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The Latest News:

Christanna Rowader (left), appeared as soprano soloist with the Prescott, AZ Symphony last summer and will sing Guenevere in CAMELOT at the Hale Center in the Phoenix area soon.
•Colte Julian (right), was in Pennsylvania for the summer with the Allenberry Playhouse in PA where he sang Joseph in JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT and Jimmy in THROROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. He'll be entertaining aboard ship for the Holland Cruise Line for a year starting in September.
•André Garcia Nuthmann (far left), was a featured singer in the recent Santa Fe Opera Production of Benjamin Britten's BILLY BUDD last summer.
•Laureen Pickle (far right), is now teaching at the Uta Halee School in the northern hills of Omaha, Nebraska.
•Kelly Grant (seated left below), is singing the role of Christine in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in the present U. S. National Tour of the musical. She was recently married in Hawaii and then rejoined the tour.
•Jason Fleck (pictured right/Jason in white), was Harold Hill in THE

MUSIC MAN for the Phoenix area Arizona

Broadway Theater this last summer. He weds in November.
•Paul Betz was J. C. Squires in the same production with Jason. Paul performs in THE PRODUCERTS for Phoenix Theater in the fall.
•Jeff Stevens was Mayor Shin in the same show with Paul and Jason.
•Max Miller soloed in in a production of JUNO Off Broadway in NYC at City Center last season. He sang in Indiana at the New Harmony Theater singing Freddie in MY FAIR LADY recently.
•Judith Pannell is now working for Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
•Jen Goma won first place from the Herberger Young Artist Award last spring.
•Susan Lewis was in a Mel Brooks tour of THE PRODUCERS with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.

•Kayte Zhang (in white left), starred as Kim in a local Phoenix area production of MISS SAIGON in early summer (she

was nominated for a Zoni Award for this role). She's currently rehearsing RENT for a Scottsdale, AZ. theater to open in October.
•Ben Medina & Michelle Chin were in the supporting cast of SAIGON with Kayte.
•Lindsay Simmons (right), sang the title role in Puccini's SUOR ANGELICA and Mimi in LA BOHEME this summer in Italy.
•Rachel Velarde sang IL TABARRO & SUOR ANGELICA this summer with Lindsay.
•Miranda Crispin is a new Assistant Professor and Music Theater Director at Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
•Elizabeth Maben is new Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera Director at Southwest Baptist University in Missouri.
•Lauren Albachten graduated from from Augsburg College and works in Minnesota.
•Melissa Nelson Kuproski is the new choir director at Chandler United Methodist Church while teaching K-8 music in the Gilbert School System.
•Christine Alabado is out on the First U. S. National Tour of SPRING AWAKENING.
•Mike Tully (lower right as Papageno), is finishing his DMA at the Uni
versity of Nebraska at Lincoln and has just moved to Houston, Texas.

•Molly Jo Bessey is a brand new mother.
•Lindsey Geroux was the Fairy Godmother in the Valley Youth Theater/Herberger production of CINDERELLA in downtown Phoenix in June.
•Eddie Maldonado was the King in the same production with Lindsey.
•Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Erik Gustafson & Jen Goma spent part of their summer in Europe singing and relaxing.
•Zane Knudtson is a new father of a little girl.
•André Garcia Nuthmann sang the role of Lenski in Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN with New Mexico Opera last spring.
•Ben Soto stared as Bobby Strange in the recent ASU Lyric Opera production of URINE TOWN.
•Tara Anderson Lyons is a member of St. Paul, Minnesota's SPIRITU and she's a featured soloist on their newly released CD.

•Kwang Sun Lee Stevens just moved to the DC area with husband James.
•Ithamar Enriquez (left), is bidding farewell to his stint with The Second City company in Chicago and moving to L. A. He may be seen at the movies with John C. Reilly in (THE PROMOTION) and in a recent Discover Card commercial on TV.
•Sean Clark essayed the tenor solos in the Saint John Passion with Helmut Relling and sings with the Conadian Opera Company Ensemble in Toronto for the 2008-2009 season.
•Kate Daly is moving to Washington, DC/Northern Virginia area.
•Hannah Bentley (upper right in red & white), was in Uganda for the summer to do volunteer work for a group called AFRICAN HEARTS.
•Aaron VanderYacht has relocated to St. Louis, Missouri and will teach in the inner city in the coming year.
•Albert Faraone sang the role of Archibald in a Phoenix area production of THE SECRET GARDEN this summer.

•Christopher Johnstone was a featured soloist with the Long Beach Symphony this last summer.
•Yen-Yu Shih (right) will sing Mary in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR in a Northern California production this season.

•Michelle Martin begins her DMA studies as a teaching fellow at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut while teaching Hartt, she'lll teach at The Hartford Academy of Arts and a local Community College.
•Jeffrey Tucker (far left), will sing the roles of the Sacristan in Puccini's TOSCA and the Grand Inquisitor in Verdi's DON CARLOS with the Sarasota Opera this coming season. He just married Aya Yamakawa in Tokyo this summer.
•Rachel Policar (far right) sang at CLOC (College Light Opera Company), in Faulmouth, MA this last summer performing Kim Ravenal in SHOWBOAT, Marie in CAN-CAN, Fleta in IOLANTHE and Frederika in LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.
•Tiffany Mortensen was nominated for a ZONI Award (Arizona's version of a Toni), for her work in the original musical BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE premiered here in the Phoenix area last summer.
•Jami Templeton is living and working in LA and writing TV pilot scripts and producing and recording her own CD's. Her second was just completed recently.
•JeeHyun Kim (above right of Jeff), has been cast as Adina in a production of Donizetti's ELISIR D'AMORE to be performed in Seoul, Korea in November and December of 2008. She placed first in the Doctoral Division of the NATS competition last year.
•Karen (Schumacher) Novack is now in her 16th year of middle school music teaching in the Chigacoland area. Her son begins first grade this fall.
•Rob Stewart just sang Harold Hill in a producition of THE MUSIC MAN at the Hale Center in Gilbert, Arizona.