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Ben Busch has sung five 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.
Eby Buscher is a senior music education major at Gettysburg College, studying voice with Dr. Susan Hochmiller. She sings in the Gettysburg College Choir, Camerata, and Opera Workshop, frequently appears with the Buzz Jones Band, performs in the Gettysburg College Bullets Marching Band, and accompanies for the student-run musical theatre productions on campus. Recent performances include the role of Rosalinde in Johann Strauss Jr.'s Die Fledermaus, Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Filia in Giacomo Carissimi's Jephte, and a soloist in Haydn's Nelson Mass. This past summer, Eby traveled to Urbania, Italy to perform in the Italian opera and language program Si Parla, Si Canta. She is looking forward to her upcoming senior recital at Gettysburg College in November.
Ciaran Cain is an eight-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.
Tim Crane has been singing with Lux for seven 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. 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.​​
Amanda Densmoor is a senior Vocal Performance major at the University of Maryland studying with Delores Ziegler. She has been featured as a soloist in Carissimi’s Jephte and Haydn’s Missa in Angustii with the Gettysburg College Choir, and as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Sykesville Mozart Choir. Amanda has sung in the chorus of La Clemenza di Tito with the Maryland Opera Studio (MOS) and made her role debut with MOS as Mère Jeanne in Dialogues des Carmélites, becoming the first undergraduate to sing a role with MOS. Other past credits include The Pirates of Penzance (Kate), Dido and Aeneas (Second Woman), and Trial by Jury (Counsel). Amanda has recently worked with opera composer Jake Heggie, and mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer at SongFest as a Studio Artist in 2017. Amanda also participated as a Young Artist in Musiktheater Bavaria’s Opera Studio and worked with directors and coaches from the Vienna Staatsoper in 2017. This fall, Amanda will cover the role of Barbarina in the Maryland Opera Studio’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro.
Nicole Densmoor has sung five seasons with Lux. She completed her undergraduate degree in 2018 with a music major and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies minor at Gettysburg College. On campus, she sang with the College Choir, Camerata, Upscale (Gettysburg College's all-female a cappella group), and Spark Notes (Gettysburg College's quintet a cappella group), and performed in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas as Second Witch. Nicole also placed as a finalist in her division at the 2016 NATS Allegheny Mountain Chapter. She has also 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.​
Taylor Hinds, a junior at Notre Dame of Maryland University studying Elementary and Special Education, has sung in Lux for six 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, and has been a part of two theatre groups: Huntington High School's Eye of the Storm Productions and Notre Dame of Maryland's Ye Merry Masquers. Credits include Big Fish (Josephine), Peter Pan (Wendy), The Rover (Helena), Iphigenia and Other Daughters (Electra), and Decision Height (Norma Jean Harris).
Abby Hines is a junior at the University of Maryland where she studies Behavioral and Community Health. In the summer of 2017, she started the incredible experience of singing with Lux. She currently sings with the University of Maryland Chorale and is a proud member of PandemoniUM, a student run A Capella group. Prior to her transfer to the University of Maryland, she also sang in Gettysburg College’s Concert Choir - a mixed voice choir - and Audeamus - a treble voices ensemble. Prior to college, she sang with the Children's Chorus of Maryland for 7 years under Betty Berteaux, and toured Hungary with them in 2013. She was also a part of the American Kodály Children's Chorus for 3 years under the direction of Dr. Alyson Shirk.
Anthony Jones is a versatile singer that has sung tenor and baritone (as needed) with Lux for seven 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 Kodály in the musical She Loves Me with the Louisiana Opera Outreach Program.
John Mullan is an eight-season member of Lux. 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.
Robby Napoli just finished his eighth 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.
Austin Nikirk is looking forward to her third season with Lux. She is a junior at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music, 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. She will be studying abroad in Paris, France, at the École Normale de Musique. 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 choir, under conductor Philip Olsen. As a soloist, she has sung in eight operas, and had roles in three: Cis in Albert Herring, the First Witch in Dido and Aeneas, and Adele in Die Fledermaus.
Kimberly 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 and has sung five seasons with the group. 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.​​
Collin Power is excited for his second season with Lux. Collin is a junior baritone studying with Kevin Short at the University of Maryland. In addition to voice, he studies organ with Dr. Theodore Guerrant. Most recently he sang in the 49th season of the College Light Opera Company, and with Opera Terps including Don Quichotte (Sancho Pansa), The Impressario (Buff), and Dr. Miracle (Mayor). He has also sung with the choruses of the Annapolis Opera Company, Chesapeake Chamber Opera, the Maryland Opera Studio, and the Washington Opera Society. He made his debut in 2009 as Harry in Albert Herring with Opera Vivente and has been loving Opera ever since. Collin has sung with the UMD Chamber Choir, the UMD Men's Chorus, and is the music director of the student-led group MännerMusik.
Thomas Rust has been with Lux from the start, all eight 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 sings with the University Chorale and Men's Chorus, as well as a student-led men's group, Quorus.
Zach Taylor is entering his first season as a part of Lux. He is a junior at Towson University studying Vocal Performance, where he studies voice with tenor Dr. Min Jin. At Towson, he has sung with the University Chorale and Men’s Chorus, as well as their Music for the Stage program. He also sang as a part of Childrensong of New Jersey for five years, traveling with them on tours to Denver and Boston. Recently, he performed the role of Don Basilio in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and will be performing in an operatic production of The Three Little Pigs this fall and winter. He has had past experience in musical theatre as well, performing in musicals such as Oklahoma! (Jud Fry), The Addams Family (Uncle Fester), Peter Pan (Smee), The Drowsy Chaperone (Robert Martin), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (William Barfée twice, Leaf Coneybear once) (Yes, three times!). He is also a brother of the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia at Towson, serving as their music director, and also sings tenor one in the all-male chamber group Quorus, where he serves as their Outreach Coordinator.
John-Paul Teti (J-P to those who know him) has been with Lux since the beginning, eight 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 2018 as a research assistant on a computational linguistics study on child language acquisition. 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.)
Bernadette Tirador has sung six seasons with Lux, beginning with the first mixed recording session affectionately referred to as “The Singy Thingy”. She has been singing in choir since 8th grade, including St. Jerome’s Church choir where she first developed a love for sacred music. Bernadette dabbles on the guitar and pretends to play piano, but mostly deafens her family and neighbors with dishwashing arias. She studied voice for four years under Elizabeth Roberts, and is now a student of Michelle Orhan. Bernadette is a senior pre-Physical Therapy Athletic Training major at Wheeling Jesuit University, where she sings in three ensembles, one of which she directs. She was the 3rd recipient of the Mount de Chantal music scholarship at her university, and has been an active member of the theater department since her freshman year. Aside from many plays, Bernadette has appeared in the musicals Cabaret, 42nd Street, and Pippen 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).
Anya Trudeau has been with Lux for six 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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