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 Myron Myers has performed with numerous orchestras throughout the United States, including those of Atlanta, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Buffalo and Grant Park, and has recorded for Telarc, ABC and Musical Heritage Society. His operatic roles include Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Rocco (Fidelio), Ramfis (Aida) and Alfonso (Cosi fan tutte), and he has sung under the batons of Robert Shaw, Leonard Slatkin, Raymond Leppard, Roger Wagner and Lukas Foss, among many others. He has made two tours of Europe with Robert Page and the Prague Radio Orchestra and Halle Orchestra, respectively, and has been featured in concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center and Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. His solo work with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque was broadcast nationally and internationally by the BBC. The recording of da Gagliano’s early opera, "La Dafne", in which he sang two roles, was nominated for a Grammy, and he has been the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant, and an Illinois Arts Council Grant, both of which supported his recital debut at Weill Recital Hall, New York City.
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 Stuart Leitch, a pianist from Michigan, studied with John Richardson of Michigan State University and Arthur Dann at the Oberlin College Conservatory, and later in Chicago with Gui Mombaerts and Dmitry Paperno.
He specialized early in modern music as a member of ONCE, a seminal avant-garde performing group in Ann Arbor, led by Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma. ONCE produced concerts and an annual festival that featured new-music leaders from all over the world.
In New York City he participated in early forms of performance art with artists from ONCE and the Judson Dance Theater. He also worked with blues and rock musicians, writing arrangements and contributing to the score of “Hi, Mom”, an early Brian De Palma film.
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Chris Garofalo has been active as a pianist and accompanist in the Chicago area for many years and composed works for solo piano, voice, and choral ensembles. As a soloist, he has performed in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. In 1990, he appeared on the television series Music Alive! sponsored by the Chicago Department of Film and Entertainment. With a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, he has been the Director of Music at the Unitarian Church of Hinsdale since 1987 and maintains a private teaching studio.
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Stanton Davis is a Voices of the Millennium Visiting Professor, 11 July 2010
Before coming to NIU, Stanton served as speech and dialect coach for the graduate and undergraduate actors as well as teaching speech and acting at Temple University's Theatre Department. Before that, he was at SUNY New Paltz where he taught voice, acting, Shakespeare, dramatic literature, and stage combat.
Stanton has worked professionally as an actor (stage, film and TV commercials), fight choreographer, stagehand, director, stunt man, voice coach , dialect coach and education director at theatres throughout the country. Stanton is a member of the Independent Fight Director’s Guild, and is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voice Work.
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