Soprano, Megan Schulze, is a singer and educator in the Los Angeles area. She specializes in classical music and loves singing in choirs. Megan sings with the Pasadena Chorale, Terpsichor, Capella Musica of St. Andrew Catholic Church, and is thrilled to be part of Resonant. She graduated in 2022 with her Masters of Music in Vocal Arts at the University of Southern California where she studied with Elizabeth Hynes. She also has a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Point Loma Nazarene University.
Megan comes from a family of educators and has a passion for music education and outreach. She works for Pacific Opera Project as the Front of House Manager, Youth Program Instructor, and assists with marketing and social media. She also teaches private voice and piano lessons to students of all ages.
Lauren Adaska is a Southern California–based soprano who feels most at home in close musical collaboration. Her career centers on professional choral performance at the highest level, spanning intimate chamber repertoire and large-scale symphonic productions. Raised in California’s Central Valley, she sang in choirs and musical theater before earning her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from California State University, Fullerton in 2019.
In addition to Resonant, Lauren sings with the Grammy Award–winning Pacific Chorale and Los Angeles Master Chorale, contributing to large-scale choral-orchestral works, recordings, and major concert projects throughout the region. A significant portion of her work engages sacred repertoire through a historical and stylistic lens; she serves as soprano section leader at St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in Pasadena and sings with Cappella Musica at St. Andrew Catholic Church, specializing in chant, early polyphony, and historically informed performance practice. Her performance experience ranges from intimate a cappella programs to major concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Glinka Cappella in St. Petersburg, and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. She has performed under conductors including John Williams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Zubin Mehta, and in programs featuring artists such as Andrea Bocelli and Kathleen Battle.
In addition to performing, Lauren is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Golden Hour Chamber Music, where she develops and curates programming that highlights local and emerging composers, commissions new works, and blends chamber music with interdisciplinary collaborations. She oversees all aspects of the organization’s operations, including long-term strategic planning, financial management, donor relations, marketing, and audience engagement. Through Golden Hour, she seeks to build sustainable, high-level artistic structures that support musicians, foster community, and create meaningful concert experiences. She also serves as Social Media Director for Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble and as Ensemble Administrator for Resonant, overseeing season planning, singer coordination, scheduling, social media, and operational workflow.
Lauren lives in Pasadena with her dog Albert, who attends every rehearsal and (correctly) considers himself an essential member of each ensemble.
GRAMMY-Winning artist Sarah Finley is thrilled to join Resonant as a Soprano this season. She regularly performs with ensembles all over Southern California, and she is a staff singer with the Capella Musica of St Andrew Catholic Church in Pasadena. Over her career she has sung with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Collegium, UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, among others. As a SAG-AFTRA artist, Sarah has sung for trailers, video games, and commercials. She recently won a GRAMMY for her work on the album Brillo, Brillo! by Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band. She also has a thriving voice over career with clients like Dr. Pepper, Revlon, and Disney, just to name a few.
Many featured soprano solo performances include Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s St. John’s Passion, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, and Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien. Operatic roles include Don Giovanni (Zerlina) and Die Zauberflöte (Queen of the Night, First Lady). She earned her degree in Music at UC Berkeley, and she currently studies with Reid Bruton.
Jewish-American tenor Elias Berezin is a California native. Based in Los Angeles, he has sung with organizations all around the state specializing in operatic and concert works.
This season Elias returns to Guild Opera Company for role debuts as Don José in Carmen and Macduff in Macbeth. He debuts with LA Opera Connects bringing opera to various high schools throughout the SoCal area and returns to Music at Westwood to sing the tenor solos in Messiah.
Elias finished the ’23/’24 season with a debut at Mission Opera singing the role of Danilo in The Merry Widow and a return to Soli Deo Gloria for performances of the Lord Nelson Mass, followed by his second season at the Boston Wagner Institute as a young artist.
Recent operatic highlights include Luigi in Il Tabarro and Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte with Guild Opera, Eisenstein and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus with Pacific Lyric Association, and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Landmark Opera. A proponent of new music, Berezin created leading roles as Autumn in Joseph-Nathaniel Cuenca’s SCHISM at UCR Arts, and The Inventor in Ian Dicke’s ROMAN with Synchromy.
