Dr. Daniel Abraham
Conductor
Choral/orchestral conductor and musicologist; specialist in 17th- and 18th-century music. Conductor and Artistic Director of the Bach Sinfonia and Bach Sinfonia Voci. Period-instrument performances include various modern premieres of Baroque and Classical period works; performances at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Music Center at Strathmore Concert Hall, Trinity Wall Street, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and before two national meetings of the American Musicological Society. Various commercial recording on the Dorian and Sono Luminus labels. National broadcasts credits (television/radio) include choral preparation for the Kennedy Center Honors Gala (PBS), as a chorus master for Christmas in Washington (TNT), and performances on Performance Today (NPR), Sunday Baroque (NPR), Great Sacred Music (WCPE), and Classical Discoveries (NPR), With various ensembles he has conducted concerts abroad in Canada, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Egypt. Frequent clinician, adjudicator, and festival ensemble conductor. Published in Choral Journal, editorial work for The Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Edition (OUP), and Cambridge University Press. Past grant panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council and past President of the MD/DC State Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Conducting studies and additional training with Paul Traver, Helmuth Rilling, William Weinert, Frieder Bernius, and David Hoose.
Erika Bryant-Northcutt
Erika Bryant-Northcutt is a 2015 graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Music. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with Performance Distinction. After graduation, she relocated to Japan where she began a choral program at Yokohama International School. While abroad she also sang with the Japanese-American Seamaids. In addition, Erika coordinated over twenty events during her tenure as event coordinator with the Officer’s Spouses Association in Yokosuka, Japan. Once back stateside, she began her graduate studies at American University in Arts Management. During her first year as the Choral Manager, she has participated in and helped produce numerous concerts as well as one North American Premiere.
She is a former Miss Florence Teen where she finished fourth runner-up to Miss South Carolina Teen in 2010, and also won the preliminary talent award. Next, as Miss Pageland, she made over two-hundred and fifty appearances, logged over 300 community service hours, appeared on various radio shows, as well as multiple television appearances. She is a recipient of the Silver level Duke of Edinburg, as well as the Silver level Presidential Service Award. She won the preliminary talent award at the Miss South Carolina Pageant in 2011, as well as the Media Award. Erika has been featured in “The Preservation,” the magazine of the National Historic Preservation Society as well as the state-wide publication “The Sandlapper” for her work on her platform of “Saving the Backbone of America, One Small Town at a Time.” In 2015 she made her Columbia theatre debut as Cosette in "Les Misérables" and Catherine in Town Theatre's "The Foreigner."
Lauren French
