Artists
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Bachelor of Music Education from Baldwin Wallace University, the home of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute; Master of Music Performance from Ball State University; Master of Music Composition from Cleveland State University; Inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda, the National Music Honors Society. Mr. Charlillo’s diverse musical career encompasses over thirty years as a professor of music. As a contrabassist, he has performed in musical ensembles of various genres, including the Riemenschneider Bach Festival Orchestra, Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Fort Wayne Symphony Orchestra, Charo, Johnny Mathis, and John York and The Byrds to name a few. Concurrently, he produced an equally diverse assortment of ensembles. As the Cleveland Chamber Symphony producer, Mr. Charlillo was honored to work with many contemporary composers, such as Morton Subotnick, Witold Lutosławski, and Gunther Schuller. His production work also extended to many popular artists, including Boots Randolph, Bonnie Bramlett, and others.
Mr. Charlillo is among the first generation of musicians to fully utilize the computer as a musical instrument. His influences include interactions with colleagues and pioneers in the field like Kenneth Hamann and Robert Moog. During the evolution of computer music, he witnessed soundtrack technology develop into the lush virtual scores we have all become accustomed to in major motion pictures. During this time, Mr. Charlillo has programmed and performed deep-sampled scores for planetarium shows, videos, and popular artists. His work in computer music and virtual soundtracks has now come full circle to the production of soundtracks for Bach’s sacred music. These virtual soundtracks, in conjunction with live performers, comprise the Bach Project (aka Virtual Bach Project). The combined forces of live and virtual performances allow for integrating rare Baroque period instruments into a real-time orchestral setting while maintaining the era's correct feel and performance practice.
Mr. Charlillo is a devout Christian who strives to use his talents to praise the Risen Christ. His other musical interests include compositions and arrangements in the jazz fusion genre. Formerly from the Bay Area of California, he now lives with his wife and cats in Northeast Ohio.
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American Coloratura Soprano, Dawna Rae Warren has established herself as an incredibly versatile performer. She brings a knack for captivating storytelling and musical sensitivity to all of her repertoire: Opera, New Music, Baroque Music, Jazz, and Golden Age Musical Theater.
Her most recent engagements have been as the Soprano Soloist in Handel's Alceste with The In Series, Musetta in La Boheme with Eklund Opera, Lady with a Hand Mirror in Postcard from Morocco with Eklund Opera, Violetta (cover) in La Traviata with Eklund Opera, Abigail Williams in Robert Ward's The Crucible at the University of Kentucky Opera Theater, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia, Barbarina in Figaro in Four Quartets with The In Series, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte with Resonanz Opera, Königen der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte at Blooming Voce Summer Opera Workshop, and The First Wood Sprite in Rusalka at the Toronto Summer Opera Workshop.
A champion of living composers, Dawna Rae has been a collaborator in Cleveland Opera Theater’s New Opera Works Festival for several years where she has premiered pieces such as Griffin Candey’s Bernarda Alba (Adela) and Dawn Sonntag’s Verlorene Heimat (Hedwig). Other new music premieres include: Michael Udow's
A Wall of Two (Henia) and Mark Geiger's Goddess' People (Priestess ). In addition to premiering new operas, she also actively works with composers to record and workshop their compositions throughout their writing process, taking joy in watching a piece of music shape and change as it comes to fruition.
Dawna Rae has been the recipient of awards such as the 1st Place Graduate Winner in the CU Boulder Honors Concerto Competition (2023), Third Place Winner of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition (2023), 1st Place Graduate Winner in the Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition (2019), the Mel and Jena Hakola Prize for Vocal and Academic Excellence (2017), the MacDowell Vocal Scholarship (2014), and the VOCI Scholarship (2014).
