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About the Featured Artists

Yulia Van Doren has thoughtfully cultivated a unique career as one of the foremost concert singers of her generation. Particularly recognized for her work in baroque repertoire, Ms. Van Doren has been presented as a guest artist by a majority of the premiere North American orchestras and festivals and is featured on two Grammy-nominated opera recordings with the Boston Early Music Festival.

She has sung leading roles in a variety of diverse repertoire, including the world premiere of Shostakovich’s Orango with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, directed by Peter Sellars and released on Deutsche Grammophon; the modern revival of Monsigny’s Le roi et le fermier at Opera de Versailles, the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center; Alessandro Scarlatti’s rarely-performed opera Tigrane at Opera de Nice; Monteverdi concerts in Venice with Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Handel’s Acis and Galatea in Macau with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and at the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam; eclectic 20th-century repertoire as the featured soprano of the 2013 Ojai Music Festival; several world premieres at Carnegie Hall; and nationally-televised performances at the Cartagena International Music Festival with soprano Dawn Upshaw, a cherished career mentor. She has been a soloist for choreographer Mark Morris since 2007, singing many national and international performances with his dance company.

Ms. Van Doren’s graduate degree was generously supported by a PD Soros Fellowship, postgraduate study in Paris by a Beebe Fellowship, and she is an Astral Artist laureate. Yulia is also the founder of a holistic wellness brand that is an innovator in its genre, and author of three books that are award-winning international bestsellers, with over a quarter-million copies sold in eight translations. She is currently developing a project related the intersection of music, science, and holistic healing.

Soprano Martha Guth’s operatic performances include the Santa Fe Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, the Grazer Oper, in Austria, Opera Lyra in Ottawa, Canada and Palma de Mallorca, Spain. In recital she has performed at the Wigmore Hall and the Leeds Lieder Festival with Graham Johnson at the piano, the Vancouver International Song Institute and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival with Erika Switzer, a world premiere at Lincoln Center, the Liederkranz with Pianist Dalton Baldwin, and an all Britten recital with Pianist Malcolm Martineau in NYC. Her recitals have been recorded and broadcast for the CBC Radio/Radio Canada, the BBC Radio in the U.K and the WDR in Germany. Other performances include St. John’s Smith Square in London, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Voices of Ascension in NYC, The National Cathedral, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Aldeburgh Connection in Toronto, and both Claveçin en Concert and the André Turp society in Montreal. She is proud to have worked under the batons of Maestro’s Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano, Helmut Rilling, John Nelson and Richard Bradshaw, and Alan Gilbert among many others.

Her discography includes a solo disc of Schubert songs with Penelope Crawford on forte piano, Roberto Sierra’s Beyond the Silence of Sorrow with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Puerto Rico for Naxos and nominated for a 2016 Latin GRAMMY, John Fitz-Roger’s Magna Mysteria for the Innova label, Songs of Andrew Staniland with Baritone Tyler Duncan Pianist Erika Switzer in Go by Contraries released on Centre Discs, The Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes for Sparks & Co., and The First Five Boroughs Song Book for GVR records.

With pianist and friend Erika Switzer, she is the Co-Director of Sparks & Wiry Cries, a global platform dedicated to art song spanning publication, live performance, and commission of new works. Sparks is the force behind the popular regional songSLAM’s that are presented in partnership with other small art song orgs. and presents its own songSLAM Festival every January in NYC. Martha Lives and works in Ithaca, NY where she is Assistant Professor of Voice at Ithaca College. She is on faculty at Songfest in L.A. and is a teacher and performer with many of the national training programs that celebrate song.

Praised for his “lovely, nuanced tenor” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), First Prize winner in the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, Daniel McGrew is an active performer of a broad range of repertoires spanning opera, musical theatre, early, and new musics. Deeply committed to the Art of Song, he has appeared in concert with Brooklyn Art Song Society, New York Festival of Song, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and the University Musical Society, where he joined Martin Katz and three other singers for two recitals comprising the complete Mörike Songs of Hugo Wolf.

Recent highlights include both his NYC recital debut at Merkin Hall and his Washington, DC recital debut at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre. He has appeared at Tanglewood music institute in George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence and in the role of François in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place and participated in their annual Festival of Contemporary Music with a performance of Kurtág’s “Three Ancient Inscriptions” that The Boston Globe, called “viciously beautiful”.

Daniel has recently performed the tenor solo in Handel’s Messiah in performances with the ProMusic Chamber Orchestra (Columbus, OH) and Music Worcester (Worcester, MA) and in Mozart’s Requiem with the American Chamber Orchestra. An early music specialist, Daniel has performed Bach with conductors including Matthew Halls, John Harbison, David Hill, and Masaaki Suzuki and Anthony Newman. Beyond the classical repertory, he has participated in concerts including the symphonic premier of James Lapine’s Sondheim on Sondheim with the Boston Pops Orchestra and David Loud’s Sondheim revue, A Good Thing Going.

Daniel holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Yale University; he recently completed his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan.

The Capital University Chapel Choir, established in 1929, is renowned for its Lutheran choral tradition and national and international acclaim as a premier collegiate choral ensemble. Under the direction of Dr. Lynda Hasseler, the Chapel Choir is known for their performance of a broad and inclusive range of choral literature, flexible and expressive choral tone, and commitment to storytelling with song. Invited to prestigious conferences and competitions worldwide, the choir has garnered recognition and accolades, including a world premiere at the American Choral Directors Association National Conference, winning gold medals at the World Choir Games, the 2018 American Prize for the Performance of American Music and frequent collaborations with renowned composers and conductors. The choir’s extensive touring history has fostered cultural connections across continents, promoting the transformative power of music, most recently in the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain.