Baltimore & Washington DC Christmas Carolers

Meet our Baltimore & Washington, DC carolers!

Sophia Dove (Soprano) has enjoyed taking a few years off from school to teach, write music, and perform after graduating in 2016 from University of Colorado, Boulder with a degree in both vocal performance and speech pathology. Upon graduation, she sang with regional opera companies, including the titular character in Montsalvatge's Puss in Boots with Boulder Opera, Mrs. Nolan with Denver Immersive Opera, and roles in CU New Opera Workshop premieres. Her notable credits with the Eklund Opera Program at CU include the role of Despina in Così fan tutte, the Sandman in Hänsel und Gretel, La Virtù in L’incoronazione di Poppea, and a nun in Dialogues des Carmélites. Ms. Dove is currently in her final year of a Master's in Voice Pedagogy with a classical concentration at Shenandoah University, where you can often hear her sing in the Conservatory's opera productions.

Rob Tucker (Tenor) is a Central New York native who attended University at Buffalo SUNY for Musical Theatre where he trained Bel Canto under Kent Smith and Timothy Kennedy. Rob tends to seek highly technical work, be it physical or vocal in nature. To this end he has performed in The Impresario and The Merry Widow with Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Cats and Merrily we Roll Along with Millburn Stone Theatre, Light in the Piazza with Theatre Hopkins, The Drowsy Chaperone, Titanic, and Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder with Dundalk Community Theatre, and Shipwrecked at Colonial Players in Annapolis (WATCH award). He holds two Masters degrees in education and teaches drama and IB Theatre at Edgewood High School in Harford County, Maryland.

Korinne Myers (Soprano) of Martinsburg, WV is a singer, pianist, actress, writer, and model currently working out of the DMV area. A graduate of Shepherd University, Korinne appeared in various shows in her time there, such as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, When We Were Young and Unafraid, and Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play. In the concert setting, she has been featured in Handel's Messiah, and Charpentier's Te Deum. She has also worked as a production designer on the short film Violet, and as an assistant musical director for a local theater production of The Spongebob Musical.

Aurelius Gori (Bass) is a founding member of Gori Voice Studios, LLC and is an acclaimed voice specialist, soloist and recitalist based in Greater Washington, DC. A 1990-91 Fulbright scholar, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and was a 1991 semifinalist in the International Belvedere Competition in Vienna. He has appeared as a concert soloist with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, Fairfax Symphony, the Amherst (New York) Symphony and the North York Symphony in Toronto. He is a master teacher and mentor to successful singers in choral, operatic, oratorio, contemporary commercial and musical theater venues throughout the Greater Washington DC area and beyond. His students include professional singers, school teachers, actors, clergy, rock singers, NATS Regional competition winners and college scholarship award recipients. He loves caroling and is privileged to sing with the Olde Towne Carolers.

Cathy Thorpe (Soprano) has been praised by The Washington Post as having “a voice of liquid silver” She has enchanted audiences throughout the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific in numerous operatic roles, orchestral concerts and solo recitals. A versatile musician and vibrant and engaging presence on stage, Soprano Catherine Thorpe is equally comfortable performing numerous vocal styles, from Opera to Early Music to Big Band standards. For many years she was the featured Girl Singer with the famous Swing-n-Sway with Sammy Kay Orchestra on stage and appearing on specials broadcast by PBS stations across the country.

Sarah Mitchell (Soprano) grew up in Portugal, studying flute at the National Conservatory in Lisbon. She came to the US to study voice in Pennsylvania and continued singing as her family moved to California, Hawaii, and now Maryland. While in Hawaii, Sarah was a member of the Opera Studio Program at Hawaii Opera Theatre, where she sang in the chorus in main productions and performed with the Opera Express outreach program. In Maryland, Sarah has enjoyed expanding her experience as a crossover singer in local theatrical productions, such as The Drowsy Chaperone (Mrs. Tottendale) and The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess). She teaches voice, piano, and choir and sings regularly at her church.

Mia Rowan Pesta (Soprano) lives in Arlington, Virginia, and is originally from Tallahassee, Florida. She received her Bachelor's of Music in Voice Performance from The Florida State University in 2020. She has sung solo work in the DMV including Faure's Pie Jesu and Domine Deus from Vivaldi's Magnificat. She also sings with the Schola Cantorum at the Cathedral of St. Matthew in DC. Mia enjoys singing a wide variety of styles including Opera, Musical Theater, Art Song, and Oratorio. Mia has always had a special love for Christmas Carols and is so excited to be singing with Olde Towne Carolers this season.

Amy Tucker (Soprano) is a classically trained vocalist who has been performing since the age of 6 as a vocalist, instrumentalist, and actor. She earned a BA in Music and Mathematics from the University at Buffalo in 2008. Amy has lived in Maryland since then, and performed in a variety of theatre productions both onstage and in the pit. Favorite roles include Cats (Jennyanydots, Tidewater Players), Seussical (Mrs. Mayor, Streetlamp Productions), Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (“10 Little Indians” Soloist and others, MST), Sunday in the Park with George (Celeste #1, MST), Merrily We Roll Along (Dory, MST), Avenue Q! (Kate Monster, Tidewater), and Honk! (Penny/Henrietta, Artistic Synergy of Baltimore). Amy is also an accomplished instrumentalist. Among others, she plays baritone saxophone, piano, and violin. Outside the theatre, Amy teaches math at the university level. Her other interests include reading, Harry Potter, Disney, travel, and spending time with her husband, Robert, and their two cats.

