Guest Artist Bios
Yuletide Spectacular Performers
Alan Anderson
Alan Anderson returns for the fifth year to perform in Yuletide Spectacular. In Portland he has performed in Candide with the Portland Opera; Where’s Charlie?, Hello, Dolly! (Drammy Award), The Most Happy Fella, The Spitfire Grill, Fiddler on the Roof, Ernest in Love and Brigadoon at Lakewood Theatre Company; Paint Your Wagon, A Chorus Line and She Loves Me with the Musical Theatre Company; Forever Plaid, The Will Rogers Follies and The World Goes ‘Round at The Broadway Rose Theatre Company. His favorite Los Angeles roles include Tony in West Side Story, Frederick in Pirates of Penzance and Lt. Cable in South Pacific.
Cynthia Boelling
Cynthia Boelling is thrilled to be back for another season of Yuletide fun. She is member of the Portland Opera Chorus and performs throughout the Portland area. She and her husband John organize the summer music program at First Unitarian Church and sing in the summer quartet. They truly enjoy every opportunity to team-up on stage and have a wonderful time working together on this production.
John Boelling
John Boelling is proud to return for his fifth season with Yuletide Spectacular. A native Oregonian, he sings throughout the region as a recitalist, concert, and opera performer. Oratorio credits include the Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion with Portland’s Choral Arts Ensemble and the “Messiah” and “Jesus on the Mt. of Olives” with Bravo! Vancouver. He has performed the role of Gherardo in Opera Theater of Oregon’s Gianni Schicchi and Dr. Blind in Eugene Opera’s Die Fledermaus. Boelling teaches voice at Willamette University and the University of Portland and is a member of the Portland Opera Chorus.
Andrea Compton Sanchez
Andrea Compton Sanchez is pleased to participate for a fifth year with the Oregon Symphony in their annual Yuletide Spectacular. She is a native Oregonian who received her bachelor of arts in music performance from Linfield College. She is the mezzo-section leader of the critically-acclaimed Portland Opera Chorus and has performed in over 55 productions with this group. Highlights of her solo engagements with Portland Opera include the roles of Mao’s Third Secretary in Nixon in China, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (1996 and 2005 productions) and Sister St. Charles in the Dialogues of the Carmelites. She recently made her debut with the Willamette Concert Opera as Baba in Menotti’s The Medium.
Anne-Marie Endres
Anne-Marie Endres is pleased to be back with the Oregon Symphony in Yuletide Spectacular. A versatile performing artist with credits ranging from theatre and television to opera, she is a past winner of the Metropolitan Opera District Competition and for several years was a featured singer on Costa and Celebrity Cruiselines. Locally she has performed with Portland Opera (Mrs. Hildebrand, Street Scene), and Lakewood Theatre (Rosabella, Most Happy Fella;Mrs. Molloy, Hello Dolly). She can now add conducting to her list of credits as she is the music director for ViVoce Women’s Ensemble, a Portland Revels affiliate choir.
Erik Hundtoft
Erik Hundtoft’s appearances include work with Opera Theater Corvallis, Opera Theater Oregon, Portland Summerfest, Obsidian Opera, Idaho Falls Opera, Rogue Opera, Portland Opera, St. Mary’s Cathedral, The Willamette Master Chorus, Capella Romana, OSU, and PSU. His roles include Danilo from The Merry Widow, Count Almaviva from The Marriage of Figaro, Peter from Hansel and Gretel, Don Giovanni, Sid from Albert Herring, and Dandini from La Cenerentola. In January he will appear as Figaro in Obsidian Opera’s production of The Barber of Seville in Bend.
Scott Ingham
Scott Ingham has been present in the Corvallis and Albany acting scenes for several years. He has played such roles as the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance, the Dentist in Lil Shop of Horrors, Rocky in Damn Yankees, the Wolf in Into the Woods, and Eddy in the Rocky Horror Show. Ingham was most recently Jabez Stone in Oregon State University's production of The Devil and Daniel Webster. Ingham regularly participates in OSU's opera workshop. He has studied with Linda Brice and currently studies vocal performance with Richard Poppino at OSU and is the bass section leader of OSU's Chamber Choir.
