Meet Our Dvorak Soloists

On May 1, 2021, at 7 PM ET, St. George’s Choral Society will debut our online concert featuring music of Dvorak. Tickets are available online for $10, and also allow access to the concert after the debut.

Here are our talented soloists and host:

Naomi Lewin, host, served as an announcer at WQXR in New York for six years, after cutting her radio teeth at WGUC in Cincinnati, Ohio and WKYU Bowling Green, Kentucky. At WQXR, she hosted afternoon drive-time classical music, and led debates on hot topics in the music world as host of the podcast Conducting Business. She also emceed live events – both audio and video – and produced recorded specials ranging from Stephen Foster: America’s Bard to Nutcracker Sweets. Radio audiences around the world heard her host opera broadcasts from the Glimmerglass Festival. https://www.naomilewin.com/

Soprano Elizabeth Van Os is one of New York City’s most dynamic performers, making waves not only as soloist and ensemble member but also as a co-founder of the non-profit Pleiades Project. For her efforts, opera-zine parterre noted her “striking impression,” with additional praise from Voce di Meche for her “lovely, affecting” voice and “justifiable passion.” Born Elizabeth Smith, she holds performance degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Brigham Young University in Idaho. Learn more by visiting elizabethvanos.com.

Miriam Kushel has been described as "brilliantly confident" in Opera News. She has performed as a studio artist at Sarasota Opera where she covered the roles of Elizabeth in Don Carlos and the title role of Tosca and with Opera New Jersey as cover for Magda Sorel in Menotti's The Consul. NYC appearances have included the title role of Suor Angelica with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, Chelsea Opera's On Rosenstrasse (world premier), Amela in Un Ballo in Maschera for renowned opera diva Martina Arroyo, and the world premiere of Great Expectations, in a role written for her. Miriam has performed with Glimmerglass Opera, New York Lyric Opera Theatre, Bard Summerscape, Motor City Lyric Opera, and Ohio University (as a guest artist). Past roles include Lady Billows (Albert Herring), Mrs. Grose (Turn of the Screw), Mother (Hansel and Gretel), Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Old Lady (Candide), Queen (The Goose Girl), Clara (Signor Deluso), Forrester’s Wife/Owl (Cunning Little Vixen, in Czech) and Terentia (The Beautiful Bridegroom, NY premier).

Christopher Carter, tenor, studied under Randall Scarlata and earned a performance degree from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. While attending graduate school at the University of Toronto, he studied with Mary Morrison. Chris has performed with the Toronto International Bach Festival (under the direction of Helmuth Rilling), the Toronto Bach Consort (Yannick Nézet-Seguin), the Festival Ensemble with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (under Peter Ouindjian). Chris has performed and toured throughout southern Germany singing Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” with the Festival Ensemble Stuttgart, under the direction of Helmuth Rilling. In the same year, as a member of the Choir of St. James Cathedral (Toronto), he was a performance soloist at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. Chris has also been an active singer in the New York City metro area for 12 years, performing at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Trinity Wall Street, and Bard College.As a professional chorister, Chris has been a member of St. Bartholomew’s Choir since 2010.

Praised by The New York Times as having a “beautiful sound,” Filipino-American bass-baritone Enrico Lagasca performs oratorio, opera, chamber music, and recitals with repertoire from early to contemporary music both as soloist and chorister across the United States and internationally. In New York, Enrico regularly performs as soloist and chorister with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola, Bach Choir of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Musica Sacra, Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine, Bard Festival Chorus, New York Choral Artists, TENET Vocal Artists, Clarion Music Society, and The Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Across America, Enrico performs with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale in New Mexico, Conspirare and Ensemble VIII in Austin, Texas, Skylark Vocal Ensemble and Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble in Massachusetts, Bach Collegium San Diego in California, Spire Vocal Ensemble in Kansas City, Missouri, The Thirteen in Washington D.C., and Seraphic Fire in Miami, Florida. In 2013, he was a finalist in the Das Lied International Song Competition in Berlin, Germany and in 2015 in the 24th International Vocal Arts Competition Le Centre Lyrique in Clermont-Ferrand, France. In 2019, he was selected to be a participant in the inaugural of Renee Fleming's Song Studio at Carnegie Hall.