Performances

Week of June 19, 2021

Chelsea Chaves, Soprano
Soprano Chelsea Chaves has performed widely and adored for her lyricism and winning stage presence. Since graduating with her master’s degree from the USC Thornton School of Music, Ms. Chaves has been featured in opera productions and concerts, including Astoria Music Festival, Musiktheater Bavaria, Opera Santa Barbara, OperaWorks, the Pacific Chorale, Pacific Symphony, Songfest, and many more. Her favorite roles include Violetta from Verdi’s La Traviata, Hanna Glawari from Lehár’s Die Lustige Witwe and Pamina from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Ms. Chaves is passionate about bringing classical music to the younger generations and is often featured with Long Beach Symphony and Pacific Symphony in their outreach pursuits. In 2018, she was a recipient of the prestigious vocal award from the Profant Foundation in Santa Barbara and was a finalist for the Loren L. Zachary Competition in 2015. She has also sung the National Anthem at two Laker games. For more information, please visit www.chelseachaves.com.

Jorge Espino, Baritone
The Mexican baritone Jorge Espino joined the Ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in the autumn 2019. Prior to that he was a member of the opera studio there for the 2018-2019 season. His repertoire in Düsseldorf/ Duisburg includes Chaim in Weinberg͛s Wir graƚƵlieren͕ Yeletzky/ Queen of Spades, Paris/ Roméo et Juliette, Sir Riccardo Forth/ I Puritani, L’horloge comtoise and Le chat/ L’enfant et les sortilèges, Marullo/ Rigoletto, Papageno/ Die Kinderzauberflöte, Perückenmacher/ Ariadne auf Naxos and Yamadori/ Madama Butterfly. Jorge graduated from the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in his native Mexico City. He continued his studies at the Academy of Vocal Arts and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. During his studies he built up a considerable repertoire with such roles as Enrico/ Lucia di Lammermoor, Manfredoͬ Monƚemenjnji L͛amore dei ƚre re͕ Albert/ Werther, Conte/ Le nozze di Figaro, Schaunard and Marcello/ La bohème, Lescaut/ Manon, Belcoreͬ L͛elisir dΖamore͕ Yeletzky/ Queen of Spades and the title roles in Eugene Onegin and Don Giovanni. In 2016, he made his professional debut at the Santa Fe Opera as Sid/ La fanciulla del West and returned there a year after as Prince Afron/ The Golden Cockerel. He became prizewinner at the Belvedere, Meistersinger, Giulio Gari, Licia Albanese, Giargiari Bel Canto, Mario Lanza, Irma Gonzalez and Carlo Morelli competitions and reached the semifinals at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019.

Cheryl Lin Fielding, Pianist
“Warm, grand, and rich..”, The New York Sun

Pianist Cheryl Lin Fielding performs throughout the world including Italy, France, Japan, and major venues such as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Recital Hall, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Juilliard Theater, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Musco Center for the Arts, and Soka Performing Arts Center.Dr. Fielding has been honored with the Grace B. Jackson Prize in Excellence by the Tanglewood Music Festival, recognized by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and three times received the distinguished Gwendolyn Koldofsky Award in Keyboard Collaborative Arts. She has had the fortune of performing with luminaries such as Carol Neblett, Milena Kitic, Angela Meade, John Osborn, Linda Watson, Dolora Zajick; and conductors/composers including Matthew Aucoin, Christian Badea, Randall Behr, John DeMain, and James Levine.  As a soloist and orchestral pianist/harpsichordist, she performed with orchestras such as Philadelphia Virtuosi, Plainfield Symphony, Trenton State Orchestra, and Opera Pacific.Fielding’s musical studies began at the age of three in Taiwan, first on the piano, later the violin. She continued through dual master’s degrees at the Juilliard School (Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano) and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the University of Southern California, with extended emphasis in Vocal performance.

Dr. Fielding has served as music director and vocal coach for Opera Chapman at the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, adjunct professor at UCLA, California State University at Northridge, Azusa Pacific University. She has adjudicated competitions such as MTAC, NATS, Spotlight Awards. She was also a pianist for Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Operalia, and the Los Angeles Opera. Dr. Fielding served as vocal coach for USC Thornton Opera, Operafestival di Roma, Opera Pacific, Opera Santa Barbara, and as the Principal Coach at Opera San Jose. She is currently on the music staff for UCLA Opera, Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices; The music director for Parnassus Society and the Executive and Artistic Director of Amaryllis Arts Productions.

For more information please visit: www.cheryllinfielding.com