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Ema Mitrović - mezzo-soprano
Award winning and critically acclaimed operatic mezzo-soprano/vocalist, Ema Mitrović, is described: “out of the ensemble, I found Ema Mitrovic...to be the standout” (Opera Manhattan, Suor Angelica ’12) and "Her rich mezzo is pure pleasure..”
(Hudson Opera Theatre, Lucia di Lammermoor ’18). Ms. Mitrović performs as an ambassador of music across different genres, having performed 19 operatic roles thus far, a number of solo recitals, and has enjoyed being a strong cross-over jazz singer, performing along New York City’s finest musicians, including Tim Horner, Joe Locke, Ted Rosenthal, and Jim Ridl, to name a few. She's been on stage at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and New York City's renowned jazz venues Birdland, The Kitano, and Smalls. Often, she performs programs that include both classical and standard jazz repertoire to connect to her audience.
As passionate a performer, Ema is equally as passionate in teaching, having done so for 7+ years. During the Covid 19 quarantine, Ema has been proud to keep a full studio remotely (on Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, etc) of roughly 30+ voice and piano students, at both the non-profit The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts and privately owned Elefante Music, among her own. When conditions permit, Ema will return to New York’s The Lighthouse Opera Company in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Dritte Dame) as well as make a role/company debut with Bronx Opera Company in its production of The Bartered Bride (Háta).
Ms. Mitrović is a proud first generation Croatian-American, born and raised in New Jersey. She continues to intensely study vocal technique with Maestro Braeden Harris.
Savannah Greene, Soprano
Savannah Greene is a soprano known for her "soaring", "powerful", and "beautifully emotive" voice. This season, Savannah will star in Poulenc’s one woman opera La Voix Humaine with The Office Arts Production Company. In April of 2021, Savannah performed the leading role of The Narrator in Felix Jarrar’s contemporary opera “A Tell Tale Heart”, an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic short story. Later this season, Savannah will perform as a soloist in “Un-Rooted”, a staged production of art song with Hub City Opera. Last season, Savannah covered the role of Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi with Regina Opera and sang as the Soprano Soloist in Mendelssohn’s “Hör' mein Bitten” with RCB’s Oratorio Series. Last Spring, she performed the role of 2nd Pâtre in Amore Opera’s production of Dinorah. In 2019, she was the Soprano Soloist in Brahms’ Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang and Bach’s Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild with the Oratorio Society of New Jersey. Last fall, Savannah debuted with the trio Blue Dynamic, an Opera-Jazz fusion group where she and her colleagues composed and arranged pieces that fused aspects of the two genres.
In the summer of 2018, she was a young artist at Teatro Nuovo Music Festival where she prepared the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. She also performed with the opera band, The Avanti Singers, where she did a series of concerts around The East Coast. In the winter of 2018, she was a semi finalist in both Premier Opera International Vocal Competition and Art Song Preservation Society of New York. In the summer of 2017, she was the guest opera soloist at the well known and celebrated art festival, The Pageant of the Masters, in Laguna Beach, California where she sang 60 nights in a row with full orchestra for 2800 people. In 2016, she performed the role of Mary Warren in Miami Music Festival’s production of The Crucible with director David Toulson and conductor Brad Moore. In 2015, she attended The Aspen Music Festival where she covered the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. Other performances in Aspen Opera Theater’s opera scenes included La Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro and Ilia in Idomeneo. In the spring of 2015, Savannah received her Master’s Degree in Music from University of Southern California where she performed the role of Mrs. Gomfit in the contemporary and atonal opera The English Cat, Virtù in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, and she performed the role of The Governess in scenes from Britten’s The Turn of the Screw in USC's Opera Scenes Program. Savannah was born and raised in Los Angeles and has now returned to her roots after living and singing in New York City from 2016-2020
Program includes opera's beloved Soprano and Mezzo duets, including: Flower Duet from "Lakmé", Barcarolle from "Les contes d'Hoffmann", The Prayer from "Hansel & Gretel", Flower Duet from "Madama Butterfly.
Craig Ketter, piano
Critically acclaimed for “transporting the listeners to extraordinary heights” and “into a world beyond time and space,” pianist Craig Ketter is known for playing with powerhouse sonority combined with long-lined, dulcet lyricism. Mr. Ketter has performed as soloist with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the Sacramento Philharmonic, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, the Mobile Symphony, the South Orange Symphony, the Raleigh Symphony, the Garden State Philharmonic, the Durham Symphony, the Rocky Ridge Music Festival Orchestra, and the American Festival for the Arts Orchestra. His solo concerts have taken him to Mexico, Argentina, Barbados, France, Germany, Japan, and across the United States and Canada.
Complementing his solo performances with collaborative ventures, Mr. Ketter regularly joins forces with international singers and chamber groups. Venues include NPR’s Performance Today series, CBS Sunday Morning, Sirius Satellite Radio, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, La Huaca de Atlapa in Panama City, the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Savannah Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine, “Music in the Mountains” in Colorado, and The Marilyn Horne Foundation. Musicians he has collaborated with include flutists Eugenia Zukerman and Carol Wincenc, clarinetists Stephen Williamson, Ricardo Morales, and Jon Manasse, cellists Robert deMaine and Eric Bartlett, violinists Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Roy Malan, and Paul Huang, and singers Renee Fleming, Deborah Voigt, Margaret Jane Wray, Samuel Ramey, Paul Plishka, Nathan Gunn, Ben Heppner, Cliff Forbis, Francisco Casanova, and Robert White. He has also performed with the esteemed actress Claire Bloom.
Craig Ketter began piano studies at the age of seven, giving his first solo recital at the age of ten. Shortly thereafter, he began to win top prizes in numerous competitions including the Young Keyboard Artists Association International Piano Competition, the North Carolina Symphony Young Artists Competition, and the Kingsville International Piano Competition. He later won first prizes in the Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Piano Competition, the Richardson Awards National Piano Competition, and the South Orange Symphony of New Jersey Young Artists Competition. He was also awarded the Saunderson Award at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in Los Angeles, California with the Meliora Winds.
Craig Ketter received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Nelita True and Barry Snyder, where he also taught as Mr. Snyder’s assistant. He continued post-graduate studies with Yoheved Kaplinsky of the Juilliard School. Complementing his performing with teaching, Mr. Ketter has presented master classes throughout the United States and Argentina, and has served as a guest professor and adjudicator in several institutions and venues. He has been a faculty member of the Rocky Ridge Music Festival in Colorado and has served as Chair of the Piano Faculty at the American Festival for the Arts in Houston, Texas. He is currently on the faculty of New Jersey City University. Mr. Ketter currently resides in Fair Lawn, New Jersey with his wife, Canadian soprano Valerie Gonzalez, and his two sons, Isaac and Daniel.