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, William Jon Gray, Craig Smith, John Harbison, 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.
Upcoming solo engagements include: the role of Vera Mater in Charpentier’s Judicium Salomonis with Ensemble Abendmusik, Bach Magnificat and Cantata 151 Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt with the Handel & Haydn Society, Haydn Lord Nelson Mass and Handel Dettigen Te Deum with the Concord Chorale. Additionally she will sing performances of Borrowed Light in Israel and Portugal with Boston Camerata in collaboration with the Tero Saarinen Dance Company, as well as premiering John Harbison’s A Clear Midnight. Susan 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. Previous engagements with the Concord Chorale include: Handel Judas Maccabaeus and Schubert Mass in G.
Miranda Loud, mezzo-soprano, performs regularly as a soloist with several orchestras and choruses in New England, including Foundling in Providence, RI and Emmanuel Music led by Acting Director John Harbison. Last December she made her Baltimore debut as a soloist with the Handel Choir of Baltimore in Messiah. She enjoys premiering and singing new works, and is increasingly sought after for her level of commitment to collaboration and performance. In November 2007 in Portland, Oregon, she premiered the song cycle The Wild Iris, dedicated to her by composer Forrest Pierce. In October 2008 she will premiere a piece by Eva Kendrick in the upcoming Buccaneers of Buzz concert in Lincoln, MA. She was awarded an “artist-in-residence” grant in 2006 at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada for her development of a multi-media concert Matins: Reconnecting to Nature and has been a participant in the prestigious Songfest program in Malibu, CA for two seasons, where she worked with composers Jake Heggie and Ricky Ian Gordon. She has recorded for the musica omnia label as alto soloist in the recent Publick Musick recording of Bach’s Four Lutheran Masses for which she received a glowing review.
Ms. Loud has performed extensively as an organist, harpsichordist, pianist and choral conductor. She was pianist and Music Director as a member of the American Repertory Theater Company in the Cole Porter Revue in Cambridge, MA in 2008. Her interest in innovative concert producing began in 1997 when she formed the Rialto Ensemble in New York City, dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration in concert programming. Her passion for nature, environmental issues and music inspired her to found the Rialto Arts series in Boston (“where nature takes center stage”) which combines environmental awareness with concert production. Rialto Arts breaks new ground by placing environmental issues and nature themes at the heart of each musical performance and through partnering with American Forests. The Boston Globe called Rialto Arts “The birth of a new genre…reaching for the tree-tops.” She is currently working on a multi-media program for Rialto Arts called Buccaneers of Buzz: Celebrating the Honeybee with Brian Jones, tap dancer, marimba and percussion for premiere in October 2008.
She received her M. Music from Eastman School of Music in Organ Performance and Literature and has studied voice with Herbert Burtis, Pamela Dellal, and Carol Mastrodomenico.
Matthew Anderson has been praised for the warm tenor voice and polished musicality he brings to the repertoire of oratorio, opera, and musical theater.
An accomplished interpreter of Baroque and early music, Anderson has twice
been a national finalist and prizewinner in the American Bach Society Vocal
Competition and has been named a 2008-2009 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow
with Emmanuel Music of Boston. He has appeared as a soloist with Emmanuel
Music’s Bach Cantata Series, the Handel and Haydn Society, Back Bay
Chorale, Musicians of the Old Post Road, Williamstown Early Music, Musica
Maris, and Concord Chorus. Anderson was heard at the Carmel Bach Festival
in Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and Handel’s Israel
in Egypt, and in the title role of Matthew Locke’s The Mask
of Orpheus.
In 2007, Anderson made his Boston Symphony Hall and Tanglewood Festival debuts
as Enoch Snow in Carousel with the Boston Pops conducted by Keith
Lockhart. The Berkshire Eagle declared him “vocally stunning” in
the production, and the Boston Phoenix praised his “impressive singing” and “lively
comic timing.”
Anderson has appeared as a James Collier Apprentice Artist at Des Moines Metro Opera and a member of the Cincinnati Opera Resident Ensemble. Past performances of opera and musical theater include The Music Shop, The Bartered Bride, Orfeo, H.M.S. Pinafore, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods.
Anderson studied Classics at Harvard University and voice at the New England Conservatory. A native of Kansas, he currently resides in Boston.
Baritone Dana Whiteside’s solo engagements have included performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony; Antonin Dvorak’s Te Deum, Opus 103; Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana; and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs as well as the Mass in Bminor and St. John Passion of J.S. Bach – John Harbison conducting – and the role of Jeremiah in the Boston premier of Kurt Weill’s The Prophets from The Eternal Road. In addition, he has enjoyed great success as soloist in the Requiems of Durufle, Faure and Mozart; Handel’s Messiah and Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem under the direction of Sir David Wilcox at Trinity Church Copley Square and with the Cantata Singers in Boston’s Jordan Hall.
Honoring his passion for art song, he has participated in and offered programs of adventurous repertoire in the Vox Humana Series, at the Lyric Stage and Boston’s French Library/Societe Francaise, Boston University, Boston Conservatory and the University of Oregon as well the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Recent programs have included Robert Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39, Samuel Barber’s Despite & Still, Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, John Musto’s Shadow of the Blues: Songs to Texts of Langston Hughes as well as the Serres Chaudes of Ernest Chausson, Francis Poulenc’s Banalites and Aaron Copland’s Songs of Emily Dickinson. He has also performed recitals with the acclaimed Florestan Recital Project in its exploration of the songs inspired by the texts of A.E. Housman.
A New England Conservatory of Music honors graduate, an alumnus of the Tanglewood Vocal Program and past winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition, Mr. Whiteside enjoys affiliation with the Handel & Haydn Society and Emmanuel Music. Upcoming performances for the 2008 - 2009 season include recital programs with the Cantata Singers and the Faure Requiem with the choirs of Trinity Church Copley Square.