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Anne Tomlinson |
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Anne Tomlinson, Artistic Director of Los Angeles Children's Chorus, conducts the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers and is responsible for the educational and artistic development of the Chorus. She is also Children’s Chorus Mistress for LA Opera. Over the last 10 years, she has prepared children for major operatic works including the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s children’s opera Fantastic Mr. Fox based upon the story by Roald Dahl. In these productions, Ms. Tomlinson has worked with Plácido Domingo, Andrew Litton, and Julius Ruddel among others.
She has also prepared children’s choirs for Los Angeles Philharmonic performances of Stravinsky’s Persephone, John Adams’ El Niño, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, Orff’s Carmina Burana and a fully staged production of Bernstein’s Mass at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer of 2004. Los Angeles Master Chorale presentations include Orff’s Carmina Burana under the direction of Grant Gershon and Paul Salamunovich. Live broadcasts include the January 2005 Chamber Singer performance on NPR’s nationally syndicated program “From the Top”.
Ms. Tomlinson is the ACDA Western Regional Chair for Children’s Choirs. She is a frequent presenter at symposia, workshops and festivals. She holds her Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Master’s degree in conducting from Northwestern University where she studied with Margaret Hillis. Ms. Tomlinson is the recipient of the 2000 Gold Crown Award for Music Education, given by the Pasadena Arts Council, and the 2001 Power of One Award, given by Facing History and Ourselves Foundation for excellence in inclusive education. In June 2006 she was honored as Educator of the Year by the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Southern California. In July 2006, she served as Festival Director/Clinician for the Tuscany International Children’s Chorus Festival. |
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Rachel Fine |
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Rachel Fine has served in leadership positions for several prominent music institutions, including Chanticleer, The Juilliard School, Santa Fe Opera and the Aspen Music Festival. Currently, she works as Executive Director of Los Angeles Children’s Chorus.
Prior to assuming her position at LACC, Ms. Fine worked as Director of Development for the renowned San Francisco-based ensemble Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. As a fellow in 2002 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Ms. Fine underwent a one-year comprehensive training program for high-level managers, overseen directly by Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser. The program included intensive training in strategic planning, development, marketing, public relations and finance.
Ms. Fine spent her undergraduate years at the Eastman School of Music and the University of California, Irvine, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in music. In addition, she attended Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and graduate school in musicology at Yale University.
During her first year as Executive Director of Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Ms. Fine completed successfully the Wells Fargo New Executive Directors Institute of the Executive Service Corps of Southern California. Subsequently, she was accepted into the Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s Arts Leadership Initiative (ALI) for 2008/2009. In addition, Ms. Fine is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of California Symphony Orchestras.
Ms. Fine is an accomplished pianist, having studied with Jerome Lowenthal, Anton Nel, Nina Scolnik and Normal Shetler. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband Christopher Hawthorne, the Architecture Critic for the Los Angeles Times.
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Mandy Brigham |
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Associate Artistic Director Mandy Brigham conducts LACC’s Intermediate and Preparatory Choirs, and is responsible for overseeing the organization’s musicianship and vocal coaching programs. She prepared the children’s chorus for Carmen with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and for Carmina Burana with the Long Beach Symphony in 2008. In recent seasons she has prepared the Chorus for the Lord of the Rings Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl and for Carmina Burana with Vox Femina Los Angeles, as well as assisting in preparing the children’s chorus for numerous Los Angeles Opera productions, including this season’s production of Carmen, and recent productions of Tosca, Otello, La Boheme, Hansel and Gretel, and the world premiere of Grendel. In the summer of 2007, she assisted with the musical preparation for the premiere of LACC’s commissioned opera, Keepers of the Night, conducted by Grant Gershon. In addition to her work at LACC, Ms. Brigham is the vocal music teacher at Balboa Boulevard Magnet School in Northridge.
Ms. Brigham holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California, where she also did graduate study; her teachers there included James Vail, Morten Lauridsen, William Triplett, and Charles Hirt. She is a member of the American Choral Directors’ Association, and sings in the St. Charles Borromeo Choir under the direction of Paul Salamunovich.
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Amy Brehm |
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Amy Brehm, Assistant Artistic Director,joined LACC’s artistic staff in 2006 as the conducting intern. This season she serves as conductor of LACC’s Apprentice Choir and as the teacher for the Chorus’ new First Experience in Singing classes. Additionally, she teaches Elementary Vocal/General Music with the Los Angeles Unified School District and is an adjunct faculty member at Pepperdine University’s Seaver College. President-Elect of the Kodály Association of Southern California, Brehm has completed Level II Kodály training. She is also a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Organization of American Kodály Educators, and California Music Educators Association.
Ms. Brehm received her Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the Robert E. Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She taught instrumental and general music in the Fox Chapel and North Allegheny School Districts in the Pittsburgh area before moving to California. While in Pittsburgh, she also developed a curriculum for and taught musicianship classes at the Seton Center Suzuki School for Music.
