As appropriate for our music, we are a small group, typically 16 voices strong. Here 12 of us are preparing to sing our concert of love songs by Brahms and Franck.

Cappella rehearsal

Anne-Marie Dicce

Soprano Anne-Marie Dicce is a soloist throughout the United States and Europe, most recently with the Bach Collegium San Diego. Every summer since 2004, she has been invited to sing in Germany at the Bachakademie's European Music Festival in Stuttgart with Helmuth Rilling. Known for her pure vocal quality, Anne-Marie is equally at home performing both early and contemporary vocal music, and she is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of California, San Diego, where she also teaches. She studies with Carol Plantamura and holds an M.A. from UCSD and a B.A. in Music from Loyola Marymount University. Prior to joining Cappella Gloriana in 2004, she was a frequent guest artist.

Elisabeth Marti

Soprano Elisabeth Marti, was born in Bern, Switzerland and has lived in the United States since 1965. She studied voice in Bern, at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, and also in the United States with Larra Browning Henderson. Ms. Marti is an accomplished performer of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music but her repertoire includes all periods. With the Early Music Ensemble of San Diego she has toured extensively in the United States and in Europe. She has appeared as a soloist and guest artist with various ensembles in the San Diego area and sings in the Bach Collegium-San Diego.

Patricia Minton

Soprano Patricia Minton has appeared with San Diego Opera since 1987 and with Lyric Opera San Diego since 1986. She has been a frequent guest soloist in concerts with a number of San Diego-area churches, with San Diego Chamber Orchestra, and Imperial Valley Symphony. In Florida, she has sung with the Bach Festival Society of Rollins College and the Daytona Choral Society. She also performs with Quarternote/Mistletoe Madrigals quartet and is soloist at Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist in La Jolla. After almost twenty years in journalism she purchased Classical Performing Artists Management (CPAM) talent agency, which represents Cappella Gloriana.

Virginai Sublett

Soprano Virginia Sublett has been a principal artist with opera companies such as New York City Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and L'Opéra de Nice (France), in a repertoire that encompasses the Queen of the Night in Magic Flute, Nannetta in Falstaff, Fire, Princess and Nightingale in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, and Tytania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She is a frequent soloist with orchestras, oratorio societies, and chamber ensembles throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Diego, Illinois and Pacific Symphonies, and Mainly Mozart, and is particularly known for performances of Baroque repertoire and 20th and 21st century music. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, in 1997 Miss Sublett became the first person to be granted a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of California, San Diego. She joined the faculty of North Dakota State University as an associate professor of music (voice) in 2004.

Anita Colet

Alto Anita Colet began her love affair with singing when she was in a sixth-grade choral group and continued singing with choral groups through college. She has performed as a soloist with the San Diego Symphony, La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared in many different roles with the San Diego Opera, San Diego Comic Opera, Starlight, Moonlight, West Coast Opera Theatre, Lawrence Welk Theatre, as well as the Theatre in Old Town. For the past ten years, she has also enjoyed performing close harmonies as part of a vocal quartet, Quarternote

Katrin Nogols Genzlinger

Alto Katrin Nogols Genzlinger hails from Estonia where she graduated from Tallinn Conservatory with a degree in Music Teaching and Choir Conducting. She is active in the San Diego area as a private piano and accordion teacher and as an experienced choral singer. A listing of her affiliations would include almost every major choral ensemble in San Diego. An accomplished musician, she has worked as a community organist and accordion player throughout California. Personal interests include yoga, homeopathic medicine, essential oils and herb therapies, the tranquility to be gotten from candlelight, and all things Estonian. Katrin resides with her husband Jeffrey in Santee. Please visit Katrin's websites:
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Dana Linskill

Alto Dana Linskill was born and raised in Israel, where she sang with the Tel-Aviv Chamber Choir. In the 1990s Dana resided in Berkeley, CA, studied voice and participated in classes and workshops at the San Francisco Conservatory and San Jose State University, focusing mainly on the art of Lieder. Dana sang with Philharmonia Baroque Chorus under Nicholas McGhegan and in University of California Chamber Chorus. In the late 1990s Dana lived in Cambridge, MA, and studied in the Longy School of Music. In San Diego Dana sings with Cappella Gloriana, Bach Collegium San Diego and the La Jolla Renaissance Singers.

Katherine Lundeen

Mezzo-soprano Katherine Lundeen is a frequent concert artist throughout Southern California. As the winner of the International Opera Singers Competition, Katherine made her New York recital debut in 2002 at Carnegie Hall. More recently, she appeared with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra in Handel's Messiah, with the San Diego Symphony in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony broadcast live on KPBS, the San Diego Chamber Orchestra in Vivaldi's Gloria, and in Los Angeles in Dvorak's Mass in D under the direction of Czech conductor Miraslov Kosler.

Juan Carlos Acosta

Tenor Juan Carlos Acosta is active as a singer, conductor, composer, and has been involved with numerous groups in San Diego, including the San Diego Opera Chorus, San Diego Master Chorale, and the Bach Collegium San Diego. In 2005, Juan made his mainstage debut as "Parpignol" in La Boheme with the San Diego Opera. Currently, Mr. Acosta is the Director of Music Ministries at First United Methodist Church of Chula Vista, the founding director of the La Costa Glen Community Choir and serves as one of the conductors of the San Diego Children's Chorus.

