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Praised for her "full, gleaming sound" (Chicago Tribune), Canadian soprano TRACY CANTIN "has it all agility, power and dazzling coloratura" (Chicago SunTimes), not to mention "vocal and physical allure, with interpretive intelligence and stage presence to boot" (Chicago Tribune). Quickly rising to the top of her field, Cantin is a recent graduate of the prestigious Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago where she appeared with the company in Elektra, Rigoletto, Parsifal, il Barbiere di Siviglia, and most recently – for the opera’s final two scenes – in the title role of Donizetti’s demanding Anna Bolena, in which she replaced ailing superstar soprano Sondra Radvanovsky. |
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Her operatic repertoire includes Mimi/La Boheme, Donna Anna/Don Giovanni, Governess/Turn of the Screw, Rosalinde/Die Fledermaus, Desdemona/Otello, Rusalka/Rusalka, and Alice Ford/Falstaff. An avid concert performer, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 introduced her to Australian audiences, singing alongside Bryn Terfel, under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis, with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, Ms Cantin has been heard as the soprano soloist in Bernstein’s Songfest, Handel’s Messiah, Schubert’s Mass in Ab, Mozart’s Requiem, has shared the stage with internationally renowned artists including Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Christine Goerke, Joyce DiDonato, Eric Owens, Johan Botha and Ana Maria Martìnez, and has recently made debuts with the Ravinia Festival, Grant Park Festival, Oregon Symphony, Illinois Philharmonic, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.
www.tracycantin.com
www.tracycantin.com
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Combining major stints in both New York City and Chicago and numerous tours abroad, DAVE MILLER has cultivated a truly unique, exciting, and inviting approach to songwriting, jazz improvisation, and the guitar. After releasing three albums to wide acclaim with his experimental rock band, Algernon (Cuneiform Records), Miller has once again redefined his parameters for his latest album (Old Door Phantoms, ears&eyes Records), this time taking cues from early American folk music. |
All the while, he has maintained a role in many collaborative bands such as noisy avant gardeists, blink. (Thirsty Ear Recordings) and has served as a consummate sideman to such luminaries as jazz songwriter, Patricia Barber (Blue Note Records), John Wojciechowski, John McNeil, and Brazilian composer, Clarice Assad, with whom he served as an artist in residence for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Other career highlights include an album collaboration with legendary reggae producer, The Scientist and numerous appearances at the Chicago Jazz Festival. Grammy winning music journalist, Neil Tesser, cites Miller “among my favorite modern guitarists” (chicagomusic.org). The broadminded musician’s “impressive flexibility" can range "from carefully structured improvisations to complementary texture and color” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader) while still "making a listener feel inches from the guitar” (Mark Keresman, New York City Jazz Record).
www.davemillerguitar.com
www.davemillerguitar.com
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Chicago bassist, composer, and arranger JOE POLICASTRO grew up in the fertile jazz, classical, and popular music scene of Cincinnati, OH. He earned his Bachelor of Music in Jazz/Studio Music from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and his Master of Music in Jazz Studies from DePaul University in Chicago. After performing and recording extensively in Germany, he settled in Chicago where he quickly established himself an in-demand musical voice as both composer and performer. |
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He has performed and recorded with jazz luminaries such as Diane Schuur, Jeff Hamilton, Howard Levy, Phil Woods, Tim Ries, Ira Sullivan, Howard Alden, Rick Margitza, Jim Snidero, David "Fathead" Newman, and Billy Hart. He leads the Joe Policastro Trio, and the group has two albums featuring his writing: West Side Story Suite For Jazz Trio and the soon-to-be-released Pops! He also leads and co-leads the Gerry Mulligan-esque ensembles, Jeru, and the Mulligan Mosaics Big Band, both for which he has extensively written and arranged. As composer/arranger, his work can be heard on recordings by numerous artists including Ira Sullivan and the Rob Parton Big Band. As an educator, he has been a Ravinia Jazz Mentor, a Lecturer of Jazz Studies at DePaul University, and he is currently on faculty at Morton College, the Chicago Academy for the Arts, and the Midwest Young Artists Conservatory.
www.joepolicastro.com
www.joepolicastro.com
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Chicagobased interdisciplinary artist MIKEL PATRICK AVERY has been active within the Chicago art scene since moving to the area in 2006. Established as a jazz drummer, he is commonly recognized for his orchestral and melodic style of drumming that often involves the use of unconventional "nonmusical" objects. Mikel is also a dedicated composer, photographer, producer and educator. In recent years, he has become an integral voice in Rob Mazurek's Moon Cycles, Joshua Abrams's Natural Information Society, The Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, and Theaster Gates’s Black Monks of Mississippi. |
He also leads several of his own projects including 1/2 Size Piano Trio, Mikel Patrick Avery *PLAY*, and a new conceptual dance company coled with artist Amanda Avery called The Something Beautiful Movement Orchestra. Mikel has performed at the Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Documenta 13 (in Kassel Germany), Kepler Studio (Berlin), Guelph Jazz Festival, White Cube (London), MCA Chicago, and he has given a performance for President Barack Obama.
www.mikelpatrickavery.bandcamp.com
www.mikelpatrickavery.bandcamp.com
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