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.

Theodore S. (Ted) Davis has been organist and choirmaster at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Baltimore since 2005. As part of the music series Ted has established, he conducts the church choir in Choral Evensong services, presents an annual “Bach at St. Bartholomew’s” series, and conducts choral concerts. He has also served as assistant to the music director for productions at the Boston Early Music Festival and the Amherst Early Music Festival.  He recently completed his doctoral studies at Peabody Conservatory.

Ted is an active organ and harpsichord recitalist as well as a chamber music performer and conductor, with recent performances at Washington National Cathedral, as well as venues in Eastern Maryland, central Pennsylvania, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Columbus, and Houston. His recording of the complete “French” Suites of Bach (performed on harpsichord) is available on Spotify and Apple Music.

Michael Vaughn, violin, has been performing with Bach in Baltimore since 2015, and has been a free-lance violinist in the Baltimore region since moving here from Indianapolis in 2009. He has performed with a variety of ensembles including the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Delaware Symphony, Reading Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Baltimore Choral Arts, and Baltimore Symphony Musicians. In Indiana he regularly performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and was associate concertmaster and soloist with the Muncie and Richmond (Indiana) Symphony Orchestras. Michael and his wife Nana founded the Fisher Chamber Players in Fishers, IN, and he served as conductor and artistic director. He earned a violin performance degree (with a minor in computer science) and music education degree from Indiana University, studying with Paul Biss and Mimi Zweig. In addition to being active as a musician, Michael works as a technologist, working the past 3 years as the associate director for digital accessibility at Yale University, where he works to help make Yale’s digital campus accessible to people with disabilities. Michael’s wife Nana is an active violist and educator in the area, and his 3 children are also active in the arts, with the youngest two studying viola and percussion at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Michael’s identical twin brother, Matt, is co-principal trombone of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

“J.S. Bach has always been a staple of my development as a classical violinist, and is a constant source of delight and discovery. I treasure the opportunity to more fully explore his repertoire with the other dedicated musicians of Bach in Baltimore, under the capable leadership of Maestro Dimmock.”

Michael Vaughn, Violin

Morgan Mastrangelo lives and works in Manhattan, where he specializes in the tenor leggiero repertoire of Rossini and Donizetti. After completing his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, he made his role debuts as Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola) with Joseph Rescigno at the Al. Ringling Theatre. Recent role debuts include Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) and Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro) with the Montefeltro Festival in Novafeltria, Italy. He sang productions of George Gershwin’s Funny Face with Michael Mayer at Ballet Hispánico, the Tenor solo in Handel’s Messiah with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir with Ryan Jackson and the Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir. This past summer, Morgan joined Opera Saratoga as a festival artist, where he covered Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, sang Tobias in Sweeney Todd, and sang the tenor solo in Rossini’s Petite messe Solennelle. Morgan is an Encouragement Award winner from the Metropolitan Opera National Council, and begins the fall season as a contestant in the Ottavio Zinno International Vocal Competition in Rome Italy, with an audition tour of Europe.

Soprano Keesun Kwon has appeared as a soloist for the Millennium Stage Concert and the Hines-Lee Opera Ensemble at the Kennedy Center. She made her New York debut at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Kwon received her Doctoral Degree in Musical Arts from the Catholic University of America, her Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and pursued her Masters of Education from Columbia University in New York. She is an award winner from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and a recipient of the Peabody Career Development Grant. Amongst her most notable performances, Ms. Kwon was invited to sing for former South Korean President Jae-in Moon during his official 2017 visit to the United States and at the 21st Annual Holocaust Remembrance Program at Lincoln Theater in Washington DC. She has been praised by the Washington Post and lauded by The Washington Times. She is represented by McFaMi Artist Management.

Praised for her “plangent mezzo-soprano” (Washington Classical Review), Sylvia Leith is a soloist and consort singer whose repertoire spans the medieval to the contemporary. Recent solo appearances include Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Duruflé’s Requiem and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Emmanuel Music Baltimore, Helena in A Fairy Queen with the IN Series, and Elgar’s Sea Pictures with Washington Young Sinfonia. Her operatic roles run the gamut from Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea to Nancy in Britten’s Albert Herring. Sylvia is a founding member of the Polyphonists and the Uncommon Music Festival, and her ensemble credits include Washington Bach Consort, Bach Akademie Charlotte, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, True Concord, Ensemble Altera, and the Thirteen. This season, she makes solo appearances with Tempesta di Mare and the Oklahoma Bach Choir, and ensemble debuts with TENET, Lorelei Ensemble, Bach Collegium San Diego, and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street.