingle with the San Juan Symphony as well as in performances with New Mexico Philharmonic, the St. John's Bach Project, and Red Rock Strings. Additionally, Curtis has sung with Ensemble Music New Mexico, and currently with Quintessence: A Community of Singers, and Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico.

Curtis has also appeared in several Opera Southwest productions, including the North American premiere of Alì Babà as cover for Thamar, as Soldier in the world premiere of Zorro, and 1st Coryphée in Le Comte Ory. 2023 also included his first appearance at The Santa Fe Opera in the chorus of The Flying Dutchman. He concluded is 2023 season by appearing in two immersive opera world premieres; Glory Gone and The Paños Prophesy. Finally, his 2024 season will include singing in the world premier of the opera ZOZOBRA: The Revenge by Joe Illick and Douglas Preston at the Lensic Theatre in Santa Fe.

Curtis is also the co-founder and administrator of the nonprofit organization Opera on Tap New Mexico, in which he organizes performances of classical voice in bars and breweries as a means of advancing the accessibility of the art form for people not normally exposed to it.

Tenor John Tiranno has been called “ardent and mellifluous” as well as a “clear-voiced tenor” by The New York Times. Upcoming and notable past performances include Handel’s Messiah and Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette (Santa Fe Symphony), Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra), Berlioz's Requiem (La Jolla Symphony & Chorus), Mahler song cycles Das Lied von der Erde and Songs of a Wayfarer (ChatterABQ), Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Paul Moravec’s The Blizzard Voices (Oratorio Society of New York), Saint-Saëns Requiem (Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra), creating the role of The Young Man in Gisle Kverndokk’s opera Upon this handful of earth (New York Opera Society & Sacred Music in a Sacred Space), Bach's B minor Mass and the U.S. premiere of Juraj Filas’ Oratio Spei – Requiem (Sacred Music in a Sacred Space), and recitals at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Jedda, Saudi Arabia. In 2018, he formed the Young Tiranno Duo with his wife, violinist and pianist Elizabeth Young.

Baritone Alfredo Beltrán is a freelance professional singer in the Albuquerque Area. Alfredo also currently serves as the Bass Section Leader of the Cathedral Choir at the Episcopal Cathedral of St John (ABQ). Aside from singing with Polyphony, other local area musical engagements for Alfredo have included serving as a guest soloist with the New Mexico Philharmonic and as a chorister and solo artist with Opera Southwest. Outside of the local area, Alfredo has participated in productions with Heartland Opera Theatre in Joplin, MO, Varna International's Opera Academy in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, Opera in the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and as a guest soloist with New Mexico State University’s Music Department in Las Cruces. 

Alfredo has both a Bachelor and Master of Music Degree in Voice Performance, the former from the University of New Mexico, and the latter from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Praised for ​​”his charismatic voice — a warm, rich tone, which soars with ease from a high top to lush lows” (Albuquerque Journal), British baritone Edmund Connolly is a multi-faceted musician based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In addition to his work as a solo and consort singer, keyboard player and choral director, he is in his tenth year as a member of the performing arts faculty at Albuquerque Academy, teaching chorus, voice and music theory. He also works as a recording engineer for concerts and recitals, and enjoys the creative challenges of composing and arranging music for various forces.

Born in London, England, and raised just outside Oxford, Edmund Connolly earned his BA (Hons) in music at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he was organ scholar, and his MMus in vocal performance at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. During more than a decade in London, Edmund was an opera soloist and chorus member for companies including English Touring Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, singing and understudying more than 25 roles in several languages. Concurrently, he was a frequent deputy with the BBC Singers, the UK’s only full-time professional chamber choir, and performed and recorded with groups including the Dmitri Ensemble, the Gabrieli Consort, and English Voices, under conductors including Bob Chilcott, David Hill, Paul McCreesh and Donald Runnicles.

Since moving to Albuquerque in 2012, Edmund has served as Assistant Organist-Choir Director at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John. As baritone soloist, he has appeared with the New Mexico Philharmonic in Bach’s St. John Passion, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony; and with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico in works ranging from Henry Mollicone’s Beatitudes: Mass for the Homeless to James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross. As the voice and piano/organ duo Air & Hammers, Edmund and his wife, pianist and organist Maxine Thevenot, continue to explore both new and established repertoire for voice and piano/organ, and released their first duo disc, Desire in Spring, on the Raven CD label in 2015.

Bass-Baritone Javier Ortiz has played over 35 leading and supporting operatic roles and has appeared as a soloist in 15 major orchestral works with opera companies and orchestras across the USA. Internationally, Javier performed "Mozart Arias and Duets" in concert at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, appeared as a soloist for the 25th Anniversary of the Netherlands Opera's residence in the Muziektheater, sang Sarastro's arias from Die Zauberflöte with the Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, and joined the Rotterdam Opera Days in concert and as Colline in La Boheme. He played the Commendatore in Don Giovanni, Pluton in La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers, and Colline in La Boheme with Opera Studio Nederland. Javier also toured Mexico with the Chicago Arts Orchestra as the bass soloist in Al Combate by Ignacio Jerusalem in celebration of UNAM’s designation as a UNESCO world heritage site.

