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STEPHEN CARY is Professor of Music and a faculty member of the University of Alabamas School of Music where he has taught for twenty years. He received the Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctorate of Musical Arts Degrees from the University of Illinois. Among his teachers have been Frances Crawford, Gerard Souzay, John Wustman, Evelyn Reynolds, Ronald Hedlund, and Eric Dalheim. Mr. Cary has appeared as tenor soloist with orchestras and choral organizations throughout the United States in many works including the Dvorak Requiem, Bach Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, and Mass in G, Gounod St. Cecilia Mass, Orff Carmina Burana, Haydn Creation, Mass in Time of War, and Nelson Mass, Mozart Requiem, Coronation Mass, Regina Coeli, Mass in C minor, and Solemn Vespers, Liszt Psalm 13, Rossini Stabat Mater, and Vaughan Williams Hodie. He has sung numerous performances of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Requiem. Among Mr. Carys opera roles have been Rodolfo in Puccinis La Bohème, Alfredo in Verdi La Traviata, Tamino in Mozart Die Zauberflöte, Alfred in Strauss Die Fledermaus, and the title role in Britten Albert Herring. Dennis Helmrich began his piano studies at the age of five, and both he and his twin brother sang in the famous boychoir of St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Helmrich graduated from Yale University, having studied piano with Donald Currier, with a bachelor s degree cum laude, a master s degree with honors, and prizes from the Lockwood and Ditson foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. After pursuing doctoral studies at Boston University, at the age of twenty-four he joined the faculty of Antioch College, and subsequently served on the faculties of the State University of New York campuses at Albany and Purchase, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School, New York University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where since 2004 he has been chairman of the accompanying division of the School of Music. He has been a Vocal Music Coach on the faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center continuously since 1970. He has recorded chamber music and songs on the Orion, Spectrum, Nonesuch, Chesky, Musical Heritage, Albany, Newport Classics, Delos, and Samsung labels. His publications include translations of opera libretti and song texts, and he has created supertitles for numerous operatic productions.