Voice & Choir Faculty

Daniel Ihasz - voice, baritone (YAS)

Lyric Baritone Daniel Ihasz earned a Master of Music degree in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, along with the prestigious Performer's Certificate. Since 1992, he has been a member of the voice faculty at the State University of New York at Fredonia where he is currently an Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the Voice Area.

He has served as recitalist and clinician in Colorado, Wisconsin and Puerto Rico as well as Artist in Residence for the 2002 Canitcum Novum Festival in Caracas, Venezuela. Other engagements include appearances with Dave Brubeck, Glimmerglass Opera (including the world premiere Central Park taped for PBS - Great Performances and broadcast in January 2000), Carolina Chamber Chorale (Piccolo Spoleto Festival), Central City Opera, Opera Sacra, New York State Baroque, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Rochester Oratorio Society, Madison Opera, Madison Symphony, Milwaukee Opera and the Fredonia Chamber Players. Recording labels include Centaur, Albany and Naxos.

Daniel Ihasz currently serves as the NATS Vice President and Auditions Coordinator for the local chapter and recently as Coordinator for the 2003 NATS Summer Intern Program.

Anne Marie Morgan - voice & choir (JSS1 & 2)

Ann Marie Morgan is active internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist.  A frequent guest with major orchestras and choral societies she has been viola da gamba soloist in the Bach St. Matthew and St. John Passions with the Philadelphia and the Minnesota Orchestras, under the direction of Helmuth Rilling.  Her expertise on the viola has been called for at long-standing Bach Festivals in Oregon and Bethlehem as well as with the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom and in Europe at the Prague Spring Festival.  She has toured with Les Violons du Roy (Bernard Labadie) and continues to be in demand throughout North America.

In addition to teaching in the Rocky Ridge "Early Music Festival and Workshop" in late August, Ms. Morgan will also be teaching choir and voice during the Junior Student Seminars at Rocky Ridge. She has sung with Ars Nova, the St. Martin’s Chamber Choir, Boulder Bach Festival Chorus and in the Berkshire Choral Festival. She was founder and director of the Interlochen Arts Camp’s Shakespeare’s Singers as well as McDonogh School’s Concert Choir and Madrigals. She has served as interim director of the Regis Collegium and as coach for the vocal ensembles of the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble and the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. Ms. Morgan performs songs with her ensemble the Thyme Quintet and has recorded works by 17th English composers, accompanying herself on viola da gamba, on her Centaur Records release “Among Rosebuds.”

 In addition to concerts and recordings with her own ensemble, Olde Friends, she has performed and recorded with many other early music groups including the Baltimore Consort, Tempesta di Mare, and Cecilia’s Circle. This season marks her second guest appearance as principal cellist of the Dallas Bach Society. She is principal cellist and viola da gamba soloist with the Boulder Bach Festival and frequent guest artist with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. She also expands her musical boundaries as violist da gamba with the front range’s newly-formed “Thyme Quintet” featuring Mintze Wu on violin, Sandra Wong on nyckelharpa, Grant Gordy on guitar and Jayme Stone on banjo.

Read more of Ms. Morgan's biography focusing on early music, cello and viola da gamba.