APERI | ROSTER
Anthony Andronczyk
Anthony is a tenor based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After his training with Dr. David Hoffman and graduation in Spring of 2024 from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee with a BFA in Versatile Voice, he has sung with a few groups in the Milwaukee area such as the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Milwaukee Chamber Choir, Bel Canto Chorus, and Aperi in Spring 2025.
Anthony has experience and training in multiple styles of singing including classical, musical theatre, funk, jazz, blues, Motown, and other popular music styles. He is glad to have the opportunity to perform with Aperi for another successful season
Jacob Baker
Jacob Baker is a tenor who is native to the Southeastern Wisconsin area. He received his bachelors degree in Vocal Performance from UW-Milwaukee and a master’s in the same from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Baker workshopped closely with composers Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer on their opera If I Were You and Mark Adamo on his opera Mary Magdeline. Jacob has sung several opera roles including “Tamino” in Die Zauberflöte, “Lensky” in Eugene Onegen, “Alfred” in Die Fledermaus, and “Camille de Rosillon” in The Merry Widow, as well as many musical theatre roles. Baker has performed with the Boulder Bach Ensemble, Florentine Opera Company, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Elkund Opera, Greendale Community Theater, Racine Theatre Guild, Ripon College and several local churches.
Austin Bare
Austin Bare, tenor, is a Milwaukee based artist with a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is a founding member of APERI. For the past 3 years, Austin has performed with Madison company Opera for the Young, an opera outreach company that tours to schools throughout the midwest, introducing opera to young audiences and families. His previous roles were Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Prince Tamino in The Magic Flute. He has also been a performing artist in numerous shows with Milwaukee Opera Theater such as Camille's Rainbow and L'Orfeo.
Austin has been a music lesson teacher since 2019 and loves educating people, from young kids to older adults, about bass guitar, piano, and voice.
Rori Beatty
Rori is working to complete her Bachelors in Music Education at Ripon College. She studies voice with Dr. Erin Bryan and Dr. Paul Thompson, and is a part of Ripon College Chamber Singers and Concert Choir. Rori also is a cellist and has performed early music with the Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra, Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, and Ripon College Orchestra.
Amelia Braatz
Erin Bryan
American soprano Erin Bryan has been praised for her “deft” operatic characterizations and a voice that is “a lyric soprano of exceptional beauty.” Favorite roles include work with Kentucky Opera, Cedar Rapids Opera, and the innovative Fresco Opera, and she is featured as Young Anne/#1 on the recently released world-premiere recording of Conrad Susa’s Transformations. Recent concert engagements have included Schubert’s Mass in G (Green Lake Festival of Music), Haydn’s The Creation (Oshkosh Chamber Singers), and Handel’s Messiah (NEW Voices). An advocate for new music, she seeks frequent collaboration with living composers, with notable projects including the Midwest premiere of Laura Schwendinger’s Kay Ryan Songs and the world premiere of Dangerous New Avenues, a duet for soprano and percussion by Justin Giarrusso.
Dr. Bryan holds degrees from Lawrence University, where she studied with Steven Spears and Patrice Michaels, and the University of Louisville, where she studied with Edith Davis Tidwell. She earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied with Paul Rowe. She is on faculty at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where she holds the post of Associate Professor of Music and Voice Area Coordinator.
Jeremiah Cawley
Jeremiah Cawley has led instrumental and vocal ensembles across the US and UK, and he is the newly named artistic director of the Milwaukee Chamber Choir. Jeremiah founded the new music ensemble The Box Is Empty, with whom he conducted premieres by Dutch avant-garde masters Louis Andriessen and Michel Van Der Aa. Jeremiah sings with the GRAMMY-nominated and EMMY-honored True Concord, Milwaukee’s Aperi, the Madison Choral Project, and he is an inaugural member of the new professional vocal ensemble withonevoice. His recorded work includes projects with The Riot Ensemble (London, UK), Solaris Vocal Ensemble (Seattle, WA), and Chamber Cartel (Atlanta, GA).
Jeremiah’s work as tenor soloist is equally varied. He has recently been featured in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs with the choirs of Desales University and in recital singing excerpts of Gabriel Kahane’s Twitterkreis and Book of Travelers. His credits as operatic music director include Puccini’s Suor angelica, Poulenc’s La voix humaine, and Britten’s Rape of Lucretia. Jeremiah is a sought-after choral clinician, adjudicator, and conducting teacher. He received his DMA from the University of Washington and is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choirs and Vocal Music at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI. He has previously held posts at Valparaiso University, Loras College, and Western Kentucky and Georgia State Universities. He lives in Milwaukee, WI with his wife Crystal.
Camille Crossot
Camille Crossot is a soprano based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She grew up singing in Milwaukee area ensembles, and earned her MM in Voice from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in 2018 studying under Bill Sharp. She was a Choral Fellow at Harvard Memorial Church (Cambridge, MA) and sang in the choir at Grace & St. Peter's (Baltimore, MD). Camille is a current Choral Scholar at St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Milwaukee, WI) and has sung with Aperi since 2023.
