The Musicians, et al – Virtual Christmas Concert 2020

Martin Bell, Baritone.

' Martin is a frequent performer in opera, recital & oratorio. Roles: Marcello in Boheme, Sharpless in Butterfly, Papageno in Flute, a soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana at the Mendocino Music Festival & S. F. City College Orchestra, Einhorn's oratorio/score of the classic silent movie, The Passion of Joan of Arc at the Castro & Paramount theaters. Company appearances: S. F. Opera, S. F. Lyric Opera, West Bay Opera, Berkeley Opera, Lamplighters & Custom Made. Musical theater: Kiss Me Kate, Show Boat, Little Shop of Horrors, Chess, & Caroline, or Change. He produced several operas including Malcolm X (One of the S. F. Chronicle’s 10 best classical music events) & Duke Ellington's Queenie Pie. And he has a private voice studio in Oakland. Darron James Flagg, Tenor.

Opera, Verismo Opera, I Trovatori Opera & Sacramento Opera. This year, he sang the role of Pollione in a concert presentation of Bellini’s Norma, staged production of Gounod’s Faust as

the title role & Florville in Rossini’s Il signor Bruschino. Other highlights include Rossini’s Count Ory & Mozart’s Don Ottavio. This holiday season Darron is the tenor soloist for multiple concerts of Handel’s Messiah. Richard Flores, Guitarist.

a guitar orchestra at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. He has performed with the Latin American folk group 'Cascada de Flores' and has accompanied various choirs in the Bay Area. Michael Moran, Organ & Piano.

Church in Alameda. He has conducted operas with Virago Theatre and is one of the conductors for the annual Alameda Sing-it-Yourself Messiah. He continues to serve as Associate Company Director/Music Director with Verismo Opera.

We love hav-ing Michael as the organist for our Wednes-day testimony meetings here at First Church of Christ, Sci-entist, Oak-land. Michael also serves as Director of Music Minis-tries at Christ Episcopal

Darron is an active leggiero tenor performing extensively in opera and con-cert settings – he has been honored to sing with West Edge Opera, Fes-tival Opera, Liv-ermore Opera, S. F. Opera, Oak-land Opera The-ater, Island City

Richard has been both a performer & educator in the Bay Area for over three decades. He teaches mu-sic theory & guitar at Cha-bot College in Hayward and conducts

The Musicians, et al – Virtual Christmas Concert 2020

Katy Ann Stephan, Soprano.

and Mass, as well as Sondheim's Follies. Her voice has been featured in major motion picture soundtracks (XMen: Dark Phoenix, Catwoman, The Time Machine), TV movies and theme songs, and even in childrens toys. She has written a number of solos inspired by, and for our services here at First Church, Oakland. You can purchase Katy’s music at watchfiremusic.com, under the name Ann Stephan. Shawnette Sulker, Soprano.

Nacht (Die Zauberflöte), Lucy (The Telephone), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Cunegonde (Candide), and Musetta (La Bohème). In concert, she has soloed in Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Mass

in C minor, Bach’s Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, and Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate, to name a few. International highlights include touring the Neth-erlands and Belgium as Adele in Die Fleder-maus and singing orchestra concerts in Leipzig’s Gewandhaus and Prague’s Smetana Hall. She has sung with companies such as the San Francisco Opera, American Bach Soloists, Mark Morris Dance Group, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Opera Memphis, Opera Fairbanks, Opera Naples, Union Avenue Opera, Opera San Jose, Opera Parallèle, West Edge Opera, and the Symphonies of Eugene, Oakland, Santa Rosa, and Vallejo. Charles Lovely, Host. Currently Second Reader of First Church, Oakland, Charles is a Fed Ex driver, husband, and father.

Notes: The passage printed on the program is from Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-tures by Mary Baker Eddy – available at any Christian Science Reading Room. Reprinted cour-tesy of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection. *Hymns are all from The Christian Science Hymnals. **Words to Christmas Morn are from Hymn 23.

Katy, our treas-ured Sunday Soloist/Pianist here at First Church of Christ, Scien-tist, Oakland, has been a so-loist with the Oakland East Bay Symphony for their con-cert versions of Leonard Bern-stein's Candide

Shawnette is ac-claimed for her “heartbreaking poignancy” and “beautifully tuned soprano” [San Francisco Chronicle] and for her “enchan-ting vocal splen-dor” [Leipziger Volkszeitung]. Her roles include Pip (Moby Dick), Die Königin der

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