Jocelyn Hua-cHen cHang - Pianist Jocelyn Hua-Chen Chang joined the music faculty at California State University San Ber- nardino in 2010. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance with Distinction from the University of Southern California. She received her Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Piano Performance from the National Taiwan Normal University. Ad- ditionally, she has also studied at the Belarusian State Academy of Music in Minsk, Belarus.
Jocelyn is active as a recitalist and chamber musician. Many of her performances have been broadcast on television and classical radio stations in Taiwan. She made her concerto debut in the Na- tional Concert Hall in Taiwan in 2003 performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1. She has garnered numerous accolades and top prizes from the National Piano Competition in Taiwan, the SinoPac Young Artist Piano Competition, the Taipei Piano Com- petition, the National Taiwan Normal University Piano Concerto Competition, the Taiwan Pace Young Musician Awards, the Na-tional Chamber Music Competition in Taiwan, the Taipei Double Bass Competition, and the National Double Bass Competition in Taiwan.
While completing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree, Chang served on the piano faculty at the University of Southern Cali- fornia. She has also served as Vice President to the USC Chapter of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) as well as State Chair of Honors Auditions of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT). She is a staff member at Pasadena City College and Whittier College where she coaches musical performances. Jocelyn has worked extensively with the internationally renowned concert pianist Daniel Pollack. To learn more about Jocelyn Hua-Chen Chang, please visit her website at www.JocelynChang.com.
lars Hoefs - Proudly hailing from Appleton, WI, cheesehead- cellist Lars Hoefs received a Doctorate studying cello with Ron- ald Leonard at the University of Southern California where he was teaching assistant for the Contemporary Music Ensemble, winner of LA Weekly’s “Ensemble of the Year.”
Lars sweated through 2009 as Assistant Principal Cellist of the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro, where he re- searched Villa-Lobos and performed tango and solo Bach with dancers for the annual Rio International Cello Encounters when not dodging soccer balls and bikinis on Copacabana beach. 2010 highlights included an all-Chopin recital on TV Brasil, festivals in England and Germany, the inaugural season of the Califor- nia Quartet’s Connections Chamber Music Series, and the release of a Villa-Lobos album with pianist Rose Chen. In 2011 Lars will join Ipalpiti in Israel, reunite with pianist Marek Zebrowski in Cologne, Krakow, Prague, and Vienna, and return to Rio for more Cello Encounters. To learn more about Lars, please visit his website at www.LarsHoefs.com.

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Jocelyn Hua-cHen cHang - Pianist Jocelyn Hua-Chen Chang joined the music faculty at California State University San Ber- nardino in 2010. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance with Distinction from the University of Southern California. She received her Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Piano Performance from the National Taiwan Normal University. Ad- ditionally, she has also studied at the Belarusian State Academy of Music in Minsk, Belarus.
Jocelyn is active as a recitalist and chamber musician. Many of her performances have been broadcast on television and classical radio stations in Taiwan. She made her concerto debut in the Na- tional Concert Hall in Taiwan in 2003 performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1. She has garnered numerous accolades and top prizes from the National Piano Competition in Taiwan, the SinoPac Young Artist Piano Competition, the Taipei Piano Com- petition, the National Taiwan Normal University Piano Concerto Competition, the Taiwan Pace Young Musician Awards, the Na-tional Chamber Music Competition in Taiwan, the Taipei Double Bass Competition, and the National Double Bass Competition in Taiwan.
While completing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree, Chang served on the piano faculty at the University of Southern Cali- fornia. She has also served as Vice President to the USC Chapter of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) as well as State Chair of Honors Auditions of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT). She is a staff member at Pasadena City College and Whittier College where she coaches musical performances. Jocelyn has worked extensively with the internationally renowned concert pianist Daniel Pollack. To learn more about Jocelyn Hua-Chen Chang, please visit her website at <a href="http://www.JocelynChang.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.JocelynChang.com</a>.


