Tenor Eric Dudley leads a diverse musical career in New York City as a vocalist, conductor, pianist and composer. He appears as a choral artist and soloist with numerous ensembles in the city and nationwide, including Early Music/New York, New York Virtuoso Singers, Musica Sacra, the Collegiate Chorale and Seraphic Fire. For three seasons he has performed in the opera chorus at Bard Summerscape, and for his Lincoln Center vocal debut in 2009, he sang the role of Lennsmor in the U.S. concert premiere of D’Indy’s Fervaal with the American Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of the acclaimed choir of Trinity Wall Street Church in lower Manhattan, where he also serves as assistant and frequent guest conductor for the Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra’s weekly “Bach at One” concert series. He studied composition and orchestral conducting at the Eastman School of Music, Yale University, and at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, and served as assistant conductor for both the Cincinnati and Princeton symphony orchestras. His guest conducting engagements have included a tour to Finland and a series of recordings with the International Contemporary Ensemble and new works presentations with Arcko Symphonic Project in Melbourne, Australia. This season will bring him to the stages of Carnegie Hall and Symphony Space with two of New York’s top youth orchestras, and he returns to Australia to conduct the premiere of David Chisholm’s Kursk: an Oratorio-Requiem on the 2011 Melbourne International Arts Festival. He has performed as pianist and accompanist on numerous concert series with members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York, and his compositions have received premieres by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Quey Percussion Duo, Esterhàzy Trio, and Roomful of Teeth. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School and his Master’s and Doctorate degrees from Yale, where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Prize.

Alto Virginia Warnken received her undergraduate degree from the Manhattan School Of Music. She has performed regularly with renowned early music groups such as Vox Vocal Ensemble, Clarion Music Society, Musica Sacra, Trinity Wall Street Choir, and others. Virginia also has a profound passion for solo work, and has recently appeared at Carnegie Hall as the alto soloist in JS Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Oratorio Society of New York, and previously as the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah. Ms. Warnken will return to Carnegie Hall next season to sing the Soprano II solos in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor. She has also appeared as a soloist and chorister in Rose Hall/Jazz at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Miller Theater, St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Mary the Virgin, St. John the Divine, and Trinity Wall Street, among others. In addition to performing music Medieval to Baroque, Virginia is also an advocate for Contemporary Music, and has performed with ensembles like So Percussion, Antisocial Music, Yes is a World, and the Tactus Contemporary Ensemble, and has premiered works by many prominent composers, namely Steve Reich, John Zorn, Martin Bresnick, Caleb Burhans, and others. Her 2007 performance of Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” with the Tactus Ensemble was given a rave review by Steve Smith of the NY Times, “Virginia Warnken executed lines with exacting diction and riveting presence.”

Soprano Martha Cluver has been hailed by the New York Times for her “sweet, pure” and “soulful soprano” voice. Focusing on contemporary music, Cluver performs frequently with the ensembles Alarm Will Sound, Signal, SEM, So Percussion and the Vox Vocal Ensemble. She has performed numerous works by composer Steve Reich under the direction of Brad Lubman, David Robertson and Alan Pierson. Cluver traveled to the Czech Republic in the summer of 2007 for the Ostrava Days New Music Festival, where she performed Neither by Morton Feldman, with conductor Peter Rundel and the Janáček Philharmonic. Cluver has since then returned to the Czech Republic, where she performed the demanding soprano role in George Benjamin’s opera Into the Little Hill with Prague Modern. In September of 2009, she will be premiering the new opera La Douce by Emmanuel Nunes with Rundel and the Remix Ensemble in Porto, Portugal. As a chamber musician, Cluver has premiered works by John Zorn, O&A, Caleb Burhans, Nico Muhly and Brad Lubman. She sings regularly with the Vox Vocal Ensemble, Antioch, and the Choir of TrinityWall Street, and has performed under choral directors such as Andrew Megill, Owen Burdick, Stefan Parkman and Simon Carrington. Cluver’s discography includes Nonesuch, Sweet Spot DVD, Cantaloupe, and Tzadik. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Eastman School of Music in viola performance.

