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Robby Napoli just finished his sixth season with Lux. He is a junior Music Education major at the Sunderman Conservatory at Gettysburg College. He is primarily a vocalist, although he has accompanied many choirs as a percussionist and assistant director with Dr. Brent Talbot, who is highly sought after as a guest conductor and speaker. Napoli studies voice with Prof. Matthew Osifchin, and studies composition with Dr. Avner Dorman, a renowned composer of instrumental music and, more recently, of opera. At Gettysburg, he participates in the Gettysburg College Choir, Gettysburg Concert Choir, Gettysburg Camerata, and all-male acapella group Drop the Octave.
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Thomas Rust has been with Lux from the start, all six seasons. He’s a sophomore Music Education major at Towson University, although he transferred from a year at Anne Arundel Community College. There, he sang with the AACC Chamber Singers and had multiple roles in the college’s presentation of Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute. At Towson, he hopes to join as many choirs as possible and begin his true training in music educating.
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John-Paul Teti (J-P to those who know him) has been with Lux since the beginning, six seasons. Despite hanging around the performing arts building often enough that people think he’s a music major, he’s actually a junior Computer Science major and a Linguistics minor at the University of Maryland in College Park, and spent summer 2017 as an intern at SparkPost. He’s a member of the UMD University Chorale and the more select UMD Chamber Singers, and has performed with them alongside the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. When not doing computery, linguisticsy, or musicy things, he can be found being mad online on Twitter. (Probably.)
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Nina Anderson — SopranoNina Anderson is a sophomore Vocal Performance major at the University of Maryland and studies with Martha Randall. She has sung one season with Lux, and is a member of the UMD Chamber Singers. In January, Nina performed her debut role as Laurette in Bizet’s operetta Le Docteur Miracle with Opera Terps. As a soloist, she has performed in recitals for the National Society of Arts and Letters and in Jazzway 6004’s annual holiday concert each year. In addition, this year Nina has received Honorable Mention in the Sue Goetz Ross Student Competition for Voice, placed 1st in the Maryland NATS competition and 2nd in the Shirley Rabb Winston Voice Competition.
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Ben Busch — BassBen Busch has sung three seasons with Lux. He is a sophomore at the University of Maryland, studying instrumental Music Education. He exclusively studies French Horn in Professor Greg Miller's studio. In school, Ben has played with the Wind Ensemble and Adequintet, a brass quintet. Outside of class, he takes gigs playing the piano and the guitar, and is looking forward to learning how to teach most of the instruments in the orchestra in the next few years.
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Eby Buscher — SopranoEby Buscher is a junior Music Education major at Gettysburg College and has sung with Lux for two seasons. Eby studies voice with Dr. Susan Hochmiller, and sings in the Gettysburg College Choir, Camerata, and Opera Workshop, as well as performs in and accompanies for the student-run musical theatre productions on campus, and has recently joined the Gettysburg Bullets Marching Band. She has placed as a winner for the regional Allegheny Mountain Chapter of the NATS vocal competition for the past two years. Recent performances include the role of Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Filia in Giacomo Carissimi's Jephte, and a soloist in Haydn's Nelson Mass.
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Michael Butler — TenorArtist biography coming soon!
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Ciaran Cain — BassCiaran Cain is a six-season member of Lux. Since graduating from UMBC and thus leaving the school's Camerata choir, he uses Lux as a means of keeping sane after a long day working on telecommunications computers. Ciaran had played the Pirate King from Pirates of Penzance, the Notary from The Sorcerer, and the Commetadore from Don Giovanni. In Lux performances, he is usually found singing the low bass part. No, the lower one. That's not actually an overtone, we promise.
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Tim Crane — BaritoneTim Crane has been singing with Lux for five seasons. He is a sophomore at the University of Maryland studying Kinesiology in the School of Public Health. He has participated in many choirs, including the Maryland Boy Choir (2008-2011), Eleanor Roosevelt Chamber choir (2014-2016), and Praise Youth Schola (2013-present). Most recently, Tim performed with the University of Arizona Kantorei. He is also an active performer at the Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C. Tim's most notable performances have been at the Kennedy Center, Camden Yards, and Observatory Circle for Joe Biden. His most influential mentors throughout his years in choir have been conductors Stephen Holmes and Michele Fowlin. Tim is an instrumentalist as well; having played the piano, trumpet, and baritone in the past. Currently his musical outlet outside of singing is the guitar.
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Amanda Densmoor — AltoAmanda Densmoor is a sophomore Vocal Performance major at the University of Maryland and has sung with Lux for two seasons. She has been featured as a soloist in Carissimi’s Jephte and Haydn’s Missa in Angustii with the Gettysburg College Choir. Past credits include The Pirates of Penzance (Kate), Dido and Aeneas (Second Woman), Into the Woods (Jack), and The Little Mermaid (Aquata). Amanda placed as a semi-finalist in her division at the 2016 NATS Allegheny Mountain Chapter and has recently worked with opera composer Jake Heggie and mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer.
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Nicole Densmoor — SopranoNicole Densmoor has sung two seasons with Lux. She is a senior music major and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies minor at Gettysburg College. On campus, she sings with the College Choir, Camerata, and Upscale (Gettysburg College's all-female a cappella group), and performed in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas as Second Witch. Nicole also placed as a finalist in in her division at the 2016 NATS Allegheny Mountain Chapter. She has recently conducted research on Indonesian Art Songs as a Kolbe Fellow with her studio teacher Dr. Susan Hochmiller, and hopes to co-author an article for the NATS Journal.
