ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

St. Nicholas in Britten’s tour-de-force Cantata for tenor, orchestra and choir, in addition to performing the great masterpiece Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings with the Bear Valley Music Festival and the St John’s Chamber Music Series.

In addition serving in the residency program with Los Angeles Opera, Mr. Ebbers has been an apprentice with Utah Festival Opera Young Artist Program, Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program, Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies, and two summers with the Music Academy of the West. Among his regional engagements, he has appeared as a principal artist with San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Utah Festival Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Fairbanks Symphony, and the Sanibel Music Festival. Mr. Ebbers toured the United States as tenor soloist in Richard Einhorn’s oratorio Voices of Light-The Passion of Joan of Arc. During this tour he appeared as guest soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolftrap, the Los Angles Mozart Orchestra, the Charleston Concert Association and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Carl Pantle is a lecturer and collaborative pianist at the University of the Pacific and a recent graduate earning his bachelor’s degree in vocal performance. As a collaborative pianist and vocal coach, he brings to life dozens of operatic and musical theater scores, and his collaborations include those with Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Laura Benanti. As a pianist, arranger, and orchestrator in affiliation with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, he performed and recorded commissioned works by Stephen Schwartz and Jake Heggie. Pantle maintains a successful voice studio in Oakley, California, and is enthusiastically involved in the arts and arts education in his community.