About the Artist

   

Christopher Mohr                                                            

   Born November 7, 1953, self-taught composer Christopher Mohr wrote his first piece at age 10, completed a Mass at age 12, and composed a a full-length oratorio at age 17.  At 26, he published a book of original piano music. Numerous chamber pieces and a cantata for his own wedding are among his other works.  His musicals Ducktails and Bobbysox and Orphans in Candyland were published by Pioneer Drama Service and have been performed in all 50 states in the U.S., all ten Canadian provinces, and dozens of countries worldwide.

      His LP recording, August Light, was released in 1987 and played on dozens of classical radio stations.  He has conducted excerpts of  From The Realm Of The Shadow on several occasions, including a warmly praised Colorado Symphony Orchestra concert in 1991.

     Mr. Mohr also edited and co-published On The Air Magazine, a monthly publication for classical radio listeners, from 1989-1997. He has hosted classical music radio programs, including an opera program, since 1982.

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     Conductor Theodore Kuchar was one of the world's most-recorded conductors of the 1990s. He was appointed Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in 1994, and is now Conductor Laureate for Life. In 1990, he became the Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, an annual event regarded as the continent's leading music festival. He also serves as Music Director and principal Conductor of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and Professor and Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1996.

     In 1998-2000, Maestro Kuchar made his conducting debuts in major centers including Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Prague and Sydney. His immense discography, numbering over four-dozen compact discs for the Naxos and Marco Polo labels, include symphonies, concertos and large-scale orchestral works by composers including Antheil, Creston, Dvorak, Harris, Kalinnikov, Piston, Schnittke, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. Soloists with whom he has collaborated during this period include Sarah Chang, James Galway, Lynn Harrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, Itzhak Perlman and Mstislav Rostropovich.  

     Soprano Lilia Grevtzova (born 1974) is known throughout the Ukraine for her extraordinary jazz voice, winning competitions throughout the country as well as being invited to jazz festivals in the region every year since 1994. She studied classical voice at the Kiev Conservatory.

     Soprano Emily Herrera is best known for her interpretive expression and musicality on the stages of Colorado, Nevada and Southern California. She has appeared as Musetta in a Nevada Opera Theatre performance of Puccini's La Boheme and was praised by critics as the highlight of the production. Denver audiences have seen Ms. Herrera on the mainstage of Opera Colorado as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Musetta in La Boheme , Gretel in Hansel und Gretel, and, most notably, as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. With the Boulder Philharmonic, she was a featured soloist in Rossini's Stabat Mater. 

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