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About Us

What do you miss about being in a great musical ensemble? Was it the high level of music preparation and performance? The camaraderie of working on quality repertoire with other singers? Maybe, you miss the experiences in college and high school, the retreats and tours. Our goal is to set the standard of choral excellence in the Las Vegas Valley and across Nevada. We strive to provide the great choral experiences that singers enjoyed and wonderful performances that audiences will talk about for years to come.

 
 
Join us as a founding member of what will become Nevada's signature choir.


 

Our Artistic Director

 

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Jonathan Baltera enjoys a successful career as a choral conductor, opera director, and soloist. Raised in Gresham, Oregon and Newport Beach, California, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in vocal performance and choral conducting from Oregon State University in 2007 and a Master of Education degree in Secondary Vocal Music from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2010. He is currently pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts in the voice area at UNLV, which he will complete in 2015.

 

Jonathan started conducting in 1995 as a sophomore in high school for his football and basketball pep bands, concert band and jazz band. Early in college, he switched his focus to choral music after performing Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. He has served as a conductor or assistant conductor for many university choirs, and the Corvallis Repertory Singers. In these positions he was able to work with choirs and orchestras to prepare large masterworks and operas, areas of the repertoire that are his greatest passions. He most recently served as Associate Artistic Director for the Las Vegas Master Singers.

 

In his solo performance career, Jonathan has performed the roles of Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Sid in Albert Herring, Count Almaviva and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Golaud in Pelleas and Melisande, Harlekin and Musiklehrer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Papageno in The Magic Flute, David in A Hand of Bridge, and directed Menotti's The Telephone, an abridged version of Albert Herring and the musical Grease. His orchestral engagements include; Baritone soloist on the Dvorak Te Deum with the Stuttgart University Orchestra, featured soloist with the Oregon Symphony, featured soloist at the Kurt Weill Festival in Berlin and Dessau, Germany and various oratorio performances with the Oregon State University Orchestra and Choirs.

 

Jonathan and his wife, Savannah, run a thriving vocal studio.  In his free time, Jonathan enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, writing and composing.

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