Dr. Jared Peroune holds a DMA in Piano from the University of Miami. An established collaborative musician, Jared has been heard in concerts and recitals throughout the United States, Italy, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and in Georgetown, Guyana.

He has been accompanist, continuo organist, and assistant conductor for Miami Collegium Musicum, in collaboration with the Miami Bach Society and the German Consulate. He has performed with Vero Beach Opera, Miami Lyric Opera, Amici dell’arte, the Hispanic-American Lyric Theater, the Frost Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Miami, and with The Symphonia, Boca Raton. Jared was pianist, répétiteur, and coach for past seasons of the Miami [Classical] Music Festival where he also served as chorus master in two 2017 productions. He was previously principal accompanist of the Master Chorale of South Florida and the Miami Choral Academy, an afterschool initiative by Seraphic Fire.

An active singer, he has performed leading and supporting roles with Miami Lyric Opera, Riuniti Opera, the Frost Opera Theater, and others. His singing has been heard in almost two decades of fully staged productions at the Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center, the Colony Theater, Broad Center for the Performing Arts, Miami-Dade County Auditorium, The Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center, and in Fort Pierce with an appearance in La Bohème with Treasure Coast Opera all in conjunction with the South Beach Chamber Ensemble, Alhambra Orchestra, Frost Symphony Orchestra, and more.

He has also sung in productions with Amici dell’arte, the Hispanic-American Lyric Theater, and Pro-Arte Grateli. As a choral singer, Jared has performed a wide range of works internationally as well as at noted halls including, the Arsht Center in Miami, and Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Arturo Chacón-Cruz, a native of Sonora, Mexico, has established himself in recent years as a leading tenor with exciting appearances in renowned theaters and concert halls across the globe. He has sung over 60 roles in more than 30 countries.

Since winning Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in 2005, Arturo’s career has seen a successful and steady development. His repertoire spans from Bellini and Donizetti to Puccini and Verdi. Some of his more sought after roles are: Rodolfo, the Duke of Mantua, Alfredo, Jacopo Foscari, Gabriele Adorno, B.F. Pinkerton, Hoffmann, Werther, and Romeo to name a few.

He has sung private recitals for His Majesties Queen Sofia and King Juan Carlos of Spain, as well as another one for all the leaders of Iberoamerica, and His Majesty King Felipe of Spain.

Recent highlights include Verdi role debuts as Manrico in Il Trovatore and Oronte in I Lombardi. He was Alfredo in La Traviata and Hoffmann in The Tales of Hoffmann at the prestigious Liceu de Barcelona, he also recently performed Cavaradossi in Tosca, Ismael in Nabucco, and Rodolfo in Verdi’s Luisa Miller in Oviedo, Valencia and Barcelona respectively. He sang his first Nemorino in Donizetti’s “Elixir of Love” in Palermo, Italy and afterwards he performed it again in Macau, China.

Role highlights include: The Duke in “Rigoletto” in Houston, San Francisco, Ai-en-Provence, Verona, Naples, Budapest, Hamburg, Los Angeles and Florence, “La Boheme” in Bologna, Liege, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Graz, Köln, Macerata, Miami, Tokyo, Munich, Stockholm, Moscow and Hamburg, “La Traviata” (Munich, Valencia, Moscow, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Rome, Barcelona, Verona and Oman), Ruggero in Puccini’s “La Rondine” in Genova, Detroit, and Zagreb, Faust in Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust” in Mexico City’s Bellas Artes, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Werther in Barcelona and Budapest, Des Grieux in Massenet’s “Manon” in Monte Carlo, and Mexico City, Don Jose in “Carmen” in Tel Aviv, Lyon, Tampere, Palermo and Zurich, as well as a critically acclaimed role debut as Macduff (Verdi’s “Macbeth”) in Los Angeles and Vienna.

Recent collaborations with star directors Sofia Coppola (La Traviata, with Valentino costumes) and Woody Allen (Gianni Schicchi, available in DVD and BluRay by Sony) resulted in international acclaim and all sold out performances in Los Angeles, Valencia and Rome.

Upcoming performances include a very important Verdian role debut as King Gustav III in “Un Ballo in Maschera” in Norway, he will also reprise the roles of Alfredo in “La Traviata” in Seville and Moscow, Hoffmann in “The Tales of Hoffmann” in Berlin and Parma, among many others.

In addition to an extensive existing operatic discography, the artist’s first solo CD is available. “Arturo Chacón le canta a México”, features some of the most beautiful Mexican music ever written, and is accompanied by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Sonora. Arturo’s Mariachi recordings “De México para el Mundo” and “De mi Casa a tu Casa” were recently released, including a duet with his wife Venetia-Maria Stelliou, as well as his first ever English language recording “A Christmas Wonderland” available on all digital platforms as well as physically on Amazon.

Chacón-Cruz has received many honors and awards throughout the years. The most recent one being the “Moncayo Medal” in Jalisco, Mexico, he was also “GQ Man of the Year 2018” in Mexico. He was the “Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Emerging Star” of 2017 for the San Francisco Opera.

He received the Alfonso Ortíz Tirado medal in 2013 (Sonora’s highest cultural award), the Distinguished Sonoran Medal 2009, the Culturarte de Puerto Rico, the Opera de Valencia and the Plácido Domingo Zarzuela Awards in Operalia 2005 in Madrid’s Teatro Real. He received the Eleanor McCollum 1st Prize Award, and Audience Choice Award with the Houston Grand Opera in 2003, among many others.

Baritone Louis Otey, a major stage personality noted for his incisive and provocative interpretations, has performed in the major opera houses around the world in a career spanning 30 years, five continents, and more than 20 countries. His repertory is as varied as the geographies he has graced and includes signature performances in the great roles for his voice — Scarpia in Tosca, Count di Luna in Il Trovatore, the title roles in Don Giovanni, Falstaff, Rigoletto, and Der Fliegende Hollander, and the four villains in Les Contes D’Hoffmann. The Otey repertory also ranges as widely as from Grandier in Penderecki’s The Devils of Loudun to the title role in Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim.

Louis Otey has performed at The Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Rome Opera, Teatro Massimi di Palermo, Theatre des Champs Elysées, Victoria State Opera Melbourne, Teatro Municipal de Sao Paulo, Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, Theater an Der Wien, Geneva Opera, Dusseldorf Opera, Opera La Monnaie Brussells.