We invite you to join us for our Winter 2019 Throckmorton Chorus Concert, a celebratory evening of choral music and talent featuring the Throckmorton Chorus! Following the concert, stay for a meet-and-greet and complimentary champagne reception.
Throckmorton Chorus celebrates the art of choral music and the pursuit of choral excellence in repertoire and performance. The chorus is directed by Tim Silva and accompanied by pianist Allegra Chapman. Section Leaders are: Jonah Hopton, Britt La Gatta, Tim Silva, Anayana White and Katarina Zosseder.
Throckmorton Theatre is grateful for your donations that go to supporting community events such as these. We strive to provide the highest possible support and a home for all of our talented artists.
CHORAL DIRECTOR, PIANIST & SECTION LEADER BIOS
Tim Silva, Director
Tim Silva is a proud native of the East Bay. When he’s not making art, he’s playing with plants. He sings regularly with Volti and Gaude, and recently appeared as a soloist with the California Bach Society. In addition to conducting the Theatre Chorus, Tim is an assistant conductor and theory instructor for the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choirs. A versatile performer and collaborator, he has worked with Artists’ Vocal Ensemble, Briget Boyle, Chalice Consort, Foreignfire, Iron Henry, Katy Stephan, Kronos Quartet, Marin Symphony, Michael Bang, Nick Hours, ODC/Dance, Russian National Orchestra, San Francisco Choral Artists, San Francisco Symphony and others.
Allegra Chapman, Pianist
Allegra has been described as “brilliant” by the San Francisco Classical Voice. She is dedicated to engaging with new audiences as both performer and presenter. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at Alice Tully Hall, in the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, and at festivals including New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival and Bard Music Festival. Her performances have been broadcast on WQXR New York, WFMT Chicago, and KALW San Francisco. Allegra performs regularly with local San Francisco ensembles and has collaborated with musicians Blair McMillan, Ian Swensen, and members of International Contemporary Ensemble and the Orion String Quartet. In addition to her performing career, Allegra enjoys a thriving teaching studio and has coached chamber music ensembles at many institutions, including San Francisco State University. She recently joined the faculty of the Xi’an International Music Festival in Xi’an, China. Passionate about performing and promoting the music of today, Allegra has worked with composers Joan Tower and Charles Wuorinen and premiered the works of many young composers, including Dylan Mattingly, Benjamin Pesetsky, and Shen Yiwen. Highlights have included soloing with the New Juilliard Ensemble at Alice Tully Hall, performing in a groundbreaking collaboration between Yamaha RemoteLive Technology and the Juilliard Technology Center, and performing new and twentieth-century works alongside San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty members at the 2013 San Francisco-Shanghai International Chamber Music Festival. From 2013 to 2014, Allegra co-founded and played with Phonochrome chamber music ensemble. After their commissioning project at the San Francisco Center for New Music, San Francisco Classical Voice’s Jeff Dunn wrote, “…new-music lovers crammed into the concert space. Almost everyone…was apparently under 30. I can now die in peace knowing art music will continue to prosper.” Allegra is a graduate of the Bard Conservatory of Music’s inaugural class, receiving both a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts. She also holds a Masters of Music from The Juilliard School, where she was the recipient of the L. & G. Goldberg, Betty Larson, and Ruth D. Rosenman scholarships. Her teachers have included Jeremy Denk, Seymour Lipkin, Julian Martin, Sharon Mann, John McCarthy, Robert McDonald and Peter Serkin. Allegra has studied chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, and Orion String Quartets, and performed in master classes with Richard Goode, Claude Frank, and Leon Fleisher.
Tim Silva, Bass Section Leader
East Bay native Tim Silva is an active performer, teacher, and collaborator in a wide range of settings. Since completing degrees in composition and vocal music education, Tim has recorded with some of the Bay Area’s most elite chamber choruses (AVE, Volti, SF Choral Artists) as well on the debut albums of Briget Boyle and Nick Hours. This summer, he made his debut with Chalice Consort and also sang with the Russian National Orchestra in Volti’s Festival Chorus. He performs regularly with several independent artists as a drummer/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist, and also is one-third of the folk-pop trio Iron Henry. He teaches group classes, and private lessons in general music, choral music, music theory, and vocal technique to preschoolers, senior citizens, and everyone in between.
