Soloists for Mendelssohn Psalm 115 on concert with Baltimore Chamber Orchestra

CLARA ROTTSOLK
Soprano Clara Rottsolk, a native of Seattle, has been lauded by Classical Voice of North Carolina for her “pure soprano voice, clear and breathtaking to hear.”  She performs a wide range of repertoire from the Renaissance to the Contemporary and has worked with ensembles including St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, NY; Tempesta di Mare; Fuma Sacra; Le Triomphe de l’amour; Handel Choir of Baltimore; Ensemble Florilege, Boston; St. Clements, Philadelphia; and Trinity Wall Street Choir. This season she will tour Japan with Joshua Rifkin and Cambridge Concentus and appear with Tempesta di Mare and at the Whidbey Island (WA) Music Festival.  As a recitalist she has performed extensively throughout the United States.  Rottsolk received an award for musical excellence from the Metropolitan Opera National Council (Northwest Region).  Among her stage roles are Micaela in Carmen, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Laetitia in Old Maid and the Thief, Madame Goldentrill in The Impresario, and Johanna in Sweeney Todd.  She earned degrees at Westminster Choir College (MM) and Rice University (BM) and teaches voice at Swarthmore College and Lawrenceville School.

JEFFREY FAHNESTOCK
A review in the Süddeutscher Zeitung (Munich, Germany) proclaimed tenor Jeffrey Fahnestock “an outstanding singer with a very well produced leading tenor voice.”  He maintains a busy performing schedule and has appeared across the United States with groups such as the Rochester Bach Festival, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Folger Consort, Tulsa Oratorio Chorus, and Cayuga Chamber Orchestra.  He was awarded fellowships for the study of art song and opera at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Blossom Music Festivals.  As an operatic soloist Fahnestock has performed more than a dozen roles by Mozart, Britten, Donizetti, Verdi, Cavalli, and Massenet.  He is a native of central Pennsylvania and has received degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Peabody Institute.  He teaches voice, vocal literature, and diction at Gettysburg College and Susquehanna University.

PHILLIP COLLISTER
Baritone Phillip Collister has performed extensively in opera, oratorio, and in recitals.  As a soloist he has appeared locally with Handel Choir of Baltimore, Bach Concert Series, Baltimore Opera, Bach Sinfonia (Washington DC), Washington Bach Consort, Maryland Handel Festival, Smithsonian Chamber Players, and internationally at the Handel Festival in Halle, Germany.  As a recitalist he has performed at the St. Peter's Concert Series (New York City), frequently at Towson University, and toured United States and Germany presenting a program of American Art Song.  Collister’s oratorio credits include Bach’s Mass in B minor, St. John Passion, Weihnachtsoratorium, Handel’s Messiah, Joshua, Jephtha, Alexander Ballus, and Theodora, Mozart’s Requiemand “Coronation” Mass, and Beethoven’s Mass in C.  In 2008 he completed a recording of Carissimi’s Jepthe and several psalm settings by Rossi with Bach Sinfonia for release on the Dorian label.  Collister, an associate professor of voice at Towson University, is producer/director of Towson’s Music for the Stage.  He holds degrees from the University of Maryland (College Park), Northwestern University and Marycrest College (Davenport, Iowa).