Crystal's favorite roles include Cunegonde in Candide  (dir. Bill Wesbrooks), Christine in Phantom (dir. Doug Hodge), Anna Glawari (The Merry Widow), Mabel (Pirates of Penzance), Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld, Geraldine in Hand of Bridge  (Dir. Eric Einhorn), u/s Amber in Hairspray, King David, and singing “Glitter and Be Gay” with the NYU Symphony Orchestra at the Skirball Center under conductor Joseph Church and John Simpkins (dir).  Last summer, Crystal performed in Highmount, NY with the Belleayre Music Festival (Die Fledermaus as well as their children's opera, Humpty Dumpty).  Crystal just closed a NYC revival of Paint Your Wagon with producer Mel Miller at Musicals Tonight!

Originally from Kansas City, I studied vocal performance, choral conducting and music education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.  I have directed and music directed productions all over the United States, including the current Off-Broadway production of Honestly Abe.  I have performed a wide variety of leading roles in everything from opera and operetta, to musical comedy and straight drama. He has been a featured performer with such esteemed organizations as Music Theatre for Young People of Kansas City, The Kansas City Symphony, The Kansas City Lyric Opera, Indiana University Opera & Ballet Theatre, the 13th Street Repertory, La Muse Venale Acting Troupe, and the Bloomington Playwrights Project.  While at Indiana, he participated in a 4-month long Opera Workshop class led by Grammy-Award Winner Sylvia McNair.

Jamie is a teacher, guitarist, singer/songwriter, saxophonist, and composing pianist.  His teaching career began at the age of fourteen, as a volunteer in the Songcatchers, Inc. program, teaching saxophone and piano to underprivileged children in New Rochelle, NY.  While completing his undergraduate education, Jamie continued to participate in Wind Symphony and Spacecataz, his own rock band, while teaching privately in Rochester, NY and Westchester County, NY.  In 2007 he completed an eight month internship in Artist Media and Marketing at Island Def Jam Music Group/Universal in Manhattan.  During the second half of his senior year at Rochester, he single handedly designed, produced, and taught the General Music Program for K-10 at Cornerstone Academy in Brockport, NY.  Following this, he completed an independent study on the modern music industry, and was awarded the first ever Bachelor of Arts Degree in Popular Music and Jazz from the University of Rochester, and its sister conservatory, the Eastman School of Music. In the last several years, Jamie has built a formidable private studio of students on guitar, saxophone, piano, trumpet, clarinet, composition, theory, and performance.  Jamie has produced and hosted a plethora of student recitals, and begun his Master of Arts Degree in Music Education at Hunter College, inclusive of the AVID tutoring program and Teacher Education Program.  His musical influences are varied, and include Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms, Reich, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, BB King, Bob Dylan, The Cars, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Tool, R.E.M., The Red Hot Chili Peppers, No Doubt, The Police, Say Anything, Journey, Rush, Jimmy Eat World, Motion City Soundtrack, Billy Joel, Goo Goo Dolls, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Alanis Morissette, John Mayer, Stone Temple Pilots, and many more.

Tara is a Music Teacher/Vocal Coach in the Connecticut area. In 1992 Tara was accepted into the Berklee College of Music where she received her Bachelor’s in Music Education.  While studying at Berklee Tara learned to coach students in vocal techniques, stage presence, ear training etc.

I have been teaching young and adult students for over ten years and have never stopped loving it.  I have a BA in TheatreVoice and an MFA in writing for the musical theatre and have performed leads on and Off Broadway in shows including "Annie" and "1776".  I was a soloist in the original company of Leonard Bernstein's Mass and was fortunate to work with the maestro himself at the Kennedy Center and The Metropolitan Opera.  I also toured nationally as featured vocalist with the Oscar winning composer Michel Legrand performing in concert halls and jazz festivals including Carnegie Hall.