Jonah Hopton, Tenor Section Leader
Jonah Hopton has studied voice and composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and sang in the chorus there under Ragnar Bohlin. He has sung in choirs for many years, and has worked with a wide variety of musicians performing both his compositions and other works.
Britt La Gatta, Alto Section Leader
Britt La Gatta began studying piano at age 5 with John Ludlow in his little studio near Old Mill Park. Her first singing experience was in the choir of Church of our Savior. After graduating from The Branson School and Sarah Lawrence College, where she majored in music and met her husband Lou, a native New Yorker, Britt lived in New York City, where she sang with Amato Opera on the Bowery and New York Grand Opera in Central Park. In 1986 Britt and Lou moved back to Marin, and they have lived in Corte Madera since. They own Marin Realty Group in Larkspur. A busy freelance singer, for twelve years Britt was the soprano soloist at Old First Church in San Francisco. She has also been a soloist at Notre Dame de Victoires, The Cathedral of St. Mary, St. Patrick’s Church in San Francisco, St. Stephen’s in Belvedere, the Community Church of Mill Valley, and St. Mary the Virgin, where she was Children’s Choir Director for two years. She is well-known to Marin audiences as a frequent soloist with the Marin Symphony Chorus at the popular holiday concerts at St. Raphael’s, and has sung with the Dominican University Chorus. She also works as an assistant organ tuner and repairperson for Hupalo & Repasky Organ Builders. Britt recently transitioned to mezzo soprano, and has sung jazz with the Rob Ellis Trio at the Trident in Sausalito and Sorella’s in Fairfax. She is the alto section leader of the 142 Throckmorton Chorus and one of its founding members. She maintains a busy teaching schedule in Marin and San Francisco, and has for several years been a guest artist in the Tamalpais High School Music Department. Britt is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Music Teachers’ Association of California.
Anayana White, Soprano Section Leader
Originally from Alaska, lyric coloratura soprano, Anayana White graduated from Portland State University in Oregon with a Bachelors in vocal performance under the tutelage of Soprano Sue Hinshaw, whose career spanned from Europe to South America. With over 10 years of performance experience, Anayana has placed in numerous collegiate level classical singing competitions, performed in several one-act and full length operas & musicals in Alaska and Oregon, concerts in Marin at the Throckmorton Theatre, and frequently performs as a soloist with the Mt. Tam Methodist Choir, Pacific Choir and Throckmorton Chorus. With a deep love of ethnomusicology and musical diversity, Anayana greatly enjoys singing and studying Jazz Standards, French Art Song, Folk, Indian, Indigenous, Celtic and other music’s from around the world. She also greatly enjoys performing duets with her fiancé, composer & Throckmorton Chorus tenor section leader, Jonah Hopton of Mill Valley.
Katrina Zosseder, Soprano Section Leader
A native of San Rafael, Soprano Section Leader, Katrina Zosseder, graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin in 2014 with degrees in Vocal Performance and Anthropology. She frequently performs in the chamber music setting both on voice and violin, giving recitals around the Bay Area, and singing with St. Dominic’s Schola Cantorum as a section leader. Katrina also greatly enjoys performing and studying Celtic music. She had the opportunity to conduct pilot research in Ireland focused on traditional music, which culminated in her Anthropology capstone, “Reels, Apps, Youtube: Changing Performance Practices in Irish Session Music.” She currently enjoys playing in Irish sessions around the Bay Area, with her group the “Scottish Thistles” (with her mother, sister, and friends), and with her sister, harpist Elisabeth Zosseder. Katrina now works in the office at Opera Parallèle, a San Francisco based contemporary opera company dedicated to bringing opera into the 21st century with bold repertoire, creative productions, and moderate ticket prices – for more information about Opera Parallèle and its productions, visit operaparallele.org.
Alex Bonner, Bass Section Leader
