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Please check back for a complete list of 2016 faculty and administration.

Administration:

 

	Juliana Gondek, Founder & Artistic Director Festival Director and Voice faculty; international opera and concert soprano/mezzo-soprano, Baroque authority. (Metropolitan Opera, NYCO, Edinburgh Festival, Netherlands Opera, operas of San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, St. Louis, Miami; Voice faculty - UCLA, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Astoria Festival, Pacific Music Festival Baroque Vocal Academy)
	Dean Southern, Associate Director Associate Director and Voice faculty; opera and concert baritone, stage director. (Weill Recital Hall, Kennedy Center, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto; Voice faculty, Cleveland Institute of Music; author and lecturer - “Distant Voices: Listening to Singers of the Past")
	Kristin Heller, Production Coordinator

 

Stage Directors:

	Andrew Eggert Director - Les contes d'Hoffmann; Baroque authority. (Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Omaha, Chicago Opera Theater, Yale Baroque Opera Project; Head of Opera - Roosevelt University, faculty - Columbia University)
	Kristin Heller Associate stage director, Choreographer, Director - Opera Scenes; dance/movement coach, acting/stagecraft coach, stage manager (Director - Opera Theater Oregon, Sherwood Foundation of the Arts, Ping and Wolf Opera, Portland State University, Bowling Green State University;  Faculty – Tyrolean Opera Program)
	Dean Southern Director - Opera Scenes; Voice faculty; opera and concert baritone, stage director. (Weill Recital Hall, Kennedy Center, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto; Voice faculty, Cleveland Institute of Music; author and lecturer - “Distant Voices: Listening to Singers of the Past")
	Omari Tau Director/stagecraft instructor. Broadway, classical, jazz singer-actor-dancer. (Houston Grand Opera, The Alley Theater, Voix Nouvelles Festival - France, Sacramento Opera; Director of Opera - Sacramento State University)
	Marc Verzatt Director - Blood on the Dining Room Floor, acting / stagecraft instructor, dance / movement classes. International opera, operetta, musical theater director; (former solo dancer - Metropolitan Opera. Director - Chicago Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Florida Grand Opera, operas of Ft. Worth, Lake George, Kansas City, Baltimor; Classical Singer Magazine Outstanding Stage Director of the Year; Faculty - Yale University Graduate Opera Program)

 

Conductors/Coaches:

	Daniel Beckwith Conductor-coach - Blood on the Dining Room Floor; Baroque authority. (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Carnegie Hall, Australian Opera, operas of Chicago, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco, NYCO, St. Louis, Geneva, Toronto; Former faculty - Westminster Choir College)
	Kevin Garnica Pianist, Composer, Accompanist, Lecturer; ASCAP Winner; Music Academy of the West, Songfest, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Zeister Muziekdagen, Netherlands; Adjunct/staff - Biola University
	Daniel Gledhill Coach/accompanist - Blood on the Dining Room Floor, Opera Scenes, Cabaret Conservatory. (Symphonies of Utah, Colorado and California; Music Faculty - UCLA, AMDA-American Academy of Dramatic Arts)
	Chan Mi Jean Collaborative pianist
	James Lent Co-Director - Cabaret Conservatory, Coach; Concert pianist, coach, music directer/arranger/composer. (Symphonies of Vancouver, Houston, Shanghai, Carnegie Hall, Schleswig-Holstein Festival; Music faculty - UCLA, AMDA-American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Music Academy of the West, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival)
	Dana Sadava Conductor-Coach - Tales of Hoffmann, Opera Scenes. (Artistic Director of Pasadena Opera, Music Director of the Community Women’s Orchestra. Conductor and coach at Wexford Festival Opera, Banff Opera as Theatre, Indianapolis Opera, Pensacola Opera, BASOTI, and the Comic Opera Guild.)
	Derek Tam Harpsichordist, coach. (American Bach Soloists, Asst. Conductor-Symphony Napa Valley and Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, founding member MUSA early music ensemble)

 

Composers

Kurt Erickson Director - NAPA Composer Intensive; Composer, pianist, lecturer. (Commissions, residencies, premieres: Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Girls Chorus, American Guild of Organists, Composer-in-Residence - LIEDER ALIVE!, San Francisco Grace Cathedral, The National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi, Sacramento Philharmonic)

Jonathan Sheffer Guest Artist. Composer - Blood on the Dining Room Floor, Composers Workshop, Cabaret Conservatory, Absolute Artists. Internationally renowned composer, conductor, coach, cabaret music director-arranger, arts advocate and philanthropist. (Founder - EOS Orchestra, RED [an orchestra], Edinburgh Festival, New York City Opera, Spoleto Festival, Ravinia Festival, American Ballet Theater, Mark Morris Dance Group, Guggenheim Award, Board of Directors - VH1 Save the Music, numerous film scores)

 

 

Voice Faculty:

	Juliana Gondek Voice faculty; international opera and concert soprano/mezzo-soprano, Baroque authority. (Metropolitan Opera, Edinburgh Festival, Göttingen Handel Festival, Carnegie Hall, operas of Netherlands, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, NYCO, St. Louis; Voice faculty - UCLA, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Astoria Festival, Pacific Music Festival Baroque Vocal Academy)
	Heidi Moss Co-Director - NAPA Teen Vocal Track, Voice faculty; operatic and concert soloist. (San Francisco Opera, Opera Memphis, Dicapo Opera Theater, San Francisco Pocket Opera, Ensemble Paralelle, LIEDER ALIVE!)
	Rufus Müller Voice faculty; international opera and concert tenor, Baroque authority. (Göttingen Handel Festival, Tafelmusik, operas of Houston, Paris, Netherlands, Madrid, Halle, Lisbon, Florence, Siena; Voice faculty - Bard College)
	Dean Southern Voice faculty; opera and concert baritone, stage director. (Weill Recital Hall, Kennedy Center, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto; Voice faculty, Cleveland Institute of Music; author and lecturer - “Distant Voices: Listening to Singers of the Past")
	Richard Zeller Voice faculty; international opera, oratorio, and concert bass-baritone. (Metropolitan Opera, NYCO, Edinburgh Festival, operas of Chicago, Philadelphia, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Bordeaux; Voice faculty - Biola University, Portland State University)