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Contact Information
Tel: (414) 778-1940
Postal address: Milwaukee Metropolitan Voices Inc., PO Box 13831, Milwaukee WI 53213-0831
 
Electronic mail:  info@mmvoices.org    
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Last modified: May 10, 2010 04:21 PM

Rwhitney.jpg (446911 bytes)Soprano Rebecca Whitney graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, where she received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance and Vocal Music Education.   She has performed with numerous groups in Southeastern Wisconsin , including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Bel Canto Chorus, Menomonee Falls Symphony Orchestra, and the Master Singers of Milwaukee.   She has been heard as a soloist in such works as Messiah, The Creation, Mozart’s Vesperae solemnes de confessore, Faure’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man, and works by Bach, Vivaldi, Britten, Vaughan Williams, John Rutter and Dave Brubeck, among others.

A three time NATS finalist and a 2005 finalist in the Bel Canto Regional Artists Competition, Ms. Whitney is also an accomplished liturgical singer, and served as cantor and psalmist at the central liturgy of the national convention of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians in June, 2005.   By day, she serves as Project Manager for Milwaukee ’s Bel Canto Chorus.

Ms. Whitney lives in Milwaukee with her husband Steve, a bassoonist, and their children Patrick, Michael, and Clare.

 

CBeilke.jpg (19842 bytes)Cornelia Beilke, mezzo-soprano, comes from an extended family of musicians in Leipzig, Germany. Ms. Beilke studied voice and vocal pedagogy at the Musikhochschule "Hans Eisler" in Berlin, Germany, and holds a Master of Music Performance from Loyola University College of Music. She toured throughout Europe and Japan with the Gächinger Kantorei conducted by Helmut Rilling, with whom she also recorded the complete works of Bach. Performance credits in Europe include the International Bach Festivals in Potsdam and Berlin, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and the Komische Oper Berlin.

In the United States Ms. Beilke sang with the Washington Opera, the Wolf Trap Opera, the Washington Bach Consort, the Washington Cathedral Choral Society, and numerous chamber ensembles. n New Orleans, she has been a featured soloist with Tulane University's Music at Midday concerts, the Trinity Artist Concerts, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the LPO Symphony Chorus, the Acadiana Symphony in Lafayette and the Brentwood Baroque Consort in Massachusetts. A favorite with New Orleans audiences, she was heard as a soloist with the Symphony Chorus in Händel's Messiah, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Bach's Cantata 124, Mozart's Requiem, and Händel's Judas Maccabeaus. Until August 29 of 2005, Ms. Beilke maintained a busy studio at Loyola University, teaching voice, performance master classes and courses in German diction. After evacuating with her family to Massachusetts, Ms. Beilke took a teaching assignment with the Cape Cod Conservatory. Most recently, she moved with her family to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and made her debut with the Milwaukee early music producer, Musical Offering, Ltd. in May 2007 as the featured guest soloist in "Mozart to Moonlight."