Danielle Gedemer
Kaisa Hermann
Nathan Hickox-Young
Nathan Hickox-Young holds a B.A. in Music with concentrations in choral and orchestral conducting from Wartburg College in Waverly, IA. He is accomplished in both violin and voice, holding positions such as assistance principle 2nd violin of the Northern Nevada String Serenade, section 1st violin in the Reno Philharmonic, artistic producer for the tenor/bass ensemble Festeburg, bass section leader for the Basilica of St. Josephat, and paid core member of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus. He has toured as a soloist throughout the United States and Europe, performing with the Windsbacher Knabenchor, the Wartburg Choir, the Orchestra Giavanile Luigi Cherubini, Kammerstreicher, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Jennifer Jakubowski
Jennifer Jakubowski, Alto, has been a member of Aperi since 2018. She studied voice at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she deepened her passion for early music. This interest has led her to perform with a variety of ensembles throughout the Milwaukee area, including The Master Singers, St. Paul’s Episcopal, St. Josaphat Basilica, and Milwaukee Opera Theatre.
From 2012 to 2019, Jennifer was a regular participant in the Madison Early Music Festival, where she immersed herself in a broad range of repertoire—from 13th-century Gregorian chant to 17th-century Italian motets—further deepening her knowledge and expressive approach to early music.
She is excited for the upcoming season, especially for the opportunity to explore new repertoire and collaborate with such a passionate and skilled ensemble.
Nathan Kloczko
Nathan is an early music enthusiast from Madison. Outside of Aperi, Nathan sings with a number of ensembles, including the professional choir Madison Choral Project and the early music ensemble ad meliora, where he also serves as artistic director. He received his degree from Middlebury College, with an emphasis on piano performance and composition.
Tim Koehler
Tim is honored to be singing multiple seasons with Aperi. He relocated to Milwaukee in 2008 to Perdue a degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He has served as a choral scholar at North Shore Presbyterian Church and currently holds the same position at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. In addition to his church work, Tim has extensive experience in ensemble singing, having performed with the Master Singers of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus.
Chanse Mortenson
Sam Mullooly
Sam Mullooly is a professional music performer, composer, educator, and scholar. He holds a BM degree in Music Composition from Illinois Wesleyan University and a MM degree in Music Theory from Indiana University. His professional activities revolve around a passion for public music theory and accessible music pedagogy; work that engages with and aids the broader community in their music experiences. His specific areas of research include the evolution of compositional tactics in popular music since 1960, the phenomenon of musical taste, and the field of forensic musicology.
Sam delights in singing Renaissance polyphony and has been with Aperi since 2018. His other activities have included composing choral, operatic, and electronic music, playing keyboard in the Milwaukee rock band Good Grief, and hosting The Classical Hour on 91.7 WMSE. He is currently the Music Department Chair at Jefferson Community & Technical College in Louisville, KY, where he teaches music theory, history, and songwriting.
Rebecca Myers
Mezzo-Soprano, Rebecca Myers, earned her Bachelor’s in Music from Eastern Michigan University and her Master’s in Music from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She has performed in operas, recitals, concerts, and competitions around the country. Some of her roles include the title role in Handel’s Ariodante, as well as “Giovanna” in Denver Immersive Opera’s all-female production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Giovanna’s. Rebecca has worked closely with several contemporary composers, such as Tom Cipullo, and provided vocals for the soundtrack of the film Uncut Gems.
Rebecca was one of four finalists in the inaugural Keller Distinguished Bach Musicianship Competition with the Grand Rapids Bach Festival. She has performed with Boulder Bach Festival on a number of occasions as a Fellowship Artist and is often invited to sing with churches and choral groups in the Milwaukee area as a soloist.
Ben Perkins
Sarah Richardson
Sarah holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from UW-Madison, a Master of Music degree from UW-Milwaukee and Bachelor of Music degree from Viterbo University. She is currently the voice instructor and performance coordinator at Alverno College. Sarah has performed with Milwaukee Opera Theatre, notably as the Queen of the Night (ZIE MAGIC FLUTE) and Danica (SVADBA). Along with Aperi, Sarah has sung with the Collegium Ladyes, Milwaukee Chamber Choir, Present Music, as well as other choral and chamber ensembles in the Milwaukee area.
Lee Stovall
Lee Stovall (he/him), is entering his fourth year with Aperi. He currently teaches high school vocal music and music technology at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee Public Schools. Outside of school, he is the Assistant Artistic Director for Our Voice Milwaukee, a chorus for gay men and allies. Previously, Stovall has sung professionally with the Florentine Opera Chorus, Present Music Milwaukee, the Marion Consort, Madison Choral Project, and Madison Opera. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying with Paul Rowe and Beverly Taylor, and is currently working on a Masters in Music Education from the University of St. Thomas.
A veteran teacher of 16 years, Stovall has taught students from 4K to college in urban, suburban, and rural school districts. His life passions are to use music to spread joy in his students and their communities and using music to break down societal barriers. Stovall is currently on the Wisconsin Music Educators Association (WMEA) board as an Equity Chair, and locally he has been a part of the music expansion at Milwaukee Public Schools as the vice president for the Milwaukee Music Educators Association: in the past 5 years the number of students who have had access to music classes has increased from 19% to 92%. Stovall is also a professional vocal arranger, commissioning works for groups from middle school to professional Broadway revues.
Lydia Wiley Deal
Jackie Willis
—received a B.F.A. in vocal performance from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Jackie succeeded Daniel Koplitz as artistic director in 2021 and moved into her current role in 2023. She has performed in numerous roles around the Midwest, including Hecuba (La Didone) with the Haymarket Opera Summer Course, Third Lady (Zie Magic Flute) with Milwaukee Opera Theatre, First Witch/Enchantress (Dido & Æneas) with UWM Opera Theatre, and Chorus (Tales of Hoffman) in a collaboration with Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Skylight Music Theatre. She also enjoyed participating in the Madison Early Music Festival prior to the coronavirus pandemic.