On the concert stage she has performed as a featured soloist with the Toledo Symphony in Tavener's Eternity's Sunrise and Beethoven's 9th Symphony. She appeared with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra in their 2022 Pops Concert, singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" and "Les Oiseaux Dans La Charmille", and also as the Soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah (2022). Additionally, she performed as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the CU Symphony Orchestra and as the soprano soloist in Faure’s Requiem. She has also appeared with the Baldwin Wallace Bach Choir in the St. Matthew's Passion, St. John's Passion, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem.
Currently, Dawna Rae is based in Cleveland, Ohio. She obtained her Artist Diploma at CU Boulder, her Master’s Degree at the University of Kentucky and her Bachelor’s Degree at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music.
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B.A. in vocal performance. She began her musical studies in the School of Music program in Medellín and later in the University of Antioquia. As soloist, she has participated in various productions such as, Magnificat and Mass in B minor from J.S. Bach, Symphony No. 9 and C Major Mass from L. V. Beethoven, Coronation Mass and Requiem from W. A. Mozart. under the baton of Alberto Correa, Silvia Restrepo and Francisco Rettig; as well, as various lyrical galas with Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra and the University of Antioquia student orchestra.
In 2017 she was a finalist of the Young Interpreters of the Banco de la República Contest, in 2019 was the winner of the XVIII Young Soloist Contest of the Cali Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2020 was the first place winner in "Bogotá Lírica" singing contest organized by the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra.
She played the role of the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Berta in The Barber of Seville, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Justine in the Mysterious Castle, Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Annina in La Traviata, Coral in the Leyenda del Beso, Rosaura in Los Gavilanes, Emilia in Otello, Micaela in Carmen and made her debut with Colombia’s National Opera Company as Nella in Gianni Schicchi. Some of these productions under the conduction of Alejandro Roca, Marc Moncusí, Gonzalo Ospina, Rondy Torres, Juan Pablo Noreña, Cesar Baldovino, Guerassim Voronkov, Marcelo Ayub and Dante Ranieri.
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Began her studies in singing and vocal technique at the Antonio María Valencia Institute of Fine Arts and Conservatory in Cali in 2000. Then she entered the Universidad de Valle in 2001 to complete his Bachelor's degree in music. During her stay at this institution she was part of the Univalle Opera Workshop. In 2005 and 2006 she participated in the Binational Opera Workshop held in Ecuador where he sang several solo roles in several cities in this country. In 2008 and 2009 she was chosen as the winner in the First Opera project directed by the Camarín del Carmen in association with the Colombian Opera. Also in 2009 she was selected as the winner by the Banco de la Republica and the Luis Ángel Arango Library in the Serie competition of Young Soloists Mondays.
In 2010 she was chosen as the beneficiary of one of the Carolina Foundation scholarships, with which she traveled to complete a postgraduate degree in Lyric Singing at the Liceu Conservatory of Music in Barcelona- Spain under the tutelage of the Catalan Tenor Eduard Giménez. During this process she performs on important stages in Barcelona; Currently receiving singing classes with Maestro María Teresa Uribe Reddemann (Chile-Hungary)
She works with the Colombian Opera, a company with which he has performed solo roles from 2011 to date. In 2013 she was soloist in Jaime Manzur's Zarzuela at the Teatro Bellas Artes in Bogotá and this year he made his debut with this same company, La Viuda. Cheerful of Lehar in the role of Hanna of Glavary. She performed the Role of the Shepherd in Wagner's Tannhauser Opera under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Orchestra with the Colombian Opera. In January 2014 she sang as a soloist at the Cartagena International Music Festival VIII edition, in Rossini's La Cenerentola Opera in the role of Clorinda, under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini. In 2015 she has been invited by the Cali Philharmonic Orchestra on two consecutive occasions to perform works from the Opera and Operetta repertoire and the Premiere of the Oratorio “El Rio de los Muertos” by composer Alberto Guzman. She was part of the production “El Empresario Teatral” produced by the Colombian Opera, the Teatro Libre and FOSBO, in which she was a soloist in the role of Bastiana/Mademoiselle Silverklang in an adaptation of the Operas Bastian and Bastiana and Der Shauspieldirektor by Mozart . She debuted in September 2015 at the Teatro Colón in Bogotá in the role of Despina in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte in a production by the Colombian Opera and the Colombian Symphony. She participated in the recent 2015 Ópera al Parque Festival in the performance of Rossini's Opera Cambiale di Marriage in the role of Fanny, produced by the Bogotá Philharmonic and the Colombian Opera, this same production will be revived in November of this year in Bogotá
In 2017 she participated in Orfphée ed Euridice by Gluck in the role of Amour, a production of the Colombian Opera and the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, and in the Zarzuela CeciliaValdés by Gonzalo Roig in the role of Isabel in a production of the Teatro Colon. of Bogotá and as guest soloist of the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia in the Concert of Mahler's Symphony IV at the Teatro Colon in Bogota.
