2007 featured soloists

	The Chorale welcomes Jayne West, soprano. Well known to Mount Desert audiences through her frequent appearances with the Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music in Northeast Harbor, she is on the faculties of the Longy School of Music and the Boston Arts Academy. She has performed with many of the country's leading orchestras and chamber groups, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke, Handel & Haydn Society and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under notable conductors Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Haitink, Trevor Pinnock, Neeme Jdrvi, Roberto Abbado, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Christopher Hogwood, Jane Glover and Grant Llewellyn. Ms. West has sung at the Edinburgh Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, Grant Park Series, Saito Kinen Festival, and with the Brussels National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, The New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, and Boston Lyric Opera. She has sung virtually all of the existing Bach Cantatas as as member of Emmanuel Music where she has sung since 1987. Her impressive discography can be seen at www.jaynewest.com
	The Chorale again welcomes Brianna Kramer, mezzo-soprano. She was the alto soloist in our 2006 Mozart program. Originally from Lacey, Washington, Ms. Kramer received her Bachelor of Music degree from Washington State University and in 2005 graduated from Arizona State University with a Master of Music degree in opera/music theater performance. She is currently pursuing her doctorate at Arizona State University. Ms. Kramer has appeared in a variety of roles including Baba in The Medium, Mauyra in Riders to the Sea, Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia, Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro, Mrs Mclean in Susannah, and Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. In 2005 she was the alto soloist in an Arizona State University performance of Bach's B-Minor Mass.
	The Chorale welcomes David Britton, tenor. Mr. Britton is Professor of Voice at Arizona State University. He lived and worked in New York City for two decades as a professional singer and sang with most of the major symphony orchestras and opera companies in the United States. He has been tenor soloist with the Bach Aria Group since 1983. He received his music education at the University of North Texas, the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School. A complete list of David Britton's activities is available here.
	The Chorale again welcomes Donald Wilkinson, baritone. He was the baritone soloist in our 2006 Mozart program, as well as in our 2005 and 2004 concert programs. Mr. Wilkinson teaches voice at Phillips Academy Andover and maintains a private studio at his residence in Nahant, MA. Mr. Wilkinson enjoys a distinguished career in concert, opera, oratorio, recital and contemporary music, and has appeared throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has performed as soloist with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood and the Handel and Haydn Society, and other symphony orchestras in the Eastern U.S. and New England. Highly sought after for his interpretations of Bach, he has since 1984 been a soloist in Emmanuel Music's famed Bach Cantata Series, and performed in Bach festivals in Spokane, Carmel and Philadelphia. He has an impressive discography which can be seen at www.donaldwilkinson.com