Guest Artists:
Soprano, Susan McCall was a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area for many years where she often performed with the Marin Opera and the Mayflower Chorus. While associated with the Marin Opera, Susan performed in Carmen, Camelot, and the world premiere of Gordon Getty's opera Plump Jack. She was a member of the Soundwaves Ensemble as well as a founding member of the jazz ensemble Shaken Not Stirred. She now lives in the Valley with her husband Michael McCall and their son, Tyler, and is a member of the music ministry at Desert Palm United Church of Christ in Tempe.
Tenor, Michael McCall has performed extensively in Germany as well as Austria, Greece and the United States. He served for many years as the associate music director of the Dom Cathedral in Cologne, Germany and was concurrently a guest conductor with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. After returning to the US, he was music director at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in San Rafael, California. Besides his career as a successful realtor, he also serves as associate conductor of the Arizona Arts Chorale.
Jeremy Stein Cushman, age 16, performs internationally as a violin soloist, with performances in England, Scotland, Argentina, Switzerland, France, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and throughout the United States. He has made numerous television appearances and performed in venues as diverse as Madison Square Garden, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, the White House, and the Superdome of New Orleans. Jeremy has also been the featured soloist with a variety of acclaimed orchestras including the New York Riverside Orchestra, the Queens Symphony Orchestra, the Queensborough Orchestra, the Great Neck Philharmonic, the COS Young Symphonic Ensemble on its concert tour of Scotland and England, and, on numerous occasions, the Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, Jeremy performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra and, due to the success of those performances and the overwhelming audience response, Maestro Fleming immediately invited Jeremy to return to the Scottsdale Symphony in the upcoming season. Jeremy returned to Arizona to perform and record Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the orchestra in March, 2007.
