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Curtis Storm

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Curtis Storm is a regular soloist and collaborative musician throughout the Southwest United States. In October 2015, he was the featured tenor soloist for the world premiere of the American Choral Association’s Alice Parker Award-winning Requiem for Eagles by David Lingle, which was later reprised for his debut with the San Juan Symphony in October 2017.

In 2019, he performed in Ensemble Music New Mexico’s performance of the Bach Easter Oratorio, as the tenor soloist for Red Rock String’s performance of Handel’s Messiah, and The St. John’s Bach Project performance of Bach’s Coffee Cantata. In January, he returned to The St. John’s Bach Project for their performance of Cantata 106, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit.

He also joined Quintessence Choral Artists of the Southwest as a staff singer for their 2019/2020 season and will be performing with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico in their productions of Haydn’s Creation this April and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony this December. Additionally, he has also performed with Opera Southwest in their productions of Guillaume Tell, Norma, and in October 2019 covered the role of Thamar in Giovanni Bottesini’s Alì Babà, its first production in 150 years.

As a graduate voice performance student at the University of New Mexico, Mr. Storm has performed in many of UNM Opera’s productions, including The Turn of the Screw, the workshop premiere of Nell Shaw Cohen’s Mabel’s Call, and as Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance in which his voice was described by the New Mexico Review of the Arts as “sonorous.” He will also sing the role of Ferrando in Così fan tutte at UNM in February and March 2020. Mr. Storm also has nearly a decade of experience as a music director in public schools and churches, and as private voice teacher.

Curtis is a student of Dr. Michael Hix and Dr. Kristin Ditlow.

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FIRST VIOLIN
Carmelo de los Santos
Karen McKinnon Concertmaster Chair
Sarah Tasker •••
Assistant Concertmaster
Ana María Quintero Muñoz
Heidi Deifel 
Olivia DeSouza
Maia Lorenzo Gallegos
Juliana Huestis
Barbara Rivers
Nicolle Maniaci
Barbara Scalf Morris

SECOND VIOLIN
Rachel Jacklin •
Carol Swift •••
Julanie Lee
Lidija Peno-Kelly
Megan Lee Karls
Liana Austin
Sheila McLay
Jessica Retana
Jocelyn Kirsch

Brad Richards

VIOLA
Laura Chang
Kimberly Fredenburgh •••
Allegra Askew
Christine Rancier
Laura Steiner
Michael Anderson
Lisa DiCarlo
Joan Hinterbichler
Laura Campbell

CELLO
Amy Huzjak
Carla Lehmeier-Tatum
Ian Mayne-Brody
Dana Winograd
David Schepps
Lisa Collins
Elizabeth Purvis

BASS
Joe Weldon Ferris •
Mark Tatum •••

Katherine Olszowka
Terry Pruitt
Marco Retana
Frank Murry

FLUTE
Valerie Potter
Esther Fredrickson
Noah Livingston ••

PICCOLO
Esther Fredrickson

OBOE
Kevin Vigneau
Amanda Talley

ENGLISH HORN
Melissa Peña ••

CLARINET
Marianne Shifrin
Lori Lovato •••
Jeffrey Brooks

E-FLAT CLARINET
Lori Lovato

BASS CLARINET
Jeffrey Brooks

BASSOON
Stefanie Przybylska •+
Denise Turner +
Zoe SirLouis •++
Avery Dabe ++

HORN
Peter Erb •+
Allison Tutton
Maria Long
Andrew Meyers
Katya Jarmulowicz ••••

TRUMPET
John Marchiando
Brynn Marchiando
Sam Oatts ••

TROMBONE
Aaron Zalkind
Byron Herrington

BASS TROMBONE
David Tall +

TUBA
Richard White

PERCUSSION
Jeff Cornelius
Kenneth Dean
Emily Cornelius

HARP
Carla Fabris •

Principal •
Associate Principal ••
Assistant Principal •••
Assistant ••••
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