Guest Artists

Raised from infancy with classical training, driven by rock and roll, enlightened by jazz, and infused with the ethnic diversity of his upbringing in the San Francisco bay area, Mike…

Plan-B Theatre Company develops and produces unique and socially conscious theatre with a particular emphasis on new plays by Utah playwrights. PETER AND THE WOLF toured to 30 elementary schools…

Shane Shanahan performs regularly with Yo-Yo Ma as an original member of the Grammy-nominated Silk Road Ensemble. Shane’s arrangements and compositions are featured on several of the group’s recordings for…

Jay Perry (Actor) had appeared in Plan-B Theatre Company’s productions of TRAGEDY: A TRAGEDY, THE ALIENATION EFFEKT, three SLAMs, all eight RADIO HOURs, FACING EAST in Salt Lake, San Francisco…

Christy Summerhays (Director) began her directing career in opera at the Intimate Opera Company where she directed many productions including LA BOHEME, RIGOLETTO and Leonard Bernstein’s TROUBLE IN TAHITI. Christy…

Christina Castellanos, MM, is Principal Flutist of The Salt Lake Symphony, Second Flutist of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, a position she has held since 2001 as a senior in college,…

Anton Armstrong, Tosdal Professor of Music at St. Olaf College, became the fourth conductor of the St. Olaf Choir in 1990 after ten years in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he…

Igor Iachimciuc was born in the Edinets Republic of Moldova, where he began to study the cimbalom (string-percussion instrument) at age ten at a children’s music school. Later, while studying…

Kenneth Fuchs has composed music for orchestra, band, chorus, and various chamber ensembles. With Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, he created three chamber musicals, The Great Nebula in Orion, A…

Michael Chipman is a versatile singer whose performance interests range from art song to Baroque music to contemporary opera. He recently recorded the role of Roderick Usher in Gordon Getty’s…

Erin McOmber has most recently sung the role of Clorinda (La Cenerentola) with La Musica Lirica (Novafeltria, Italy) with Maestro Joseph Rescigno. In 2010 and 2011 she took the stage…

Jenny Oaks Baker is one of America’s most accomplished classical violinists. She began playing the violin at age four, and made her solo orchestral debut in 1983 when she was…