Adriana Giarola Kayama
Graduated in Bachelor of Composition and Conducting Institute of Arts - UNICAMP (1985), master's degree in MSc from the University of Washington (1987) and Ph.D. in DOCTORATE IN MUSICAL ARTS by the University of Washington (1990).
She is currently Professor at the State University of Campinas, Member of the editorial board of Music Hodie, Member of the editorial board of OuvirOUver (Uberlândia), Member of the editorial board of Per Musi (UFMG) and the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Ângelo José Fernandes
Natural Itajubá / MG is Doctor and Master of Music Program at the Graduate Institute of Music in Arts from the State University of Campinas UNICAMP, Specialist degree in Choral Conducting and Music with specialization in piano from the School of Music of the Federal University Minas Gerais UFMG.
He began his musical studies in Itajubá / MG, having joined the university in 1991, where he was a student of Eduardo Hazan and Lucas Bretas (piano), Amin Feres and Vânia Soares (classical singing), Eliane Fajioli (vocal technique and co-repetition ), Berenice Menegale (teaching piano), Sérgio Magnani (music history), Iara Fricke Matte and Carlos Alberto Pinto Fonseca (choral conducting) and others.
In Campinas was supervised by Prof. Dr. Eduardo Östergren (Masters) and by Prof. Dr. Adriana Giarola Kayama (PhD). Currently studying singing under the guidance of teacher and baritone Inácio de Nonno (Rio de Janeiro).
Courtney Sherman
Courtney Sherman, soprano, holds a Master's degree in opera/musical theatre performance and a Doctorate in voice performance from Arizona State University. Her role credits include Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Der Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos.
Dr. Sherman has performed soprano solos in Bach’s Mass in B-Minor, Orff's Carmina Burana, Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore, and Handel’s Messiah, among others, and has performed a wide range of art song repertoire.
She is Assistant Professor of Voice at UW-Green Bay, teaching courses for both the Music and Theatre programs. Dr. Sherman was recently seen as the conductor and music director for UW-Green Bay's performance of Cabaret.
David Severtson
Since 2007, Dr. David Severtson has coordinated the piano program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He teaches studio and class piano, piano pedagogy, music appreciation, and a first-year seminar: “Landmarks in Western Music.”
Prior to teaching at UW-Green Bay, he taught at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa and Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Flavio Cardoso de Carvalho
Doctor of Music - Singing - State University of Campinas (2005), is currently an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Uberlândia, acting in Graduate Music and Master of Arts.
He has experience in Music, acting on the following topics: historical musicology, opera and classical singing Brazilian.
Guida Borghoff
Soloist and chamber pianist, she is Professor of piano and chamber music at the School of Music of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she also does research, specially about the Brazilian song. She belongs to the group Resgate da Canção Brasileira and to the Selo Minas de Som for the register and divulgation of Brazilian composers. She has recorded the Serestas de Villa-Lobos with Céline Imbert (1987), Canções de Liszt with Reginaldo Pinheiro (2009) and Obra para violino e piano de Guerra-Peixe with Eliane Tokeshi (2012).
She studied music in Germany under the guidance of Fany Solter and Helmut Hoell at the School of Music of the Universities of Freiburg and Karlsruhe. She is often engaged in solo performances, and also performs with well-known instrumentalists and singers.
Luciana Monteiro de Castro
Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, she studied with Elsa Saque at the National Conservatory, in Lisbon, and with Marilene Gangana, Brazil, completing a master's degree in Performance and a doctorate in comparative literature, focusing on Brazilian art song.
She was soloist in works such as Mahler's Symphony II , IX Symphony and Mass in C of Beethoven, Bruckner's Te Deum , Passion Seconds S. John and SMatthew of Bach, Mozart Requiem and Handel's Messiah , under the conduction of David Machado, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Silvio Viegas, Emilio de Cesar, Marcelo Ramos, Roberto Tibiriçá, among others.
Some of her operatic performances have included Carmen by Bizet, Purcell Dido , Orfeo by Gluck. Recently performed as Meg Page in Verdi's Faustaff, Countess of Coigny in Andrea Chenier, Giordano and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly by Puccini.
Worked as Professor of singing at the Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais for 9 years and since 2002 she teaches at the School of Music of the Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG. In this institution, operates in the graduate and master's degrees departments and takes part of the research group “Resgate da Canção Brasileira”.
Coordinates at UFMG the extension project “Selo Minas de Som”, recording and editing Brazilian musical works. Working since 2003 with the pianist Guida Borghoff, in over 60 concerts in Brazil and other countries, the duo recorded the “cancioneiros” of the composers Alberto Nepomuceno and Helza Camêu.
Sarah Meredith
Throughout Europe, the U.S. and South America, SARAH MEREDITH LIVINGSTON has performed as soloist, recitalist, masterclass teacher and adjudicator.
Ms. Meredith Livingston, a native Iowa, is currently Associate Professor of Music, Women and Gender Studies, and Global Studies at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay where she teaches applied voice, Diction for Singers, Opera/musical Theater Workshop, and Women in the Performing Arts as well as Opera Seminar.
She received degrees from Iowa State University,(BS, 1974; BM,1975), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,(M.M., Music Education/Voice Performance), Hochschule fur Musik, Hamburg, Germany,(Auslander Diplom,1978-1980), and the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (DMA,Voice Performance/Opera, 1987).
