PERFORMERS' BIOGRAPHIES

Praised for “a voice that shows not only power and range, but subtlety,” soprano Megan Beltran recently relocated to the Boston area and is actively performing with a variety of regional organizations.  Previously, she resided in Copenhagen, Denmark where she appeared at the Statens Museum for Kunst, the Absalon Kirke, Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium and with Stand Up Opera in Nørrebro.  In the summer of 2007, Ms. Beltran joined the Ash Lawn Opera Festival as an Apprentice Artist.  She will return for the 2008 summer season to sing the role of Frasquita and cover the role of Micaela in Carmen.  Previous operatic appearances include the roles of Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Despina (Cosi fan tutte), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Gretel (Hansel & Gretel), and Damigella (L’incoronazione di Poppea).  Light opera credits: Phyllis (Iolanthe), Mabel (Pirates of Penzance), Rose Maybud (Ruddygore) and Peep-Bo/Yum-Yum (Mikado).  Ms. Beltran was a Regional Finalist in the Pacific Region of the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions.  She has received awards from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the East Bay Opera League, the Bay Area NATS Festival, OperaWorks Summer Intensive Workshop, the UCLA Department of Music, and the Burlingame Music Club. Ms. Beltran is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory, where she completed a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles with majors in both Music and English.

Alexandra Borrie, director, celebrates 40 years as a professional actor-singer-dancer.  She has had a long and varied performance career on Broadway, in regional theatres and in television.  She began her career as a ballet dancer and most recently sang annual classical repertoire with the Oratorio Society of NY at Carnegie Hall.  She made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, received rave reviews for her performance in The Shadow Box, directed by Richard Chamberlain in Boston, and launched a television career with Pierce Brosnan in Remington Steele.  An acting teacher/music theatre specialist of 18 years, her teaching credits include: the NYU Tisch School for the Arts Undergraduate Program (studio CAP 21), the NY School for Film and Television, The Music Conservatory of Westchester, Lecturer in Drama at Mehlenberg College, and the American Music and Dramatic Academy in NYC and Los Angeles.  Ms. Borrie has worked with an impressive list of internationally known directors, conductors, dancers and actors including Bob Fosse, Hal Prince, Meryl Streep and Vanessa Redgrave, receiving acclaim for such varied roles as Cleo in The Most Happy Fella and Joan in George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.  Currently Ms. Borrie coaches acting for musical theatre performers and classical singers.

Baritone Brian Church has been a soloist several times over the course of his eight seasons with the Cantata Singers.  A graduate of the College of New Jersey and New England Conservatory, Mr. Church enjoys a varied career in the Boston area as a classical vocalist, rock and theater bassist, and as a public elementary school music specialist.

Nancy Dimock, oboe, regularly performs throughout the northeast as a member of the Vermont Symphony, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Indian Hill Symphony, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra and as a guest with the Boston Lyric Opera, Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Boston Pops. She has been the principal oboist of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and can be heard performing with the HSO on the Grammy nominated compact disc Rosemary Clooney: The Final Concert. She has performed with such artists as Jaime Laredo and the Jacques Thibaud Trio, been on the Prairie Home Companion radio show and PBS™ Great Performances television broadcast, and recorded for Concord, Albany and Chandos records.

Judith Hill Bose, narrator, has been seen most recently as soloist with the Church of the Advent Choir, with the ensemble Cappella Clausura, in Buffalo, NY as Lizzie in J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata and Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone. Other recent engagements include soprano soloist in the Messiah with the Riverside Choir in New York City, performance in the zarzuelas Cabezudos y Gigantes, L'Alegria de la Huerta, and Doña Francisquita in Napa, CA and in Jon Deak’s contemporary chamber piece Owl in Love with members of the Buffalo Philharmonic.  In New York, she has performed Rose Maybud in Ruddigore with the Village Light Opera and Adele in Die Fledermaus with the New York Opera Forum, was a soloist with the choir of Riverside Church, and a song recitalist on the Landmark Festival Series.  Ms. Bose also toured for two and a half seasons with the National Opera Company where her favorite roles included Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Musetta in La Boheme, Hero in Beatrice and Benedict, and Anne Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor.  She starred in operettas for three seasons with the Ohio Light Opera, where her portrayals included Helen in La Belle Helene, Manja in Countess Maritza, Julia Jellicoe in The Grand Duke, and Louisa Giovanni in The Song of Norway.  Ms. Bose has appeared as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance with the Atlanta Savoyards, as soloist with the North Carolina Symphony and the Raleigh Symphony, in recital at the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals, and at the Bel Canto Institute in New Paltz, NY.  Recently relocated to Boston, Ms. Bose now sings in the Cantata Singers and serves as their Director of Education.
 
Angelynne Hinson, soprano, has performed on choral, liturgical, and recital programs throughout northern New England. Now in her tenth season with Cantata Singers, she has been a soloist and a regular performer in the Cantata Singers Chamber Series. Ms. Hinson is an avid scholar of the American Musical Theatre, writing and performing in revues featuring the music of George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, and Stephen Sondheim. As a member of the critically acclaimed vocal duo Sirens' Song, she has appeared on many regional concert series and festival programs.  In January, the duo will travel to London, England for a series of recitals.  As an educator, she has created vocal and choral artist-in-residency programs for multi-risk teenage girls in New Hampshire, and she has developed and taught a series of intensive vocal workshops for gifted and talented students throughout southern Maine. Ms. Hinson has a law degree from the Pierce Law Center and a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard University.

Suzanne McAllister, piano, is a free-lance musician who has accompanied the Cantata Singers, as a chorus and individually, since arriving in Boston in 1976. She holds graduate degrees from Boston University’s School for the Arts and School of Theology. Ms. McAllister has served many churches in the area.  She was  Director of Choral Activities at Wellesley and Smith Colleges, and directed for four years at Harvard College. She was also the Associate Director of Music for the Choral Arts Society of Washington, D.C.  She is presently the Minister of Music at the Parish of the Epiphany in Winchester.

Joshua Taylor, baritone, is a native of North Carolina and a current Masters candidate at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. Mr. Taylor is a first-year member of Cantata Singers, and in addition to performing on the Chamber Series and the Touring Production, has joined the teaching faculty of the outreach endeavor Classroom Cantatas.  Mr. Taylor recently made his solo debut in Boston’s Symphony Hall, appearing as a guest artist with the Boston Pops Orchestra on its holiday mainstage series, under the baton of Keith Lockhart. Other recent engagements include singing Fiorello in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the Boston University Opera Insitute.

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