Kim Mendez has been involved in music, choral singing, and musical theater productions for over 30 years. Notable stage credits in opera include principal roles in The Pirates of Penzance (Major General Stanley), the world premiere of Juana with Opera UCLA (Sor Rafaela), and a very genderqueer version of Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress. Additionally, they became a Grammy winner for Best Choral Performance in 2020/21 with the UCLA Chamber Singers and the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus on the Naxos recording of The Passion of Yeshua with the Buffalo Philharmonic. From a young age, Mx. Mendez performed in community theater productions with roles including Beggar Woman (Sweeney Todd), Janet Weiss (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), and a robot saloon girl named Kit in an original show called Betty Rocket: Space Lawyer. They have enjoyed continuing community connection through music with The West Coast Singers, the LGBT+ Chorus of Los Angeles, and spent a short time singing with Mariachi de Uclatlàn. Kim received Associates Degrees in Music and Humanities from Pasadena City College (June 2018), a Bachelor of Music from UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music (June 2020), and a Master of Music degree also from UCLA (2022).

Julia Maria Johnson is an award-winning soprano and educator praised for her “sparkling vocal agility and emotional sincerity.” Based in Los Angeles, she has quickly become a distinctive presence in both traditional repertoire and new works, recognized for her musical versatility and expressivity. In the 2025-26 Season, Ms. Johnson joined the Confidencen Opera & Music Festival Young Artist Program in Sweden, where she covered Zerlina in Don Giovanni. Recent role debuts include Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Musetta (La Bohème), Phyllis (Iolanthe), and Ernestina (Salieri’s La Scuola de’ Gelosi). She has performed with companies including Opera San Jose, LA Opera Connects, Pacific Opera Project, LUCO, The Castleton Festival, Opera Naples (2024 Resident Artist), The Opera Buffs, Lyric Opera of Orange County, and more. She has been District Winner and Regional Encouragement Winner at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, a top-nine finalist in the Vienna Beethoven Competition in Austria, a top-10 finalist in the McCammon Competition, and a 2nd Prize/Vítězslava Kaprálová Award winner at The American International Czech & Slovak Competition. Ms. Johnson earned her M.M. from The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and currently serves on the voice faculty at California Lutheran University.

Madison Chamberlain is a soprano originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently a fourth-year undergraduate student pursuing a BA in Music Education and a BM in Vocal Performance at UCLA, studying voice with esteemed baritone Vladimir Chernov. In her time at UCLA, she has performed with the UCLA Chamber Singers and UCLA Opera. With the UCLA Chamber Singers, Madison sang Soprano in the vocal quartet for Lera Auerbach’s West Coast premiere of “Vessels of Light” in beautiful Royce Hall and participated in Seraphic Fire’s Ensemble Artist Program, where she performed in Southern Florida with leading choral professionals. Outside of school, Madison is an active member of Adoro Ensemble as a Resident Artist and Administrative Collaborator, with a strong belief in Adoro’s mission to bridge humans through the power of the voice. Madison aspires to become a choral conductor and educator at the K-12 and collegiate levels, hoping to inspire young artists to develop a passion for music, as she did, through music education.

Krishna Raman is a native of New Jersey, Indian American Tenor.
Krishna started his musical journey at the tender age of 5 when he began singing Carnatic music - a style of Indian classical music. Embracing his cultural roots, he used this foundation and has since shifted into Western classical music with interests in opera, contemporary music, early music, and oratorio. Krishna earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Vocal Performance from Carnegie Mellon University, and recently completed his Master of Music in Vocal Arts at the University of Southern California. After making his professional debut in the 2022-2023 season portraying Don Curzio and covering Don Basilio in Opera San José’s novel production of Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, Krishna went on to become a studio artist with Teatro Nuovo and attend the prestigious the American Bach Soloists Academy. Currently based in Los Angeles, California, Krishna is an active singer and part of several church and professional ensembles such as the Credo choir and Verdi chorus. He also occasionally sings with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and LA Philharmonic. Passionate about pedagogy, Krishna teaches voice lessons both virtually and locally to students of all ages and backgrounds.