Rohan Ramanan is a Los Angeles/Orange County-based tenor & countertenor with a diverse musical background and expansive range. He has studied both Western and Indian classical voice, and has been immersed in many styles of commercial music, world genres, and fusion work. Rohan performs with many ensembles throughout Southern California (LA Master Chorale, LA Choral Lab, Tonality, Pacific Chorale, Long Beach Camerata, Catalyst, Choral Arts Initiative, Street Symphony, Musica Transalpina, Laude, etc.) as both a chorister & soloist (AGMA). He also sings for film, television, album, & video game studio sessions as a member of SAG-AFTRA. His voice can be heard in scores for Disney, Marvel, & National Geographic, and he has performed live with Thirty Seconds to Mars @iHeartRadio, Tiësto, Michael Giacchino, Rufus Wainwright, Kamasi Washington, Disney Parks, Stewart Copeland, Kronos Quartet, LA Philharmonic, & for Björk as part of her USA ‘Cornucopia’ tour. Outside of SoCal, he made his operatic debut in Houston Grand Opera’s premiere ‘Another City’ as Manoj Mukherjee, where his “ethereal phrases […] offered a lightness and sweetness” (Texas Classical Review, 2023). Rohan is a 2024 Fellow for Thirteen (D.C.) and was recently a finalist for Chanticleer (S.F.). Rohan joined Seraphic Fire twice this season, where he first “took the spotlight as soloist […] displaying charisma and joy” and later “displayed […] high coloratura roulades” (South Florida Classical Review, 2024 & 2025). Rohan is also an accomplished Hindustani vocal soloist throughout the US and internationally. He concertizes as a professional freelance oboist/English horn player as well, having previously held a position with South Asian Symphony. In addition to performing and touring, Rohan maintains a private voice/oboe studio and is quite the plant/flower geek!
Evan Roberts is an avid choral musician in the Los Angeles area, singing with numerous ensembles such as the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles (C3LA), the Cappella Musica of St. Andrews Church in Pasadena, the Schola of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Habra, the Donald Brinegar Singers, and now Resonant. He is currently the choir director of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where he leads two ensembles and teaches classes in vocal skills and music theory. Evan holds a Master’s in Music Education Research from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, a Master’s in Choral Conducting from California State University: Los Angeles, and a Bachelor’s in Vocal Performance from the Eastman School of Music. When he is not making music, Evan enjoys exploring the city, cooking, hosting social events at his house, and playing board games.
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Tenor, Amador Solis, is a Los Angeles based classically trained singer known for his performances of opera arias, oratorio, and as a sought after church vocalist in Los Angeles. Some of Mr. Solis’ most notable performances include Tenor Soloist for Pasadena Chorale’s ‘Given Concert’ featuring Handel’s ‘Messiah’ and ‘Ballad of the Brown King’ by Margaret Bonds, and as tenor soloist for the Glendale Community College Performance of Mozart’s ‘Requiem Mass’. Recently, he performed in the Los Angeles premiere of the oratorio, ‘The Light of Hope Returning’ by Shawn Kirchner. He is currently Tenor Soloist for the First United German Methodist Church, a Cantor at Incarnation Catholic Church in Glendale, Tenor in the Capella Musica of St. Andrews Catholic Church, and a member of the Pasadena Chorale. Amador has had the privilege to perform under the batons of and/or studied with Grant Gershon, Jeff Bernstein, Jorge Mester, Dr. Paul J. Sherman, Dr. Peter Green, Dr. Tobin Sparfeld, Donald Brinegar, Rachel Worby, and many others. When not performing, Mr. Solis also works as an accomplished and sought after audio engineer and drummer.
With over thirty-five years of choral experience, Tobin Sparfeld has performed with many ensembles including the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Seraphic Fire, and the St. Louis Children’s Choirs. He has sung under the batons of conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Franz Welser-Möst, Helmuth Rilling, and Michael Tilson Thomas. Tobin received his DMA in Conducting from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, where he took lessons with Professor David Malis. He has taught at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Principia College, Los Angeles Mission College, and the Musicians Institute. Tobin holds a master’s degree in voice from Illinois State University, and remains active as a soloist and choral clinician. Dr. Sparfeld has directed the choral and voice area at Glendale Community College since 2015. In November he will be performing as a baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with the L.A. Daiku Choir at Herbert Zipper Concert Hall.
