Pancho Burgos, originally from Madrid Spain, graduated in Classical Piano Performance from Madrid Royal Conservatory, and in Classical Composition and Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music in Boston.  He was assistant conductor for the Longwood Symphony Orchestra in Boston under the supervision of musical director Francisco Noya.  Pancho has also toured and recorded extensively through Spain and in the US.  Among the numerous artists that Pancho has recorded and toured with are:  jazz singer Gabrielle Goodman, pop-rock band Blue Water, singer-songwriter Matt Chase, pop recording artist Chris Emmerson - featured in the WB series Dawson's Creek - and R& B recording artist Chrissy Poland.  A Film Composer, Pancho recently landed in LA to persue his career as both a composer and performer and is teaching in the new prestigious South Bay music school, Opus Music in the Old town district of Torrance.
Lee Conger dates his "trauma bond" with opera to a 1967 Shreveport Opera double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, during which, as an imporessinable 12 year - old supernumerary, he witnessd Nedda's stabbing from 2 feet away.  Subsequently, he sang with the Tulsa Opera Chorus, Theatre Tulsa, Cebrant Singers, Opera Centenary, the Baroque Artists of Shreveport, and the Opera Gang.  His roles include Frederic in Pirates of Penzance, Alfredo in Die Fledermaus, Tamino and Monostatos in The Magic Flute (different productions, to be sure), and Guillot de Morfontaine in Manon.  In the upcoming 2004-2005 season, he is scheduled to appear with the Intimate Opera Company as Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors and St. Brioche in The Merry Widow.  Mr. Conger lives in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. 
Chris Peterson was born and raised in Seattle, Washington.  As a teenager, he became active as a guitarist in the Seatlle blues scene.  Performing in many of the local bars and festivals, Chris realized that his dream was to become a professional musician.  After high school, he moved to Boston to pursue his musical dreams at Berklee College of Music.  While at Berklee, he studied Contemporary Writing and Production in hopes of becoming a composer for film and television.  Since moving to Los Anglees, Chris has worked as a copyist for films by John Williams, Alan Sylvestri, Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard and many more of today's top film composers.  He is now pursuing dual careers in performing and writing music while teaching at Opus Music in Torrance.  Petersonmusic.com
Tom Villano is a long time resident of the South Bay and has been involved with the local theater groups for the last 25 years.  He has directed Butterflies are Free with Alyssa Milano and David Arquette at the Court Theatre in Hollywood and locally he has directed Damn Yankees, Diary of Anne Frank, Rumors, and worked on various other productions as director and music director including Cabaret, Carousel, Man of La Mancha, and A Little Night Music.  Tom has been a film music editor on over 100 films including Dr. Doolittle, Nutty Professor, Bedazzled, Hoffa, War of the Roses, Hunt for Red October, Death to Smoochy, and Robocop.  For his Television work he has won two Emmy Awards, one fo rthe mini series Lonesome Dove and the other for the George lucas produced series Young Indiana Jones.  Tom has also received two MPSE awards one for the animated film, Anastasia and the other for the mini series, The Tempations.
Lucia Lynn "is a performer with incredible depth and intelligence and a startingly beautiful voice."  Originally from Minnesota, Miss Lynn performs throughout the U.S. and Europe and has been a featured soloist with the Mississippi Symphony's baroque music festival, the La Jolla Symphony, the Armand Hammer Museum's New Music Series, The Natchez Festival of Music, and Opera Guild of Los Angeles.   Miss Lynn has always had a love of American Musical Theatre which she continues to perform on a regular basis.  She recently returned from a tour through Switzerland and Germany where she sang concert of beloved Broadway classics and American jazz standards.  In 2003 Miss Lynn was the winner of the Nellie Morris Terry and Francis Paul Morris vocal competition given by the women's committee of the Glendale Symphony Orchestra ASsociation.  She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Vocal Performance from California Instiute of the Arts.
Melissa Sills is a real "Soprano" born and raised in New York.  A coloratura soprano, Miss Sills fell in love with contemporary musical theatre after playing Peggy in Godspell in High School.  She received her formal training at the Circle in the Square Theatre in NYC and earned her degree in Drama from NYU's Tisch School.  Upon graduation, she spent three years in Japan touring with a children's theater group and singing acoustic sets in Tokyo clubs.  She has appeared on television and in films including Men in Black II. Recently, she has been a featured artist locally in Italian Girls in Algiers, Ballad of Baby Doe, Die Fledermaus, and L'Elisir d'Amore.
Sally Puente has performed leading and supporting roles in musicals.  Last summer she played Sister Margaretta in Tustin's Broadway in the Park production of The Sound Of Music.  As a member of the University United Methodist Church choir in Irvine she sang in many wonderful concerts, oratorios, and musicals that the choir performed.  It was about this time that she began studying voice privately.  She also performed her very first solo recital there in 1985.  She earned her Master of Music in Vocal performance at California State University Long Beach in December 2003.  She enjoys teaching voice at Music Maker Studio in Anaheim Hills and in her home studio in Tustin.  Sally's mother would want you to know that her love of singing began in infancy when she would sing herself to sleep each night in her crib.
Melissa Worthington was born and raised in a small farming community Northeast of Detroit.  She graduated from Eastern Michigan University, where she studied Music (Vocal and Oboe), Pyschology, and Business.  She toured Japan with a musical comedy troupe called Ja-Pun, then came to California to further her music career.  Melissa, a lyric soprano, has had leading roles in musical theater productions such as South Pacific, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and The Music Man, as well as in operatic productions such as Juliette in Romeo and Juliette and as Marie inThe Daughter of the Regiment.  Miss Worthington has a new CD of her own music that can described as capturing the emotion of Sarah McLauchlan, with the passion of Alanis Morrisette and the softer vocal tones of Celine Dion, but it is very uniquely her own sound.  You can listen to samples of this CD and learn more about theis artists at MelissaWorthington.com.
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