With “tones of pure gold” (Washington Post), soprano, educator, and creative producer Michelle Rice has performed more than 50 roles and orchestral works, bringing her rich timbre and intensity of stagecraft to the work. Excelling in mezzo repertoire for 15 years before moving to dramatic soprano, Rice’s career highlights include the roles of Lady Gruoch Macbeth (Peire-Serrate’s The Queen, My Lord, Is Dead, world premiere); Mrs. Grose (The Turn of the Screw) conducted by Lorin Maazel at the Kennedy Center; Dorabella (Così fan tutte) with acclaimed film director Jonathan Lynn; Virginia Woolf in Dominick Argento’s Pulitzer Prize-winning monodrama From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, performed for the composer; and the mezzo solo in Verdi’s Requiem alongside Sharon Sweet and James Morris. Rice is Artistic Director and Executive Producer of Seven Sisters Productions, a company that commissions, develops, produces, premieres, and records new works for the voice.

Kendall Renaud is a Los Angeles based Choral Conductor, Educator, Arranger, and Singer.  He holds Bachelors of Music Education Degrees in both Choral and Instrumental Music Education from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He currently serves as the Director of Music and Choral Director at Marymount High School-Los Angeles where he conducts several treble ensembles, teaches courses in Music Theory, and assistant/music directs musical productions-including the upcoming Spring 2026 production of Hadestown.  As a Choral Director, Kendall’s ensembles have toured across the United States and performed in places from Disneyland to Chicago, Orlando and beyond consistently receiving top remarks and been named Top 10 State Finalists at the ISSMA Concert Choir State Finals Competition hosted in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Anthony Lauro is a bass-baritone singer and performer based in Southern California, and has sung, taught, and conducted in various churches and schools across the region. He is a graduate of the University of Redlands, earning both a bachelor of music in vocal performance and a master of music in vocal chamber music. He has performed a number of major works including the Haydn Te Deum, Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang,” Lauridsen “Chansons des Roses” and “Lux Aeterna,” the U.S. premiere of Paul Mealor’s “Seabury Mass,” and the Fauré Requiem as a soloist with the Temecula Master Chorale. He is currently a member of the Long Beach Camerata Singers and Voices of Terpsichor, and he also teaches music theory at Chaffey Community College. In his spare time, Anthony loves to dabble in guitar, cook, explore different food places with his wife, and solve Rubik’s cubes competitively (also with his wife). Rarely will you see him without a puzzle on his person!

Arreanna Rostosky hails from Houston, TX and has performed early music since high school, starting at the Texas Renaissance Festival. She cantors at St. Paul the Apostle Church and is a soprano and music librarian for the Schola Cantorum. When not singing, Arreanna works as a product manager at Tic Toc Games. In her free time you can find her riding her favorite rides at Disneyland, watching touring Broadway musicals, playing through her video game backlog, or reading historical non-fiction. She holds a BM in voice from Vanderbilt University, MA/PhD in musicology from UCLA, and an MBA from USC.

Kevin Cornwell II is a conductor, baritone, and educator based in LA and currently serves as the Choir and A Cappella Director at the Archer School for Girls. Before arriving in CA, Kevin served as the interim Co-Choir director at the Detroit School of Arts in Detroit, Michigan, alongside Julian Goods, where he directed four choir ensembles. As a conductor, Kevin has collaborated with renowned composers such as Stacey V. Gibbs and Brandon Waddles and was a finalist in the 2023 ACDA National Conducting Competition. As a singer, Kevin recently served in UCLA's Ensemble Artist Program, where he performed with Seraphic Fire and collaborated on a recording with Cappella Romana.  Kevin holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Oakland University (MI) and a Master's in Choral Conducting from UCLA. 

Ted Allen is a talented singer and musician known for his beautiful lyric tenor voice. He has sung and soloed with many groups in the LA area, including Verdi Chorus, SMC Opera, Angel City Chorale, and the Westminster Chorus, winning an international gold medal with them in 2024. He also sings and competes with his barbershop quartet Speakeasy, which won the Barbershop Harmony Society regional competition for the SoCal area in 2024.

