Christine Anderson, soprano, is the Chair of the Department of Voice and Opera and Associate Professor of Vocal Studies at the Boyer College of Music and Dance of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She holds a B. M. in Voice from Illinois Wesleyan University and earned both M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Voice at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Anderson has sung numerous performances as soprano soloist with several prestigious contemporary music ensembles and has worked with such composers as Lukas Foss and Kristof Penderecki. In addition, she has had extensive performing experience as a recitalist in programs featuring the premieres of new works. Dr. Anderson also taught in the Musical Theater Department at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and is the former director of the Voice Program of the University of Cincinnati’s Summer Music Institute. An active pedagogue, Dr. Anderson has presented masterclasses and papers at national and international conferences such as the Australia Voice Symposium and the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. She has also served as clinician and adjudicator for several organizations including the Taipei Philharmonic Foundation for Culture and Education, The National Association of Teachers of Singing, Classical Singer, and The Voice Foundation. Dr. Anderson has served as pre-concert lecturer for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Joe Brinkman

 Joe Brinkman has been a musician since the age of five, when he began playing the piano.  He began playing the drums in junior high, marched for five years with the Roger Bacon HS band, and spent two years in the Xavier University pep band.  Highlights include performing with the Cincinnati Pops and traveling to Moscow, Russia to perform at Red Square.  Since then, he has been actively involved in a number of local original and cover bands.  In addition to the piano and drums, he is also a skilled guitar and bass guitar player.  Currently, he enjoys writing and producing music in his home studio as a hobby.  
Michelle Davis is Editor-in-Chief of www.KaraokeTraveler.com, a karaoke bar directory and karaoke news and lifestyle magazine. Located in the Washington D.C. area, Ms. Davis is an alum of the University of Maryland Law School and works as a senior policy analyst for the Maryland General Assembly. As a published author in the election law field, Michelle started KaraokeTraveler after recognizing a serious lack of updated information about karaoke venues on the Internet. Her foray into the karaoke scene began years ago when she hit the Baltimore / Washington karaoke circuit with KJ’s and friends. Since then, her work on the two year old website has created a place on the web for the karaoke community. The Baltimore Sun described it as offering “All you ever wanted to know about karaoke.” As editor of the site, Michelle has delved into such underreported subjects such as music copyrights, karaoke industry sales, celebrities who karaoke and derivative forms of karaoke such as politoake.

Brandon Hohen

 Mr. Hoehn has made a name for himself an over-the-top performer in the Midwest’s highly competitive karaoke circuit.  He was born in the summer of 1978 to a nationally renowned lounge singer who taught him the art of performing in front of dozens of fans. Now Mr. Hoehn is enjoying a semi-retirement from karaoke to focus on his full time duties as Sales Manager for Cincinnati, Ohio, based Klosterman Baking Company.  However, on occasion he can be persuaded to let loose one of his famed “live performances” which has fashioned him as a karaoke great.

Leland Rowse

Leland Rowse is from the Washington D.C. area, where he began his musical studies in voice and piano and attended the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Voice Performance to study with teachers Franklin Bens and Patricia Berlin. He later studied with noted teacher and singer, Andrew White, teacher of opera legend, Sherrill Milnes. Rowse has performed in recital, oratorio and opera throughout the Cincinnati, Delaware and Washington D.C. areas and is currently living in Cincinnati. Mr. Rowse has performed the tenor solos in Handel’s Messiah and Judas Maccabeus, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and St. Paul, Bach’s Cantata #4 and Magnificat, Dubois’ Seven Last Words of Christ and Verdi’s Requiem. Opera roles include Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Canio in Pagliacci, Turiddu in Cavelleria Rusticana, Cavaradossi in Tosca and Rodolfo in La Bohème. He is currently the director and founder of several foundations, including the Andrew White Foundation.       

 
William Seale

William Seale has performed in recital, concert, opera and oratorio throughout Cincinnati, Delaware, Florida and Washington D.C.  He has performed the solos in Handel’s Messiah, Brahms, Fauré, Duruflé and Mozart Requiems, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat and Cantata # 82 “Ich habe genug”, Schubert’s Mass in G, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio, Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors (Melchior), and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Bartolo). Also an experienced accompanist for both singers and instrumentalists, William has played for numerous master classes and recitals and may be heard in the PBS special “The Deming of America”. In 1976, Seale joined the voice faculty of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department, of which he is chairperson, and has had students who have made debuts with Arizona Opera, The Washington Opera, The New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dayton Opera, Opera Columbus, Sorg-Whitewater Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Santa Fe, The San Francisco Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, and the Broadway stage. He is currently the Director of Music at The Presbyterian Church of Wyoming and the successful Valley Concert Series, and has conducted choral works that include Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Cantata #4, The Seven Last Words of Christ by Dubois and the Poulenc Motets for Christmas. He is the conductor for the CD recording “Christmas in Wyoming.” The Chancel Choir of the Presbyterian Church of Wyoming was invited to perform in two concerts for the internationally acclaimed Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Maestro Erich Kunzel. The second of those concerts also featured the famous Irish group, The Chieftains.