Put a little Renaissance into your holiday . . . pre-concert lobby festivities will include performances by a brass quintet and the Eugene Vocal Arts Ensemble, tree decorating, refreshments, a holiday bazaar, and sing-along carols for everyone. The Eugene Vocal Arts Ensemble will open the concert performing Renaissance music in their stunning Elizabethan costumes. The Oregon Mozart Players and four professional soloists will then join the full Eugene Concert Choir as they present masterworks by Handel. The audience will be invited, once again, to join in singing Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus."

Appearances as guest artist during the 2000-01 season include concerts with the New York Vocal Ensemble, the Saint Thomas Choir, the Choral Arts Society of Washington (DC), the Dessoff Choirs, Princeton Pro Musica, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra.

She has performed on National Public Radio, WQXR Radio (NY), West German National Radio, Polish National Television, PBS' "Nightwatch" with Charlie Rose, and Sunday Morning on CBS television.

Ms. Pannill has also distinguished herself through the quality of her recordings and by her praiseworthy representations of the "pure art of singing." Her latest recording of the Brahms Quartets for Four Solo Voices & Piano for Arabesque.

Mr. Ebel's appearances include the Oregon Symphony, the Eugene Symphony, and the Peter Britt Music Festival. Future performances include the Mount Angel Abbey Bach Festival and the Portland Baroque Orchestra.

He and his wife Elizabeth have four children and operate one of Salem's largest voice studios, Red Letter Vocal Studios. Don is presently working on a CD of his own neo-classical Christian "alternative" rock compositions.

After intensive study with renowned tenor Franco Corelli, Beudert won the 1985 Luciano Pavarotti International Vocal Competition in Philadelphia. He made his New York City Opera debut the following year, and has appeared with the company as Alfredo (La Traviata), The Student Prince (both in New York and on tour in China), and Candide. He made his debut with the Washington Opera shortly thereafter as Nerone in L'Incoronazione di Poppea. He has sung with regional companies throughout America in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi through the major French and Italian lyric roles to Stravinski's Tom Rakewell.

He made his Australian debut with the Lyric Opera of Queensland as Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly). In May of 1988, he appeared in the title role of Bernstein's Candide in the new Jonathan Miller production for the Scottish Opera, which was filmed by the BBC and recorded. He went with this production to London's historic Old Vic theater in December of 1988, where it won the coveted Olivier Award as Best Musical Production of the Year. In 1989, Beudert returned to the Scottish Opera as Sam Kaplan in the critically acclaimed UK debut of Weill's Street Scene; he also made his debut at the English National Opera in that role.

In January 1990, he began doctoral studies at the University of Michigan under the direction of Professor George Shirley. Engagements during this period included a return to Australia in the title role of Gounod's Faust, Madama Butterfly with the Toledo Opera, La Favorita with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and concert engagements in America including the Evangelist in Bach's Matthews-Passion, Janacek's Diary of One Who Vanished, Schubert's Die Schoene Muellerin, and recitals devoted to the songs of Franz Liszt. He made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1993 in the title role of Haydn's Lo Speziale.

Beudert was awarded an A. Mus Doc. degree in 1994, and immediately resumed his international career. Operatic appearances included Lenski in Evgenii Oniegin with Opera Northern Ireland, and the Portuguese premieres of Candide and Street Scene at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisboa. Concert appearances included the Mozart Requiem at "La Folle Journee" in Nantes, the Schubert Mass in E-flat at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and a Verdi Requiem under the direction of Neemi Jarvi.

Recent apperances include STREET SCENE in its Italian premiere at the Teatro Regio, Torino; MADAMA BUTTERFLY with Opera Northern Ireland, and POWDER HER FACE (Ades) with Nimrod Opera (Zurich) in Odense, Tel Aviv, Zagreb, and Chicago. He created the role of Jason in Doderer's DIE FREMDE for Vienna's Musik Werkstatt Wien, and returns to performances of this role in Zurich and Vienna in 2002, along with other performaces in Rome and Naples.

In July of this year, he had a personal success when he substituted at the last minute for an ailing tenor solist in the Oregon Bach Festival's production of Verdi's REQUIEM.

Dr. Beudert and his family live in Eugene OR and New York.

Mr. Zhou can be heard as Abraham Lincoln on Nonesuch Records’ recording of Philip Glass’ The Civil Wars, as the baritone soloist in Johannes Somary’s Song of Innocence on Premier Recordings, and in Jerrold Fisher’s Hosannah on Compact Disc Digital Audio. He has appeared on the San Francisco Opera’s Schwabacher Debut Recital Series, and has given recitals at Tanglewood and in Baden bei Wien, Austria. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois, St. Louis Conservatory, the Shanghai Conservatory, and a diploma in Lieder performance from the Schubert Institute of Vienna.