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Steven Kronauer |
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A noted tenor, Dr. Kronauer began his professional career as the youngest member ever to sing in the chorus of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany. During his ten-year engagement, he studied with such leading singers as Verdi tenor Dennis O’Neill and Wagnerian baritone Donald MacIntyre. As a soloist with the Bavarian State Opera, he performed for television broadcasts, CD recordings, and live radio performances, appearing in secondary tenor roles with Renee Fleming, Kurt Moll, and many others. He also sang oratorio under such noted conductors as Karl Anton Richenbacher and Peter Schneide, appeared as a soloist with the Cologne Philharmonic and the Munich Philharmonic in Germany, and has sung more than 100 performances of Carmina Burana internationally. Since returning to the U.S., Dr. Kronauer has soloed with Southern California’s Angeles Chorale and National Children’s Chorus, among others. He completed a doctorate degree at UCLA in choral and operatic conducting under the direction of Donald Neuen and William Vendice, respectively, and served as assistant conductor with the UCLA Chorale and assistant conductor of the UCLA Opera. At University of Michigan, he completed two Masters Degrees in Vocal Performance (under Lorna Haywood and John McCollum) and Choral Conducting (under Theodore Morrison), and served as the Assistant Conductor for the University’s Men’s Glee Club. A gifted teacher, Dr Kronauer taught on the voice faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp and at the University of California, Irvine. He served for three years on the voice faculty, and as music director of the opera program at California State University, Los Angeles. Subsequently, he served for two years as Acting Chair of the voice department and director of opera activities of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Currently, Dr. Kronauer has a busy private voice studio and is on the faculty of California State University, Long Beach, at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, teaching voice and German diction. Many of his high-school students have gone on to study music-theater, opera and jazz at such leading schools as Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, University of Michigan, Tisch School of the Arts in New York City and others. One of his high school students performed last summer as a soloist in Les Miserable at the Hollywood Bowl. His students have also appeared on Broadway, at the Metropolitan Opera, the Munich Opera, La Scala, Covent Garden and MTV as well as in rock and jazz venues around the world. His teaching method stresses proper vocal technique, healthy singing through proper breathing and a commitment to total self-expression for the singer in any music style or language. |
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Gail Homan |
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Gail Homan, Musicianship Coordinator, has taught elementary music and piano in private schools both here and in the Bay Area, where she also owned a music school servicing 135 families a year. This school featured a Kodály-based music curriculum designed for children ages one-and-a-half through eight. Mrs. Homan graduated from the Music Conservatory of the University of Missouri and has completed Level II Kodály training, as well as graduate studies in the field of education. She is certified with the Early Childhood Music Association and is active in the Kodály Association of Southern California. |
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Wendy Caldwell |
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Wendy Caldwell, Vocal Coach, has been a choral singer since the age of eight and has performed as a vocal soloist in opera, oratorio and in concert. She has accompanied and coached singers at Acadia University (Canada), University of Illinois at Chicago, Pasadena City College, Caltech, and CSU Long Beach. She conducted children’s choirs at San Marino Community Church for five years and is currently Director of Music at Altadena Community Church. |
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Lisa Stidham |
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Lisa Stidham, Assistant Vocal Coach, is a member of the voice faculty at California State University Los Angeles. She holds a DMA in Vocal Performance from the University of Southern California, and MM in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and BA and MA degrees in musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Lisa has sung in opera, concerts and recitals in the United States, Europe, Australia and South America. Her performance on New World Records of Stephen Hartke’s Sons of Noah was hailed by New York Times’ critic Anthony Tomassini as “a tour-de-force.” She is Past President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and maintains a private voice studio in Glendale. |
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Twyla Meyer |
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Twyla Meyer, Concert Choir and Chamber Singers Pianist, holds a B.F.A. degree in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota and an M.M. in accompanying (with honors) from the USC. She has been staff accompanist and adjunct keyboard faculty at CSU LA since 1980 and has held similar positions at Pasadena City College and Occidental College. A specialist in 20th century chamber music, Ms. Meyer is a founding member of the Matrix Chamber Ensemble performing concerts in New York and on the West Coast. She has been on the faculty at the Idyllwild School of Music and a featured performer with the Southern California Brahms Festival. Ms. Meyer has recorded for Artel Records with heldentenor Gary Lakes. |
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Jahyeong Koo |
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Jahyeong (Jackie) Koo, Pianist, accompanies for the Intermediate and Preparatory Choirs. She is a member of the LA Trio and a professor at CSU Los Angeles. Ms. Koo is a graduate of the Sun-Hwa Performing Arts School in Seoul, Korea, and the University of Northern Iowa where she received B.M. and M.M. degrees in Piano Performance. She has been a doctoral candidate at USC with an accompanying assistantship. Ms. Koo has won numerous awards and piano competitions and has served as both a solo artist and accompanist throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. As a member of the LA Trio, she has performed and taught master classes in China and Japan. Ms. Koo also presently accompanies the All Saints Church Youth Choirs in Pasadena and is a member of the MTNA and SYMF. |
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Mitsuko Morikawa |
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Mitsuko Morikawa, Pianist, accompanies for the Apprentice Choir. She has been an active soloist, accompanist and chamber musician throughout the world, has recorded music for the New World Records label, and has been featured on radio programs in the United States and Japan. Ms. Morikawa has served on the faculties at Oberlin College Conservatory, the Oberlin Flute Institute, Baldwin Wallace College Conservatory and the ENCORE School of Strings and was most recently appointed as a Teaching Assistant in studio accompanying at the USC. She holds a B.M. in piano performance from the Toho School of Music, Japan, an M.M. in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and a Professional Studies Certificate in piano performance from The Cleveland Institute of Music. She is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in Keyboard Collaborative Arts at USC under the guidance of Dr. Alan Smith |
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