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.

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.  

Soprano Amanda Sidebottom's heart is in collaborative music-making. A graduate of the Historical Performance Institute at Indiana University, she has enjoyed appearances with period chamber ensembles Brooklyn Baroque, The Soul's Delight, and Queen's Consort. As half of the duo Well-Tuned Words with lutenist Erik Ryding, she toured in the U.S. and Europe and recorded Great Wonder, an album of songs by Dowland, Danyel, and Campion. A recent east coast transplant, she has been fortunate to perform with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, as well as in Oklahoma City with Tactus Chamber Ensemble. Amanda is the operations director for the Santa Fe Desert Chorale and can be spotted most weekends attempting to expand her lung capacity on its many, picturesque hiking trails.

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.

Mezzo-Soprano Kehar Koslowsky is an accomplished choral and solo artist located in Santa Fe, NM. She has performed with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, New Mexico Bach Society/New Mexico Performing Arts Society, Zia Singers, New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus, Santa Fe Opera Guild, and Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble. Kehar is an active recitalist, performing regularly in the TGIF series at the First Presbyterian Church, and has performed in the Los Alamos Brown Bag series, and Ghost Light Sessions at the Lensic. While in Washington DC, she worked with conductors Kenneth Slowik and J. Reilly Lewis as a Bach soloist, and performed with the Washington Bach Consort, Woodley Ensemble, Cathedral Choral Society, and at St. Michael’s Cathedral and St. John’s Church Lafayette Square. Her opera roles include Diana in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld with the Janiec Opera Company; Desdemona in Rossini’s Otello with Maryland Opera Workshop; Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte with the Crittenden Opera Studio. Kehar loves being a part of the rich New Mexico music community, and loves early music, new compositions, oratorio, jazz, hiking, belly dancing, and chilling with her cat in Santa Fe. 

Renée Motteler is celebrating her 16th season as a member of Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico. She received her Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies with a concentration in vocal performance from California State University, Long Beach. Renée received a  Grammy® Award for Best Small on Ensemble for singing with the Los Angeles Chamber Singers & Cappella on the album Padilla: Sun of Justice. Renée has performed all over the world with jazz choirs and as a soloist at the Montreux Jazz Festival, among others. In California, she was the cantor, alto section leader, and assistant conductor at St. Cyprian Catholic Church in Long Beach. She was also a member of Zephyr: Voices Unbound. Renée has appeared in television commercials, on the radio, and has worked in the studio recording demo tapes for composers of classical, show tunes, jazz, and rock music, as well as recording jingles used commercially. 

Kirste Plunket has worked as an investment professional for over 25 years. She has also pursued her passion for the performing arts. It’s been her great honor and fortune to have sung for Dr. Thévenot at the Cathedral of St. John and Polyphony since 2017. Favorite past roles have included singing the role of Amy in Sondheim’s (I’m Not) Getting Married Today with Nate Salazar and Coro de Camara, and playing Mary in It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at The Santa Fe Playhouse. When not headed to the office or to rehearsals, Kirste enjoys swimming, Zumba and dabbling with improv comedy

Mezzo-soprano, Autumn Scott Quinto, is a native New Mexican who grew up in Albuquerque. She holds an MM in vocal performance from Baylor University where she graduated in May 2020. She also holds her BM in vocal performance from the University of New Mexico. Her professional experience blends operatic, choral, and concert singing. She now resides in Oregon, but still sometimes sings with the Cathedral of St. John’s choir as well as Polyphony Voices of New Mexico. When not performing, you might catch Autumn eating pizza, playing with her mini dachshunds, baking cookies, hiking with her husband, or playing her lever harp. 

Born in Española and raised in Albuquerque, Sage Herrick (she/they) is a proud member of the New Mexico community. 

Sage joined the Choir of the Cathedralof St. John in April 2023 under the direction of Dr. Thévenot. Before joining the Cathedral choir, Sage sang with Lehigh University Choral Arts as a soprano and alto. They also served as a cantor and choir member at St. Anne's Church in Bethlehem, PA. 

Outside of music, Sage works in healthcare administration for vulnerable populations and enjoys reading. 

This is Sage's first season with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico.

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.

