James K. Bass, GRAMMY®-winning singer and conductor, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, and Director of Choral Studies at The Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. He is the associate conductor for the Miami-based ensemble Seraphic Fire and is the Artistic Director of the Long Beach Camerata Singers.

Bass is an active soloist and ensemble artist. In 2017 he made his Cleveland Orchestra solo debut singing with Franz Welser-Möst and the orchestra in Miami and in Severance Hall, Cleveland. Other engagements as a soloist include the New World Symphony with Michael Tilson-Thomas, The Florida Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra, Firebird Chamber Orchestra, and The Sebastians. He has appeared with numerous professional vocal ensembles including Seraphic Fire, Conspirare, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Apollo Master Chorale, Vox Humanae, True Concord, and Spire. He was the featured baritone soloist on the GRAMMY-nominated recording Pablo Neruda: The Poet Sings with fellow singer Lauren Snouffer, conductor Craig Hella-Johnson, and the GRAMMY-winning ensemble Conpirare. He is one of 13 singers on the GRAMMY®-nominated disc A Seraphic Fire Christmas and appears on CD recordings on the Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Albany, and Seraphic Fire Media labels.

Dr. Craig L. Robertson is the Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music at Virginia State University (Petersburg, VA) where he conducts the VSU Concert Choir, teaches applied voice, conducting and facilitates the choral music education courses. He was the previous DCA at Mary Baldwin University (Staunton, VA) where he conducted the Baldwin Singers (MBU’s premiere ensemble) and the MBU University Choir while teaching courses in music education, conducting and choral literature. Dr. Robertson is the founder and former Artistic Director of the MBU Holiday Festival and also developed the MBU High School Choral Festival. He is the former conductor of the Staunton Choral Society and served as the musical director for local musical theater productions. He has given presentations at local and regional conferences, lectures for colleges and universities across the United States and is a sought-after guest choral clinician, conductor and adjudicator.

As the former public school director, his ensembles consistently received ‘Superior’ ratings at choral festivals and has performed at various venues across the country. His middle school choir presented a performance at the 2011 Georgia Music Educator Association’s In-Service Conference (Savannah, GA). Additionally, Dr. Robertson has taught at multiple public schools in Florida and Georgia.

Dr. Robertson earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting and Literature from the University of Colorado (Boulder) while also serving as the Director of Music for Children and Youth Choirs at the historic Montview Presbyterian Church. He also holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Virginia State University and a Masters of Music Education from Georgia State University. He is an active member of NAfME, VMEA, ACDA and VA-ACDA (where he serves as the Southwest Regional Coordinator). He is also a proud member of the Betterment of Brothers and Sisters, Inc. and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Dr. Ryan R. Brown has been praised for his evocative conducting, flexible vocalism, and charismatic leadership. Committed to broadening the choral audience through captivating programming and innovative performance practices, Brown cultivates passionate and expressive vocal artistry which empowers performers to connect with their humanity and inspire audiences.

Brown is a Lecturer of Music at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He also serves as the Artistic Director of the Laguna Beach Chamber Singers and a Teaching Artist for the Voces8 Foundation. In previous roles, Brown served as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Lone Star College – University Park, Choral Director at California School of The Arts – San Gabriel Valley, Artistic Director of the Arroyo Singers, Associate Conductor for the National Children’s Chorus, Artistic Director for Diamonds From the Dust, and Choral Director at Wachusett Regional High School.

In addition to his career as a conductor and educator, Brown enjoys a career as a lyric baritone and has performed as a soloist with several major orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. As an ensemble artist, he regularly engages with professional choral ensembles across the country. Ensembles include Houston Chamber Choir, Quartz Ensemble, Vox Ardens, LA Masterchorale, Red Shift, and Concora. As a passionate advocate and scholar of 21st-century oratorio and cantata, Brown recently performed in several newly written works including Daniel Kangg’s Two Streams, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass For The Endangered, and the Grammy Award-winning recording of Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua.

Brown holds a BM in Music Education from Westminster Choir College, and two graduate degrees in Choral Conducting (MM & DMA) from UCLA.

