Carolyn Hart, Soprano, Associate Professor of Voice and Chair of the Vocal Studies Area, is a frequent performer of recital, oratorio and orchestral repertoire. She performs frequently in the Chicago area and has toured extensively throughout Canada and Great Britain. Further concerts have taken her to Hong Kong, Korea and most recently New York City. She especially enjoys the collaboration of chamber music and sings regularly with a variety of instrumental ensembles. Engagements this season include performances of Bach B Minor Mass with Music of the Baroque. Her recently released CD Not Your Usual Lineup features newly commissioned works for soprano, clarinet and piano, Carolyn holds degrees from the University of Toronto, and completed her doctorate at the University of British Columbia. Further studies have taken her to the Banff School of Fine Arts, Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England, and the Academie de Musique in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Sarah Holman, Mezzo-Soprano, Associate Professor of Voice, has appeared with Chamber Opera Chicago, Opera Southwest, City Opera of the Quad Cities, Lyric Opera Cleveland, DuPage Opera, Muddy River Opera, and Kansas Opera. As a featured soloist she has sung with the New Philharmonic, Rockford, Liberty, and Fox Valley Symphony Orchestras. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart's Coronation Mass under the direction of Simon Carrington. Her recent opera performances include Chamber Opera Chicago's tribute to Gian Carlo Menotti, under the stage direction of Francis Menotti, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, Dorabella in Cosí fan tutte, The Mother in The Consul, Katisha in The Mikado, Lady Jane in Patience, Meg Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Beatrice in Beatrice and Benedict, and the title role of Regina. She enjoyed a long tenure as the mezzo-soprano voice of the Dean Wilder Singers, a vocal quartet and piano ensemble, which toured throughout the United States, Mexico, and Southern Korea performing a variety of opera, oratorio, and sacred literature. In 2007 Dr. Holman was awarded a Goldovsky Opera Directing Internship with Harrower Opera in Atlanta, Georgia. Currently, she serves as the Central Regional Governor for National Association of Teachers of Singing and an Associate Professor of voice at Wheaton College Conservatory where she also directs the opera program.

Gerard Sundberg, Baritone, Professor of Music & Pedagogy, holds both Master of Fine Arts and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in vocal performance from the University of Minnesota, where he was a voice student of Clifton Ware and Roy Schuessler. He is an active concert and oratorio soloist and recitalist in the Chicago and Minneapolis areas. Dr. Sundberg also has had an extensive relationship with the Oregon Bach Festival as a tenured member of the Festival Choir and as soloist and has been a choir member and soloist with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers. He was recently the bass s oloist in performance of the Bach Magnificat and the Handel Messiah with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus under the direction of the late Robert Shaw. He is an active church musician as well as a voice and choral clinician. His recent recording, Singer on a Journey is available through the Wheaton College Bookstore.

Alfreda Burke, Soprano, Guest Lecturer in Voice, made her Carnegie and Orchestra Hall debut in Strauss' Elektra with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by Daniel Barenboim. She has made solo debuts with the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia under Erich Kunzel, Chicago Opera Theater, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Music Festival, Rackham Symphony/Michigan Opera Theater, TodiMusicFest, Lancaster Festival, Auditorium Theatre, Chicagoland Pops Orchestra, and Chorus Angelorum, among others.

Oratorio, opera and concert engagements include Umbria Music Festival (Italy); Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts (WFMT); Mozart's Requiem, C Minor Mass, Mass in C Major; Handel's Messiah; Christianson & Anderson's Too Hot to Handel; Poulenc Gloria; Boulez's Le Visage Nuptial under Pierre Boulez; Puccini's Turandot (Liu); Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream; Menotti's Amahl & the Night Visitors; Gershwin's Porgy & Bess; Bernstein's West Side Story; Kern's Show Boat (Kennedy Center/National Tour, Auditorium Theatre) directed by Harold Prince; CSO's Symphony Center Inaugural Festival and Radiothon. Ms. Burke has worked in recordings, music video, television, radio, film and commercials, and released her solo CD, From the Heart in 2002. She received Master and Bachelor of Music degrees from Roosevelt University and served as Alumna Ambassador for RU's 60th Anniversary. Visit www.sopranoalfredaburke.com.

Denise Gamez, Mezzo Soprano, Guest Lecturer in Voice, Denise Gamez is a graduate of the Wheaton Conservatory of Music, and received a Master of Music in Voice from Indiana University. She was twice a member of the Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco Opera Center. At Merola, she sang Dame Quickly in Falstaff, and Fidalma in Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage, and received the 1993 Gropper Memorial Award. Other operatic roles include Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and Emilia in Otello. She has also performed with a number of orchestras, including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra; her concert repertoire includes the Verdi Requiem, Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer, the Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, the Bach St Matthew Passion, and Handel's Messiah. Last season, she appeared as the mezzo soloist in the premiere performance of Children of God by the rising American composer Daniel Kellogg, commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria, and appeared in recital in New York and at the American Church in Paris with soprano Carolyn Hart and pianist Daniel Paul Horn.

Stephen Morscheck, Bass, Artist in Residence, has appeared recently with such organizations as the Bonn Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Glimmerglass Opera, and New York City Opera. Mr. Morscheck has performed roles including Britten's Nick Shadow in The Rakes Progress, Wagner's The Night Watchman in Die Meistersinger, Donizetti's Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Puccini's Colline in La Boheme. Mr. Morscheck has also been active in recitals and oratorios. Among Mr. Morscheck's frequent appearances with orchestra have been Mozart's Requiem, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and in Philip Glass' The Civil Wars. Mr. Morscheck graduated from Wheaton College and received advanced degrees from the University of Michigan.

Robin Sterling, Coloratura Soprano, Guest Lecturer in Voice received her Master of Music degree from Northwestern University. She maintains a busy performing career. She has appeared with the Chicago Opera Theater and Opera Southwest, as well as the Waukesha Symphony (WI), the University of Wisconsin Orchestra and the West Suburban Choral Union. She has been a participant in the Bel Canto Seminar (Busseto, Italy), studying under Carlo Bergonzi and Renata Tebaldi, and was a 1985 regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions.