Mezzo Soprano Kay Weber (fondly known as Katie) has been described as a dynamic and moving performer, with a commitment to text, musicality, and communication through music. “Weber possesses a formidable instrument, with a highly melodious but penetrating timbre.”

Kay made her Off-Broadway Debut in Sweetee A ...

Mezzo Soprano Kay Weber (fondly known as Katie) has been described as a dynamic and moving performer, with a commitment to text, musicality, and communication through music. “Weber possesses a formidable instrument, with a highly melodious but penetrating timbre.”

Kay made her Off-Broadway Debut in Sweetee A New Musical directed by Emmy Award Winner Pat Birch at the Signature Theater at Pershing Square Theater Complex. Other Off-Off Broadway productions include Icons/Idols at Opera America and the New Ohio Theater (dir. Colette Roberts), and Henry Box Brown and The Dizzy Gillespie Theater (dir. Mehr Mansuri).

Staged readings include: Kerrigan and Lowdermilk’s Republic, Stephanie Sandberg’s Mezzo, Helen Banner/Grace Oberhofer’s Tetrology Icon’s/Idols, Brad Ross’ Michael Strogoff, Grace Oberhofer’s A Doll’s House: A New Opera at The Tank Theater as Dr. Rank, and a second production of A Doll’s House at Central Square Theater in Boston as Christine Lindt.

She performed as Dorabella in scenes from Cosi fan tutte for a short film directed by Dara Melina in The Plaiedes Product inaugural project.

A versatile performer, Steven Stull has lived and performed in Ithaca since 1986 and appears regularly in the area with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Society for New Music, Arts at Grace, and Triphammer Arts. He has been a soloist in sixty performances with Symphoria and Syracuse Symphony including nine ...

A versatile performer, Steven Stull has lived and performed in Ithaca since 1986 and appears regularly in the area with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Society for New Music, Arts at Grace, and Triphammer Arts. He has been a soloist in sixty performances with Symphoria and Syracuse Symphony including nine productions with the Syracuse Opera. A frequent performer with the Rochester Philharmonic, he performed with RPO as Sherlock Holmes in 2019 and in seven concerts in 2018, narrating and singing a variety of pieces including Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait, and the Dr. Seuss stories, The Sneetches and Gerald McBoing Boing. Mr. Stull has been a soloist in nearly eighty performances with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and can be heard in their recordings Home for the Holidays and Tales from the West Virginia Hills. His other recordings include Boyz in the Wood with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, The Pulse of an Irishman, Opera Cowpokes, and Christmas from the Heart of New York. Steven has appeared with Glimmerglass Opera, Tri-Cities Opera, Artpark, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Kyrgyz State Opera, Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, Oswego Opera, Anchorage Festival of Music, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Ithaca, Erie Philharmonic, Erie Chamber Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, and Fredonia Bach and Beyond Festival. Recent and upcoming performances include soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Bonhoeffer in Hugh McElyea’s Tenebrae: The Passion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, and Frank Baum in the new opera Pushed Aside by Persis Vehar. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory, Steven is also an actor, producer, director, composer, painter and photographer. Since 1990 Steven and choreographer Jeanne Goddard have presented an eclectic series of music and dance performances on the CRS Growers organic vegetable farm overlooking Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, NY. His numerous recordings are available from operacowpokes.com

Richard Stoelzel is a distinguished musician with a diverse, accomplished career as both a trumpeter and conductor. Currently the Artistic and Music Director of The Florida Philharmonic, Maestro Stoelzel has held numerous prestigious conducting positions. He was the Principal Pops Conductor at the HARID Conservatory Orchestra, founder, and director ...

Richard Stoelzel is a distinguished musician with a diverse, accomplished career as both a trumpeter and conductor. Currently the Artistic and Music Director of The Florida Philharmonic, Maestro Stoelzel has held numerous prestigious conducting positions. He was the Principal Pops Conductor at the HARID Conservatory Orchestra, founder, and director of the Florida Wind Symphony, and Artistic and Music Director of the Lakeshore Concert Band in Montreal, Quebec. Most recently, Maestro Stoelzel conducted the Syracuse Orchestra in New York. His conducting experience also extends throughout Europe and Asia.

Maestro Stoelzel began his career as Solo Cornet with the United States Coast Guard Band, one of the premier U.S. military ensembles. He has performed with several prominent ensembles including the Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans Symphony Orchestras, the Miami City Ballet Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic, and the Syracuse Orchestra. He currently holds the position of Principal Trumpet with the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra.

As a founding member of both Trio Paradiso and the Avatar Brass Quintet, Stoelzel has made significant contributions to chamber music with over 20 solo, chamber, and orchestra recordings. In addition to his performance career, he is a dedicated educator, currently serving as Professor of Trumpet and Brass Area Chair at McGill University. Maestro Stoelzel is also President of the World Trumpet Society as well as a Yamaha International Soloist.