Javier recently played Zachariah in an off-Broadway version of Nabucco and Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with The American Baroque Opera Company. His 2022-2023 season included Man #2 in Frida and Doctor Grenvil with both Opera Southwest and El Paso Opera, Gomez in Zorro with Opera Southwest, and Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro with The Roswell Symphony. 

Baritone Robert Peckham comes to New Mexico from his hometown of Little Rock, AR, where he grew up in a rich tradition of sacred and secular music. He has been pleased to perform in a variety of choirs and ensembles both in and out of state, including Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Quintessence: A Community of Singers, and the Cathedral Choir of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John.

Robert holds degrees in Liberal Arts and Philosophy from St. John’s College, Santa Fe and Tulane University and attends the UNM School of Law.

Hayden Eberhart is a native of Dallas, Texas, and currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has sung with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Polyphony New Mexico, Golden Bridge, and fourteen seasons with the LA Master Chorale, where she has been a part of the Lagrime di San Pietro world tour, and soloist in Messiah and Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem. She is also a co-founder and Administrative Director of Los Angeles-based PRISM Choral Ensemble, a nine-voice, conductorless professional choir focused on early music (prismensemble.org). She has appeared as a guest artist with Pasadena Master Chorale, LA Daiku, Hollywood Master Chorale, and the Pomona College Choir and Orchestra. She can be heard on such film soundtracks as Frozen, Big Hero 6, The Conjuring, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, among others.

Megan Garcia is an Albuquerque born and raised singer. This is her third year as a soprano section leader for the Cathedral Choir at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John. Megan also performs with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico. She has a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of New Mexico with a concentration in vocal performance. Megan has had the pleasure of being involved in the world premiere performance of The Altar by Dr. David J. Hurd, and to collaborate with New York Polyphony and Lyyra through Friends of Cathedral Music. She loves choral singing, sacred and secular, and she also sings in the barbershop style.

She has toured with the Cathedral Choir to Canterbury, UK and looks forward to visiting Victoria, Canada with the choir this upcoming summer.

Apart from singing, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling abroad, and coffee shops. 

Christina Haroldson was born and raised in Glendale, Arizona where she began her choral training with the Phoenix Girls Chorus at age nine. After completing her BA in Music, Christina took part in the OperaWorks program in LA and the Schumann Liederfest in Germany. While working on her Master of Music in Voice Performance at ASU, she taught music theory and sight-singing for the Arizona Girl choir Association and performed with the Southwest Shakespeare Company in Mesa, Arizona. After completing her Masters, Christina moved to New Mexico where she enjoys being a wife and mom, directing the Sandia Youth Homeschool Choir, and teaching private lessons.

A Santa Fe native, Melody Hett (soprano) recently returned to New Mexico from New York City where she worked in administrative roles at The Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic, and sang in the five-part Schola Cantorum at St. Mary’s Church under the direction of Justin Bischof. She now lives in Albuquerque where she sings with the Cathedral Choir and Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, and works as the Development Administrator at the Santa Fe Opera. 

Melody holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theatre, with minors in psychology and gender studies, from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Prior to transferring to Wisconsin, she spent a year studying music at UNM where she sang with the treble ensemble Las Cantantes. Prior to college, she had the opportunity to tour Italy with the Santa Fe High School choir, including a solo feature during Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

Apart from choral singing, Melody enjoys crafting, songwriting, studying Korean, and spending time with her husband and their cat. 

A born and raised New Mexican, Brianna Joyce is a soprano and a music educator with Albuquerque Public Schools.  They hold a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education with choral emphasis from the University of New Mexico, and currently teach elementary music to grades Prek-5 at Governor Bent Elementary School.  

During their time at UNM Brianna sang in the treble choir Las Cantantes, the Concert Choir, and was a chorus member in four UNM Opera Theatre productions.  Before joining the Cathedral Choir at the Cathedral of St. John in 2022, Brianna was a choral scholar and soprano section leader at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church.  

In addition to singing, Brianna enjoys playing nine other instruments, some of which include violin, piano, and french horn.  When they aren’t teaching, Brianna loves to read science fiction, paint, and spend time with their pets.  This is their first season with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico.  

Jennifer Kuchar is a heartfelt soprano from Albuquerque, NM, with a deep love for music and an even deeper passion for helping others grow through it. She holds a B.M. in Vocal Performance from Lawrence University and dual M.M. degrees in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from East Carolina University. On stage, she’s brought warmth and intensity to roles like La Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Lady Billows (Albert Herring), and the Peasant Mother (Before Night Falls). Offstage, Jennifer thrives as a voice teacher and elementary music educator, dedicated to nurturing students of all ages as they find their voice. She’s led college voice classes, taught music theory to teens, and taken her talents abroad through the Oberlin in Italy program and UNM opera theater —performing and assistant directing operas like The Magic Flute and Le Nozze di Figaro. As a director, teacher, and singer, Jennifer tries to bring curiosity and passion to all aspects of her art making here in NM! 

