Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Lindsay Barche has been a soprano soloist with the Rockefeller Chapel Choir since 2008. Since earning a bachelor's degree in Music from DePaul University in 2007, Barche been an active participant in opera nationwide. She has performed with renowned Chicago groups such as Chamber Opera Chicago and Music of the Baroque, as well as having portrayed Pamina in The Magic Flute with the Midwestern traveling group, Opera for the Young. In 2008, she was awarded both the Bella Voce and Bravo awards from the Bel Canto Foundation of Chicago. In early 2009, she had the honor of becoming a Young Artist with Sarasota Opera in Sarasota, Florida, participating in a three month intensive program studying and performing in operas and concerts. She was the acclaimed soprano soloist in the second performance of Sven-David Sandström's Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme at Rockefeller Chapel's Alumni Weekend gala concert, and also in the 2009 performance of Vaughan Williams' Mass in G Minor. Future engagements include returning to Sarasota Opera as a Young Artist in the fall and winter, as well as being in the special ensemble of Music of the Baroque's Holiday Brass and Chorale series.

Matthew Charles Dean has served as a chorister, soloist, and section leader in University of Chicago choral ensembles since 1996. A founding member of Golosá Russian Choir, Dean toured and made ethnographic recordings in Breisgau and Siberia, performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and opened at the Ravinia Festival, Metro, and Empty Bottle. At Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, he has ranged from the bass role of Jesus in the Bach St. John Passion to tenor soloist for Handel's Messiah and the world premiere of Sven-David Sandström's cantata, Wachet Auf (2009). Dean sang the title role of Carissimi's Jephte at the Chicago Humanities Festival in partnership with the Oriana Singers (2008), and has been a featured vocalist and instrumentalist with the St. Cecilia Consort, Chicago Choral Artists, and McKenna Ensemble. Dean is Associate Director for Organization Research at the University of Chicago, with a special focus on arts initiatives, and is a board member of Harran Productions Foundation, dedicated to fostering interreligious dialogue through documentary explorations of sound.

Lon Ellenberger (Doctor of Music, Northwestern University) trained with the Kantorei of Rockford, earned a B.A. in German from Beloit College, and an M.A. in Vocal Pedagogy from Northeastern Illinois University. Ellenberger teaches at the Center for Voice in the Fine Arts Building Chicago. Solo credits include extensive recital work in early Baroque music; the B Minor Mass and St. Matthew Passion with the Madison Bach Musicians; the St. John Passion and Messiah at Rockefeller Chapel; and "the Spirit" in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Chicago Opera Theater. Ellenberger has sung with the Rockefeller Chapel Choir as counter tenor soloist since 2005.

Soprano Hyun Suk Jang, a native of Seoul, Korea, graduated with a Voice Performance Certificate from DePaul University, where she also received her Master of Music degree under the instruction of Elsa Charlston and Susanne Mentzer. She has performed the roles of Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Ilia in Idomeneo, in addition to solo credits in Schubert's Mass in E flat Major, Bach's St. John Passion, Handel's Messiah, Honegger's King David, Mozart's C Minor Mass, Finzi's In Terra Pax, Rossini's Messa di Gloria, and Orff's Carmina Burana, in Chicago, Milwaukee and Italy. She also understudied Carlotta Judicelli in Phantom of the Opera, and the role of Hännchen in Opernprobe in Seoul, Korea. She has received first prizes in competitions from the Evanston Music Club, North Shore Music Club, the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition in Chicago, and Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artist Competition in Milwaukee. She has also appeared as a winner of the Chinese Fine Arts Society Competition at the Chicago's Cultural Center. Currently, she is a fifth-year member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, as well as a soprano soloist at Rockefeller Chapel since 2005.

Tenor Keith Murphy appeared recently at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel as a soloist in the Mozart Coronation Mass and also sang in and directed performances of music by Palestrina, Byrd, and Tallis. Additional choral engagements include having served as section leader and soloist with the Kalamazoo Bach Festival Chorus as well as singing professionally with the Schola Antiqua of Chicago, the Christ Church Choir of New Haven under the direction of Robert Lehman, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Trained as a composer, Murphy earned his D.M.A., M.M.A., and M.M. in Composition from Yale University and his B.A. in Music (with Honors) from the University of Chicago, studying composition with Martin Bresnick, Joseph Schwantner, Ezra Laderman, and John Eaton. His works have been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird, Opus 21, Trio Eos, the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble, and Carnatic percussion virtuoso Rohan Krishnamurthy, among many others. Murphy currently serves on the faculties of both Loyola University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and he has been a member of the Rockefeller Chapel Choir since 2007.

Ann Vikstrom has been alto soloist with the Rockefeller Chapel Choir from 1997 to 2003, and from 2005 to the present, under the direction of James Kallembach. Solo parts have included the Rachmaninoff and Gretchaninoff Vespers, Kodaly Stabat Mater, Bach Magnificat and Handel Messiah; Haydn "Lord Nelson" Mass and Mozart Coronation Mass; as well as Schubert Mass in E Flat, Walton Jubilate Deo, Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor and Chicago premieres of the Magnificat and Wachet Auf from Swedish composer, Sven David Sandström. Vikstrom has sung with Chicago's Music of the Baroque Chorus and the Grant Park Symphony Chorus. A graduate of Oberlin, she also received a Masters of Music, Voice Performance (Pi Kappa Lamda) from Northwestern University. A frequent U of C Quadrangle Club "Revels" cast member, Vikstrom created the role of Queen Hatshepsut, among other singing roles.