British-American soprano Claire Galloway’s theatricality covers the gamut of “palpable pain” and “splendid, funny moments” (B.I.T.R.). She has performed such roles as Dinah in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Contessa in Nozze di Figaro, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. She has also premiered roles in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park and Frances Pollock’s award-winning opera Stinney, seen in the 2019 Prototype Festival. In 2018 Ms. Galloway was a semifinalist in the Mildred Miller International Voice Competition and a finalist in the Saltworks Opera Competition and will join Saltworks Opera to sing Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites this Summer. She will portray Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito) with Lidal North, Oslo and reprise her role as Blanche (Dialogues) under the direction of Fabrizio Melano in the Savannah Voice Festival.

In past seasons, Ms. Galloway has performed with Baltimore Concert Opera, the Savannah Voice Festival, Bel Cantanti Opera, and Stillpointe Theatre.

This season she will present a recital based on the life of Rosa Ponselle at the elegant George Peabody Library. Ms. Galloway is a curator of the related Ponselle exhibit at the Peabody Institute, where she currently teaches.

Ms. Galloway’s innovative recital programming has resulted in the best-attended concert event at the Baltimore War Memorial Arts Initiative in past seasons.

A frequent soloist with Concert Artists of Baltimore, Ms. Galloway has also performed concert and oratorio works with Bach in Baltimore, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the Peabody Concert Orchestra.

Tenor Jeffrey Fahnestock has performed a wide range of repertoire across the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan.  He sings a variety of oratorio literature for lyric tenor, including Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Britten’s Saint Nicolas, Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers, and J.S.Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Johannespassion, Matthäuspassion, and the cantatas.  Fahnestock has appeared as a soloist with the Washington Bach Consort, Tulsa Oratorio Chorus, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Folger Consort, Rochester Bach Festival, and Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, among many others.  As an operatic soloist, Mr. Fahnestock has performed works by Mozart, Britten, Ravel, Cavalli, Bononcini, Donizetti, Verdi, and Massenet in Baltimore, Harrisburg, Rochester, Washington, and at the Aspen Music Festival.

Mr. Fahnestock is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and The Peabody Institute.  He was awarded Fellowships for the study of art song and opera at the Tanglewood Music Center, Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute, and Kent/Blossom Music Festival.  In addition, Fahnestock studied for two summers at the Aspen Music School and Festival.

Currently on the faculties at Susquehanna University and Gettysburg College, Mr. Fahnestock teaches applied voice, vocal literature and lyric diction.  He is also the co-director of Susquehanna University’s GO-Japan (Global Opportunities) Program, a chamber music residency at Niigata University and travel to Sado Island and Tokyo. Fahnestock taught previously at Dickinson College and Bryn Mawr Conservatory.  He has recorded for Albany and Guild, and been a featured soloist on radio and television broadcasts in the United States.