In 2018 he was part of the Opera “Der Rosenkavalier” by R. Strauss, a co-production of the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo and the Colombian Opera and he also participated in the staging of Rossini's Cinderella, a modern adaptation for younger audiences in the Colon Theater in Bogota. She currently works as a freelance singer.
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Winner of the second prize and mention to the best Tenor in the XXII International Lyrical Singing Competition Ciudad de Trujillo (2019), second prize in the youth category (2012) and First prize in the Excellence Category (2019) of the OFB National Singing Competition in the city of Bogotá . Similarly, winner of the Call for Young Interpreters of the Banco de la República in 2018.
He was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He began his vocal training in 2007 and completed his undergraduated studies at the Central University in Bogotá. He has participated in workshops with renown teachers and since 2008 was a member of Central University’s opera workshop where he played Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, Bill in A Hand of Bridge, The lover in Amelia al ballo, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Ruggero in La Rondine, and in 2013 he played Rinucccio in the opera Gianni Schicchi with the Bogotá Symphony Orchestra.
He has participated as a soloist in some Julio Mario Santo Domingo Theater, Colon Theater of Bogotá, Opera of Colombia and Prolírica of Antioquia productions such as Rinuccio from Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini, Salomé as the third jew and Der Rosenkavalier as Lackey by Richard Strauss, Luisa Fernanda as El saboyano in Emilio Sagi’s produccion, Macbeth by Giussepe Verdi as Malcolm and Otello as Roderigo. Furthermore, he participated in A Midsummer night’s dream as Lisander and Peter Quint in The Turn of the screw in Ópera al Parque festival, both by Benjamin Britten.
In 2013, he participated in masterclasses in the VII Internacional Music Festival of Cartagena, Colombia and in 2015 he won the Carolina Foundation Scholarship to continue his graduate studies at the conservator of the Liceu in Barcelona, Spain.
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Master of Fine Arts from the National University of Colombia, winner of the National Art Salon "Diversity" at Casa Cuadrada gallery in 2008. Alongside his career as a visual artist, he has extensively performed in the Colombian opera scene as a baritone. He was first price of the National Singing Competition of the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra in 2021 and a finalist in 2015. He won the National Young Singers Competition of the Caldas Symphony Orchestra in 2016. He has served as Vocal Coach for the reality show "The Voice Colombia" for 4 seasons. He has been a member of the Colombian Opera for over 18 years.
He has performed as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Huila Symphony Orchestra, and the Caldas Symphony Orchestra, and has graced stages such as the Teatro Colón in Bogotá, the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, and the Teatro Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. He has performed internationally in Belgium, Germany, Spain, the United States, Ecuador, Peru, and Honduras.
Bach Project’s Soli Deo Gloria Baroque Choir
Sylvia Jurcak, Soprano; Laura Christian, SopranoBrenda Moosbrugger, Alto; Joy Leirer, AltoAubrey Woods, Tenor; Joseph Waid, TenorAlex Taipale, Bass; Brian Morrow, Bass