Over the course of a multifaceted career spanning four decades, Grammy and Tony Award-winning jazz giant Dee Dee Bridgewater has ascended to the upper echelon of vocalists, putting her unique spin on standards, as well as taking intrepid leaps of faith in re-envisioning jazz classics. Ever the fearless voyager, explorer, pioneer and keeper of tradition, the three-time Grammy-winner recently won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album for Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee.

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Lyric soprano Kearstin Piper Brown has been featured at major venues including the Teatro di San Carlo, Carnegie Hall, Semperoper Dresden, Santa Fe Opera and the Kennedy Center. The Shining will be Kearstin’s debut with Opera Parallèle, opposite Grammy-winner Edward Parks, preceding her Lyric Opera debut in March 2023. Kearstin’s lead performance in the 2022 opera Intimate Apparel earned a Drama Desk Awards nomination for ‘Outstanding Actress (Musical)’. Co-developed by Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera, Intimate Apparel was also broadcast nationally as one of PBS’ Great Performances, and named one of the NY Times’ 10 ‘Best Theater of 2022’.

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Marcus Anthony Shelby is a composer, bassist, bandleader, and educator who currently lives in San Francisco, California. His work focuses on the history, present, and future of African American lives social movements and music education. Currently, Shelby is the Artistic Director of Healdsburg Jazz, an artist in residence with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, and a past resident artist with the San Francisco Jazz Festival and the Healdsburg Jazz Festival. Shelby has composed several oratorios and suites including “Harriet Tubman”, “Beyond the Blues: A Prison Oratorio”, “Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”,  and a children’s opera “Harriet’s Spirit” produced by Opera Paralléle 2018 & 2021.

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As an in-demand recitalist and coach, pianist Kevin Korth has collaborated with such legendary artists as Frederica von Stade, Isabel Leonard, Jake Heggie, Nadine Sierra, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Sasha Cooke, Lise Lindstrom, Joel Krosnick, John Holiday, and Deborah Voigt.  Praised by Gramophone for playing that is “superb”, and “full of color and character,” his debut album, Out of the Shadows, a recording of American art song with soprano Lisa Delan and cellist Matt Haimovitz on the Pentatone Classics label was warmly received. This summer, Mr. Korth will make his Napa Valley Fesitval debut in a recital with baritone Lester Lynch.  Mr. Korth currently holds a position on the vocal coaching faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

A San Francisco resident since 1998, Michael is an inspired and inspiring auctioneer with a demeanor that endears him to diverse audiences. He is unabashedly passionate in his commitment to helping nonprofits achieve their goals. Over the last ten years, he has partnered with more than 70 local, national and international nonprofit organizations and charities.

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