PERFORMING ARTISTS

DISTINGUISHED ARTIST RECITALISTS

Fei-Fei Dong, piano (2018)
Émile Naoumoff, piano (2019)
Sandra Mogensen, piano (2020)
Chloé Trevor, violin / Jonathan Tsay, piano (2021)
Donnie Ray Albert, bass-baritone / Rick Rowley, piano (2022)
Artina McCain, piano (2023)
Dan Tepfer, piano (2024)
Kristina Zmailaitė, soprano / Edmundas Seilius, tenor /
Barbora Seiliūtė, soprano / Mary Dibbern, piano (2025)
Anton Nel, piano (2026)

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PERFORMERS

Natalie Arduino, alto

Jonathan Greer, baritone
David Grogan, baritone
Joseph Canuto Leon, baritone
Prosper Makhanya, baritone
Tshilidzi Ndou, baritone
Malcolm Payne, Jr., baritone
Hastings Reeves, baritone
Avery Sanderlin, baritone

Jared Schwartz, bass
Seth-Emmanuel Clarke, bass-baritone
Matthew Dexter, bass-baritone
Kyle Siddons, bass-baritone
Dean Willis, bass-baritone

SaiSai Ding, cello
Shawna Hamilton, cello
Joseph Kuipers, cello
Laura Ospina, cello
Vilma Peguero, cello
Elizabeth White, cello
Eric Smith, cello/viola da gamba

Danny Goldman, clarinet

Michie Akin, conductor/piano
Monica Awbrey, conductor
Nathan Benavides, conductor

Jordyn Kledas, dance

Tamara Meredith, flute

Alison Read, harp

James Richman, harpsichord

Kevin Haseltine, horn

Katrina Burggraf, mezzo-soprano
Karina Buruca-Kunda, mezzo-soprano
Juliana Gondek, mezzo-soprano
Fabiana Gonzales, mezzo-soprano
Alexandria Jackson, mezzo-soprano
Rachel Moon, mezzo-soprano
Kayla Nanto, mezzo-soprano

Donna Schmidt, oboe

Keith Franks, organ
Nicholas Halbert, organ
Margaret Harper, organ
Brian Bentley, organ/piano
Chris Brunt, organ/piano

Mike McNicholas, percussion

Valen Angriawan, piano
Stephen Carey, piano
Heeyoung Choi, piano
Damon K. Clark, piano/tenor
Biliana Dimitrova, piano
Vanessa Meiling Haynes, piano
Roy Howat, piano
Víctor Díaz Hurtado, piano
Darío Llanos Javierre, piano
Tomás Jonsson, piano
June Lee, piano
William Leicht, piano
Eldred Marshall, piano
Alessandro Mazzamuto, piano
Tinashe McGowan, piano
Thiago Nascimento, piano
Isaiah Nygard, piano
Gregory Thompson, piano
Carter Weiss, piano
Dongni Xie, piano
Melani Skybell, piano/vocalist
Jialin Yao, piano

Julia Rose Arduino, soprano
Lucy Tamez Creech, soprano ‡
Gabrielle Gilliam, soprano
Sarah Ann Holt, soprano
Heidi Klein, soprano
Courtney Maina, soprano
Avuya Ngcaweni, soprano
Camille Ortiz-Lafont, soprano
Amanda O’Toole, soprano
Michelle Perez, soprano
Emily Poulsen, soprano
Nell Snaidas, soprano
Ashley Townsley, soprano

The Rev. Canon Victor Lee Austin, Ph.D., spoken word
Ryan Lescalleet, spoken word

Francisco Bedoy, tenor
Jay Gardner, tenor
Jordan Hammons, tenor
David Mejía, tenor
Ndumiso Nyoka, tenor
Will Upham, tenor
Robert Wilson, tenor

Nicolas Tsolainos, string bass

Thomas Demer, viola
Donna Hall, viola
Ronald Houston, viola
Steven Juárez, viola
Rachel McDonald, viola
Brent Wissick, viola da gamba

Aaron Boyd, violin
Clare Cason, violin
Lauren Densinger, violin
Jeffrey Dyrda, violin
James Gallagher, violin
Wu Jie, violin
Inga Kroll, violin
Lydia Umlauf, violin
Kristin Van Cleve, violin
Grace Kang Wollett, violin

PERFORMING ENSEMBLES

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Cara Mía Theatre Company
Cézanne String Quartet
Chamber Music International
Dallas Bach Society
Dallas Black Dance Theater II
La Novella Baroque
MAKE Trio
Texas Camerata
The Dallas Opera Education and Outreach Singers
The Dallas Opera “OperaTruck”
Woodrow Wilson HS “Variations” Ensemble

VISUAL ARTISTS

Daisy Avalos
Jessica Bell
Andrew Bisdale
Karen Blessen
Tommy Bourgeois
Richard Boul ‡
Carolyn Brown
Lauren Cadieux
Rod Carver
Carlos Cázares
Claire Choquette
Adriana Cobo-Frenkel
Gary Cooks
LaShonda Cooks
Colin Coolidge
Adrienne Cortez
Juliana Crownover
Justin Curtsinger
Walter Davis
Martin Delabano
Selena Dixon
David Dunbar ‡
Annie Ehrenreich
Monika Eilerman
Lilia Estrada
Annie Foster
Fred Gardner
Grace Glover
Anne B. Gunthner
J.B. and Susan Harlin
Richard Hill
Sharon Hodges
Sara Holloway
Harold James Ichilian ‡
Sarkis Avedis Ichilian ‡
Valerie Kaiser
Joyce McCulloch
David McCullough
Julie Michel
Margo Miller
Bob Munro
Pamela Nelson
Mary Nickell
Kristin O’Keefe
Victoria Ramsay
Frank Richards
Elizabeth Rugg
Efrain Sain
Connie Sales
Grant Schirpik
Roger Shackelford
Bob Sherman
Gary Skotnicki
Charles Davis Smith
Nelson Spencer
Julia Stanger
John Struckmeyer
Justus Sundermann ‡
Jana Swart
Vince Tuhy
Diane Van Buren
Julian Wong
Kay Wyne

VISUAL ARTS GROUPS

Blue Goat Studio

PRODUCTION AND TECHNICAL ARTISTS

Richard Boul, photographer ‡
Luke DaMommio, photographer
Virga Vaičiulytė Heft, photographer
Richard Hill, photographer
Scott Meril, photographer
Jordan Richardson, photographer
David C. Brown, piano technician ‡
Peter Collora, piano technician
Jenny Stokes, piano technician
Martin Anderson, producer (Toccata Classics London)
Mike Itashiki, recording engineer
David Siu, recording engineer
Jay Wiley, recording engineer
Adaq Khan, sound technician
Christopher A. Leach, sound technician
Ryan Lescalleet, stage director
Kristian Roberts, Director of Education, The Dallas Opera
Francisco Bedoy, videographer
Jordan Hammons, videographer

‡ deceased

revised 3/1/26