Praised for her “nimble voice” and “artistry that belies [her] young years,” Estelí Gomez enjoys a varied career of solo and ensemble singing throughout North America. Having graduated from Yale College in 2008, she recently finished her Master’s in early music voice at McGill in Montreal, studying with Sanford Sylvan. Last year Estelí performed the title role in Handel’s Agrippina with Opera McGill, and recorded a CD of Spanish Baroque music with Montreal-based Ensemble Caprice, which was nominated for a JUNO in the category of Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance. Estelí has recently performed with Roomful of Teeth, Trinity Wall Street, Clarion Music Society, Conspirare, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Musica Vocale, the Simon Carrington Chamber Singers, Ensemble Caprice, La Nef, Bernard Labadie’s Violons du Roy, and Daniel Taylor’s Theater of Early Music. Upcoming engagements include soprano soloist in Bach’s B minor Mass with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Roomful of Teeth’s annual residency at Mass MoCA in the Berkshires, and concerts with Miami-based chamber ensemble Seraphic Fire.

Bass-baritone Dashon Burton is a native of Bronx, NY. Praised for his “nobility and rich tone,” (New York Times) and hailed as “excellent,” (Akron Beacon Journal) and “robust,” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) he is active in a wide range of repertoire and feels privileged to have worked with artists and ensembles all across the U.S. as well as in Cameroon, Canada, Italy and Germany. Recent collaborations include Pierre Boulez, Masaaki Suzuki and Steven Smith. He began his professional studies at Case Western Reserve University and graduated from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Immediately upon graduation, he was invited to join Cantus, a professional men’s classical vocal ensemble based in Minneapolis. The nine member ensemble travels across the United States performing concerts, teaching clinics about ensemble singing to students of all ages, and collaborating with renowned organizations and artists including the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Boston Pops, James Sewell Ballet and Bobby McFerrin. He appears on albums recorded with the ensemble, including the eponymous album, “Cantus,” which was singled out by National Public Radio as a top ten recording of 2007. After completing his tenure with Cantus in 2009, Dashon completed his Master of Music at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music, studying voice with Professor James Taylor. His solo repertoire includes such diverse works as Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Jesus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Superintendent Bud in Britten’s opera Albert Herring, and Ned Rorem’s song cycle, War Scenes. For more information, please visit www.dashonburton.com.

Cameron Beauchamp, bass, is in demand throughout the country as a soloist and chamber musician. Currently living in Austin, he regularly sings with Conspirare, Boston’s Blue Heron, Miami’s Seraphic Fire, New York’s Roomful of Teeth, Atlanta’s New Trinity Baroque, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and is co-director of the Austin based Convergence Vocal Ensemble. Cameron has been an artist in residence at Stanford University, the University of Utah, the University of North Texas, Williams College, College of the Holy Cross, Harvard University, the University of Oregon, Principia College and Mass MoCA. Cameron has recorded on Harmonia Mundi, Pro Organo, GIA, Edition Lilac, Klavier and PBS. He has performed on two Grammy nominated albums and one downbeat award winning album. Cameron received his musical training at the University of North Texas, where he studied voice and jazz trombone.

Avery Griffin is a baritone, composer, and music educator working extensively in New England, New York, and New Jersey. He has worked with/under a wide variety of musicians and other artists including conductors Simon Carrington, Andrew Parrot, and Jane Glover, composers Joseph Maneri, Ezra Sims, and Toby Twining and choreographer Mark Morris. He has participated in several distinguished concert series and festivals including the Spoleto USA and Mostly Mozart Festivals in the United States and the Golden Mask Festival in Moscow. Most of Avery’s work as a choral musician is centered around the St. Thomas Church Choir of Men and Boys at 5th Avenue in Manhattan under the direction of maestro John Scott. Avery is, however, primarily a passionate advocate of new music and has performed works by living composers ranging from IRCAM great Pascale Criton. In addition to Roomful of Teeth Avery is also a charter member of NotaRiotous, the chamber ensemble of the Boston Microtonal Society, and a new member Toby Twining Music, promoting the music of Toby Twining.