American contralto EMILY MARVOSH has been gaining recognition for her “plum-wine voice,” and “graceful allure,” on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, Disney Hall, Lincoln Center, Prague’s Smetana Hall, and Vienna’s Stefansdom. Recent solo appearances include the Charlotte Symphony, Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, and John Davenant’s Macbeth with the Henry Purcell Society of Boston. Upcoming engagements include Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Mozart’s Requiem with the Knoxville Symphony, as well as a solo recital in the Boston area. Awards include the prestigious Adams Fellowship at the Carmel Bach Festival, the American Prize in the Oratorio and Art Song divisions, and second place in the New England Regional NATSAA competition. She is also the inaugural Resident Artist with the Lexington (MA) Symphony.

 Her contributions to 21st century repertoire and performance include world premiere performances with The Thirteen, Juventas New Music, Shoreline Music Society, the Manchester Summer Chamber Music Festival, and the Hugo Kauder Society. She is a member of the Lorelei Ensemble, which promotes innovative new music for women. With Lorelei, she has enjoyed collaborations with composers David Lang and Julia Wolfe, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, A Far Cry, Duke Performances, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A frequent recitalist and proud native of Michigan, Emily Marvosh created a chamber recital celebrating the history and culture of her home state, which won a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award.

 She belongs to Beyond Artists, a coalition of artists that donates a percentage of their concert fees to organizations they care about. She supports Rosie’s Place and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music through her performances. She holds degrees from Central Michigan University and Boston University.  www.emilymarvosh.com

 MICHAEL DAUPHINAIS is a pianist, vocal coach, conductor, and radio host whose musical career has taken him across the U.S. as well as to Austria, Ireland, Mexico, and Costa Rica. As a rehearsal pianist, coach, and occasional chorus master, Michael has served at many regional opera companies including Arizona Opera, San Diego Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Southwest, Tulsa Opera, Baltimore Concert Opera, Kentucky Opera, New Jersey Opera Theater, Opera in the Ozarks, and Alamo City Opera. Michael’s conducting credits include Daniel Catán’s La hija de Rappaccini at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in Mexico City, in addition to The Tender Land by Aaron Copland and the North American premiere of Elena Langer’s Rhondda Rips it Up! at the University of Arizona’s Fred Fox School of Music, where he taught from 2005 to 2022. Michael was also the principal pianist for Opera Southwest (Albuquerque, NM) from 2012 to 2019, and served on the opera coaching faculty for AIMS (American Institute for Musical Studies) in Graz, Austria from 2015 to 2022. He has appeared numerous times with True Concord Voices and Orchestra, and since 2004 has been a frequent substitute keyboard player for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra (including the recent “Venezuelan Valentine” program with trumpeter Pacho Flores).

 An enthusiastic advocate for new sounds and multi-disciplinary collaboration, Michael Dauphinais has premiered many works for piano and live electronics, most notably those by sound artist and longtime friend Stephan Moore, as well as by John King, C. Park, and others. Michael has also performed many times with choreographer Yanira Castro and Company in New York (Brooklyn and Troy), Chicago, Nashville, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He played music by John Cage for a screening of the dance film “Beach Birds with Camera” with musicians from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Irvine, California in 2007. Michael has appeared locally with Artifact Dance Project and Movement Salon, and he has played experimental sets at Solar Culture, Fluxx, Exploded View Microcinema, MOCA Tucson, Chaxx Press, and the Tucson Noise Festival. Michael’s telematic electro-acoustic duo “Treatments” with Stephan Moore made its debut release Rest of the World in 2022 on the Dead Definition label.

 Michael is a radio announcer for Arizona Public Media, where he is currently the midday host for weekday programming on NPR 89.1 KUAZ and the occasional announcer for classical 90.5 KUAT-FM. Prior to moving to Tucson in 2004, Michael was an announcer and production assistant for KBAQ in Phoenix, and an announcer for WMUK in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He holds degrees from Arizona State University (Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music) and Western Michigan University (Bachelor of Music).