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the New York Showstopper Award and
a Drama Desk nomination. She made
her Broadway debut in They’re Playing
Our Song and also appeared in Blues In
The Night, Perfectly Frank (Drama Desk
Nom), Zorba, Ain’t Broadway Grand?,
Chicago, and Les Misérables, and was seen
in Mack and Mabel in London.
Debbie has sung with over 100 orchestras worldwide including National
Symphony with Marvin Hamlisch, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops, Cleveland
Pops, Peter Nero and the Philly Pops,
Pittsburgh, Atlanta, San Diego, St. Louis
and Houston symphonies. Overseas, she’s
appeared with the London Symphony,
Birmingham Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra,
National Syphonica of Brazil, Munich
Philharmonic and in Beijing with Lang
Lang and the Chinese Philharmonic.
Debbie is featured on many recordings
including her three solo CDs Defying
Gravity, The Alan Menken Ablum and The
MGM Album. www.debbiegravitte.com
Ted Keegan
Ted Keegan has been
seen as the Phantom
in The Phantom of the
Opera on Broadway,
the National Tour and Phantom: The Las
Vegas Spectacular. He also had the pleasure
of appearing as the Phantom on television,
performing live from Rockefeller Center
for NBC’s “Today” show. Ted has sung
with Audra McDonald in New York and
Marin Mazzie at the opening of the Santa
Fe Chamber Music Festival, and appeared
as a soloist at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall singing Unheard Bernstein. Ted
has performed with the Detroit, Portland,
Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Omaha, Baltimore,
Las Vegas, Fort Worth, Edmonton and
Indianapolis symphonies, the Dayton
Philharmonic and National Symphony
at the Kennedy Center. Ted made his
Broadway debut in the highly acclaimed
revival of Sweeney Todd. Other Broadway
and National Tour credits include Cyrano:
The Musical, Camelot with Robert Goulet,
Herman in The Most Happy Fella, and
Kander and Ebb’s The World Goes ’Round.
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Shana Lord
Baltimore Choral
Arts Society
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
The Baltimore Choral Arts Society, now
in its 49th season, is one of Maryland’s premier cultural institutions. The Symphonic
Chorus, Full Chorus, Orchestra and
Chamber Chorus perform throughout the
mid-Atlantic region, as well as in Washington, D.C., New York and Europe.
For the past 18 years, WMAR Television has featured Choral Arts in an
hour-long special, Christmas with Choral
Arts, which won an Emmy Award in
2006. Music Director Tom Hall and
the chorus were also featured in a PBS
documentary called Jews and Christians:
A Journey of Faith, broadcast nationwide
and on National Public Radio in 2001.
On local radio, Mr. Hall is the host
of “Choral Arts Classics,” a monthly
program on WYPR that features the
Choral Arts Chorus and Orchestra, and
he is the Culture Editor on WYPR’s
“Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast.”
Choral Arts has appeared with the
National Symphony, and has made
regular appearances with the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra. Acclaimed artists
collaborating with Choral Arts have
included Chanticleer, Dave Brubeck, the
King’s Singers, Peter Schickele, Sweet
Honey in the Rock and Anonymous 4.
Cirque de la Symphonie
Cirque de la Symphonie brings the magic
of cirque to the music hall. It is an exciting
adaptation of artistic performances widely
seen in theaters and arenas everywhere.
Artists include the most amazing
veterans of exceptional cirque programs
throughout the world—aerial flyers,
acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers,
balancers and strongmen.
Shana Lord is an accomplished acrobat
and dancer who has performed with
many of the best cirque programs,
including Cirque du Soleil's Quidam.
She has been a featured performer with
Disney in Japan and Sea World's Cirque
de la Mer. Television appearances include
NBC's "Today," the Grammy Awards
and MTV Video Music Awards. She is
an accomplished performer with aerial
silks, rope, hammock, bungees, Chinese
poles, duo trapeze and her self-designed
aerial web act.
Timber Brown
Timber Brown is a professional aerial and
acrobatic artist, most widely known for
his appearance on Season 8 of “America’s
Got Talent.” Timber has been a featured
character and performer in numerous
productions and special events around
the globe. In addition to owning and
operating Las Vegas-based Anomalia
Entertainment, Timber primarily
performs as an independent contractor
in association with several entertainment
companies worldwide.
Baltimore School for the Arts
Founded in 1980, Baltimore School for
the Arts is a nationally recognized public
high school that provides its students
with intensive pre-professional training
in the arts in conjunction with a rigorous
academic curriculum. BSA graduates go
on to the most selective arts and university programs nationwide and achieve
prominence in theater, film, music, dance
and visual arts. BSA is a vibrant part of
Baltimore's cultural community, reaching
thousands of families and children each
year with free and low-cost performances,
exciting collaborative projects, exhibitions
and educational programming.