Aaron Lindberg

Tenor Aaron Lindberg, a native of Milwaukee, received his Bachelor's degree in Music from Lawrence University. While living in London, Aaron studied with Robert Spencer at the Royal Conservatory of Music, exploring the lute-song repertoire of John Dowland. Returning to the U.S., Aaron received the Young Artist Scholarship at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music from 1998-2000. He has performed with Florentine Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera as a member of their opera choruses, the Master Singers, and the Bel Canto Chorus. Currently, Aaron is tenor section leader at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Encinitas and sings with Bach Collegium San Diego

Dave McCarthy

Tenor Dave McCarthy is a new Californian, having moved from Connecticut in 2006. While in Connecticut, he received a degree in Music Education and was active in a number of vocal groups. Dave sang for several years in Everyman Guild, an eight-voice early music group that performed in costume utilizing period instruments. As a member of the Connecticut Master Chorale, Dave performed a John Rutter concert at Carnegie Hall with Mr. Rutter as conductor. At the end of his time in Connecticut, Dave was a member of Gaudeamus, a 40-voice choir under the direction of three-time Grammy award winner Paul Halley.

Ruben Valenzuela

Ruben Valenzuela (tenor and accompanist) studied music at Loma Linda University and San Diego State University (emphasizing Early Music Performance and Musicology), and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Musicology & Historical Performance Practice at Claremont Graduate University where he studies harpsichord with Dr. Robert Zappulla, and musicology with Dr. Nancy van Deusen. In 1998, as a member of the Mexican Academy of Ancient Organ Music (Mexico City), he had the rare opportunity to give a recital on the historic 17th century organ of the Mexico City Cathedral, as well as lecture and publish a series of articles on Mexican Baroque music in the journal Heterofonia. His continued interest in the music of the 18th century (and in particular the cantatas of J.S. Bach) led him in 2003 to establish the Bach Collegium San Diego which then collaborated with the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra in San Diego's first Bach Johannes-Passion on period instruments. Since then, he has led the Bach Collegium San Diego in diverse programs encompassing the music of the high Renaissance, early and high Baroque, through German motets of the 19th century. In 2005, Mr. Valenzuela toured Germany (Thuringia) as organist and tenor with Cappella Gloriana, performing in such Bach and Luther related sites as the Thomaskirche (Leipzig), Margaretenkirche (Gotha), Bartholomauskirche (Dornheim), Schlosskirche (Wittenberg), and the Erfurter Dom. Currently, he is the Director of Music of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Del Mar.

Stephen Sturk

Stephen Sturk, tenor and co-founder and director of Cappella Gloriana, is currently director of music at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Encinitas, Calif. He is also composer-in-residence at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego. Sturk is a nationally recognized composer of church music with more than 30 works in print. Since his arrival in San Diego in 1991, he has served on the faculty of the University of San Diego (director of the Choral Scholars Program), and was Executive Director of the Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music (PACEM). In New York City he held conducting positions with The New York Motet Choir, the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and The Juilliard Singers. He has also performed and recorded with the Waverly Consort, New York Philharmonic, Musica Sacra, New York's Ensemble for Early Music, and Steve Reich and Musicians. In addition to three Cappella Gloriana CDs, Sturk appears as conductor or singer on more than 50 recordings, most notably the soundtrack of the Disney animated feature 'Beauty and the Beast'. Sturk also serves on the advisory boards of The San Diego Early Music Society and the San Diego Children's Choir, and is Music Advisor of the Bach Collegium San Diego.

Jeff Genzlinger

Bass Jeff Genzlinger is a native San Diegan and has been active in San Diego's music scene for a number of years, most notably with Pacific Camerata since 1996 and the Bach Collegium San Diego since its inception. A classically trained pianist, he has a particular affinity for the music spanning the years 1770-1850. As a vocalist, 15th century composers such as Dufay and Josquin fire his imagination. He is especially fond of late-medieval painting, early 20th century photography, great wine, and making that perfect ski turn. Jeff works as a Project Manager with a prominent San Diego construction firm.

Gordon Shugars

While living in the San Francisco Bay area, bass Gordon Shugars performed with the San Francisco Chamber Singers and the Gregorian Chant Choir of the chapel of the Newman Foundation of Stanford University. In San Diego he has sung with the San Diego Master Chorale and Chamber Singers and with Pacific Camerata as well as the Bach Collegium San Diego. He is now the bass section leader for the choirs of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal). Before he began singing, he was an avid early music instrumentalist. He is the only person ever to have serenaded his then commanding officer, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, with a rousing rendition of the Mickey Mouse March played on bass krummhorn.

Christopher Stephens

Bass Christopher Stephens is a native San Diegan and a charter member of Cappella Gloriana. Equally at home on concert, opera or musical theater stages, Stephens has been a featured soloist in many orchestral works including Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Bach's Johannes-Passion (Jesus), Britten's Noye's Fludde (Noye), Faure's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, and Mendelssohn's Elijah (Elijah). He has been seen on the San Diego Lyric Opera stage in The Mikado (Mikado), and in Oliver (Bill Sykes). Currently, he is the baritone soloist at San Diego's First United Methodist Church, and can be seen in the chorus of most San Diego Opera productions.