David Maier
Dave Maier’s performance career includes extensive credits as a concert soloist, as well as conventional and musical theatre. Last summer he appeared as Trickyass in Classic Greek Theatre’s production of Aristophanes’s Peace. Other roles include Il Contino Belfiore in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera, and Nencio in Haydn’s L’infedelá Delusa, Nanki Poo in The Mikado, Frederick in Pirates of Penzance, Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore, Him in Gifts of the Magi, Ottokar in The Gypsy Baron, and Sid in Desert Song. Upcoming engagements: Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion with Bravo! Vancouver and Roland the Minstrel Pig with Oregon Chamber Players.
Wendy Parker
Wendy Parker has appeared as a concert soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C, Bach’s Magnificat, Handel's Messiah, Bach’s Wedding Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass among others. She began her operatic career as a soprano, singing the roles ofLady Billows in Albert Herring, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and later developed into a mezzo-soprano. Her musical theater roles include Maria in West Side Story, Josephine in HMS Pinafore, and Rapunzel in Into the Woods. Next winter she will headline the Opera Theater of Oregon’s Orpheus Trilogy as Orpheus. Parker completed her M.M. at San Francisco Conservatory, and trained at the American Institute for Musical Studies in Austria, as well as the highly selective OperaWorks program in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Portland Opera Chorus and a voice instructor at the University of Portland.
Carrie Rambo
Carrie Rambo’s recent performances with the Portland Opera Chorus
include Manon, La Favorita, Eugene Onegin, The Flying Dutchman, Carmen,
The Merchant of Venice, Don Carlos, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, Pagliacci,
Carmina Burana and The Magic Flute. She also sang as house
soprano at the Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel in Interlaken, Switzerland;
Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 accompanied by eight cellos
(“Cellodarity”) at the Doug Fir Lounge; sang with longtime Portland
13-piece big band, The Natural Gas Company; and sang “Happy Birthday” to
Portland jazz great, (the late) trombonist Cleve Williams at Wilf’s.
Anne McKee Reed
Anne McKee Reed is a regular among the Portland-area performing arts scene in addition to teaching on the voice faculty at Linfield College and Pacific University. She was most recently seen as Alice in Staged!’s The Secret Garden, First Spirit in Portland Opera’s The Magic Flute and Rose Maybud in Ruddigore with Mock’s Crest Productions. Reed earned her Master of Music from Portland State University. Other recent performances include The Melody Lingers On with Broadway Rose, Street Scene with Portland Opera, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Plus Coeur d’Alene, HMS Pinafore with Mock’s Crest, Falstaff at the Astoria Music Festival and The Merry Widow with Obsidian Opera.
Doug Zimmerman
Doug Zimmerman is thrilled to be returning with the Oregon Symphony. Recently, he was seen in The Secret Garden with Staged! Productions and Grease with Stumptown Stages. Zimmerman has performed with the Oregon Symphony in the past including three years with the Leyden Singers. Other theater credits include: Lakewood Theater, Mocks Crest, Broadway Rose, Musical Theater Company, and the Western Stage in Central California. Zimmerman works as the Promotions Director for the nationally syndicated TV program “Better TV”. Thank you Anne and Vivienne for this wonderful opportunity and including me in this holiday tradition. Love to my mom and wonderful family.
Isabelle Berry
Isabelle Berry is new to the stage and this is her first time being in any play. She is following her younger sister, Lilly, into the spotlight and is very excited. Isabelle is a Lacrosse scoring machine, a great windsurfer and a great person to be around.
Lilly Berry
Lilly Berry, age 10, has interests in soccer, piano, writing, singing, and acting. This is her second year performing in Yuletide Spectacular, and this year she is accompanied by her older sister, Isabelle. Lilly has also been in Charlotte’s Web at the Keller Auditorium, The Secret Garden at the Winningstad Theatre, and many other plays. Along with just getting up there and making the audience happy, to Lilly, having fun is all she asks for.
Michael James Cline
Michael is 9 years old and is a third grader in Southwest Portland. He discovered his love of acting when he played Henry Huggins in a Multnomah Arts Center production of Henry and Ramona. He has studied acting with Sarah Kennedy Adams, acrobatics with the Westside Gymnastics Acro Team, and dance with Bodyvox. In addition to acting, he enjoys soccer, basketball, football, gymnastics, video games, reading, listening to music, telling funny stories and playing with his friends.