Max Loy is a multidisciplinary artist whose journey is led by music and movement. Born in Hong Kong, he discovered his love for performance early, joining the WDC Hong Kong Latin Dance Representative Team after winning the 2013 Annual Title Championship. After moving to the United States, he won the Changwon K-Pop World Festival representing Seattle, and later represented UCLA in both singing and Latin dance competitions. His performances earned multiple top honors, including Champion titles at Dance by the Shore and U825 Talent Quest, celebrating his expressive artistry and versatility. A graduate of UCLA Architecture, Max completed his first solo project in Coldwater Canyon and created the Powell Cat Statue, now permanently installed at Kerckhoff Hall. In collaboration with UCLA and Harvard, his merchandise designs support wildlife rescue initiatives. Through music, architecture, and art, Max continues to explore the rhythm that connects all forms of creation.

Michael “Sayuva” Torres is a Bass-Baritone Vocalist with the Los Angeles-based Adoro Ensemble. He is an undergraduate student at UCLA studying music education. Outside of Adoro, he has been an educator in the Los Angeles area for two years, running his own private studio and serving as a choral teaching fellow for Elemental Music. He actively sings with the UCLA Chamber Singers, directed by Dr. James Bass, as well as the UCLA African American Music Ensemble, directed by Dr. Diane White-Clayton. Sayuva is also an independent artist and composer, with the latest project including a song cycle for chamber vocal ensemble entitled "Neuro," which tackles the daily challenges that come with neurodivergence.

Camryn Jayde Deisman is a mezzo-soprano based in Los Angeles, CA. Born and raised in Visalia, CA, she is a fourth-year undergraduate at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, pursuing a B.A. in Music Education and a B.M. in Vocal Performance. She studies voice under Vladimir Chernov, and is passionate about choral singing, aspiring to become a choral conductor. Camryn performed as Dido in California Opera Association’s Dido and Aeneas (2024) and recently as Mrs. Grose in Opera UCLA’s The Turn of the Screw (2025). She participated in the Seraphic Fire Ensemble Artist Program, and serves as Co-President of UCLA’s cNAfME (National Association for Music Education) chapter. Camryn is active in the Music Ministry at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Community, located in Westwood, where she performs in the Schola Cantorum, Caritas Quartet, and cantors. As owner, Camryn runs Jayde Jewelry, with over 5,000 orders shipped worldwide.

Nairi Semerdjian - Nairi Semerdjian is a dynamic vocalist, composer, and performer of Armenian and Creole descent from Palmdale, California. Her musical journey began early with voice, piano, and dance training, later blossoming into a love for musical theater. Nairi studied music with an emphasis in composition at California Lutheran University, where she performed with the CLU Choir, Regals Quartet, and Mariachi Mi Robles, and founded the university’s Gospel Choir. Her performances have graced renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, St. Peter’s Cathedral, and BMO Stadium. Nairi continues to grow as a versatile artist dedicated to sharing powerful, culturally rooted musical experiences with audiences everywhere.

Maya Derbise is a classically trained mezzo-soprano who divides her time between the US and France. She holds a B.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Operatic roles include Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Secrecy and Summer (The Fairy Queen), and Ino (Semele). Musical theater credits include Louisa (The Fantasticks), the Witch (Into the Woods), Olive (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), and Laurey (Oklahoma!). Maya began performing in childhood with over 30 productions through Kids On Stage, Inc. In 2018, she received the Best Actress in a Musical and Triple Threat awards from the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts at Culver City High School for her portrayal of Olive. In 2025, she was one of seven singers selected in her category to advance to the NATS Cal-Western Regional Competition, where she competed against university vocalists from California, Arizona, and Nevada. 

Mia Ruhman (b.2003) is a Los Angeles based composer, soprano, and actress. Ruhman’s most recent project is her original opera, Nannerl, to which she composed the score and wrote the libretto. A production of Nannerl was mounted in 2025, consisting of 20 person cast- with Ruhman playing “Nannerl”. Ruhman was the undergraduate speaker at the UCLA School of Music graduation. Ruhman was a fellow in the LA Phil's composer fellowship program, the YOLA Sue Tsao composer fellow (2020), recipient of a Global Music Award (2024), and spoke at the 77th National League of American Orchestra conference. Her compositions have been conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and Grant Gershon, and performed by the LA Phil, National Children’s Chorus, Seraphour, Hub New Music, and the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles. Ruhman works for the National Children’s Chorus as a composition and musicianship instructor. Ruhman is honored to be a member of Adoro ensemble!