Sopranos

Isa Alcantara, Lindsay Bettencourt, Cassandra Carraher, Natalie Chaprh, Yeonwoo Chu, Eily Corbett, Sofia Garza, Sara Harris, Mika King, Natalie Lam, Samantha Morrison, Angelica Osorio, Annie Qu, Ximena Munoz Ramos, Laila Reshad, Cara Rieber, Alex Seiler, Mia Tvede, Mingy Ang, Xia Annie Xiang, Endora Yuan

Altos

Gabrielle Andrade, Bella Andrews, Isabel Blackwell, Brittney Burns, Angelica Catalan, Grace Chen, Rubi Choi, Ava Diedrich, Jackson Fletcher, Alyssa Galicia, Eunhye Go, Cole Graham, Aneesa Holiday, Julia Jansson, Jaeyeon Jung, Reina Kim, Hilary Ly, Noor Nakhaei, Bailey Owens, Giryeon Park, Brazier Pierce, Carolyn Rosas, Julia Rubright, Melanie Ruiz, Yue Que, Fiona Sweet, Claire Wang, Enrica Waugh

Tenors 

Yani Araujo, William Cao, James Chen, Mark DeFalco, Maciej Gtuchowski, Schuyler Henry, Luke Jones, Colson Kishimoto, Bei Liu Frankie Peacock, Alessio Santolini, James Scott, Adam Sondik, Sujit Silas, Armstrong Suthahar

Basses

Robert Carmichael, Leonardo Clarke, Kevin Cornwell II, Aryan Dahiya, Evan Davis, Cole Graham, Bryan Kim, Dawson Lam, Filippo Lugnan, Geonu Park, Luke Pirruccello, Saveliy Sotnikov

Pianist James Lent is Lecturer and Coordinator of Instrumental Collaborative Piano at UCLA in addition to serving as a coach and accompanist for vocal studies. James completed his DMA at the Yale School of Music under teachers Boris Berman, Claude Frank, and Peter Frankl. He made his Alabama Symphony debut to critical acclaim performing Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2 on 24 hours’ notice to replace Andre Watts.

He has performed with the Vancouver Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Utah Symphony and the Florida West Coast Symphony, among others, and as solo recitalist at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany, for the National Chopin Foundation in Miami, at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he premiered a new work written for him by American composer Frederic Rzewski.

Lent has performed with the renowned Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain under the direction of Pierre Boulez in a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, and his performances have been heard on National Public Radio.

His numerous awards include prizes in the New York Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the National Chopin Competition, the Washington International Piano Competition at the Kennedy Center, the Olga Koussevitsky Piano Competition in New York, and the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg National Young Artist Competition.He was a fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal.

Lent also teaches at AMDA (American Musical and Dramatic Academy) as collaborative pianist, vocal coach, and musical director. He has also served on the summer faculty at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.

Sopranos

Maddy Chamberlain, Krystal Mao, Ana Martinez, Annie Qu,
Laur Trustee, Milla Moretti, Mia Ruhman, Hailey Somphone, Hannah Verduzco, Trinity Dela Cruz

Altos

Charis Chiu, Camryn Deisman, Sofia Dell’Ogostino, Endora Yuan, Alyssa Kiffer, Brazier Pierce, Olivia Salazar

Tenors

Yani Araujo, Kevin Corrigan, Andres Delgado, Joseph Marcinik, Mark Tu Cooper Burdick, James Scott, Sam Song

Basses

Asher Bartfeld, Kevin Cornwell II, Dustin Peng, Naveed Perkins, Leland Smith, Michael Torres, Evan Davis, Justin Xu, Kyle Xu,
(Dr. James Bass)

Bailey, Kennedy ’28
Barrow, Annan ’25
Bell, Paige ’27
Branch, Abreion ’27
Branch, Evan ’27
Cubas, Maia ’28
Duclos, Quentin ’28
Frye, Neesen ’28
Galloway, Malachi ’27
Hall, Camille ’26
Jackson, Angelica ’25
Jones, Brooklyn ’26
Lanier, Myles ’28
Longus, Marquel ’27
McLaurin, Serenity ’28
Mills, Zekeira ’26
Morman, Jason ’28
Nichols, Kiersten ’25
Osuntusa, Tinuola ’28
Phillips, Jaylyn ’28
Roane, Antonio ’27
Savary, RaJahnni ’27
Thomas, Genet ’26
Townes, Logan ’27
Whitaker, Star ’28
Whitlow, Kiona ’27