Michael Mazzola
Three-time New York Dance and Performance Award winner Michael Mazzola has designed lighting most recently for the San Francisco Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, the Bebe Miller Company, David Parsons Dance Company, Stuttgart Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and Easai Pharmaceutical Company.
Elicia Cárdenas
Elicia Cárdenas returns for her fifth holiday season with the Oregon Symphony. She has worked in stage management for the Sarasota Opera, Syracuse Opera, Portland Opera, Oregon Ballet Theatre and Oregon Children's Theatre. Cárdenas is currently a part-time stage manager, a part-time bicycle and pedestrian safety teacher for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, and works part-time for Alta Planning + Design, a bicycle, pedestrian, and trail design firm. She holds a degree in stage management from Boston University.
Margaret Chapman
Margaret Chapman holds a bachelor’s degree in theater arts/speech and a master’s degree in theater arts from Portland State University. She is currently resident costumer and instructor for Portland Community College and resident costumer for Oregon Children’s Theater Company. Her recent awards include a Drammie for her 2003-2004 season design of The Women for Triangle Productions! and an OTAS award for her 2005-2006 season design of Ragtime, the Musical. She is past president of the Portland Civic Theatre Guild.
Kira Lombardozzi
Kira Lombardozzi is delighted to return to Yuletide Spectacular for a third year. A Montana native, Lombardozzi moved to the northwest to earn her B.A. in Theatre Arts from Gonzaga University. During her eight years in Portland, she has stage managed for Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Westside Dance Academy, BodyVox, Portland Center Stage, The Haven Project and Portland Symphonic Girlchoir. She has also worked on projects at Valley Catholic School, PICA, Artist’s Repertory Theatre and the Bus Project. She is a Company Member of 2Boards Productions and currently works at Oregon Children’s Theatre as the Education/Production Program Assistant.
Carol Lucas
Carol Lucas is an alumna of the Eastman School of Music, and served as Chorus Master/Assistant Conductor for the Portland Opera from 1990 until 2005. In that capacity, she conducted several mainstage productions, Cosi fan Tutte and Lucia di Lammermoor. In addition to her work in Portland, Lucas has been recognized for her musical associations with Wolf Trap, Des Moines, Lake George and Long Beach Opera Companies. She served as Music Director of the Boston University Opera Dept. from 1986 –1990. In 1997, she spent the summer as Director of the Young Artists’ Program at Glimmerglass, and has returned subsequently to coach. Over the years, she has been a participant in the Bel Canto and International Vocal Arts Institute programs here in Portland. Last February, she prepared the singers for the Oregon Symphony’s “The Seven Deadly Sins.”
Dance West
Dance West is an outstanding company comprised of 23 dancers whose commitment to a professional approach to training has brought them worldwide attention. Housed at the Arts & Communication Magnet Academy in the Beaverton School District, the company tours annually throughout the Northwest, and has delighted audiences in Canada, Japan and Korea. Look for them at their 2008 year-end concert April 10-12 at the Sylvania Performing Arts Center. Julane Stites has been a dedicated dance educator in the Northwest for over twenty-five years. A former company director of the Jefferson Dancers, Stites was featured at the age of 12 with the Bolshoi Ballet, and later went on to Broadway in original-cast roles of The Happy Time and Promises, Promises. Her credits also include appearances on the David Frost Show, Saturday Night Live and The Ed Sullivan Show. She has choreographed for Knott’s Berry Farm, Disneyland, Columbia Sportswear and Macy’s.
- Julane Stites, Artistic Director
- Choreography: Julane Stites and Terry Brock
- Breanne Ault
- Ariana Bird
- Chenise Crockett
- Erica Dawson
- Kylie DeHaven
- Alison Dorf
- Madeleine Engen
- Aubre Gilbert
- Chase Hamilton
- Gabriela Husted
- Nick Katen
- Ross Katen
- Michael Lee
- Caroline MacDonald
- Alisha Noles
- Mariel Peralta
- Andres Peraza
- Helana Seamons
- Brittany Self
- Blake Teague
- Sonali Venkatachalam
- Elinore Webb