Tiffany Calás, mezzo-soprano, received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Brigham Young University. She also studied at The Manhattan School of Music, where she was the Assistant Director of the Preparatory Division. She has sung several cantatas and oratorios of Handel, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi and Haydn. She will sing the role of Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Boise Baroque in February, 2011.
Tiffany is a member of Opera Idaho’s Resident Company and has been a soloist for Opera Under the Stars, Auction of the Arias, Puccini Martini and Opera Idaho Sings Christmas, among others. With Opera Idaho, she has performed Zita (Gianni Schicchi), Mercedes (Carmen), Katisha (The Mikado), a lead role in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor). This past fall, she performed as Mrs. Gibbs in Opera Idaho’s regional premiere of Ned Rorem’s Our Town and recently reprised the role of The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. She has also been in Tosca, The Merry Widow, Nosferatu, and La Traviata. Additional opera credits include Le Nozze di Figaro, Romeo et Juliette, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, and the title role in Menotti’s The Medium.
Tiffany is a regular soloist for many local organizations, community events, and for her church. She has toured Australia, New Zealand, and throughout the United States.
Luann Fife has a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance. She has studied with Sylvia Hunt, Dr. Richard Skyrm, Dr. Madeleine Hsu, Dr. Del Parkinson, and Dr. Mark Hansen.
She is the owner and founder of the Idaho Music Academy in Boise, Idaho which offers private and group lessons in piano, guitar, cello, violin, viola, and drums. She has been teaching private and group piano lessons to all ages and abilities since 1988.
Luann Fife is active in the community as a collaborative pianist for all instruments and chamber music performance. Additionally, Ms. Fife teaches a piano class at Boise State University.
Luann Fife is the chairperson for the strings and other instruments festival for Federation of Music Clubs, is the past state president of the Idaho Federation of Music Clubs and enters her own students in Idaho Music Teachers Association (IMTA) and Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) events each year.
Luann Fife is a highly sought-after musician and performs frequently as a soloist and accompanist for vocalists and instrumentalists at concerts, recitals, and other events throughout the Treasure Valley.
Michael Boney is a graduate of East Carolina University where he earned the Master of Music degree in Sacred Music and Organ Performance and the Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance. He studied organ with world-renowned concert artists/lecturers, Dr. Janette Fishell and Mr. Colin Andrews and choral conducting with Dr. Daniel Bara and Dr. Rhonda Fleming.
Michael has been featured in numerous Performing Arts Series in the USA and the United Kingdom. Early in his career he was invited, in conjunction with the Oundle International Organ Festival, to perform a work commissioned by the Royal College of Organists to launch a new album of contemporary English organ music. He has played recitals in such notable venues as Truro, Wells, Portsmouth, and Canterbury Cathedrals (United Kingdom); the Cathedral of St. Philip (Atlanta, GA), First Presbyterian Church (Wilmington, NC), St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Greenville, NC), and St. Michael’s Cathedral (Boise, ID).
Michael currently directs three choirs at the cathedral: the Cherub Choir, Chamber Choir and Cathedral Choir. He also oversees the Music at St. Michael’s concert series which has featured the Texas Boys’ Choir, Ensemble Amarcord (Germany), Eton College Choir (UK), Chanson (USA), The National Spiritual Ensemble (USA), and most recently the Nathaniel Dett Chorale (Canada).