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Taylor Hinds — AltoTaylor Hinds, a sophomore at Notre Dame of Maryland University studying Elementary and Special Education, has sung in Lux for four seasons. At school, she sings with the concert choir as both a chorister and a soloist, and performs regularly with the theatre department. For five years, she was in color guard in Huntingtown High School's marching band, and was captain of the guard for two years. Taylor has been very involved in theatre for a large part of her life, having been part of nine productions, many of which were with Huntingtown High School's nationally recognized theatre program. Roles include Josephine in Big Fish, Wendy in Peter Pan, and Helena in The Rover.
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Abby Hines — AltoAbby Hines is a sophomore at Gettysburg College and started singing with Lux during the Summer of 2017. She sang with the Children's Chorus of Maryland for 7 years under the direction of Betty Berteaux, and toured Hungary with them in 2013. She was also a part of the American Kodály Children's Chorus for 3 years. In addition, she has been playing the piano since she was five years old, and is a pursuing a music minor in piano with Dr. Jocelyn Swigger.
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Anthony Jones — TenorAnthony Jones is a versatile singer that has sung tenor and baritone (as needed) with Lux Choir for six seasons. He is a Vocal Performance major at Louisiana State University in his junior year of study under the tutelage of nationally sought out operatic baritone Dennis Jesse. Anthony has sung a variety of vocal styles, having recently taken engagements as a soloist in Opera Louisiane's revolutionary reorchestration of Monteverdi's Ulysses, a guest Gospel artist and teacher in Costa Rica, and singing the role of Kodaly in the musical She Loves Me with the Louisiana Opera Outreach Program.
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Tanya Malykh — SopranoTanya Malykh has enjoyed two seasons with Lux. She is a junior Vocal Performance major at the University of Maryland. She studies with Prof. Delores Ziegler, as well as two teachers at home. At school, she sings in Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, and Maryland Opera Studio's Opera Chorus. This past year, she sang the role of Captain Silvio in Bizet's Le Docteur Miracle with UMD's undergraduate opera company, Opera Terps. More recently, she covered the role of Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni at Oberlin in Italy. Apart from singing, Tanya is also a competitive ballroom dancer and fencer, still trying to figure out how to combine all three...
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John Mullan — BaritoneJohn Mullan is a six-season member of Lux Choir. Previously, he sang in the Maryland Boy Choir from 2009-2012, Voices of DeMatha from 2012-2016, Maryland's All-State Chorus from 2013-2016, and All-Eastern Chorus in 2015. He currently goes to the University of Pennsylvania where he studies history (occasionally). He sings there with Penn's Renaissance Choir, Ancient Voices. Besides choir, at school John enjoys spending time with his fraternity brothers and searching desperately for usable pianos on campus.
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Austin Nikirk — SopranoAustin Nikirk is looking forward to her first season with Lux this Winter. She is a sophomore at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music in the Fall, studying Vocal Performance. At the conservatory, Austin is a member of the College Choir and Audeamus treble voice ensemble, and studies in the studio of Dr. Susan Hochmiller. Austin has sung in choirs since she was 5 years old, starting with the Children’s Chorus of Maryland under Betty Berteaux, and, upon graduation, the American Kodály Children’s Chorus. Austin also was a soprano in the Second Presbyterian Voices for two years, under conductor Philip Olsen. As a soloist, she has sung in seven operas, and had roles in two: Cis in Albert Herring, and the First Witch in Dido and Aeneas.
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Kimberly Parr — AltoKimberly Parr is a sophomore at Washington College, where she studies Anthropology/Archaeology and Ethnomusicology. Kim joined Lux for their summer 2015 season - the first time Lux sang mixed repertoire together. Throughout her high school career, Kim sang with the Maryland All-State Choir for three years and sang with NAfME's All-National Choir in Nashville in the Fall of 2014. When not singing in Lux, Kim can be found at the Chestertown Docks or, more likely, sneaking naps in unusual places.
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Bernadette Tirador — SopranoBernadette Tirador has sung four seasons with Lux. She has been singing in choir since 8th grade, including St. Jerome’s Church choir where she first developed a love for sacred music. She studied voice for four years under Elizabeth Roberts, and is now a student of Michelle Orhan. Bernadette dabbles on the guitar and pretends to play piano, but mostly deafens her family and neighbors with dishwashing arias. Bernadette is a junior pre-Physical Therapy Athletic Training major at Wheeling Jesuit University, where she sings in three ensembles and directs a fourth. Aside from many plays, Bernadette has appeared in the musicals Cabaret and 42nd Street so far with the Theater Guild, and is very excited to continue doing musical theater for the rest of her college career. (Oh and Lux too).
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Anya Trudeau — AltoAnya Trudeau has been with Lux for four seasons, and plans on many more. She has been singing in school choirs since age 10, but screaming obnoxiously to Bon Jovi since before she can remember. Anya sings with the Chamber Choir and Advanced Vocal Studies (AVS) at St. John’s College High School, as well as the Honors Youth Choir of the Choral Arts Society of Washington, and her church choir at St. Jerome's Church in Hyattsville, MD. In these groups she has performed in the Bahamas, at Festival Disney, at the Kennedy Center, and at Tanglewood alongside the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Anya studies voice with Michelle Orhan, and studies piano with Margaret Bunuan, all while having a piano student of her own. Anya also plays the guitar and ukulele, using those skills mostly to walk around the house strumming on her instruments and singing off key to remind her family that she loves them.
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