Victoria Kirsch - Accompanist
Collaborative pianist/vocal coach Victoria Kirsch has created and performed innovative programs throughout Southern California, including concerts based on museum exhibitions and staged art song/poetry programs. She serves as a vocal and opera coach at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music. READ MORE..
Victoria has worked with national and regional opera companies, including LA Opera and Long Beach Opera, and served as an official pianist for the Operalia Competition and the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions. She played for soprano Julia Migenes (Carmen in the award-winning opera film directed by Francesco Rosi), touring the world for many years with the celebrated singing actress. Victoria is the music director of Opera Arts, a Coachella Valley-based performance organization. She has been a faculty member of the Los Angeles-based Angels Vocal Art summer program, a teaching artist for LA Opera’s Community Programs Department, and has served on the faculties of USC’s Thornton School of Music and SongFest. She was associated with the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara for many years, playing in the studio of renowned baritone and master teacher Martial Singher and serving as a member of the vocal faculty. |
Clivia Ngan - Flute
Clivia Ngan earned her degree in music performance at the California State University of Fullerton, studying with internationally renowned flutist, Jean Ferrandis. She is a professional freelancing flutist and music instructor, and has performed as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician on stages of Southern California such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Her and partner, Nick Godoy, perform as a flute and guitar duo known as Duo Libera. READ MORE..
Along with performing and teaching, she is also fond of curating musical experiences herself within the community-a passion and knack she had developed while working for Clazzical Notes years ago. In 2019, she and her colleague co-founded a non-profit orchestra, Synesthesia Sinfonietta, with the intent of bringing local musicians, composers, artists, and audiences together through impressive and accessible orchestral programming. The orchestra successfully put on three, full-ensemble orchestral concerts before the pandemic with incredible feedback, and has started to put on concerts again recently. Her most recent endeavor is getting her friend's new music studio, the Semitone Institute of Music, up and running this year. With its own beautiful, built-in concert room, they intend to stand out and build a community for music appreciation by presenting and curating their own high quality concerts in addition to providing music instruction for all instruments within the studio. |