Joseph Regan is thrilled to be returning to the Bach in Baltimore Concert Series this season. Mr. Regan is a highly sought after performer whose singing has taken him all over the Eastern Seaboard and parts of Europe. Recent highlights from the opera stage include a turn as Azaël from Debussy’s L’Enfant Prodigue for
John Solomon Collins was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Growing up, he was always surrounded by music, hearing his mother sing with the church praise team and participating in the children’s choir. He became resistant towards singing in middle and early high school, but as time went on, his
Phillip Collister, bass-baritone, has performed frequently as soloist with Bach in Baltimore as well as solo engagements with the Handel Choir of Baltimore, Washington Chamber Orchestra, the Washington Bach Consort, Maryland Handel Festival, the Bach Sinfonia, and internationally at the Handel Festival in Halle, Germany. He has performed at Carnegie Hall with his professional
Employing his “impressive singing … well-supported tone and supple phrasing,” (Baltimore Sun) baritone Rob McGinness connects characters to ideas, and listeners to sounds. Excited to return to live performance, Rob’s season includes Così fan Tutte and Carmen with Arizona Opera, The Ghosts of Gatsby Las Vegas Opera, and engagements with the Phoenix Symphony and
Eliam Ramos is a thrilling Puerto Rican bass-baritone who has performed opera and concert works with companies in the United States, Spain, Israel and Mexico. His artistic engagements range from traditional opera such as Leporello in Don Giovanni, to Luis Nogales in the zarzuela Luisa Fernanda, to symphony concerts such as Fauré’s Requiem to
Mateo Mendez is an oboist based in Baltimore who serves as English Hornist of the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra. He has held many other posts around Baltimore and beyond, including second oboe with Mount Vernon Virtuosi, principal oboe with the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra, and interim music director of the Hunt Valley Wind Ensemble.
Principal flute of the Baltimore Opera Orchestra for twenty two seasons, Sara Nichols has appeared as guest principal flute with the Baltimore and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras and the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. She has performed with the Maryland Opera, Bach in Baltimore, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Wolf Trap Orchestra,
Michael Vaughn, violin, has been performing with Bach in Baltimore since 2015, and has been a free-lance violinist in the Baltimore region since moving here from Indianapolis in 2009. He has performed with a variety of ensembles including the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Delaware Symphony, Reading Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Baltimore Choral Arts, and Baltimore Symphony
Cantor Josh C. Perlman became the Cantor at B’nai Israel Congregation in Rockville, Maryland in February 2001. He previously served as the Cantor at Congregation B’nai Israel in Albuquerque, New Mexico for ten years. Prior to that position, Cantor Josh was the Cantorial Soloist at Temple Shalom in Milton, Massachusetts and Temple Emanu-El in
Mark Helms, Bach in Baltimore's newly-appointed associate conductor, is an active musician who is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studies with Jason Max Ferdinand. At the University of' Maryland, Mark has served as primary conductor of the University Chorale, assistant
