Ellen St. Thomas Soprano

Ellen St. Thomas is an expressive lyric soprano who enjoys performing, teaching, conducting and directing. She was recently a featured singer on the kick-off program for radio 90.3 KUSF's premiere of the Met Broadcasts. Her live opera performances with local opera companies such as West Bay Opera, Livermore Opera, San Francisco Lyric Opera, Mission Opera and The Marin Summer Music Festival include: The Countess, The Marriage of Figaro, First Lady The Magic Flute, Anna Gomez The Consul, Rosalinda Die Fledermaus, Mimi La Boheme, Miss Jessel Turn of

the Screw, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Jenufa and Mayor's Wife Jenufa, Micaela Carmen, Pretzel Girl in Shostakovich's, The Nose and the Madam in Pasatieri's La Divina. Recent oratorio performances include the Mendelssohn's Paulus for the San Francisco City Chorus. Other concert performances include Mendelssohn's Elijah, Brahms Requiem, The Rutter Requiem, Faure's Requiem and the Mozart's Requiem and a performance of Schubert's 'Auf dem Strom' with the Avenue of the Winds Ensemble in San Francisco. Ms. St. Thomas sang the world premiere of "Small Children, With No Ice-Cream Cones' Ed Dierauf (composer), Bernard Weiner (poet) for The Marsh's political cabaret program Progressive Muse Poetry! Music! Comedy! Resistance! Opera directing credits include La Boheme and Rachmaninoff's, Aleko for the Russian Center. Ellen can be heard on the CD soundtrack for the PBS program 'Classical Stretch'. Ellen's foray into Hollywood has been the contribution of her speaking and singing voice to cartoon episodes of Madeline and Inspector Gadget for Dic Entertainment. Ms. St. Thomas has a private voice studio and teaches voice at the Alameda School of Music. She has taught Kodaly elementary music and led several youth choruses for the Mountain View School District. Ms. St. Thomas conducts the adult choir for Lake Park United Methodist Church in Oakland. Upcoming performances include "Girl With a Cello" a song cycle music written by bay area composer JJ Hollingsworth and words by poet May Sarton during a program with the Sound SFound Concert series, Temple United Methodist Church, San Francisco.