George Case is currently a freelance musician living in Santa Fe, NM. George was formerly an Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Boston Conservatory at Berklee where he directed the choral ensembles and the graduate choral conducting program. George has also been the music director for The Boston Cecilia, a 143-year-old semi-professional chorus in Boston and the Newburyport Choral Society, an 84-year old choral society on the north shore. Previously, George has also been the Director of Choral Activities ad interim at Boston University and the Director of Choral and Vocal Programs at The Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts at Pebblebrook High School in Atlanta, GA. George holds Doctoral and Master’s degrees in conducting from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor's degree in vocal performance from Boston University. George is an award-winning educator of young musicians who frequently leads clinics and workshops for high school and collegiate singers, as well as professional development sessions for teachers around the country. As a soloist and professional chorister, George has performed with major ensembles across North America and Europe, including the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Handel & Haydn Society, Kinnara, Spire Chamber Ensemble, and Skylark Vocal Ensemble. In addition to his work as a soloist, conductor, and educator, George spends his time raising his goats and chickens on his farm in northern New Mexico and volunteering throughout Santa Fe. 

Tjett Gerdom is originally from Iowa and has a degree in Music Education from Cornell College.  Since moving to New Mexico, he has been a featured soloist with the New Mexico Performing Arts Society, Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, Santa Fe Music Works, Coro de Cámara, the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra, the Los Alamos Oratorio Society, the Los Alamos & Taos Choral Societies, and has thrice performed at Opera on the Rocks at Bandelier National Monument. In addition to singing, Tjett has Conducted the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra, the Los Alamos Choral Society, and the Los Alamos Oratorio Society. Tjett’s musical career has granted him the privilege of making music in many fantastic and historic places, including; St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the Pantheon in Rome, Symphony Hall in Chicago, Wells Cathedral, the great Cathedral in Salzburg, and at Carnival in Nice, France.  

Fred Graham has recently performed as tenor soloist with the New Mexico Symphonic Chorus (Albuquerque), Durango Bach Festival (Durango, Colorado), St. Bede’s Episcopal Church (Santa Fe), and the St. John’s Bach Project (Albuquerque).  He is a staff singer at Holy Faith Church (Santa Fe).  Fred serves as Vocal Coordinator at New Mexico School for the Arts, New Mexico’s free public high school for the arts. In addition to earning a Bachelor of Music degree in voice from Centenary College of Louisiana, he received a Master of Sacred Music degree from Boston University, where he completed a double major in voice and organ.

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.

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.

Travis Bregier, baritone, has his musical roots in West Fargo, ND, appearing in numerous musical and theatrical productions, choral concerts, and recitals from middle school through university. He earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in vocal performance at North Dakota State University (Fargo). Presently, he is Assistant Choir Director at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe.

Alongside Dream Big, Travis is also a music mentor with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and teaches voice and piano at The Candyman: Strings & Things. He has been a soloist in concerts on the TGIF Concert Series, and has appeared with Santa Fe Pro Musica, Polyphony: Voice of New Mexico, Chanticleer, Performance Santa Fe, and Opera Southwest (Albuquerque). Recently with Tri-M Productions (Santa Fe), he performed the role of Senex in Sondheim’s “Forum” and one of the male leads in “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.”

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.

Jude Harb is a Music Theory and Composition student at the University of New Mexico. He has written pieces for choir, piano (prepared), new music ensemble, vocal sextet, fixed media, and vocal/piano duet. He is also a practicing baritone, honing his voice to flexibly sing in a variety of genres and ensembles. He has sung in many ensembles around Albuquerque such as Polyphony (The Creation by Franz Joseph Haydn, Summer Fusion of Sights and Sounds), Quintessence (6th Annual Summer Choral Festival in 2019, 2022-2023 Season), Opera Southwest (Pelleas et Mélisandre by Claude Debussy, Le Comte Ory by Gioachino Rossini, Chorus), Musical Theatre Southwest (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chorus), and the New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus (The Drop that Contained the Sea & To Shiver the Sky by Christopher Tin). He is a regular singer with the choir at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John in Albuquerque, and he has performed with the UNM Concert Choir and UNM Opera (Signor Deluso, Signor Deluso by Thomas Pasatieri; Sid, Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten; 1 st Armored Guard & 1 st Priest, Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). Outside of music, Jude loves to spend time with friends, go on walks, and make puns.

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.