Jim Li (Tenor), a native of Taiwan, has performed Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro, Monostatos in Magic Flute and as a Sailor in Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell. He sang opera roles as a doctor in Augusta Read Thomas' Ligeia, which took place in Evian, France, commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich; Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte at Seagle Colony, up-state New York; Emperor in Charles Strous' Nightingale with Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia, Lindoro in Rossini's An Italian Girl in Algiers with Mount Vernon Place Music Theater, Washington, DC. Tinca in Giacomo Puccini's Il Tabarro, as Cassio in Verdi’s Otello with Opera International, Washington, DC. Evangelist in The Christmas Story by Heinrich Schütz, soloist in Stravinsky's Pulcinella, Mozart’s Requiem with Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church choir and orchestra, and the soloist in Sergei Rchmanioff’s All-Night Vigil with Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Jim is an alumnus of Peabody Conservatory.

Maggie Ramsey (Mezzo-Soprano) is an opera singer based in Alexandria, VA. Most recently, in 2022 she performed the role of Emilia in Shakespeare Opera Theatre’s production of Othello. Previous principal roles include Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors and Queen Gertrude in Hamlet with SOT, Woman #2 and the role of Liz (cover) in the professional premiere of Sweets by Kate with Marble City Opera, Sandman in Hansel and Gretel with Knoxville Opera, Silver Dollar in The Ballad of Baby Doe and Giovanna in Rigoletto with the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center, Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte and Medea in the world premiere of Larry Delinger’s Medea with the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre. Maggie also enjoys singing with D.C. Metro Opera On Tap and the all-female vocal ensemble Sopranessence. She lives in Alexandria, VA.

Ben Ross (Baritone) is most happy when collaborating with other artists to create meaningful work that inspires action in audiences. Comfortable in opera, choral music, art song, concert repertoire, early music, and musical theatre, they have been an active performer in both the Chicago and DMV area with the Peabody Opera Theatre, Annapolis Opera, Thompson Street Opera, Transgressive Opera Theatre, KJR Studio Productions, Janus Concert Series, and The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago. Favorite roles include, Le Mari (Les Mamelles des Tiresias), Pandolfe (Cendrillon), Robert Schumann (Ghost Variations), and Major General Stanley (The Pirates of Penzance). Ben is currently a Masters of Music candidate at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where they are a student of William Sharp.

Rachel Elezi (Soprano) has had the pleasure of engaging audiences across the United States and Europe. Equally at home in opera and musical theatre, select recent engagements include the 2023 Southern Tour of We’ll Meet Again: A New American Musical, her debut as a soloist at the Anghiari Festival and as a competition semi-finalist at the Concorso Lirico Internazionale Santa Gianna Beretta Molla (Associazione Culturale Giuseppe Verdi), both in Italy. Notable past appearances include her Lincoln Center debut as part of the Bernstein Centennial Celebration, Lenny @ 100, in Germany as a soloist at Bergedorfer Sommerfestival/Musiktage and Festpiele Mecklenberg- Vorpommern, and in Lithuania as part of the Sugrįžimai International Music Festival. Select opera roles include Tamara (The Demon), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Sandmann (Hänsel und Gretel), and Medea (Il Giasone). She can also be heard on the Naxos Records original cast recording of Louis Karchin’s new opera, Jane Eyre.

Marcel Worrell Miller (Tenor), a native of Washington, D.C., nurtured his love of the arts early, having graduated from Duke Ellington School of the Arts. He went on to earn his Bachelor of Music in Voice from the Cleveland Institute of Music; as well as his Master of Music Degree from the Chicago College of Performing Arts of Roosevelt University. Mr. Miller was a member of the celebrated DC Boys Choir and Duke Ellington Show Choir. He has received his dance training from the Dance Theater of Harlem Residency Program at the Kennedy Center and Mather Dance Center in Cleveland, OH. Mr. Miller also was a competitive figure skater and was a member of the United States Figure Skating Association and Washington Figure Skating Club. He has performed in several productions at Anacostia Playhouse. Mr. Miller has experience working with children from six weeks to eighteen years of age; he has also worked with children with developmental disabilities. With his years of experience working from childcare to high school, he has seen the power of the arts and the positive impact it has on the children, adults, and communities.

Daniel Breuer (Bass & Tenor) grew up in Florida, where he began performing at an early age. He has been seen on theatre stages across Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Notably, he earned two Metrolina Theatre Association Awards for his roles in Spamalot with Piedmont Players Theatre and The Full Monty with Hickory Community Theater. Daniel has been a professional caroler since 2009, and is honored to join the ranks of Olde Towne Carolers!

Clara Kelly (Soprano) is a vocalist and music teacher based in Baltimore, Maryland. Selected professional engagements: Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians” with Ted Atkatz Percussion Seminar in Los Angeles; world premieres of Aria Gittelson’s “Purgatory” and William Cowie’s “Les Cœurs Moitié Morts.” Opera and music theatre roles: Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro; Laurey in Oklahoma!; Nora in Peabody Opera’s upcoming production of Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea. Clara directs the Junior Choir, a K-12 choral ensemble, at Catonsville United Methodist Church, where she also serves as soprano section leader for the Chancel Choir. She received her Bachelor of Music from California State University, Long Beach, and is currently pursuing her Master of Music in Voice Performance and Pedagogy at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

Additional Singers:

Mandy Frantz (Soprano)

Kathryn Brode (Soprano)

J.P. Gorski (Bass)

Gregory Stuart (Bass)

Olde Towne Carolers are available for hire in Baltimore and Washington, DC!