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 began his career as a solo cornet with the United States Coast Guard Band, a presidential band.  He has performed as a soloist in China, Turkey, Singapore, Russia, Costa Rica, Japan, Canada, Germany, Poland, Italy and Greece.

As an orchestral musician, Stoelzel was assistant principal trumpet ...

Richard began his career as a solo cornet with the United States Coast Guard Band, a presidential band.  He has performed as a soloist in China, Turkey, Singapore, Russia, Costa Rica, Japan, Canada, Germany, Poland, Italy and Greece.

As an orchestral musician, Stoelzel was assistant principal trumpet of the New Orleans Symphony and won the principal trumpet position in 1993. He was a member of the Miami City Ballet, Ballet Florida, Florida Symphonic Pops, New World Symphony, South Florida Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Des Moines Opera, Domaine Forget, and Masterworks Festival and has performed with the Detroit Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Jacksonville Symphony and Louisville Symphony.  Richard is currently the principal trumpet of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra and a frequent performer with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Stoelzel is the founder, first trumpet and director of the highly acclaimed Avatar Brass. He was also a founding member of the New World Brass and has performed and toured with the Michigan Chamber Brass and the Grammy-winning Chestnut Brass. In addition to his live performances, Richard has recorded over 20 CDs with groups such as the Avatar Brass, Louisville Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony (PBS Broadcast), New Orleans Symphony, Asaph Orchestra, US Coast Guard Band, and Dallas Wind Symphony. His first solo recording, BORN TO BE MILD, was released on the prestigious Albany record label to critical acclaim, as was his latest solo CD recorded in 2018 with the Polish Camerata Chamber Orchestra.

As a pedagogue, Stoelzel was on the Artist Faculty at the HARID Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida, a Professor of Trumpet at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, and is currently a Professor of Trumpet at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

His students have consistently won numerous national and international awards. For example, under his direction, the GVSU Trumpet ensemble placed 1st in 2006 and 2008 at the National Trumpet Competition in Fairfax, Virginia. They also hold positions in various orchestras, military bands, and professional chamber ensembles, such as Pershing’s Own Army Band, the President’s Own Marine Band, Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Xalapa Symphony, Canadian Brass, Atlantic Brass, Burning River Brass, and Proteus 7 – and have performed in the popular rock groups “Pink Martini” and “Absolute,” as well as the Broadway hits “Annie,” “Wicked” and “Hairspray.”

Stoelzel has commissioned over 40 new works for trumpet and brass quintet by composers such as Eric Ewazen, James Stephenson, Arthur Weisberg, Robert Buckley, Erik Morales, Sean O’Loughlin, Frank Horvat, and Robert Bradshaw.

Richard is also an accomplished conductor. He was the principal pops conductor for the HARID Conservatory and the music director of the Florida Wind Symphony. He is currently the conductor and music director of the Lakeshore Concert Band in Montreal, Quebec. He was also a recent guest soloist and conductor with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra Brass.

Stoelzel was the co-founder and artistic director of the GVSU International Summer Trumpet Seminar, which ran from 2005 to 2014. He is currently the co-founder and president of the World Trumpet Society and a Yamaha International Performing Artist.