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HOLIDAY POPS
Award-winning documentary Six by
Sondheim and music supervisor for Great
Performances special Broadway Musicals:
A Jewish Legacy on PBS.
Einhorn is an honors graduate of Rice
University in Houston, TX.
of Joey Montgomery. He has performed
regionally across the country, most
recently as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar,
directed by Terrence Mann. As a singer/
songwriter, Vona has performed in New
York City venues including 54 Below,
Highline Ballroom, Rockwood Music
Hall and Bowery Poetry. You can find
his debut album Somebody on iTunes
and Spotify, and updates are available
at RyanVona.com. Follow Vona on
Instagram: @ryanvona
Andy Einhorn last appeared with the BSO
in June 2018, conducting An Evening with
Audra McDonald.
Andrea Ross
Ryan Vona makes his BSO debut.
Andrea Ross is thrilled
to be here in Baltimore
singing with The BSO
for the Holiday Pops!
Ross grew up in Boston,
where she began her stage career and was
the youngest recipient of the prestigious
Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding
Actress. She caught the attention of
Andrew Lloyd Webber, who mentored
her and produced her solo album, Moon
River, with Universal Classics and Jazz.
Ross has played prominent venues in the
U.K., including the Royal Albert Hall and
Wembley Stadium, where she was a guest
artist for Concert for Diana, honoring
Diana, Princess of Wales. She was also a
featured artist at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
Sydmonton Festival. Ross originated the
lead role of Swallow in Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s national tour of Whistle Down
The Wind, and she understudied for the
role of Maria in the national tour of The
Sound of Music, which was music directed
by Andy Einhorn. Ross is a graduate
of Pace University with a Bachelor’s of
Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre. She
wishes you happy holidays and hopes you
enjoy the show!
Baltimore School
for the Arts
Dancers
Baltimore School for
the Arts (BSA) is a
nationally recognized
public arts 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. Additionally, BSA’s
highly acclaimed TWIGS program offers
free after-school arts instruction to 700 city
elementary and middle school children
from schools across Baltimore, as well as
other outreach initiatives to thousands
more. Founded in 1979, the school is an
integral and vibrant part of Baltimore’s
educational and cultural communities.
The BSA Dancers last appeared with
the Baltimore Symphony in April 2018,
performing Tchaikovsky’s Serenade,
Marin Alsop, conductor,
Andrea Ross makes her BSO debut.
Ryan Vona
Ryan Vona is delighted
to be joining the
BSO for the Holiday
Pops! A Boston-born,
Brooklyn-based actor
and musician, Vona has performed
on Broadway as Andrej in Once the
Musical and in Cirque du Soleil’s
Paramour, for which he created the role
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Anthony Blake Clark and the
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
The Baltimore Choral Arts Society, now
in its 53 rd 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. Conductor and composer
Anthony Blake Clark is in his second year
as Music Director of Baltimore Choral
Arts Society
For the past 22 years, WMAR
Television has featured Choral Arts in
its special, Christmas with Choral Arts,
which won an Emmy Award in 2006. 
The chorus was also featured in a PBS
documentary called Jews and Christians:
A Journey of Faith, broadcast nationwide,
and on National Public Radio’s Special
Coverage in the fall of 2001. The ensemble
has been featured frequently on The First
Art, Performance Today and VOX. In
Europe, Choral Arts was featured in a
program devoted to the music of Handel
broadcast on Radio Suisse Romande.  On
local radio, Baltimore Choral Arts was
featured on Choral Arts Classics, a program
on WYPR Radio hosted by Music
Director Emeritus Tom Hall that features
the Choral Arts Chorus and Orchestra. 
In 2010, Choral Arts released Christmas
at America’s First Cathedral on Gothic
Records, recorded at the Baltimore
Basilica.  A recording with Dave Brubeck,
featuring Brubeck’s oratorio, The Gates
of Justice, was released internationally on
the Naxos label in 2004; Choral Arts is
also featured on Introducing the World of
American Jewish Music on Naxos. Choral
Arts has two other recordings in current
release: Christmas with Choral Arts and a
live recording of the Rachmaninoff All-
Night Vigil. 
Acclaimed artists collaborating with
Choral Arts have included Sweet Honey
in the Rock, Chanticleer, Dave Brubeck,
the King’s Singers, Anonymous 4, Peter
Schickele, Kathy Mattea and others.
Baltimore Choral Arts’ innovative
programs often feature both choral and
orchestral music, stage and theater works.
BCAS last appeared with the Baltimore
Symphony in March 2018, performing in