lars Hoefs - Proudly hailing from Appleton, WI, cheesehead- cellist Lars Hoefs received a Doctorate studying cello with Ron- ald Leonard at the University of Southern California where he was teaching assistant for the Contemporary Music Ensemble, winner of LA Weekly’s “Ensemble of the Year.”
Lars sweated through 2009 as Assistant Principal Cellist of the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro, where he re- searched Villa-Lobos and performed tango and solo Bach with dancers for the annual Rio International Cello Encounters when not dodging soccer balls and bikinis on Copacabana beach. 2010 highlights included an all-Chopin recital on TV Brasil, festivals in England and Germany, the inaugural season of the Califor- nia Quartet’s Connections Chamber Music Series, and the release of a Villa-Lobos album with pianist Rose Chen. In 2011 Lars will join Ipalpiti in Israel, reunite with pianist Marek Zebrowski in Cologne, Krakow, Prague, and Vienna, and return to Rio for more Cello Encounters. To learn more about Lars, please visit his website at <a href="http://www.LarsHoefs.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.LarsHoefs.com</a>.


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Janelle DeStefano, Mezzo-Soprano  •  Stacey Fraser, Soprano • Pianist/accompanist Kosta Popovic

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American mezzo-soprano Janelle DeStefano has been praised for her “magnificently executed vocal cascades” and her “passionate delivery.” She has sung on regional operatic, orchestral and musical theater stages across the United States, performing with Ash Lawn Opera Festival in Virginia, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Westminster Opera Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Lyric Theatre of Santa Cruz, the Jarvis Zarzuela Festival in Napa California, and San Diego Opera. Recent roles have included Romeo in I Capuletti e i Montecchi, Mrs. Winemiller in Summer and Smoke, and the title role of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. Ms. DeStefano recently appeared as Dido in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas with the Bach Collegium San Diego. Her portrayal of the gypsy, Maria, in La Alegria de la Huerta at the Jarvis Zarzuela Festival in Napa, California, (available on DVD) was hailed as the “pick of the Chueca” by Zarzuela.net. This past year Ms. DeStefano appeared with the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus in Bach’s The Passion According to St. Matthew, and was the alto soloist in the Messiah with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.   Ms. DeStefano is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), and is currently an Associate Professor of Voice at Santa Monica College

Canadian soprano Stacey Fraser’s eclectic musical interests have led her to sing on international operatic, concert and theatre stages across the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe. She has appeared as a soloist for the San Diego Opera, the Tony Award winning La Jolla Playhouse, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Taipei National Concert Hall in Taiwan, the Musicasa Concert Hall in Tokyo, Japan, the Thailand Composition Festival, the merické Jaro Festival in Prednasek, Czech Republic, Red Square Gallery in Hong Kong. Vancouver Symphony, South Dakota Symphony, La Jolla Symphony, San Bernardino Symphony, Banff Centre, Tanglewood Music Center, Asia Society NYC, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and the world renowned La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York City. As an avid performer of contemporary music, her debut performance of Sequenza III was described as an “amusing, virtuousic rendering of Mr. Berio’s stream of unconventional vocalizations” by Allan Kozinn of the The New York Times.  She is currently an Associate Professor of Music at California State University, San Bernardino where she is the Director of Opera Theatre. She is a member of the National Association Teachers of Singing (NATS), the American Guild of Musical Artists and Actors Equity Association.

Pianist/accompanist Kosta Popovic has performed on concerts and recitals in Europe, the United States and Canada, in venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Alice Tully Hall in New York, Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, La Sainte Chapelle in Paris, Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto, and the Ford Centre in Toronto.  As a Chorus Master, Mr. Popovic has worked with Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon, Portugal, Sächsische Staatsoper in Dresden, Germany, San Diego Opera and Santa Barbara Opera. At the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, he has been an Assistant Chorus Master with for six seasons, and the member of Music Staff for eleven seasons. In 
April of 2002, Kosta conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Opera Illinois, where he received critical acclaim.  Other conducting credits include Der Rosenkavalier (Spoleto Festival, Italy), Cavalleria Rusticana (Mercury Opera, NY), La Traviata (Riverside Concert Opera) and a gala concert of opera and musical theater with Opera Santa Barbara at the historic Santa Barbara Mission.  Additionally, Kosta Popovic has also collaborated with Opera Pacific, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington Opera, Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile, and Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, Italy.   Mr. Popovic joined the faculty of California State University, San Bernardino in 2011. His duties include conducting the CSUSB Chamber Singers and Concert Choir, coaching and conducting for Opera Theatre productions and applied voice, and teaching courses in conducting and Liberal Studies.

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