Von Bringhurst (he/they) is a countertenor and sopranist who moved to the Bay Area in 2018. He holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance degree from the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA, and a Bachelor of Science in Voice from Idaho State University in Pocatello, ID. He enjoys a varied career as a soloist and ensemble member, including Clerestory, Força Chorus, Harvard Early Music Society, the Video Game Orchestra, and Xerces Blue Ensemble, and can be heard on a number of video game titles, including Ace Combat, Final Fantasy XV, and Code Vein. Von has been Music Director for the Opera House Theater Company in Philipsburg, MT; The Virginia City Players of Virginia City, MT; and WholeTone Opera of Somerville, MA.

Von is currently soprano section leader at Christ Church Portola Valley and Woodside in Portola Valley, CA. He also directs the Community School of Music and Arts Community Choir in Mountain View, as well as the Peak Performers Choir at Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Fremont. He maintains an active teaching studio based in the Bay Area, as well as working with students virtually across time zones.

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Sidney Chen is a multi-faceted musician and performing arts producer, dedicated to dissolving boundaries and fostering personal connection through creative work. With his “expressive and richly mellifluous” bass-baritone voice (SF Chronicle) he collaborates with artists across disciplines, including staged productions with Meredith Monk, KT Nelson and ODC/Dance, and Anne Hege and the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, approaching the theater as a contemplative space. Additional highlights include premiering Monk’s Realm Variations in the San Francisco Symphony’s American Mavericks Festival and performing in Carnegie Hall’s 45th-anniversary celebration of Terry Riley’s In C. His love for small-ensemble music-making has led to a 25-year association with chamber choir Volti, co-founding The M6 sextet, and his work with Clerestory. His solo projects tend toward quietness and detail, and often include his DIY hand-crank music boxes and intricate, hand-punched scrolls, which were featured in a Chronicle Sunday Datebook cover story. Behind the scenes, he draws on three decades of experience with forward-looking organizations like the Kronos Quartet, Nonesuch Records, NewMusicBox, and EIGHT/MOVES to help bring creative ideas into reality. This season he was the guest curator for SF Music Day 2024, a free, full-day festival on three stages in the SF War Memorial Performing Art Center. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Foundation.

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Dan Cromeenes, countertenor, is a versatile musician who has performed professionally as a countertenor soloist, choral singer, and collaborative pianist. A native of southern California, he moved to San Francisco to perform with the ensemble Chanticleer, and has since flourished in the Bay Area’s music scene. He has sung with American Bach, Philharmonia Baroque, Cantata Collective, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Oregon Bach Festival. He serves as staff accompanist at Santa Clara University and Sonoma State University. In addition to his playing and singing, Dan has written multiple choral arrangements that have been performed by Clerestory. When not onstage or behind a piano, Dan can usually be found either on a hike in the mountains or at home baking gourmet goodies.

David Kurtenbach Rivera, tenor (he/him), described in “warm and intimate” performances as having a voice “lined with silver” (Classical Voice), enjoys an active ensemble and solo career, specializing in early music. He has appeared as featured soloist with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale, Bach Collegium San Diego, Cantata Collective, American Bach Soloists, Conspirare, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Bach-Akademie Charlotte, Oregon Bach Festival, Apollo’s Fire, and many others. He is privileged to share several GRAMMY nominations for Best Choral Performance with the musicians of Conspirare. With advanced degrees in Voice and Conducting, David is frequently engaged as clinician, guest conductor, and coach for ensembles around the country. He is also in high demand as a church musician and organist. As a reconnecting Indigenous Puerto Rican (Taíno), David is committed to decolonization in his life and work. 

Chris Lewis, bass-baritone, is the founding musical director of the Fog City Singers, a tenor-bass chorus in San Francisco that aims to revolutionize the way barbershop music is performed and appreciated. In childhood, he experimented on the piano, on the risers, and on the stage; yet he first learned to truly appreciate music after multiple years under acclaimed conductors in Texas all-state choirs. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2008, he has performed with a variety of music organizations including choral ensembles (Clerestory, Volti, Stanford Chamber Chorale, Convivium), barbershop groups (Brannigan, Voices in Harmony, Elephants Gerald), contemporary a cappella groups (Stanford Mixed Company, Beyond Zebra), and theater companies (SF Lamplighters, Broadway by the Bay). In Fog City’s first three years, Chris directed them to 9th- and 7th-place finishes in the International Barbershop Chorus Contest and in 2019 directed them as the featured ensemble at the California Choral Directors Association state conference. Chris is also an arranger and composer, and during the pandemic he authored a media-rich “Barbershop Arranging: A Modern Guide” on Medium.com. Chris holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University and by day directs frontend engineering at a supply-chain startup.

Nathan Stroud, countertenor, is a multi-faceted musician with a passion for early music consort singing. He currently sings with the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys and the Philharmonia Baroque Chorale, and has been performing around the Bay Area as a singer and French horn player since moving to San Francisco in 2014. With a background in architectural acoustics, Nathan loves to bring his expertise in architecture, acoustical fundamentals, and psychoacoustics to tailor his performance technique to the built environment and human auditory response. His Master’s thesis research was on “optimization of orchestral layouts based on instrument directivity patterns” in which he studied the acoustically ideal arrangements of Romantic period orchestras on stage. Outside of performing Nathan stays busy working full time as an Acoustics & Audiovisual Consultant at Arup, a global engineering and design firm, where he leads a broad portfolio of regional and international projects.

Yuhi Aizawa Combatti, a Japan-native soprano, is recognized for her clear timbre and keen musicianship in repertoire ranging from Renaissance to Contemporary. Yuhi has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles in the United States and Japan including the Kronos Quartet, the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Berkeley Symphony. A passionate advocate of new music, Yuhi was a featured soloist for the West Coast premiere of Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia with UC Davis Orchestra, and has enjoyed premiering works by a multitude of composers including Melissa Dunphy, Ted Hearne, and LJ White as a member of Volti. She made her operatic debut at Spoleto Festival USA in the North American premiere of Braunfels’s Die Vogel. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Westminster Choir College. When not singing, Yuhi enjoys cooking and eating cuisines from all around the world, and spending time with her partner Tegan and their two irresistible dogs: Tanuki and Ten.

Elizabeth Kimble (she/they) is a soprano, composer, conductor, and psychotherapist whose music explores the sacred and psychological aspects of the human experience. A versatile vocalist, Elizabeth has performed as both a soloist and ensemble member with many distinguished choral groups, including the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Cappella SF, Gaude, Volti, and the California Bach Society. Currently the Artistic Director of Musae, a San Francisco-based treble vocal ensemble, Elizabeth has also served as the Music Director of Tactus SF and Assistant Conductor of the International Orange Chorale of San Francisco. She holds a MM in Music Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, dual BMs in Music Composition and Vocal Performance from Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, and an MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. In addition to her musical endeavors, Elizabeth practices as an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and an Associate Professional Clinical Counselor.

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Anmol Gupta, tenor (he/him), is a Wisconsin-based musician with extensive experience in opera, choral, and chamber singing. Before moving to the Bay Area, Anmol lived and worked in Boston upon graduating from Lawrence University and the Lawrence Conservatory of Music in Appleton, WI. He currently serves as the tenor section leader at St. Paul’s Episcopal in Burlingame and is excited to be joining Clerestory for this program. Outside of singing, Anmol is a PhD student in social psychology at Stanford, where he studies how people think about racism and racial inequality. Anmol lives in Palo Alto with his partner and their dog.