Festival Chorus
The acclaimed Bellingham Festival of Music chorus brings together some of the finest singers from Whatcom County. The chorus rehearses weekly from May to July with BFM Choirmistress, Wendy Bloom. Final rehearsals with Maestro Lehninger begin in the weeks prior to the July 17th performance of the Mozart Mass in C Minor.
Recent performances have included Brahms’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem as well as operas including Beethoven’s Fidelio and Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio. Festival audiences appreciate this dedicated group of highly skilled singers willing to donate their time and talent to present choral masterpieces.
Soprano
Sarah Allen
Delaney Bullinger
Kaitlin Davis
Chris Galbraith
Nancy Goldfogel
Veronica Hains
Mary Kuras
Bonny Ledray
Li Li Pony
Lorisa Marshall
Michele McBride
Hilde Meadow
Kerri Morton
Kathleen Roché-Zujko
Linda Short
Mary Somerville
Shelly Swenson
Mia Ward
Masako Wittkopp
Shachaf Zachary-Mittelman
Alto
Wendy Bloom
Debbie Brinson
Mary Beth Cecil
Sally Chapman
Rosamund Dyer
Anneliese Floyd
Mary Jackson
Joy Johnstone
Linda Luttrell
Karen Nuckles-Flinn
Naomi Pomerantz
Betsy Senff
Katie White
Tenor
Susan Easthouse
Nehemiah Jones
Mitchell Kahn
Patrick Kuras
Nicholas Mangan
Coleton McCoy
Martin Pommerenke
Leslee Probasco
Bert Rutgers
Leith Swenson
Del VandeKirk
Baritone/Bass
Kevin Allen-Schmid
Austin Campbell
Roger Clark
Dave Cross
Robert Klein
Joshua Larsen
John Moffat
John Otwell
Jacob Peterson
Benjamin Ritchey
Boyd Schlaefer
Tom Schneider
John Tilley
Jonathan Weldon
Rehearsal Information
Rehearsals will take place on Mondays, starting May 6.
We may add Thursday, June 13, and June 20 as sectionals, one for SA, one for TB.
Marcelo Lehninger’s favorite interpreter of the Mass is John Eliot Gardiner. You may get a preview of the tempi that we will be singing from this recording.