Mezzo-Soprano Rebecca Printz has performed as a Bach soloist with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, and Boston’s Emmanuel Music. Rebecca recently participated in Yellow Barn’s summer music festival, where she performed chamber works by Salvatore Sciarrino, George Benjamin, and Brett Dean, among others. She has also spent two summers at the Marlboro Music festival, where she performed a number of seminal chamber works, including Chausson’s “Chanson Perpétuelle”, Bach solo alto cantata BWV 170, “Vergnügte Ruh”, and the Brahms’s Liebeslieder Walzer. Rebecca is a recent graduate of Boston University’s Opera Institute, where her roles included Baba the Turk in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Hannah After in Laura Kaminsky’s chamber opera As One, and the title role in Dolores Claiborne by Tobias Picker. Her concert work in Boston included a performance with Winsor music as the soloist in Bach’s cantata BWV 82, “Ich habe genug”, and John Harbison’s chamber work “The Seven Ages” with Collage New Music. Rebecca earned her graduate degree at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where role highlights included Madame de la Haltière in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Paquette in Candide, and Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Rebecca earned her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she sang the title role in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia.

Eliam Ramos is a thrilling Puerto Rican bass-baritone who has performed opera and concert works with companies in the United States, Spain, Israel and Mexico. His artistic engagements range from traditional opera such as Leporello in Don Giovanni, to Luis Nogales in the zarzuela Luisa Fernanda, to symphony concerts such as Fauré’s Requiem to the title role of the modern composition of El Cimarrón by Hans Werner Henze.

Mr. Ramos’ will be featured in several productions of La Bohème in the fall season of 2022. He’s contracted to sing Schaunard with Soo Theatre in Michigan, and also engaged with The Metropolitan Opera Guild as a featured soloist in their 2022-2023 season.

Soprano Elissa Edwards, hailed for her “pliant, seductive, free-ranging voice” (Gramophone) and “glistening tone” (Early Music America), is a distinguished interpreter of 17th- and 18th-century vocal chamber music. A specialist in sacred repertoire, she has been featured as a soloist in numerous oratorio and cantata performances in both the US and UK.

Performance highlights include appearances with the Washington National Cathedral, Washington Bach Consort, Bach in Baltimore, Harmonia Stellarum, the Barbara Strozzi Symposium at Princeton University, Gotham Early Music Series, Amherst Early Music Festival, Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, and The National Centre for Early Music (UK). Ms. Edwards serves as artist-in-residence at the Hammond-Harwood House Museum and has taught on the voice faculties of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.

She has received numerous awards and grants for her contributions to the field, including the Maryland State Individual Artist Award, support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and funding from the Winterthur Museum & Library for her scholarly music presentations. Ms. Edwards trained at the Royal College of Music in London and holds performance degrees from Boston University (BM) and the University of York, UK (MA).

Her critically acclaimed album Vago Desio, featuring cantatas and arias from Barbara Strozzi’s Opus 8 (Acis APL90277), is available online. (www.elissaedwards.com)