Jennifer Perez holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The University of New Mexico. She enjoys a career as a concert soloist and ensemble singer primarily within the Western U.S., and she has had the pleasure of appearing as a soloist for the Bergamo International Culture Festival’s performance of Mozart’s Requiem (2011) in Bergamo, Italy. In addition to the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, her ensemble experience includes the Oregon Bach Festival, Boulder Bach Festival, Dallas Choral Festival, New Mexico Performing Arts Society, Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Chatter, and the New Mexico Philharmonic.

Ms. Perez has a deep passion for Baroque style chamber music, particularly the works of J.S. Bach. Recent chamber engagements include intimate ensemble performances of Bach’s Magnificat (BWV 243) with the OBF and Der Herr denket an uns (BWV 196) with the BBF, and she received the “Honorable Mention” award in the BBF’s online World Bach Competition in 2020. She also loves the unique challenge of exploring and interpreting contemporary music and regularly performs such works with Albuquerque’s eccentric chamber group, Chatter. Among her many memorable performance experiences are the chattering vocalizations of Berio’s Agnus, the meditative tintinnabuli style within Pärt’s Stabat Mater, and the intense aspects of human emotion and experience conveyed through Lang’s Death Speaks and Heroin.

World premiere performances include Jenny Olivia Johnson’s The Many Poems She Learned as a Child with PVNM (2022), Richard Danielpour’s Passion of Yeshua with the OBF (2018), and Hector Armienta’s Bless Me, Ultima with Opera Southwest (2018), which was later broadcast nationally through Chicago’s WFMT Radio Network. Ms. Perez lives in Santa Fe where she serves in the Parish Choir for the Church of the Holy Faith and as a guest radio host for Classical 95.5 KHFM Santa Fe/Albuquerque.

Born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jordyn Tatum joined the Cathedral Choristers in 2008, and is now the Chorister Assistant and a soprano choral scholar in the Cathedral Choir. She is currently in her last year at the University of New Mexico, studying Music Education with a concentration in voice, and is taking secondary studies in pipe organ. She has toured with the Cathedral Choir both nationally to Washington D.C and New York City, and internationally to England. She has been a featured soloist on three commercially released CDs through Raven CD, and has had the opportunity to premiere new choral music by composers in residence including Stephanie Martin, Cecilia McDowall, Sarah Quartel, Philip Moore, Andrew Carter and most recently, Zachary Wadsworth with the Cathedral Choir. Apart from music, she enjoys being in nature, baking, and woodcarving. This is Jordyn’s third season with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico.

Born and raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Sandy Beery has been singing in choir since she was 11. Sandy was a member of the University Singers and the vocal jazz ensemble while a student at New Mexico State university.  She also sang with Sangre de Christo Chorale for 12 years before joining the Cathedral Choir.  Aside from singing, Sandy enjoys hiking in the mountains of New Mexico and cooking.  This is Sandy's third season with Polyphony:  Voices of New Mexico.

Laurie Fleenor is a vocal performance major at the University of New Mexico, graduating in 2028. She has been singing at the Cathedral of St. John since 2016 and currently serves as the alto section leader. Her formal vocal training began in high school prior to the pandemic and builds on an early foundation in piano. Passionate about choral and classical music, she is committed to developing her artistry through both academic study and professional performance. Outside of music, she enjoys photography and spending time in nature, which continue to inspire her creative expression and artistic perspective.

Yasmeen Lookman is a proud member of New Mexico’s vibrant choral community. Since graduating from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance, she has performed with Opera Southwest, Coro Lux, the New Mexico Performing Arts Society, Quintessence, and Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico. Her performances as featured mezzo-soprano soloist include Vivaldi’s Gloria and Handel’s Messiah with Coro Lux and the New Mexico Philharmonic, and the recent New Mexico premiere of Bradley Ellingboe’s A Place Called Home at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. Offstage, Yasmeen works as an accountant at Homewise and enjoys the company of her many beloved cats.

Esther Moses, mezzo-soprano, returned to New Mexico after working with the Portland Opera for more than a decade. Esther has performed with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico and NM Performing Arts Society, Gonzo Opera, Opera Southwest, Oregon East Symphony, Rose City Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland, Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, Albuquerque Philharmonic and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Operatic roles include Suor Angelica, Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd, Arsena in Gypsy Baron, Fatima in Abu Hassan, Laetitia in Menotti’s Old Maid and the Thief, Tullia in Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa, and in Juditha Triumphans, at the Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy. As a Regents Scholar, Esther holds performance & education degrees from the University of New Mexico, receiving her Master of Music from College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Esther enjoys raising her children, gardening, and beekeeping. She is a music and theater educator in the local schools.

Mary Quinn has spent a lifetime singing in choirs. Before moving to New Mexico, she spent many years singing professionally and semi-professionally in choirs in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a special emphasis on early music. She has translated a range of Spanish poetry and zarzuela texts for professional performance and has published articles on early zarzuela, Baroque opera, and vihuela music and poetry. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. Her current research focuses on literary, aural, and visual cultures of seventeenth-century festivals of the Habsburg Empire. She has been an enthusiastic member of Polyphony since 2010.