
Soprano, Susan Consoli’s active career in oratorio, opera and recital have led her throughout the United States and abroad. She has worked under such notable conductors as Bruno Weil, Grant Llewellyn, Laurence Cummings, Craig Smith, John Harbison, John Finney, William Jon Gray, Tom Hall and Ryan Turner as well as director/choreographer Chen Shi-Zheng and choreographer Tero Saarinen. She has been a soloist with Emmanuel Music’s famed Bach Cantata Series since 2005 as well as soloist with the Carmel Bach Festival since 2004. Appearances with Boston Camerata include: Borrowed Light performances in Berlin, Hamburg and Wolfsburg collaborating with Tero Saarinen Dance Company. She can be heard on the Handel & Haydn Society recording of All is Bright for Avie Records. Ms. Consoli is a member of the voice faculty at both Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy of Andover.
Highlights of the ’09/’10 season include Novello Thy Mighty Force and Schubert Die Forelle with the Handel & Haydn Society, After Hours with John Harbison, Emmanuel Music and the Token Creek Jazz Ensemble at Scullers Jazz Club, Handel Messiah with Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, Orff Carmina Burana with Portsmouth Pro Musica. In addition, Ms. Consoli is a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow for the 2009/2010 season at Emmanuel Music.

Baritone Thomas Jones appears with orchestras, opera companies,
choral ensembles, pops concerts and on recital series throughout North America,
Europe and the West Indies. Critics from coast to coast have hailed his performances
as elegant, passionate, expressive and sensitive. Richard Buell of The Boston
Globe calls the vocal and stage presence of Thomas Jones "irresistible".
Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times proclaims that Mr. Jones sings "with
plush sounds and musical vigor".
Mr. Jones’ solo appearances include The Santa Fe Symphony, The Los
Angeles Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra,
Boston's Handel & Haydn Society, The Apollo Chorus of Chicago, The San
Francisco City Chorus and Orchestra, The Vancouver Chamber Choir and The
Canadian Broadcast Orchestra, The Phoenix Bach Choir, The Phoenix Chamber
Orchestra, New York's St. Cecilia Orchestra, Baltimore Choral Arts Society,
The Omaha Symphony, The Pacific Chorale and The Pacific Symphony in Southern
California, The Battle Creek Symphony (Michigan), The Billings Symphony (Montana),The
Louisville Bach Society at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, The
Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra of Washington, DC, The Simon Sinfonietta
of Washington, DC., The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic Orchestra,
The Bucks County Choral Society and The Philadelphia Festive Arts Orchestra
under conductor Robert Page.
Festival appearances include Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Berkshire Choral
Festival, The Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, Great Waters Music Festival
and Monadnock Music. Opera companies include Boston Lyric Opera, The Harrisburg
Opera Company of Pennsylvania and Opera New England. In metropolitan Boston,
appearances include The Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston Civic Orchestra,
The Back Bay Chorale, Coro Allegro, The Cape Cod Symphony, The Worcester
Symphony, The Nashua Symphony, The Monadnock Chorus and The Masterworks Chorale.
Mr. Jones has appeared with well over 150 choruses throughout The USA, appearing
under the baton of notable maestros such as Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas
McGegan, Thomas Dunn, John Alexander, Jon Washburn, Daniel Beckwith, Joel
Revzen, Robert Page, John Oliver, William Gray, Stephen Simon, Tom
Hall and Gerald Mack. And, he has premiered new works by composers such as
Libby Larson, Dave Brubeck and John Goodman and others. Contemporary pops
concerts have recently been an added dimension to his 25 year career.
Thomas Jones was a semifinalist in the International Bel Canto Foundation
Vocal Competition and a semifinalist in the New York Oratorio Competition. His
theater experiences range from summer stock companies in multiple roles from
Gershwin to Sondheim. In addition, Mr. Jones is an accomplished voice teacher
and clinician, having conducted vocal master classes throughout the United
States at colleges, high schools and for community, church and professional
choruses. Thomas Jones has been teaching voice through the Office for the
Arts at Harvard University for the past 19 years. He also served as vocal
coach for Harvard University’s “Hasty Pudding Theatricals” for
10 years and is the voice clinician for the Harvard Freshman Arts Program.